Andy Serkis who’s new to directing was honored to be asked to be
the second unit director on The Hobbit (and he does a good job as we have seen through out Peter Jacksons video blogs). Peter Jackson gave Andy Serkis filmmaking tips and acted as a mentor. contactmusic.com quoting from EMPIRE magazine:
Serkis explained: ‘‘He would watch form his set, call: ‘No, no, it’s not working. Just bail out of the shot.’ He was mentoring me. ”There were different ways we worked. We’d set up entire sequences, or he’d start a scene and I would finish it if there wasn’t time.”
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Dean Knowsley, one of the stand-in actors on The Hobbit production just tweeted that the production pick-ups Peter Jackson had scheduled has wrapped up.
“Wow, this it. The ‘Martini!” he wrote. Apparently a “martini” is a film-making expression used for the last lighting and camera setup for the last shot of a production.
Jackson said at Comic-Con 2012 that he had scheduled 10 days of pick-ups. His own cameo appearance was one of the sequences scheduled to be shot. Thanks to Ringer Tolktolk on our forums for the find.
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Earlier this week, Empire revealed two new stills from The Hobbit to coincide with their multi-page Hobbit feature for the September 2012 issue of their magazine that focuses on Riddles in the Dark.
Now we have a super-high resolution version of the cover, and of the still that shows Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis performing the Riddles scenes — with Serkis wearing his mo-cap suit. If you prefer your pictures BIG (a couple thousand pixels wide), you’ll want to run and grab these right now.
Thanks to everyone who gave us the heads-up on this.
[TORn super-res gallery] [TORn’s First Look]
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Meredith Woerner of io9.com posted a video interview with Richard Armitage talking at Comic-Con 2012 about his role as Thorin Oakenshield. Asked if he had to update his character for modern audiences he said:
“I never really thought of updating it. I actually did the opposite. I thought of it as more kind of Greek tragedy. I looked at Shakespeare, a lot of my preparation I was looking at Henry V and bits of Richard III, just to find roots in British literature that were deeper. But I think making it feel contemporary the big themes of the story — loyalty and trust and camaraderie — I think those things are contemporary.”
[Complete interview]
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Benedict Cumbatch the voice of Smaug and staring as the Necromancer in The Hobbit films, helps kick-off the BBC‘s coverage off the 2012 Olympic Games in this short feature.
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Thanks to ringer spy Chris, who sent in the link to the latest xkcd.com cartoon. Cirith Ungol… mashed up with a clever reference to another classic!
Bootnote: Technically, it’s probably Torech Ungol?
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