Barrie Osborne at the TTT Premiere in LA
Producer mastermind Barrie Osborne shares a few fireside stories with Quickbeam and Asfaloth on the red carpet premiere of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in Los Angeles. Barrie had a hand as directing for the second unit of the production and he tells us his experiences with the cast and crew. He also sends out a warm greeting to TORN and all her loving fans! Also be on the lookout for that quick-witted Dwarf to make an appearance! Produced by Asfaloth [More]
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Mattforce sends along these snippets gleamed from the Official LOTR Magazine’s latest issue:
The two major changes in RotK are addition of TTT material and cutting of Scouring:
– Isengard sequence/VOS is at the beginning of RotK.
– Minas Morgul, stairs of Cirith Ungol and Shelob’s lair also in RotK
– “We don’t have the Scouring of the Shire.” (In case anyone was holding out hope … )
– At this point, no Ghan-Buri-Ghan. Doubts this will be added in pickups.
– Otherwise it follows the book “reasonably well.”
Other stuff:
– Shelob will be “the creepiest and scariest of creatures.” Based on the Tunnel Web spider of New Zealand. Photo above
– Mumakil and Nazgul will have center-stage appearances – more spectacular.
– Post-production should be completed and film “delivered” end of October, early November.
– Also of interest: “We only meet one new character, which is Denethor – and he’s only new to those who don’t check out The Two Towers extended cut in November!” Sounds like a comfirmation of the Faramir / Boromir / Denethor flashback.
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Sapo writes: I want to remind you all that on 22 May 2003 the Classical BRIT Awards are taking place in London, and Howard Shore is one of the nominees for best contemporary music. Arvö Part, John Williams and LOTR composer Howard Shore are up for The Contemporary Music Award. [More]
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In a move sure to delight UK LOTR fans, MR sends along this quote from Head of Operations at the National Science Museum in London Catherine Pochin: ‘NMSI are considering a Lord of the Rings Exhibition along with other exhibitions for Autumn this year. We will make public our exhibition programme as soon as possible.’ Check out the NSM website for possible updates soon. [More]
Meanwhile Lisa sends along this report from the NZ Herald stating that the opening at the Science Museum in London is set for September 16, and then on to Boston, Singapore, and Sydney. Could this be the beginning of a LOTR exhibit world tour?
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News from Neena Kalyani Vemuri: “I thought that it may interest those who frequent your site that the “Popular Culture and Philosophy” series headed by William Irwin will be publishing its fifth volume, “The Lord of The Rings and Philosophy”, edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson, in August of 2003. There are a few articles which mention this (albeit briefly) here and here. You can preorder it through Barnes and Noble here.”
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Somewhat bizarrely, a PhD student at the UK University of Leeds has chosen to express the long and difficult process of writing a PHD with an allegory using LOTR. Laura sent it in to see if someone might find it amusing. I did. [More]
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