Ringer ShelaghC has some further information that may refute AICN’s rumour that New Line is pondering “farming out” the RoTK EE FX to a digital FX house other than WETA. [More]
Month: December 2003
Ringer ShelaghC has some further information that may refute AICN’s rumour that New Line is pondering “farming out” the RoTK EE FX to a digital FX house other than WETA.
AICN wrote: “Word is that New Line are baulking at the price for another Extended Edition, and may be farming out the FX to El Cheapo American FX House Inc rather than the high-quality excesses of WETA … our scooper (Toss the Dwarf) pointed out that this is strictly rumour-mill stuff, but remember who told you first.”
ShelaghC writes: “I attended the December 3rd LA premiere of RotK. On the stage before the movie began, Peter Jackson stated that the folks at Weta were hard at work on the extended edition of the movie. So, unless something has intensely changed in the last 2.5 weeks, I’d say this rumor is probably false.”
Reassuring, but there’s nothing like ironclad confirmation.
IGN FilmForce recently put Dominic Monaghan under the spotlight – great in-depth interview. Go read. [More]
It makes a change from those three-ring Serkises, I guess. anyway, the Sydney Morning Herald has republished an article from the Independent – a cracking interview with Andy. Regardless of whether it’s a repost, it’s well worth a read. [More]
Cameos, cameos everywhere … Here’s just a few of the cameos from Return of the King – there’s probably lots more as well. [More] Updated !!!Spoilers!!!
Cameos, cameos everywhere … Here’s just a few of the cameos from Return of the King – there’s probably lots more as well.
- Sean Astin’s daughter plays Elanor, daughter of Sam and Rosie.
- Sarah McLeod’s daughter plays Frodo, son of Sam and rosie.
- Peter Jackson’s children have cameos as Gondorian children.
- Peter Jackson is the captain of the Corsairs of Umbar. He also had a longer ‘cameo’ of around two minutes where he battles a major character – reportedly Legolas – but decided to cut it from the theatrical release. He spoke about this at the world premiere press conference in Wellington.
- TORn Staffer Quickbeam has a few seconds of fame as a Gondorian soldier.
- Previsualisation supervisor Christian Rivers as the Gondorian soldier in charge of the beacon.
- Senior prosthetics supervisor Gino Acevedo is a Corsair of Umbar.
- Richard Taylor is a Corsair of Umbar.
- Bret McKenzie makes a reappearance as Figwit (one of Arwen’s escorts) and even gets to speak some lines!
- John Howe appears as a Gondorian soldier.
- Royn Tolkien plays a Gondorian ranger preparing the defences of the ruined city of Osgiliath, braced for an assault by the evil lord Sauron’s armies of orcs. Read more on BBC Online