Peter writes: The BBC recently interviewed Viggo Mortensen about “The Road.” His interview is at the following link between minutes 6:00 and 13:00. More..
Category: LotR Cast News
Foxtrot creator and TORN pal Bill Amend sent me the heads up, Robert Pattinson, if you’re reading this, call me. Bill writes; My wife is insanely hard to shop for. Actually, let me clarify that… she’s hard for ME to shop for. She tends to like things like shoes and jackets and bracelets, basically stuff that’s alien to me. Every few years there’ll be a birthday or Christmas where she wants something like a camera or an iPod and I’m fine, but otherwise it’s like throwing darts at a big target that says “I hope you saved the receipt.”
This Christmas was one of the bracelet years, and I wasn’t looking forward to it, to say the least. And then a miracle happened. More..
“The best movie of the decade” Entertainment Weekly
“…the Rings trilogy is more than movies. It’s a colossus on the march into screen legend.”...Rolling Stone, Peter Travers
“The #1 film of the decade” Chicago Sun Times, Roger Ebert
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY
The Multi-Billion Dollar Franchise Reigns Triumphant on Blu-ray™ Disc For the First Time! The Original Theatrical Versions of all Three Films with More than Seven Hours of Special Features and Digital Copies of Each Film Available April 6, 2010 from Warner Home Video
Burbank, Calif, December 14, 2009 – Oscar®-winning The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, one of the most magical, intensely spectacular epic adventures in motion picture history, can now be seen as never before when all three of Peter Jackson’s visual masterpieces explode onto Blu-ray Disc April 6th as The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy. The nine-disc set will reawaken the powerful connection that fans have to these films through rich, robust colors and crisp sound that home audiences can only experience on Blu-ray Disc. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy will include digital copies of each film on three separate discs and will also be BD-Live enabled, offering exciting new interactive possibilities. The highly anticipated release will precede Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest videogame launch. Continue reading “LOTR Trilogy TE Blu-ray: Street Date April 6”
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Merry in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost. He is currently portraying the character Dr. Simon Campos on FlashForward.
In an interview today with MTV, Peter Jackson revealed that three Lord of the Rings actors will be returning to reprise their roles in The Hobbit:
“Gandalf, being a 2,000-year-old wizard, is still around and plays a major role in ‘The Hobbit,’ and we’re having Ian McKellen reprise,” explained the filmmaker, who is executive-producing the flick and writing the screenplay. “There’s a couple of other characters: Elrond, who was played by Hugo Weaving [in the original films], and there’s a possibility of Galadriel, who was played by Cate Blanchett.”
Read the rest of the article here..
Viggo Mortensen talked about some of the pranks he used to play on his co-stars in a recent interview on Live magazine. More