Suzie writes: Ian Mckellen (Gandalf) will be in Sydney for the Sydney festival in January 2004. He’s perfroming in a play called ‘Dance of Death’ in early January, and he’ll be doing a ‘talking culture’ appearance as well, discussing his work so far. [sydneyfestival.org.au]
Category: Old Main News
Rachel sends along scans from the latest issue of Spin Magazine featuring a look at Sean Astin, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan called ‘Too Clever By Half’ and a look at Gollum and his alter ego Andy Serkis. [More]
David writes: I was priviledged to be invited to the South African premier of the RoK. It is on the 10th of December. Tickets are not for sale it is only by invitation. The invite was in a large elaborate box. When opened flower like petals fold away to expose the invitation. [More]
At the recent Ring*Con 2003 I got the chance to catch up with Rohan-extraordinaire John Leigh (Hama). It was an early Saturday morning, yours truly was still recovering from the night before, spent talking about the fast and dangerous life of a Rohirrim! [More]
Ok, we knew it was gonna happen sooner or later, but it is still wickedly cool! [More]
Barliman’s regular Bekah_The_Sheep came in tonight with a URL for some pretty nifty things to be found at xtramsn’s website. “Celebrity-spotting is all the rage in Wellington with just four days to the world premiere of Return of the King.” [More] Also to be found here is a short [interview] with LOTR producer Barrie Osbourne and the folks at Telecom about the challenges faced in getting four locations’ worth of filming to Peter Jackson each day. Keep looking and you’ll also find screensavers, wallpapers, e-cards… and the ROTK trailer!