Today, January 28th is Elijah Wood (Frodo) birthday! Elijah was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1981. That makes him the big 20 today! Happy Birthday Elijah! One more until you’re legal in the US!
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C D wrote in to tell give us a great spy report:
“Just wanted to let you know we saw Elijah Wood on Thursday night at the Sno-Core Icicle Ball (Galactic, Les Claypool’s Flying Frogs), in LA. We over heard him saying how nice it was to be back home for a day and out with his friends, since he had to catch a flight back to New Zealand in the morning….not to much gossip here, but thought you’d enjoy the sighting….by the way, we couldnt help commenting that he looks like Frodo should look in real life….this role will characterize him forever!”
Our very own Elijah Wood (Frodo) has been listed as one of the ‘Sizzlin’ 16 of 2001′ on E! Online. We can all sleep much better now. [More]
You can catch Sean Bean (Boromir) in ‘Airborne’ on Cinemax. [More]
You can see Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) in ‘Pushing Tin’ on Cinemax. [More]
You can have a look at Elijah Wood (Frodo) in ‘The Faculty’ on TMN. [More]
The Miranda Otto (Eowyn) film ‘The Thin Red Line’ is on TMN. [More]
Thanks to Senninha for these two!
For all Aussie LotR fan’s, Sir Ian McKellan (Gandalf) can be seen on the ‘Parkinson’ Show on ABC at 9:30pm AEST on Saturday 24th June.
Viggo Mortenson (Aragorn) can also be seen on SCN (Tasmania) and Channel 7 elsewhere in the movie ‘GI Jane’ (also starring Demi Moore) on Sunday 25th June, 2000
at 8:30pm AEST.
Well, today I’ve heard from 3 different sources that an offer has been made to ELIJAH WOOD to play Frodo in the three LORD OF THE RINGS movies that Peter Jackson will begin shooting at the end of the summer. Now, I know for a fact that Elijah read for the part, and before that I knew he was looking at the 3 scripts, and before that… Back when Elijah was working on THE FACULTY and we were talking geeky stuff, he expressed that his favorite book was THE LORD OF THE RINGS. So… Where is this? Between this and to story over at Cinescape it sounds like the casting process might be at that point where final decisions are being made. Cinescape is reporting that Timothy Spall (the photographer in “Secrets and Lies”, a film everybody should rush out and rent immediately) has been cast as Gimli in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings”! Warwick Davis apparently spilled the beans on this story at the Star Wars Celebration when he admitted that he had auditioned for the part and lost it to Spall. I think this is a brilliant casting move, and it gives me great confidence in Jackson. Spall has the stature and the voice for Gimli. He’ll be great. (He also played Rosencrantz in the Branagh version of “Hamlet”.) I have long been absent, but still I lurk. Wood: Frodo? Call me, Overstreet. So far, I think these are a pair of wonderful choices if this pans out. I’m looking into confirming these right now with folks on LORD OF THE RINGS. But these are the first serious casting choices we’ve received. What with all the Connery stuff and McGoohan, etc… Seems like exciting things are a coming up!