The actor who plays Gollum in the latest Lord of the Rings film has revealed details of a spoof take he shot for The Two Towers. The scene involved Andy Serkis as Gollum pretending to be interviewed as if he was on American TV channel E! In the comedic scene Gollum reveals that he auditioned for the role of Dobby in Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets. [More]
Month: December 2002
Director Peter Jackson doesn’t ease us back into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy at the beginning of the second film, The Two Towers. Instead, he hurls us headfirst into the movie screen, as if through the windshield of a crashing car. Towers begins not with a stately summary of the prior film, The Fellowship of the Ring, but by reprising one of its most famous moments and then going on to show the grand pyrotechnics previously kept “off-stage.” [More]
The despicable Saruman the White cuts an imposing figure cloaked in white robes, with a long metallic staff clutched in one claw and a prosthetic nose that boasts its own architecture. An imposing, if not a little daunting, 6ft 4in (1.93m) figure, despite the fact that a team of minions is currently rummaging around in his skirts. [More]
The orcs launched their assault on the world’s cinemas yesterday as The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers recorded a $42m (£26.2m) opening day haul in 14 countries. [More]
Some silly ‘news’ from E! Online…take a look. [More]
Variety reports: As his character Frodo Baggins gets closer to the dark mountains of Mordor in “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” Elijah Wood is headed for “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” a Focus Features drama starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.