Wilson writes: I was just listening to 1010 Winds radio in New York City and there was a 2-minute news bit entitled “Good News for LOTR Fans.” Producer Barrie Osborne said: “We are hoping to have an extended, director’s cut DVD out before the next installment in December.” Osbourne clearly meant a longer, more complete version of the film, not just the outakes feature in a separate section of the DVD.
Day: January 14, 2002
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Adventure Game, the first of Decipher¹s roleplaying games (RPGs) for New Line Cinema¹s epic trilogy adventure, The Lord of the Rings, will hit stores internationally on January 30. [More]
Rumours about the DVD: When it’ll be released, and how long it’ll be. Also some possible evidence that the Old Forest sequences will be on the DVD. [More]
Maybe we should call it “Lord of the Ka-chings!” Another weekend, another win means America’s hobbit habit is still going strong. [More]
Elijah Wood, star of Lord Of The Rings, won a chicken-wing-eating contest and pulled down his trousers twice to show the audience his “secret tattoo” at the Lampoon’s “Best Actor of All Time” award ceremony yesterday afternoon. [More]
Amazing news from CNN via David: “A friend of mine was watching CNN today. They reported that the DVD version of Fellowship was going to be 4.5 hours long.”
Is THAT long enough for you all? And when does it come out?
According to this there’s a book being released on Amazon in May which is ” Published to tie-in with the launch of the video and DVD, this is the first of three books” [read the synopsis, you’ll see it.]
So look for the DVD in May, 2002. Thanks to Corsair of Umbar who noticed that.
Now, this is a rumour from Kevin, who notes a different time for the DVD release [July] but concludes that Bombadil’s scenes were filmed: “I just figured that I’d let you know that I recently got a chance to look at the 2002 release sheet for the LOTR Games workshop games. Now, Games Workshop has a 3-5 (not sure) contract with New Line which says that the only models they may produce in that time are models from the films. This release sheet showed that in July, around the time of the DvD release models WILL be released for Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, and the barrow wights. This means that it is a definite that the old forest sequence, in its entirety, was filmed, and that we will see Bombadil in the film.”
Well, it’s been a well-kept secret in the NZ film community if it has, but we’ll keep an open mind on that!