London, June 6 : ‘Lord of the Rings’ star Sir Ian McKellen has called for playwrights to create more stage and screen roles for older actresses. McKellen backed a campaign by actors’ union Equity, which called on broadcasters to change their attitudes towards actresses aged over 45, in a bid to revive the British theatre and television. Over 4,000 people, including Julie Walters and Harry Potter actress Imelda Staunton, have signed a petition supporting the cause. Sir Ian McKellen urges for more roles for mature actresses
Category: Hobbit Movie
The New York Times broke this story that one Peter Jackson will be a guest at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con.The director of the “Lord of the RIngs” trilogy of films has been a regular at the convention but only via video and has even said on recorded messages shown at the four-day celebration of popular culture that someday he would like to attend. He introduced material like the King Kong vs. three T-Rex scene from “King Kong,” and also said his “hellos” to LOTR fans during the production of the films. He will officially be on hand at this year’s event to talk about “District 9,” which he is producing for director Neill Blomkamp but he also has several other irons in the fire, such as producing “The Hobbit,” with Guillermo del Toro in two parts and working on “Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” with Steven Spielberg and preparing for the release of his own “Lovely Bones,” adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel. Continue reading “Who will be at SDCC 2009? Peter Jackson! (& TORn)”
Del Toro’s close to spilling the beans in this MTV Movies Blog interview.
Cliff ‘Quickbeam’ Broadway and his gang at slaveboyfilms.com were at Meltdown Comics recently and caught up with Guillermo del Toro to talk THE HOBBIT!!
TheOneRing.net catches up with Guillermo Del Toro at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. We touch on all topics Hobbit – voice of Smaug, the movie split, and even TORn anniversary!
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Check out The Noldor Blog, written by a Wellington-based LOTR tour operator who hears all sorts of interesting rumours. He can expand on Red Carpet Tours’ discovery that Viggo had been in New Zealand on film work recently. If you read down to here you’ll see a spy report suggesting Viggo will be in both Hobbit movies and reprise his role as a Dunedain protecting the Shire.
Elven x sends along a transcript from today’s segment of Fictional Frontiers: A fun show this week on Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib and Larry Curtis talking about all things LOTR and The Hobbit. Some cool Smaug/Mike Mignola news and a heads-up for something Hobbity and extremely special at ComicCon this year … someone will be there! – No, not Guillermo, someone from the Production side of things. Enjoy this week’s show. Continue reading “Fictional Frontiers May 31st Transcript”