Well, this is the beauty of web news! Matt, who initially sent TheForce.net the Laga’aia casting news, just emailed us with news Jay Laga’aia will be playing Ugluk in the upcoming films. For the last 1/2 a year, we thought Nathaniel Lees was cast in this role. Confused? We are too! We are gathering info right now and will report back ASAP.
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After some more research, we are without any new information. E!Online, IMDB.com and other sources list Nathaniel Lees as Ugluk. I have also contacted a few folks in the industry and have come up with the standard ‘non answer.’
Some theories have popped up on how this situation could arrise. One suggests that both Lees and Laga’aia are playing Ugluk at different stages of the movie. After all, they are heavily covered with make-up. Another theory suggests Lees was let go from the production and Laga’aia took his place. This second theory does not hold water, considering the news worthy nature of anyone leaving the cast.
We’ll continue to search for answers!
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For the weekend of February 24th and 25th The Hall of Fire will focus on the work of Tolkien fans far and wide. Our guest moderator will be Smeagol7, long time Barliman’s regular, who has been working on his very own animated Lord of the Rings movie, complete with a trailer! We’ll check out Smeagol7’s work and explore what you other Middle-earth minds have created.
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The Minneapolis – St. Paul Star Tribune has an article detailing the large amount of web promotion for the upcoming LOTR Movies. [More]
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According to a fan from TheForce.net, Jay Laga’aia will be cast in the role of a ‘lead’ Uruk-Hai in the upcoming movies. Laga’aia is already cast as Captain Typho in Star Wars Episode II. Should this rumor be confirmed, he would be the third cast member (the others being Christopher Lee and Marton Csokas) to be in both LOTR and Star Wars. We will be attempting to find out more about this story over the weekend. [More]
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Ringer fan Aaron T sent us a zoomed in version of the Mouth of Sauron pic. Boy, that mouth…ick! SPOILERS [More]
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Nona, from the Compleat Sean Bean, has sent us news of an article in the online saturday edition of Online Sun UK. Its a picture special, so it has some nice images from the teaser trailer and other places. SPOILERS [More]
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