The ultra cool UK magazine ‘SFX’ has gained some info regarding some changes PJ has made to ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’. While not following the book 100% (which I have always maintained is impossible) PJ uses text from ‘The Silmarillion’ to gain some inspiration. [More]
Month: April 2001
The ultra cool UK magazine ‘SFX’ has gained some info regarding some changes PJ has made to ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’. While not following the book 100% (which I have always maintained is impossible) PJ uses text from ‘The Silmarillion’ to gain some inspiration. Read on:
SFX has gainerd access to some top information regarding Peter Jackson’s adaptation of LOTR.
One of our scoopers has discovered a little more about the story, specifically regarding two changes to the tale. These are rumors, so we cannot guarantee their accuracy.
Both are additions to the tale, rather than omissions or character revisons. The first is Second Age prologue, which opens the film. Presumably Peter Jackon didn’t think the birthday party had enough punch.
It details the final battle of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, where Isildur and Elendil truiumph over Sauron, and Isuldur cuts the Dark Lord’s finger from his body, taking the ring for himself. During these events, which are detailed in The Silmarillion, Sauron will be seen wearing armour described months back on the net and is supposed to be spikey steel with a tattered cloak and a ram’s skull atop the helmet.
The second change to the story involved an Orc character named Lurtz. He was introduced to give the Uruk-Hai, Saruman’s magically altered Orc servants, a bit more drive. The Uruk-Hai first appear in a scene where they are shown emerging from pods guarded by normal orcs. Standing there, covered in slime, they are asked by Saruman “Who do you serve?” The Uruk-Hai do not answer, prompting a flurry of blows from the other orcs. Thus giaded, they attack and slay their tormentors, Asked again by Saruman “Who do you serve?” they relpy “The White Hand,” (Saruman’s badge). Later, it is this orc and his men who shoot Boromir Down.
Marton Csokas (Celeborn) has been a busy Kiwi. Catch up with his latest 2 projects while eating your easter chocolates. [More]
Marton Csokas (Celeborn) has been a busy Kiwi. He’s starring in a new TV Movie as well as one for the silver screen.
‘The Farm’ is a TV mini series which as Csokas as Adrian Beckett. The story tells the tale of a long-established grazing family in central west New South Wales, Australia who get into trouble in the early 1980s when they finance their development plans with a foreign currency loan the full dangers of which neither they or their local bank manager is aware of.
‘Down and Under’ is a Castle Rock/Jerry Bruckheimer Films action comedy set in Australia as well. It tells the tale of two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, who get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $100,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo. This film has no release date and is currently shooting in Australia.
Another chance to catch your favorite LOTR actors on the small screen! [More]
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)
28 Days (2000) 
Walk on the Moon, A (1999)
Perfect Murder, A (1998) UK 
Portrait of a Lady, The (1996)
Passion of Darkly Noon, The (1995)
American Yakuza (1994)
Boiling Point (1993)
Ruby Cairo (1993)
Young Americans, The (1993) UK
Two Small Bodies (1993)
Young Guns II (1990)
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) UK
Witness (1985)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Dr. T and the Women (2000)
Cookie’s Fortune (1999)
Plunkett & Macleane (1999) UK
Onegin (1999)
Empire Records (1995) UK
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Bless the Child (2000)
Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)
Miracle Maker, The (2000) (TV)
Simon Magus (1999/I) UK
eXistenZ (1999)
Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) UK
Big Night (1996)
Henry V (1989)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Chariots of Fire (1981) UK
Time Bandits (1981)
Alien (1979) UK
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Robin and Marian (1976) UK
Juggernaut (1974) UK
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) UK
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Fixer, The (1968) UK
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Airborne (1998)
When Saturday Comes (1996) UK
Shopping (1994) UK
Jacob: A TNT Bible Story (1994) (TV)
Stormy Monday (1988)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Matrix, The (1999) UK
Karl Urban (Eomer)
Heaven (1998)
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) UK
David Wenham (Faramir)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Deep Impact (1998)
Faculty, The (1998) UK
Forever Young (1992) UK
Avalon (1990) UK
Internal Affairs (1990) UK
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Ideal Husband, An (1999) UK
Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) UK
Elizabeth (1998)
Paradise Road (1997)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
X-Men (2000)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Apt Pupil (1998) UK
Shadow, The (1994)
I’ll Do Anything (1994)
Last Action Hero (1993) UK
Walter and June (1986) UK
Plenty (1985) UK
Alfred the Great (1969) UK
Touch of Love, A (1969) UK
Mark Ferguson (Gil Galad)
Every Woman’s Dream (1996) (TV)
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Au Pair (1999) (TV) UK
Secret of the Andes (1998) UK
Cats Don’t Dance (1997)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) (TV)
Firewalker (1986) UK
King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Nairobi Affair (1984) (TV) UK
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Andy Serkis (Gollum)
Topsy-Turvy (1999) UK
Among Giants (1998) UK
Mojo (1997) UK
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Sweet Talker (1991)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Sean Astin (Sam)
Kimberly (1999)
Icebreaker (1999)
Bulworth (1998) UK
Long Way Home, The (1997) UK
Safe Passage (1994)
Teresa’s Tattoo (1994)
Encino Man (1992) UK
Toy Soldiers (1991) UK
Staying Together (1989)
War of the Roses, The (1989)
White Water Summer (1987) UK
Goonies, The (1985)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) UK
Tale of the Mummy (1998) UK
Jinnah (1998) UK
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Mio min Mio (1987) UK
Safari 3000 (1982)
Eye for an Eye, An (1981) UK
1941 (1979) UK
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) UK
Airport ’77 (1977)
Three Musketeers, The (1973) UK
Wicker Man, The (1973) UK
Horror Express (1972) UK
Scream and Scream Again (1969)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
Cockleshell Heroes, The (1955) UK
Crimson Pirate, The (1952)
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK
True Crime (1999) UK
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Shirley Valentine (1989) UK
Gandhi (1982) UK
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
Bride of Chucky (1998) UK
Nightwatch (1998)
Urban Legend (1998) UK
Best Men (1997)
Death Machine (1995)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Exorcist III, The (1990)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Ragtime (1981)
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) (TV)
Jim Rygiel (SFX)
Anna and the King (1999)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) UK
Desperate Measures (1998)
Cliffhanger (1993) UK
Last Action Hero (1993) UK
Alien³ (1992) UK
Batman Returns (1992)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Solar Crisis (1990) UK
Ghost (1990)
Howard Shore (Composer)
Cell, The (2000)
Analyze This (1999) UK
eXistenZ (1999)
Game, The (1997) UK
Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996) UK
Crash (1996) UK
Se7en (1995)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992) UK
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Moving (1988)
Big (1988)
Places in the Heart (1984) UK
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