Melowyn sends in another report from the goings on at Comic-Con 2004. I have also added more images to the scrapbook, including new pics of the Billy Boyd and David Wenham signing session! !!!ROTK EE Spoilers!!! [More]
Month: July 2004
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Melowyn writes: Here’s little more news and few pictures from Comic-Con 2004:
!!!SPOILERS BELOW!!!
A few more scenes on the EE revealed at the panel on Friday were the drinking contest between Legolas and Gimli (looks very funny!), Theoden accepting Merry’s services into the Rohan army, and Gandalf’s battle with the Witch King (wow!). Billy also mentioned that the scene where he finds Merry on the fields of Pelennor will be different in the EE. It will show him searching throughout the day for his Hobbit pal, and finally finding him after the sun has set. I guess the digital guys were able change the same scene from day to night. They also showed us a hilarious bit taken from interviews of Dom and Viggo about Oscar night. It won’t be on the EE, but maybe we’ll see it again some other time???
On Saturday, while Dom signed autographs for Lost a few booths away, Billy and David signed at the New Line booth. There was quite a lot of anxiety in the crowd before the signing. New Line announced the signing would begin at 12:00 with the line forming at 11:30. Many of us arrived about 9:30 and spent two hours walking the perimeter of the booth and studying the ROTK costumes displayed there, waiting for the moment that the line would form. By 11:30 there was a HUGE crowd around the New Line booth hoping to get tickets for the signing. Unfortunately many of those waiting were not able to get a ticket.
When things finally began, Billy and David were very gracious and took the time to speak to the fans and personalize their autographs. Both were extraordinarily patient and friendly. They did are quick interview, took a short lunch break for pizza, and then returned to continue signing for several more hours. Dom showed up, too, to say hello to Billy and David, making the day even more exciting. To top it off, I believe that New Line passed out more tickets, and David and Billy stayed longer than expected to make sure that everyone was able to get an autograph. Very classy gentlemen.
In the meantime, Dom walked around the exhibit hall and checked out some of the great deals. He smiled at fans, signed a few autographs and posed for some pictures. What a nice guy!
At the far end of the exhibit hall, Sala was at the Ringers booth also signing autographs and talking with the crowd. Quickbeam and his crew were there with some clips from the Ringers film, which looks fantastic.
It was really an incredible day!
As an aside, apparently there’s a rumor going around that the ROTK Extended DVD will be released on December 10. Laura from New Line who MC’d the panel on Friday night said she doesn’t even know the date yet and it definitely won’t be the 10th because that’s a Friday. New Line DVD’s are not released on Fridays.
SAN DIEGO – Sometimes the archenemy of a superhero movie is the super-fan, the kind with the power to create a firestorm of negative buzz on the Internet over a perceived injustice to a beloved character. Now Hollywood has discovered a place where it can try to leap that fan skepticism in a single bound: Comic-Con International. [More]
Tucked away in a lecture room in a Carlisle college, 25 razor-sharp minds are taking a break from discussing one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. One woman is telling her neighbour about a terrible train journey she had from the south of England. “It was a bit like being stuck in Middle-earth really,” she says, unable to resist a reference to the work of the man responsible for this unlikely gathering. [More]
A ‘tabloid’ newspaper in the US called Weekly World News makes it a habit to write fake articles and print them in the newspaper. They’ve written about Elvis being alive, Saddam and Osama being lovers, Aliens found on Mars, and a Bat-Boy, half bat, half boy, living among us. It’s no surprise then that the latest issue features this article. [More]
A ‘tabloid’ newspaper in the US called Weekly World News makes it a habit to write fake articles and print them in the newspaper. They’ve written about Elvis being alive, Saddam and Osama being lovers, Aliens found on Mars, and a Bat-Boy, half bat, half boy, living among us. It’s no surprise then that the latest issue features this article.
Hobbit Skeleton Found in New Zealand
New Zealand might really be the “Home of Middle Earth” after all!
While that advertising slogan has been reeling in tourists curious to visit the sites of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, Kiwi archeologists have uncovered an historical link to the film’s events: The world’s first complete hobbit skeleton.
Ironically, parts of the skeleton were discovered last month during road construction near Matamata, the rural area that filmmaker Peter Jackson chose to stand in as the hobbit village of Hobbiton.
Members of the NEw Zealand Archeological Society were immediately called in to investigate the remains, which they expected to be Maori in origin.
“You can just imagine our exitement when we saw that elongated foot poking out of the ground – unmistakably hobbit!” says excavation leader Dr. Harold Cavendish. “We quickly knew we had something rare.”
In fact, the assembled bones made up a complete hobbit skeleton: A young male in his early 60s, still clutching a stein commonly used to drink ale.
Even more remarkable, forensic scientists have deturmined the hobbit’s cause of death.
“The impact fracture on the back of his skull is consistent with the shape of an orc weapon know as the ‘orc gasher,’ a crude axe,” says New Zealand pathologist Eric Oxenburger.
“Our chap may have been just minding his own buisiness when a sudden orc attack quickly ended his life.”
Archeologists hope this discovery will lead to further understanding of the mythshrouded era that provided inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s “myth-based” novels.