Stevan writes: but Ian McKellen was on the chat show “Richard and Judy” in the UK this afternoon. [More]
Day: January 7, 2004
Stevan writes: but Ian McKellen was on the chat show “Richard and Judy” in the UK this afternoon.
It was a casual 10-15 minuite interview in which he talked about Return of the King, his appearence on The Simpsons, and a little about The Hobbit.
About Return of the King, he mentioned about how almost every word was dubbed as on location it was too noisy and the studios in New Zealand weren’t sound proof. They also showed the clip of Gandalf, Pippin and Faramir talking in Minas Tirith, where Gandalf and Pippin are on a horse together. They talked about how they got the difference in size to look realistic and he said that Billy Boyd’s face was digitally added onto that of his small double, who was a woman.
Of the hobbit, he basically said what has already been reported, that New Line are trying to get hold of the full rights to make and distribute the film, once it is sorted Peter Jackson does want to make it, and that he very much wants to play Gandalf the Gray (said he preferes Gandalf the Gray to Gandalf the White.
A 39-year-old Triangle man was with his family at a Saturday afternoon screening of “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” at the AMC Theater when the people behind him were making a lot of noise. Chinn says one of the people slapped the soda from the man’s hand and put him in a head lock and began beating him. [More]
It is a season whose starting date doesn’t appear on any calendar, and yet by the time it’s over every year, it always seems to have been inexcusably long. [more]
Haddy writes: Jon Stewart said that Elijah Wood would be his guest on the Daily show tonight (Jan 7) – 11pm on Comedy (comedy central in the US).
LordofLorien writes: The “Live with Regis and Kelly” show will be having Sean Astin from the LOTR trilogy as guest this Friday, January 9th.