We have a report from a fan at the first screening there and it seems to have been well-received. Add that to the news that LOTR was a bestseller for 4 months after FOTR came out, and it seems that Tolkien may be gaining ground in India. [More]
Month: April 2003
Eto writes, “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” was released in India yesterday (March 28th 2003). It opened in 7 theatres in my city, and that’s a pretty big release. I went for the evening show and the hall was packed to the brim (more than 500 people). Lots and lots of claps and whistles during Legolas’s mounting of the horse, his slide on the shield, Eomer’s arrival at Helms Deep, the charge of the Ents, and of course Gollum was the favorite. The last hour of the movie was full of claps, whistles and cries. IMO, a much better response than FoTR. May be because of all the action, the war and … Gollum.”
Little news snippets are starting to come in regarding PJ’s King Kong film and ROTK re-shoots! [More]
Chris writes: New Zealand TV Guide had an article on the reshoots for ROTK. According to them they have it on good authority that it will be at the start of May and Viggo Mortneson let it slip in a recent interview that Sean Bean was coming back to do flashback scenes for the upcoming third film.
King Kong News:
Jess heard on the radio in NZ that “Peter Jackson is looking for tall, hairy folk. I guess that they are tall means he can’t cast himself! LOL!!!”
Todd noticed some nice things in an ROTK ‘teaser’ scene included a the TTT game. [More] [Gaming Havens]
Todd noticed this: ‘At the end of the Xbox and Gamecube EA TTT Game, there is a scene from the ROTK. It is Gandalf talking to Aragorn at night, much like a shot in TTT. He quotes almost dircetly from the book, ‘ Sauron is afraid of you Aragorn’ and so on. I was happy when I saw it because those were a few lines that I was hoping they would include in the next movie. It also states how (again almost straight from the book) ‘the thought of us destroying the Ring has not yet entered into his darkest nightmares.’