It is proving to be the one book to guide them all. When Ian Brodie first approached director Peter Jackson with an idea to write a book based on locations from the Lord of the Rings movie sets around New Zealand, he wasn’t expecting to be given the green light. Now, more than 200,000 copies later, a larger coffee table version of the book has been launched. [More]
Category: Old Main News
Director Peter Jackson – in the midst of preparing to shoot his version of King Kong in Wellington – said he felt “an enormous sadness” over the death of Fay Wray, star of the original 1933 film. [More]
Silmarien writes: Last night’s TV One News had an item about the Kiwi Olympic Team settling down into the village. Someone has thoughtfully provided the road-sign showing Middle earth. [One News Sports Section]
It’s been a busy day for Narnia News. Narniafans.com reports that Sala Baker [whom you last saw as Sauron] is rumoured to have signed on to LWW, though not as a cast member. [More] From the same site: the release date has been moved from Christmas 2005 to Dec. 9 2005. [More]
More news for you Narnia fans thanks to Tirian at NarniaWeb.com. According to the latest reports, veteran British actor Ray Winstone is to voice Mr. Beaver for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. [More]
Spies in Auckland report that Peter Jackson was seen there checking out King Kong location possibilities, but he also went into the Imax cinema there – reportedly this is because they are checking out the possibility of putting all three films into Imax format.