Well, not really. Auckland’s newspaper ‘The Herald’ had the usual stuff about LOTR and Cannes, but finished with this quote from Peter Jackson:
“..Since New Zealand is a small country, the Government was keen to help in whatever way.
The Prime Minister actually came to visit us early on and she said ‘What can we do to help?’ And we said ‘Have you got any spare soldier?’ and she immediately contacted the Minister of Defence who made a battalion of soldiers available.
“It was kind of fun with the soldiers – we got to train them in the use of swords and shields and spears, and with the defence cutbacks we have in New Zealand, it will be useful training for them.”
(Didn’t “Braveheart” use real soldiers for its army? Maybe we can still do military excercises with Scotland. – T )
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A report from Sweden that doesn’t talk about Cannes, thanks to Chade. [More]
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Chade sent in this nice story, which he’s translated out of theSwedish paper Aftonbladet:
“A new article about LotR and more specifically about Elijah Wood at Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.se.
Elijah says “it is cool to become a doll” and that he himself collects action figures from i.e. Star Wars.
He also said that PJ wanted only Brittish actors as hobbits, but Elijah wanted this part bad, so he got himself dressed up as a Hobbit, went out in the forest and let a friend film him as he read a few parts from the books with british accent.
Christopher Lee told Eliah that after the movies have opened, he won’t be able to walk on the streets, and compares it to how Paul McCartney described the hysteria about the Beatles. Then the article talks about PJ being a big Beatles-fan and how he’s described the four hobbits as the members of the Beatles: Paul (Frodo), John (Merry), George (Pippin) and Ringo (Sam).
Elijah says that when PJ had his birthday the four hobbits made a picture where they posed exactly as a classic Beatles-picture (from the Ed Sullivan Show) and on the drum-set it said “The
Hobbits”. 🙂
For the entire article (in Swedish) follow this link
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I missed it. Drat work. Check it out, and check out the Cannes page, here
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You get a few more details of the atmosphere at the Chateau, and a nice pic of Gandalf in the mountains – not one I’ve seen, but then it’s getting hard to tell what’s new and what isn’t. [More]
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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: these films are going to attract a lot of tourists to NZ, and if we have any sense we’ll be preparing for that. The NZ Tourism board have woken up to this at last. TV3 mentioned it in their Cannes report – go here and scroll down to the item about tourism.
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