NEW YORK – The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association is the latest group to honor Peter Jackson, naming him the best director of 2003 and choosing “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” as the year’s best film. [More]
Month: January 2004
‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ heartthrob ORLANDO BLOOM is making an all-new movie — and ET’s behind the scenes for the exclusive! “It’s great to do a movie without a sword once in a while,” Orlando tells ET. [More]
Aelfwine writes: I’ve researched the following LOTR-related appearances in addition to what’s on the news right now:
Jan. 12: Sean Astin on “The View”
Jan 13: Andy Serkis on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”
Jan 14: Sean Astin on “Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn”
Tom Woodward from DVDAnswers writes: A Danish reader contacted us today regarding the runtime for the extended edition of ROTK. He managed to get in touch with the Danish interviewer that spoke with Peter Jackson to basically try and clarify the 4 hour 50 minute runtime he mentioned. It turns out that the runtime is actually 4 hours and 15 minutes. Seems the interviewer made a mistake! [More]
Stevan writes: but Ian McKellen was on the chat show “Richard and Judy” in the UK this afternoon. [More]
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.