Miami Mofo writes: While at B&N to buy Jude Fisher’s ‘LotR:RotK Visual Companion’, I was leafing through an imported October, 2003 issue of ‘Empire Magazine’ where I read the following in a report written as filming drew to a close in July, 2003:
‘Hobbit extra Peter Eastwood (no relation to Clint), a naturally diminutive tax inspector from Auckland blessed with startingly large eyes, stubs out a cigarette and grins from ear to pointy ear. “I was going to be Sean Astin’s stand-in,” he announces to anyone in the vicinity whom he suspects to be a member of the press, “but I’ve been a Hobbit, another Hobbit and a Dwarf in the Council of Elrond, and now I’m that first Hobbit again. ‘During lunch, waiting to be rustled back to finish a secret “Shire party scene” for the end of the movie, the Hobbits tend to stick together. …’
A “Secret Shire Party scene”? This tidbit of info, coupled with AICN’s news that we will not see Saruman’s demise in LotR:RotK makes me wonder if P.J. made a last minute decision to change Saruman’s end as originally filmed for one that takes place in the Shire, to be used in the Extended Edition DVD.
If so, I would certainly welcome this last minute change. Best regards!
Tina writes: The ROTK premiere has been moved back three days in Serbia and will be held on Dec. 21. We’re eagerly awaiting the beginning of ticket sales! As for the two extended editions, it’s still uncertain whether they will be shown in movie theaters and the distributor was very vague about the whole thing, with a “don’t get your hopes up” undertone.
Vintage Year (along with the boys from www.boydism.net) send along these images from the December issue of Starlog Magazine. It features an article about Billy Boyd. [