Seán writes: The interview in the upcoming Empire is presented in a preview on empireonline.com: On Bilbo: “In writing the part I obviously am thinking Old Bilbo and Ian Holm. We are writing based on that performance, but other than that, we have ideas. I can tell you that it’s down to a few names that we all agree upon. And that our first choice…completely, magically we said the same name. All of us! We said this is the guy we would talk to, but until the pages are there you have to let the character tell you who he wants to be played by. You can expect at least a year before we announce any casting.”
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Reports have been coming in regarding the U.S. premier of The Fellowship of the Ring screening with the score performed live at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts last week. Below is an excerpt from one Mary sent us. Follow the “Discuss” link for forum member Magpie’s report about additional reviews at Doug Adams’ Blog site.
Mary: “I am a lover of movies and movie music. So when an opportunity to attend The Lord of the Rings – the Fellowship of the Ring in HD with the musical score performed live came along, I grabbed it.”
Continue reading “REVIEW of LOTR: FOTR score performed live with film”
Future “Hobbit” director Guillermo del Toro and former “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson sat down with a world-wide internet audience and answered a lot more than the announced “20 questions” this weekend.
Hosted by Weta, there were a lot of minor details and significant confirmations and revelations about the gigantic production that will yield two “Hobbit” related movies, one in 2011 and the second in 2012.
Peter Jackson said,
“2009 will be dedicated to pre-production on both movies and 2010 will be the year we shoot both films back to back. Post productin follows one film at a time with The Hobbit being released Dec(ember) 2011, and F2 (film two) release(d) Dec(ember) 2012.”
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From TimesOnline.com: “Christopher Tolkien, 83, is calling for “one last crusade” in a long-running court battle against the producers of The Lord of the Rings only weeks before carpenters are due to begin work in New Zealand on the sets for the latest Middle-earth epic.” Read more (Thanks to Ringer Spy J for the link)
It’s been a very exciting night and our thanks go out to Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson for sharing their thoughts with all of us.
Tonight we blogged — and logged — live from the Unexpected Party chat for everyone who couldn’t make the chat and for people who really care what we think;) Now, for your reading pleasure, we have all the questions and answers transcribed for you, along with comments from the TORn staff! Read the blog, log and commentary!
And be sure to join us in TORn’s chatroom Barlimans or our messageboards. Fans are busy there arguing debating everything they’ve heard.
After the chat with PJ and Del Toro is over, there’s bound to be lots of people in TORN’s chatroom Barlimans or our messageboards talking over what we’ve learned – so join in!