Another chance to see your favorite LOTR star on the small screen this week! Take a look! [More]
Month: September 2003
Irascian writes: My weblog report on the press launch of the movie exhibition at the Science Museum is finally up. More interesting to most fans will be the transcript of the press conference and Q&A session where Richard Taylor reveals his favourite piece in the exhibition (and why it’s his favourite) and talks about his proudest achievement. [More]
The latest issue of PC Gamer Magazine, which features a big picture of Gandalf on the front cover, has a large article inside called ‘Five games to rule them all…’. It goes into detail on all the latest and greatest LOTR games heading to all platforms this fall.
Anyone with scans of the article, send them along!
Gino Acevedo, Bay Raitt & Lawrence Makaoare
NZBoy writes: Arrived at Armageddon early yesterday in the morning and greeted by a HUGE crowd waiting to get in. Dymocks has a display of a lot of the Weta Workshop props, like Gimlis axes, Different face expressions of Gollum, Cave Troll, Lurtz, Goblin Archer etc. [More]
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NZBoy writes: Arrived at Armageddon early yesterday in the morning and greeted by a HUGE crowd waiting to get in.
The expo has famous people there like David Prowse (Darth Vadar) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbucca). Dymocks has a display of a lot of the Weta Workshop props, like Gimlis axes, Different face expressions of Gollum, Cave Troll, Lurtz, Goblin Archer etc.
At 1pm they had a Weta Workshop panel, of Gino Acevedo, Bay Raitt and also Lawrence Makaoare. There were mainly showing us how Gollum was developed from a pencil drawing to what we see on the screen, very interesting!! The life-like Gollum in the pics was a model that was made by Gino, was made from silicon and we were allowed to touch it after their tallk. The skin was so life like and felt like the real Gollum. Was amazing to touch.
After there session they were signing autographs and posing for photos. There will be the same again today.
The first film had us intrigued, the second had us hooked. We’re all agog for what The Return of the King will reveal when it opens here in December. Never mind whether Frodo manages to destroy that ring. Step aside Viggo and Liv, with your wildly romantic hair and Pre-Raphaelite robes, we’ve all become besotted with the real star of the The Lord of the Rings trilogy — the New Zealand landscape. [More]