Linuxelf sends along a few more videos from the LOTR golden days. Take a look at the ROTK Golden Globe wins, a party at 3Foot6 and Wellington’s famous Cuba Street.
ROTK Golden Globes Wins
Category: LotR Cast News
Sean Astin is getting back into character as Samwise Gamgee, Frodo Baggins’ faithful hobbit friend in the Lord of the Rings trilogy—but he’s not prepping to shoot The Hobbit, because that is set before his character was even born. Samwise will be appearing in the new Warner Brothers Interactive video game The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest.
“There’s a video game coming out soon,” Astin said in a group interview on May 15 in Burbank, Calif., where he was promoting his Disney Channel series Special Agent Oso. “Tomorrow I’m doing like my last day on it. That’s all about what happens after The Lord of the Rings. It’s set sort of in Hobbiton, and Sam has all his children and other children and is telling them these stories. Then as he starts telling the stories, the game kind of kicks in and you can be Aragorn.” More..
Linuxelf returns with yet more goodies from the LOTR vault. Check out these clips from the ROTK Premiere in New Zealand.
NZ Return of The King Premiere Clips
The folks from Revolver Entertainment send along the trailer for Sean Bean’s latest film ‘Black Death’: The film is a historical epic set during the deadly pandemic of the 14th Century. Sean Bean stars as the fearsome knight Ulrich, who is tasked with leading his group of mercenaries to a remote village where it is rumoured there are no traces of the pestilence. Their quest is to hunt down a necromancer – someone able to bring the dead back to life.
Their journey is treacherous and filled with danger; encountering deadly bandits and vicious witch-burnings that will put their faith to the ultimate test. Though it’s upon entering the village that their true horror begins…
Linuxelf sends along more videos from back in the LOTR heyday. Take a look at Peter Jackson talking about the premiere of TTT, the TTT premiere in New Zealand and New York.
Peter Jackson talks about TTT Premiere
Hugo Weaving, the man who delivered a fantastic voice performance in “V For Vendetta,” without ever showing his face, has been cast as Captain America’s nemesis and WWII Nazi the Red Skull in “Captain America: The First Avenger”.
Weaving, who TORn readers know as Elrond in the LOTR trilogy, may face another role behind a mask in this role as his character’s face is an…uh…red skull, although the press release from Marvel says, “The character will be updated for the feature adaptation.” Those hoping to see Weaving again as Elrond in a pair of yet-to-be-greenlit Hobbit movies, will do doubt be curious about the production schedule and potential conflicts with the two franchises.
Because of the financial situation of MGM, which is the distributor for the Hobbit films, nothing has been set in stone about shooting schedules. Producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro have gone on record saying they would get the same actors for the same roles “whenever possible” and when appropriate. Elrond, although not a major role in the who films, who be an obvious and important character the two-part prequels to the LOTR film trilogy. The director hinted to the BBC that he expected Weaving to return.
The whole press release, can be found here. Thanks to board member Oden for starting a discussion on the topic.