Viggo Mortensen (“A History of Violence”) will play a 1930’s German professor turned Nazi supporter in the big screen adaptation of “Good,” Production Weekly reports. Brazilian director Vicente Amorim (“O Caminho das Nuvens”) will helm the film that is based on CP Taylor’s award-winning play that chronicles the professor’s decent into the Reich and his ability to slide down the path of evil. [More]
Month: May 2006
The San Francisco Symphony will give the 100th performance of Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony in July, according to organizers. The work, a concert adaptation of Shore’s scores for the three Lord of the Rings films, has proved enormously popular since its debut in Wellington, New Zealand in 2003. Nearly all of its performances, given by orchestras around the world, have sold out. Performances in Oslo and Bergen, Norway, last year drew crowds of 70,000 and 30,000, respectively. The six-movement, two-hour symphony is scored for orchestra, adult and children’s choirs, and soloists. At the San Francisco Symphony’s performances on July 14 and 15, Markus Huber, one of several conductors who have toured with the work, will be on the podium; soloists include soprano Kaitlyn Lusk. The event will also include projections of illustrations and storyboard sketches of the Lord of the Rings saga. [More]
Director Trevor Nunn is to pair his forthcoming Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear with a revival of Chekhov’s The Seagull, also for the RSC. The two productions, both cast with the same acting ensemble lead by Ian McKellen, will play in repertory at Stratford-upon-Avon’s new Courtyard Theatre from March 2007 before going on a world tour. McKellen will play the title role in King Lear, which will conclude the RSC’s year-long Complete Works Festival, and also appear as Sorin in The Seagull. [More]
“I’m going to be an action figure!!??” That’s what Malcolm David Kelley (Lost’s Walt) exclaimed after the 14-year-old learned from his TV dad, Harold Perrineau (Michael), that the cast is getting plastic mini-me replicas. Comics legend Todd McFarlane scanned the faces of Lost cast members and videotaped their bodies to help create their 6-inch versions. Or more accurately in Malcolm’s case, 4 inches, max. [More]
Dominic Monaghan’s Golden Globe winning show ‘Lost’ is on tonight at 8PM EST on ABC. TORN’s chatroom now has a special ‘Lost’ screening room, login to #lost at 9PM and watch with fans from around the country! This is the two-hour season finale, don’t miss it! [ABC.com] [TORN Chat]