Back in TORN’s early days, we used to have a lot of spies who had a friend they couldn’t name who knew stuff that they shouldn’t tell us, and we weren’t allowed to say how we knew about them…..Well, in a return to our old form, here’s wild and unsubstantiated rumour just like that. [More]
Month: June 2003
Here’s a VERY unsubstantiated rumour courtesy of Zidane: “I’d like to let you know that Haldir from the Hall of Mandos and the love story of Beren and Luthien have already made it into the ROUGH cut. I repeat: into the ROUGH cut. It’s not at all confirmed that these two scenes will be included into the theatrical cut or even into the dvd cut, but PJ has already shot them.
This friend of mine told me that Haldir, *IF* he’s going to appear, will appear at the end of ROTK saying farewell to all the viewers… But as this scene will only appeal to the readers of Silmarillion and will not have such a big emotional effect as the Aragorn’s and Arwen’s death will have, [deaths implied and foreseen, not as part of the plot, I take it – Tehanu] – it will propably not be included. But I also think that Beren and Luthien will not make it to the final cut, because of the sufficient Aragorn-Arwen love story… But if they will, there will be a comparison between these two couples.
Hip-Hobbit sent us this link to Digitalbits, which has a pic of the cover art to the Extended Edition DVD of TTT, interesting to compare with Adam’s designs posted yesterday. Very minimal. [More] Sigh. It’ll be a long time before we see this on the shelves.
Superheroes and special effects wizards battled for the spotlight at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards on Saturday, claiming several top trophies including the best movie prize for “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” which earned four awards, more than any other film. Along with Best Movie, MTV viewers gave it Best Action Sequence, On-screen Team for stars Elijah Wood, Sean Astin and digitally-created Gollum, as well as a new honor for Best Digital Performance for Gollum.
Elijah, Sean and Billy (Boyd) were there to pick up the gongs, while Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis/Gollum gave pre-taped acceptance speeches. Best Fight went to Force master Yoda for his lightsaber battle with none other than Christopher Lee in Attack of the Clones. Read the full reports, including more about Gollum‘s amusing acceptance speech. [More] [More] [More]