Where in the world is Viggo Mortensen? Ringer spy Guillermo sends us word that Mortensen has been spotted in Asuncion Paraguay. He isn’t there to promote anything but the LOTR Ranger is just that famous with his next film “The Road,” set for an October release. Here is a link to an article in Spanish that you can translate. Guillermo says, “Viggo came to Asunción to work with some friends in the process of writing a new book. He didn’t expect a lot of press here, so he didn’t talk too much about the book or anything else.”
Month: May 2009
Turbine has just released the first batch of screenshots for the upcoming Volume II: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum, the next upcoming free content update for The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria which will go live in June. The new screenshots illustrate the Water Wheels, which will be added with Book 8. We will have more news and assets for Volume II: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum soon and will be sure to keep you updated! Continue reading “LOTR Online: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum Screenshots!”
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE, CStJ (born 27 May 1922) is an English actor and singer. He initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in the Star Wars series, as well as Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Lee’s most important role, according to him, was his portrayal of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). Lee has performed roles in over 220 films since 1948. Along with Rock Hudson, Lou Ferrigno, Vincent Price, Sterling Hayden, Vince Vaughn and few others, he is, at 195.6 centimetres (6 feet, 5 inches), one of the tallest leading actors of all time.
Lee was born in Belgravia, England, the son of Contessa Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano) and Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee of the 60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Lee’s mother was a famous Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, as well as Oswald Birley and Olive Snell, and was sculpted by Clare F. Sheridan. Lee’s maternal great-grandfather had been an Italian political refugee who sought refuge in Australia; his great-grandmother was Australian opera singer Marie Carandini. christopherleeweb.com
Celebriel forwards news that Andy Serkis has teamed up with UK production company Screen East to assess feasibility for a motion capture studio in the UK. He said in the announcement, “We believe that currently in Britain there is no centre of excellence that matches the capacity developed by Weta Digital in New Zealand, which has been a key resource in delivery of productions such as The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, James Cameron’s forthcoming Avatar and Jackson and Spielberg’s highly anticipated Tintin.” More..
The director of The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro, settles down at his favourite Wellington cafe to talk to Tom Cardy about bringing his debut novel to life. When Guillermo del Toro was 13, he wrote a short story about a girl who lives near a graveyard. Lightning wakes her one night. She looks out of her bedroom window and sees an animated corpse on the street staring back at her. The girl goes missing and is later found inside a coffin in the cemetery, the corpse’s arms wrapped around her. Inside the mind of a vampire lover
The folks at WETA gave us the heads up: John Howe has kindly signed a stack of his Fantasy Art Workshop for us. He was in town for a book signing at the WETA Cave. More..