NEW YORK (AP) — Tobey Maguire and Viggo Mortensen were nominated for best male performance, and the movies they star in —Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers— each received a leading five nominations for this year’s MTV Movie Awards. [More]
Day: April 15, 2003
Although I’m loathe to cut and paste items directly from the LOTR Fan CLub Magazine (we like to get our own content), we’ve gotten so many emails about it I may as well post it. Take a look! [More]
Although I’m loathe to cut and paste items directly from the LOTR Fan CLub Magazine (we like to get our own content), we’ve gotten so many emails about it I may as well post it. Take a look!
Brandon writes: I have some great news from PJ from the newest LOTR Fan Club Magazine! These are all straight from the interview with Jackson:
PJ – “We’ve started editing The Return of the King: I am cutting it in more or less chronological order, and I’ve probably cut about 25 minutes so far. That’s what I spend most of my day on. I have also completed the extended DVD cut of The Two Towers, which I wanted to get done so it didn’t interfere too much with The Return of the King. I did that just before and after Christmas.”
Are you looking at about the same amount of additional footage for the Extended Cut of The Two Towers as you had on The Fellowship of the Ring?
PJ – “We’re actually looking at a little bit more. We’ve ended up with about 43 minutes of additional material: I think The Fellowship had 32 minutes.”
PJ – “I think the thing I am most excited about is the fleshing out and expansion of the Treebeard/Ent story. His story, more than any other single part of the film, was reduced for the theatrical version. Most of the Treebeard stuff is humorous. We have a great scene-which I really would have loved to put in the theatrical version-where he recites really bad poetry to the Hobbits, who are desperately trying not to fall asleep because that would be rude, and they don’t want to be rude. In addition to the Treebeard material in that storyline, we also have a really funny sequence with Merry and Pippin and the Ent-draught, which is pretty much taken right from the book. There are a lot more surprises in that extra Fangorn material.”
Silmarien writes: I thought you might like this cartoon from this weeks Listener showing PJ sitting on top of the “Beehive”, (NZ’s Parliament Buildings), holding Helen Clark, (our PM). [More]
In my rant yesterday about the MTV Awards I forgot to mention that YOU can vote for the winners! Take a look at the MTV page and vote TTT! [More]
An anonymous spy dropped this little gem into our mailbox just yesterday. What is it? Well, it’s a short video sequence of Gandalf chatting to Aragorn about the Ring in far more depth than we’ve seen previously. It could be from a Two Towers EE scene, a clip from the Two Towers PS2 game, or even a snippet from RoTK – we’re not quite sure yet. You will need the latest div-x codec – which you can obtain from here – to view this file, but it’s a free download. [More] Spoilers!
Update: About 50 people wrote to me to say that this clip does – as I suspected – originate from the the EA game of the Two Towers. [More]