As announced on Peter Jackson’s Facebook page, Orlando Bloom is reprising his role as Legolas “Greenleaf” in The Hobbit. Below are some video clips of the local coverage.
Sir Ian McKellen is his co-worker, and he spends his days covered in prosthetics – but it is all in a day’s work for Mark Hadlow.
Meeting the celebrity cast of the film was an ”oh my god” moment, Mr Hadlow said.
However, ”it’s not really any different” acting with celebrities once the camera is rolling.
He said acting opposite Sir Ian was a ”fantastic” experience.
”He is a huge world-renowned talent and you’re in a scene with him – it’s flipping fantastic.”
Mr Hadlow said he wakes up at 4am each day and spends ”a couple” of hours having make up and prosthetics applied, to transform him into a dwarf, before he begins filming his scenes.
With Benedict Cumberbatch unofficially joining the cast of The Hobbit, early reports suggests he will be the voice for Smaug.
Early reports suggest Cumberbatch will voice the dragon character Smaug but the actor refused to specify his role, insisting, “I can’t say at the moment, thank you very much.”
A red-faced Freeman later told reporters, “I knew I was a sort of a big mouth but I didn’t realize to what extent I was a big mouth, and I’ve just ruined everything. I might not actually go back to a job – they might have just sacked (fired) me.”
As reported yesterday from Peter Jackson himself, Stephen Fry has been cast as The Master of Laketown. Here’s a video clip of the local coverage from TVNZ. [[TVNZ]][Video Link]
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s disaster management agency is testing the country’s emergency broadcast system with warnings of severe storms in Middle-earth, the fictional setting of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Messages broadcast Wednesday mostly on state radio and television are warning Hungarians about floods and catastrophic weather in Gondor, Rohan, Rivendell, Helm’s Deep and other locations inhabited by Hobbits, Orcs, Elves, Ents and Dwarves.
Officials say they chose Tolkien’s fantasy world because they don’t want to alarm people by mentioning real locations in the test and want to gauge how effectively the emergency messages reach Hungary’s youth. [Washington Post]
Strider continues his epic journey through the varying layers of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, examining the journey from book to game, this time focusing on The Two Towers. What connects a certain Scottish play to Fangorn Forest?
In part three Strider tackles the final levels of The Two Towers and explores Helm’s Deep through the eyes of Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Sir Ian McKellen is his co-worker, and he spends his days covered in prosthetics – but it is all in a day’s work for Mark Hadlow.
With Benedict Cumberbatch unofficially joining the cast of The Hobbit, early reports suggests he will be the voice for Smaug.
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s disaster management agency is testing the country’s emergency broadcast system with warnings of severe storms in Middle-earth, the fictional setting of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”