An official casting call for Elves in the upcoming Hobbit films has been posted at TradeMe.co.nz.
The production is looking for tall and slender people to play Elven Horse Riders and Elven Extras. The age and height requirements according to gender have been given as follows:
Men aged 17 – 40 with a height of 6ft (183cm) and taller.
Women aged 17 – 40 with a height of 5ft 9 (175cm) and taller.
The venue for the casting call is the Te Whaea – National Dance and Drama Centre, 11 Hutchinson Rd, Newtown, Wellington, and it’s to take place on Saturday, 26th February 2011 from 9:30 am – 12:00 noon and from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm.
Additional details can be found from the link provided above.
If you happen to attend the casting call and have any stories to share, please feel free to write us. You can do so either by clicking the “Got news?” link at the top-right of the home page or by sending an email directly to spymaster@theonering.net.
Thanks to our good friends at Weta Workshop, we have a downloadable mp3 of the entire Hobbit Press Conference. [Download mp3 (25MB) ] And if you haven’t checked it out yet, read Tehanu’s full report of the event! [Tehanu’s Report]
We’ve loaded the audio onto our TORN TV YouTube Channel with some ‘Hobbit Art’ to accompany it. Take a look and listen!
I simply couldn’t do justice to the wit and warmth of this press conference with the cast playing Bilbo and the thirteen dwarves. Luckily, TV3 have now posted their video of the entire conference – a much longer clip than the one I posted before. ENJOY!!!
Martin Freeman (Bilbo) and Aidan Turner (Kili) at today's press conference - this cast is a killer combo of wit and good looks.
“Fourteen individuals – and an ensemble.”
Today’s press conference opened with an apology from Peter Jackson, who said he couldn’t be there as he was “under a form of medical house arrest” since being hospitalised with a perforated ulcer last week.
“And to be honest, perhaps it’s just as well. These guys make me laugh so hard that I’d be in danger of popping a stitch or something,” Jackson continued in his statement.
Confirming the truth of that, the cast of 13 dwarves and one hobbit kept up a constant flow of quips and wisecracks throughout the whole press conference. We knew Martin Freeman was funny with a good script – well, he’s hilarious without one as well.
Ataahua writes: TORn discussion board member Mortimus sends in this truly beautiful graphic (by artist Alistair Hughes) of the history of the making of The Hobbit films. Alistair has kindly provided a PDF of the graphic itself – a copy of which was published in The Dominion-Post newspaper this week.
Ataahua sends this in: Dr Sagar, who has worked on Spiderman 2, King Kong and Avatar, began professional life as an engineering PhD, creating an eye surgery simulator that took him to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there he worked in a lab that drew in businessmen looking to use digital technology for movies…Dr Sagar pioneered the use of the facial action coding system in motion capture for digital characters, a system originally devised by psychologist Paul Ekman to identify and classify facial expressions. This system has been credited with capturing the subtlety of emotion in the faces of digital characters in Weta blockbusters King Kong and Avatar, which have been widely acclaimed in the movie world. More..
An official casting call for Elves in the upcoming Hobbit films has been posted at TradeMe.co.nz.
