The folks from Treetop Media Ltd. send this in: British actor John Rhys-Davies (alias Gimli the dwarf in Lord of the Rings movies) talks about The Hobbit and Peter Jackson.
Year: 2011
Dr Dimitra Fimi writes: Regarding the announcement of the Tom Shippey lecture you kindly posted a few weeks ago I thought you might like to know that the lecture was recorded, and two video extracts are now available via YouTube here:
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Thanks to Ringer A for sending in this link to the LOTR reference in last night’s ‘Family Guy.’ Enjoy!
ComingSoon.net has an exclusive interview with Elijah Wood who’s going to be reprising his character of Frodo Baggins in The Hobbit films.
Here follows an excerpt from the interview (but make sure to head over to ComingSoon.net to read it in its entirety):
CS: What are you most excited about to have the opportunity to be a part of the prequels? Since it wasn’t necessarily built into the original novel that you guys from the “Rings” films would be there.
Wood: Yeah, not at all. Look, I’m just looking forward to going back to New Zealand and spending a bit of time there. There will be plenty of old friends that will be a part of it. Largely I would imagine the entire crew would be relatively the same. So in some ways I think it’s going to be a very surreal journey. It will feel like traveling back in time a little.
But I’m excited. There’s a lot of new elements to this. They’re shooting on the Red [camera]. They’re shooting in 3D, so that should be interesting.
Thanks to Ringer Junesong for alerting us to this juicy tidbit on Peter Jackson’s official facebook page:
“Hi everyone. Watch this space… My first video post from the set of THE HOBBIT will be landing here soon!”
Sounds good to us PJ! Can’t wait!
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AN Eastern Bay 11-year-old has broken into the tough Wellywood film industry with a role in upcoming Peter Jackson two-part movie The Hobbit.
Claire, a 16-hand part Clydesdale grey mare, was purchased from Whakatane equestrian enthusiast Rachel Learmond by the movie’s head animal wrangler Steve Old last week.
When he first phoned having seen Claire for sale on the TradeMe website, Miss Learmond thought it was a scam or a joke. “They rang up and it was like ‘yeah right’. Now I just think it’s really funny.”