Lee writes: Computing magazine in the UK is running a poll on the Greatest Computer-Generated Movie Sequences. Todays nomination is for the battle of Minas Tirith; the poll is at the bottom. [More]
Category: Old Main News
LaWise writes: Swiss film director Marc Schippert is currently filming a LotR spoof movie called The Ring Thing. The script is by Christoph Silber, who was co-author of the script to ‘Good Bye, Lenin’. The story is more or less the following: The Dark Lord Sauraus (meaning “PigOut” in German) wants to cover all of Middle Earth with Fondue. The bank clerk Friedo is turned into a hero without wanting to be one, because he falls through the toilet of an airplane into an adventurous world of fairytale in the middle of the Swiss Alps and has to save Middle Earth from the boiling, yellow cheese-fluid. The film will be in Swiss cinemas as of 9th December 2004. [More]
The lineup just keeps growing. The latest addition to the LOTR-cast-shudded Fellowship Festival is none other than Karl Urban! Get your tickets while you still can… [Fellowship Festival website]
John Cook writes: Just an email to say I’ve posted a new Lord of the Rings cartoon. This one has Elrond presenting a dodgily reforged sword to Aragorn. Check it out here!
Ian McKellen has signed up to provide the voice for the magical character Zebedee in Pathe’s movie version of the U.K. children TV classic The Magic Roundabout. He joins a voice cast that includes Robbie Williams, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Kylie Minogue and Bill Nighy. [More]
Sad news this morning as TORN learns that Peter Woodthorpe, who brough Gollum’s voice to life in the BBC radio presentation and animated version of The Lord of the Rings, has died. According to monkeyheaven.com Woodthorpe had not been too well for a while. He was 72.