From: Paul
Just read today’s copy of Metro, a Scottish daily newspaper, and it had an interview with stand-up comedian Johnny Vegas. Why would you be interested and what’s this got to do with LOTR? Well, it seems that Mr Vegas was once considered for the part of a certain Sam Gamgee! Here’s the question and answer refering to LOTR:
Q: Were you disappointed not to get a part in Lord of the Rings?
A: I actually went to a casting for Sam Gamgee and got a call back with the director. But I did a gig the night before and the mike broke so I ended up shouting and lost my voice. They probably thought I was rubbish anyway. I went through a few months of getting drunk and e-mailing the official site saying it should have been me.
Now, if you’re not familiar with Johnny Vegas I’ll fill you in on a few of his… erm… traits (I think that’s the best word to describe them!). If this casting had come to fruition then Sam would have been wondering around the Shire with a six-pack of beer under his arm and a fag (cigarette to those uninitiated to UK slang) hanging out of the corner of his mouth. Along with his 60-a-day habbit, Sam would have a pretty strong hoarse regional accent with a penchant to swearing and ogling at the lady hobbits.
Imagine the scene if you will:
‘Give us that thur ring, Frodo -cough- -wheeze- and a’ll bloody well get rid of the bugger.’ Sam procedes to put the ring under his rather sweaty green-hued armpit where not even the dark lord would dare to venture.
There’s a pic of him on his slightly sparse homepage here: http://www.johnny-vegas.net/
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The new Bernard Hill (Theoden) film ‘The Scorpion King’ has a tentative release date thanks to the folks at Comming Attractions. April 19th 2002. [More]
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From: Circi
Just in case you would like to add this to media-watch files, here are two small articles from the greek film magazine “Cinema”. They were part of their Cannes Festival Special published in the July edition. Apparently the reporter was invited to both the special screening and the party.
1/”The Lord of the Rings”.
Impresive special effects, magnificent sets, big helpings of heroism and action and a genouine fairytale atmosphere: a 25minute collage of scenes was enough to convince us that the wait for Peter Jackson’s grandiose fantasy epic is more than worth it. The small sample we saw convinced us among other things, that the ingenious New Zealander director has given to Tolkien’s universe more soul, than Lucas ever did to the “plastic”, digital wolrds of his films. Patience till Christmas, when the film makes its worldwide premiere.
2/”Invitation to dinner by a prospective blockbuster”
Long before the “Holywood Reporter” gave it 5/5 Martinis, the LOTR party was the most important “extra-cinematografic” event of the festival. In a castle, 15Km from the Croisette, the cast of the much-expected trilogy was strolling till late at night among 1000 guests, roasting porks and endless bottles of champagne in avast garden decorated with the films origianl sets, brought over from New Zealand. Knights on horses, Liv Tyler shoeless and trip-hop from the loudspeakers for those who would not wake up the next mornong to watch “Roberto Succo”. We, unfortunately, we not amongst them…..
Although there is quite a big following for LOTR in Greece, the local press hasnt yet given much attention to the upcoming films. Some party footage was shown by some “evening-news” bradcasts and the local sponsors, a publishing house, run series-like articles at their magazines, but they are mostly translations from other us/european papers and internet sites. They do quote “theonering.net” as the number one site though.
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For a while Cinescape.com had completely disappeared. But its now back online with a great new look and some really kick butt content. Check out their latest Top Ten list (bottom right of the page) for the ‘TOP 10 THINGS OBSESSIVE VOYAGER FANS CAN DO NOW THAT THE SHOW IS OFF THE AIR’. Number 10 is ‘Start waiting in line right now for LORD OF THE RINGS tickets.’ [More]
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By Michael Kenney, Globe Correspondent
”The Lord of the Rings,” due out in time to be a moviegoer’s Christmas present, could well be the movie of the year. But J.R.R. Tolkien, ”author of the century”? That provocative claim is not just a publisher’s book-jacket puffery but the argument of T. A. Shippey in this authoritative – and timely – critical study of Tolkien’s masterwork. Shippey, now at St. Louis University, taught the same curriculum established by Tolkien at Oxford University and succeded him, 54 years later, as chairman of English language and medieval literature at Leeds. [More]
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