Fresh from creating music for the second instalment of The Lord of The Rings, Wellington composers Plan 9 have been signed to score a major Australian feature, “Danny Deckchair”. Plan 9 are currently working on the score of the Andrew Mason produced feature which stars Rhys Ifans and Miranda Otto. Plan 9 have scored a number of New Zealand features in recent years and together with former Mutton Bird guitarist David Long, created the memorable Hobbit birthday party music “Flaming Red Hair” in The Fellowship of the Ring. For the second film in the trilogy, The Two Towers Plan 9 have contributed to “Gollum’s Song” which is featured over the end credits performed by Icelandic songstress Emiliana Torrini. In addition Plan 9 composed a number of incidental pieces used throughout the film. [More]
Day: November 20, 2002
It looks like Orlando Bloom just can’t keep his sword out of his hands. The 25-year-old British actor best known as Legolas in “The Lord of the Rings” films has joined the cast of the upcoming Trojan War epic “Troy.” Based on the epic Greek poem “The Iliad,” the reportedly $100 million picture will see Bloom as Prince Paris of Troy, who starts a war by stealing the Spartan king’s wife in 1193 B.C. [More]
Sean Bean’s new film project is “Football Factory,” a film about football hooligans, according to Screen Daily. Thanks to Nimrodel for the link. [More]
It’s a parody, as the writers of ’50 Reasons LOTR Sucks’ told their readers, to no avail. Read, laugh, and don’t send me emails that start ‘These people don’t know what they’re talking about etc….’ [More]
Ryan writes: Greetings from Sydney. The Two Towers soundtrack will be available on the 6th of December at $27.00. [More]
Here is a little more info on the ‘Return to Middle-earth’ special that we reported about yesterday. It seems that the WB, who love to cross-promote, has gotten Michael Rosenbaum (‘Smallville’s’ Lex Luthor) to narrate the special.
Another bit of news concerning UK fans who have been emailing in asking about the show, we’ve no idea if it will air in the UK, as soon as we find out we’ll post it up!