Entwife wrote to tell us about an interview with PJ in thelatest Fangoria magazine!
“Wanted to tell you that I was browsing in Barnes and Noble yesterday and came across an apparently exclusive (and recent) interview with PJ in the October ’02 “Fangoria” magazine. Now, I am NOT a fan of that magazine, and was not about to buy it (I have 3 small kids), but I read the article in the store and it was a good one. It was fairly substantial– about 4 pages long–and had some interesting quotes from Jackson, including his sense that TTT will probably not be an Oscar favorite like FOTR (too dark, and doesn’t have a clear beginnning and end). Although he insisted that he didn’t want to speculate about Oscars, he did say he thinks that ROTK may have a better chance, since he says it’s much more triumphant, and moves from one climactic event to another (or words to that effect.) He also said that TTT is down around 3 hours now (from 4 originally) and that he felt that 3 hours is about the limit for a movie to be seen in a theater. (He reiterated that the studio did not put pressure on him to get it (or FOTR) down to 2 or 2 1/2. )
He also said that this year’s work on TTT has been more relaxed and fun (in some ways ) compared to last year’s work on FOTR, since of course the b.o. was so wonderful. The pressure to “not kill New Line” is off, though he said that since the movie was so well received that they all did feel a keener artistic challenge, to not let people down artistically with the next ones. He ‘s glad the movies were all shot before FOTR came out, b/c they might have wanted to do “more of the same” after FOTR’s success, while instead TTT has a very different feel– darker, and less fantastical, since it’s primarily concerned with the world of men , while FOTR took us to Hobbiton, Rivendell, Moria, and Lothlorien. But he thinks that a different feel is probably a ggod thing.
He talked a little about the psychological mind-games played by Gollum with Frodo and Sam and said that while Tolkien hinted at it, they’ve taken it further. Some other interesting tidbits: Helm’s Deep was the first miniature they made back in ’97, and they’re finishing work filming it now, so it’s been 5 years they’ve used it. Also, he said that while he might want to do a King Kong remake in a few years, he and Fran want to do 1 or 2 small movies first.
Thanks to Entwife for that report!
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Local elf Figwit is back in NZ and working to save the planet. And Kiwis now have a local supplier for LOTR swords and for the LOTR Locations Guidebook. [More]
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Figwit news: He’s doing his bit to save the planet. [More]
Meanwhile another diehard LOTR fan from NZ is Ian Brodie, writer of the LOTR Guidebook. He also runs the NZ Fighter Pilots Museum which is proud to announce that they are now the sole New Zealand suppliers of the United Cutlery Lord of the Rings swords. This now means that New Zealanders can purchase these beautiful reproductions from a store in New Zealand. More information on the guidebook and the swords can be found here]
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Good and bad news for fans in Brazil and Chile, concerning the extended version DVD of FOTR and the release date of TTT. [More]
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Elenah writes that Valinor.com in Brazil noted TORN’s coverage of the possibility that Latin America might not receive the Extended Edition DVD. Valinor sent their petition asking for a the DVD to Warner, and Warner is now (according to Valinor) saying they’re interested in releasing the extended edition in Brazil, but it depends on New Line.
Gabriel had much more to say about the situation – including some good news for fans in Brazil:
“I am from Brazil, a die hard fan of LOTR and also of TORN …. About the DVD: Warner IS going to release Region 4 Extended Version of FOTR. It’s not coming out the same day as it is in the rest of the world, but they WILL release it. The whole thing about saying that they’re not is because they know that, if they announced the release of both versions, the theatrical version wouldn’t sell as many. But it IS going to come out.
“In regards to the movie opening date, I can only speak for Brazil: Warner, Brazil’s distributor for LOTR, had a national movie to open in December [last year] that featured a great local pop star, and her movies always get nice box office figures. What happened was that this movie was going to open here a weekend before LOTR opened in the rest of the world. Warner could put FOTR to open on the 25th, but that would turn out to be very bad for them. So they postponed it to open January 1st, and you know what? It broke a lot of records. Being that it was such a great move by them, they decided that TTT and ROTK will also open Jan 1st. It sucks? Yeah. But at least there are countries with worse release dates.
“In the rumour section, apparently Warner is planning to show, in selected theaters throughout Brazil, a “premiere” in the last weekend of the year. Nothing sure yet, but just maybe…”
From Chile, Andres writes,
“TTT will be released in Chile on January the 2nd of 2003. That date is the first Thursday after New Year’s Day, so that release date will be the same date that the TFOTR was released this year (this year TFOTR was realeased on Thursday, January the 3rd)”
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News from Spain – new desktops online – and news about the extended DVD in Norway and the TTT trailer in Finland. [More]
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