Septer writes: I just went to “Barnes and Nobles” and found the latest issue of Cinefex with LOTR: FOTR on the cover! Now, to all you out there that don’t know what this magazine is, it’s probley the BEST magazine to find out the answer to “how did they do that?” regarding the films special effects. [More]
Month: April 2002
Septer writes:
I just went to “Barnes and Nobles” and found the latest issue of Cinefex with LOTR: FOTR on the cover! Now, to all you out there that don’t know what this magazine is, it’s probley the BEST magazine to find out the answer to “how did they do that?” regarding the films special effects. It is an EXCELLENT article, with super high quality stills (enough to scan in and print out poster size!) and is 51 pages long! It’s slightly expensive ($9.50 USD) but very worth it, and the stills are just amazing. (Sorry I couldn’t send any in, my scanner’s broken!) Here’s a couple excerpts:
“Although most of the movie’s big action scenes were developed in previz, the prologue battle that opens the ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ did not go through the established previz loop, largely because Jackson made the final decision to add the sequesnce, and shot most of the stage elements for it, very late in the production. As a result, he relied on storyboards and images captured by his lipstick camera on a diant clay table-top model to plan the sequence.”
“All the effort in prop design and fabrication was on top of the Workshop’s character design work, the sculpting of maquettes, and the building of miniatures and prosthetics. ‘I choose to take on an insane amount of work becuase it was necessary to create a truly integrated, Tolkienesque brush stroke over the three films. I was convinced that if things like armor and weaponry were farmed out to other companies, we’d lose the integrity of the design aesthetic. The issue was making it feel as if the orcs had built their armor and weapons. The honest way to do that was to design it all under one roof. We were fortunate that we could always go back to the bible, the written word of Tolkien, who went to incredible lengths to describe his world’ Richard Taylor said.”
Nancy Smith was every inch the Radcliffe graduate in her polite but pointed questions for J.R.R. Tolkien during the winter of 1958, when she prodded the teeming inhabitants of Middle-earth into alphabetical order for what was to be the first index to “The Lord of the Rings.” [More]
Global blockbuster movie “The Lord of the Rings” opens at cinemas around China on Saturday, but some fear the world of hobbits, elves and orcs will prove a confusing one for the country’s population. [More]
Sean Bean (Boromir) will appear in an independent film called ‘The Big Empty’, written and directed by Steve Anderson. Principal photography is complete and the film is now in post-production. Sean’s co-stars include Kelsey Grammer, Jon Favreau, Daryl Hannah and Rachel Leigh Cook. Principal photography took place in Baker, California in Jan-Feb 2002. [More]
There is a nice interview with and about Miranda Otto [Eowyn] in NY Daily News where she talks about her career role as Eowyn. [More]
Thanks to Arien for the link.