Exciting news over at the Narnia-front. Sources within the production have confirmed that Jim Broadbent (the man that won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 instead of Ian McKellen) will play Professor Kirke. The four Pevensie-children have also been cast. As expected they are all unknowns. The New Zealand Herald had the scoop during a visit to the set, described here. Or you can just check out the pictures and the names over at NarniaWeb.com or our favorite Dutch website: NarniaFilms.nl!
Category: Old Main News
None other than John Cook writes: Just an email to say I’ve posted a new Lord of the Rings cartoon. This one has Saruman explaining to one of his Orcs where the Orcs originally came from. Check it out here!
Pippin’s Sunshine & John Noble
Pippin’s Sunshine writes: Attached are my pictures of John Noble at the Dallas Sci-fi expo this weekend. John was an incredible person to meet. He took the time to shake your hand and talk to you for a moment before signing your picture or whatever. In the afternoon, he gave a small Q&A, which was fascinating. [More]
Thain Brandybuck sends in another short report from the NZ Film Festival. He also sends along scans from the booklet cover and the pages with the description of the Lord of the Rings-documentary. [More]
Laurelin writes: If any of you attended Viggo’s poetry reading at the Housing Works book store in July of 2002, you had the chance to hear the wonderful NYC band, ‘One Ring Zero’ (named for an aviation term, not the other ‘one ring’ that you may be familiar with). One Ring Zero will be featured today (Monday July 12) on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. [More]
Irascian writes: Brian Sibley has just updated his site. Of particular interest to Ringers is a new article “The Ring Goes Ever On” covering Brian’s involvement with “The Lord of the Rings” over the last 25 years and containing anecdotes about the radio series first broadcast in 1981 that continues to sell well on cassette and CD today. [More]