From IMDB: Quentin Tarantino is dusting off another Marvel comic-book character, Mort the Dead Teenager, who was originally created with a movie version in mind, Roger Friedman of Foxnews.com reported Wednesday. Larry Hama, who wrote the four issues of the Mort series, told Friedman that when he was at Marvel, “I thought we should come up with some new characters who could be turned into movie characters.” Unfortunately, he said, the Mort comics — about a teenager who was decapitated in a train accident — were regarded by Marvel as “too dark and too hip,” went out of print, and became a cult classic. The film will likely be directed by Dean Paraskevopoulos and star Elijah Wood in the title role, Friedman said. Tarantino and partner Lawrence Bender’s A Band Apart Productions will coproduce the movie with Madonna’s Maverick Films; Dimension/Miramax will distribute.
Month: May 2002
Aussie TORNadoes from Barliman’s are organising a get-together to see FOTR on an IMAX screen. [More]
The Australian Ringers in Barliman’s are organising a get-together to see LOTR on an IMAX screen. Here’s the details:
Date: Saturday 11th May
Place: Imax Cinema, Northbridge.
Time: To Be Determined (The cinema couldn’t give us an exact time but it’s around 8)
Details: Wear a leaf on you (fake or otherwise) so we know that you’re a Perth LotR fan / Barlimans’ Regular! Fancy dress encouraged.
Ring-Leader will be wearing a hobbit dress and curly brown hair. If we get more than ten people the cost of the tickets will only be $7. Imax has a LARGE screen and huge sound systems, so this is a real bargain! Prime opportunity to see Fellowship of the Rings in a great cinema before its run is finally over!
Contact: Nancy (Periwinkle) at: tosh@opera.iinet.net.au or Eledhwen at elfsheen@hotmail.com
Sideshow/Weta Collectibles have update their Lord of the Rings Collectible page. Among the updates you’ll find the new ‘Last Alliance‘ Medallion, Series 3 products shipping, the ‘Escape off the Road‘ wall plaque and additional savings on the Pippin Bust. [More]
We have received countless emails letting us know that some misguided person has started an online petition to try to convince Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema that the film of The Two Towers should be renamed in light of the events of September 11. Their reasoning behind the petition is that the title “is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World Trade Center,” and that PJ & Co. are simply trying to “cash in” on the tragedy. For obvious reasons, not the least of which being that the second installment of The Lord of the Rings was named The Two Towers nearly 50 years before the September 11 attacks, we at TheOneRing.net consider this petition to be rather pointless and ignorant, and judging from the sarcastic and disgusted remarks in the petition itself, so do most of the people who signed it. (UPDATE: Yes, we are aware that there is a counter-petition out there. However, we do not usually link to petitions, positive or negative.)
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) has been voted as one of People Magazine’s ’50 Most Beutiful People’, and the world seems like a much better place…. [More]