Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop is in talks to create visual effects for an action adventure film telling the story behind the devil’s fall from grace, an industry website has reported. The film – to be produced by Christine Iso’s Los Angeles-based Pacifica International company – may also be shot in New Zealand to take advantage of local tax credits, screendaily.com said. The writer of Sleepless In Seattle, David Ward, is producing a script from a story by first-time director Ray Griggs, who has personally financed development of the project. The film, Lucifer, describes how the devil was once an angel whose pride caused him to be cast out of heaven and bring sin and death to mankind. [More]
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Jennifer sends us the latest scans from ToyFare Magazine, they feature some very cool looking LOTR toys coming our way. Included is a ’25 Inch Electric Balrog’ (with a 36 inch wingspan!) and a very cool looking animated Gandalf maquette. Take a look!
May 23, 2007 – Chance Thomas seems to have a knack for getting himself attached to rather epic videogames, specifically in the arena of composing vast, interactive, and equally epic scores for such games. Thomas’ credits to date include X-Men: The Official Game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, among others. His latest project, however, brings him back to a realm he is quite familiar with: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. [More]
Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar proves that a product doesn’t have to be completely original to be very good. Whether it’s combat mechanics, character development, player-versus-player clashes, crafting, quests or communication channels, chances are Turbine’s latest massively multiplayer online franchise will remind veteran gamers of another MMO product. The graphics engine, developed during the course of three games spread over seven years, was most recently used in Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. [More]
We know this because a team led by one of the writers of this fascinating book, Australian archaeologist Mike Morwood, discovered the creature’s skeleton in 2003, in a cave on the remote island of Flores. Since then, bones belonging to at least eight more individuals have been found, ranging in age from 95,000 to 12,000 years old. Our own species has been alive for at least 100,000 years, in case you were wondering. These bones are such a conglomeration of the primitive and the modern, so tiny, and so recent, that many scientists thought they were a hoax. “If you told me an alien space craft had landed in a field in Flores I would have been less surprised,” said experienced paleoanthropologist Peter Brown, who studied the bones. [More]
Laurelin wrote in with this story detailing how Aragorn’s 22-year-old close companion and friend was saved by a surgery. Read all the details right here.