New Zealand magazine Pavement has just completed its second massive The Lord of the Rings special issue. The Two Towers issue, featuring 40 pages of stories, interviews, exclusive photo shoots and stills, goes on sale in New Zealand on December 1. Starring Orlando Bloom, photographed exclusively for Pavement in LA two weeks ago, on the cover, the issue also features exclusive photo shoots with Miranda Otto (Eowyn), John Rhys-Davies (Gimli), Bernard Hill (King Theoden), Brad Dourif (Wormtongue), Karl Urban (Eomer), Dominic Monaghan (Merry) and Andy Serkis (Gollum). Other interviews in the issue include Billy Boyd (Pippin), director Peter Jackson, Barrie Osborne (producer) and Dan Hennah (supervising art director).
Pavement editor Bernard McDonald spent 5 days on the set of The Two Towers mid-2002 interviewing various cast members and production heads, watching Peter Jackson directing on-set and on location and visiting the various LOTR departments (CGI, Weta props, costumes, makeup, etc). Plus, Pavement correspondent Desmond Sampson attended the New York press junket for The Two Towers, where he interviewed Otto, Rhys-Davies, Dourif and Urban, while James Graham interviewed Orlando Bloom in LA.
This is part two of Pavement’s LOTR trilogy of issues dedicated to the films. The first, featuring Liv Tyler and Elijah Wood on two covers, sold out. For fans of LOTR outside NZ, the new issue can be purchased from Pavement (pavement@pavement.co.nz) or (Pavement, PO Box 309, Auckland 1, New Zealand). Cost NZ$20 each (including postage & handling). A2 cover poster NZ$20 each (including postage & handling). NZ$30 for a copy and poster. Orders within New Zealand are NZ$10 per copy or poster (including postage & handling), NZ$20 for a copy and poster. Allow 2-3 weeks for delivery after date of publication. Sorry, no copies or posters of Fellowship of the Ring issues left.
This is from an article about Karl Urban (Eomer) in People Magazine. It’s on Page 145 of the December 2nd Issue that has Ben Affleck on the cover.
Thanks to TheBlueKat for typing it up for us to share with you all.
Karl Urban
Age: 30 Height: 6’1 Status: He has a girlfriend and a 2-year old son Residence: A home in Auckland, New Zealand Breakthrough role: Eomer, a warrior in The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers
Background: Growing up in Welllington, New Zealand, Urban got a taste of role-playing as Han Solo in neighborhood games of Star Wars: “I was 5, and I remember thinking, “Wow, this is exactly what I want to do.” By 1996 he had made a career of it, landing parts on two syndicated TV shows – Cupid in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Julius Ceasar on Xena: Warrior Princess. “Karl is ruggedly heroic yet imbues his roles with sensitivity,” says Rings director Peter Jackson, who cast Urban because “we needed someone who could hold their own against Ian McKellen.”
Winning Ways: “Karl has a confident charm that allows him to be tousled without seeming unkempt,” says Melissa Blakem a writer on Hercules and Xena. The trick Urban points out, is “putting on the clothes I had on the day before – if they arn’t too dirty.”
Karl Urban, a Wellington, New Zealand native who portrays Eomer in the upcoming feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers will be the on-air host of Travel Channel’s “New Zealand Night” Sunday, December 15. Travel Channel will air portions of an exclusive one-on-one interview with Mr. Urban who discusses what he loves most about his country and shares anecdotes and experiences from shooting on location in New Zealand during filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, opening in theaters nationwide December 18.
Excerpts from the interview will introduce and wrap Travel Channel’s “New Zealand Night” which includes the world television premiere of “NEW ZEALAND: THE ROYAL TOUR” at 9 PM (ET/PT) and the world television premiere of “SECRETS OF NEW ZEALAND” at 10 PM (ET/PT).
“NEW ZEALAND: THE ROYAL TOUR” features New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark who embarks on an exclusive adventure tour of “Middle-earth” in which she traverses the lush rainforests, alpine peaks and steep canyons of this majestic land where the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy was filmed. Viewers may recognize locations as the actual backdrops from the Rings film trilogy. Footage from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring appears in the program.
Immediately following the “NEW ZEALAND: THE ROYAL TOUR” premiere, Travel Channel will air “SECRETS OF NEW ZEALAND” which explores New Zealand’s spectacular beauty, while revealing its active volcanoes, dangerous earthquake faults, violent oceans and treacherous weather. The program also reveals ancient secrets of New Zealand’s first inhabitants, the Maori, proud warriors who proved their courage by decorating their faces with the world’s most painful tattoos and by taking the heads of their enemies in battle.
The central film in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, follows the three separate journeys of the splintered Fellowship — Hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) as they venture deeper into enemy territory, with the mercurial creature Gollumhttp://theonering.net/movie/char/smeagol.html (Andy Serkis) serving as their guide; Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) in the mysteriously alive Fangorn Forest; and the human Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the Elf archer Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Gimli the Dwarf (John Rhys-Davies) in the besieged Rohan Kingdom. Together they must stand against the gathering darkness emanating from the Two Towers — Orthanc Tower in Isengard where the corrupted wizard Saruman builds his lethal army Uruk-hai; and Sauron’s fortress at Barad-dûr deep within the dark lands of Mordor.
The Travel Channel is the only television network devoted exclusively to visiting the world’s most popular destinations. Travel Channel’s web site can be accessed at http://www.discovery.com . The network is available in more than 67 million homes and is a service of Discovery Networks U.S., a unit of Discovery Communications, Inc.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you’ll know that the latest Bond film ‘Die Another Day’ is released today. Be sure to check out our pal Lawrence Makoare (Lurtz) as one of the main heavies that Bond has to deal with. Lawrence is the latest in a string of LOTR talent that has appeared in Bond films, check out the rest:
Sean Bean (Boromir) starred as Alec Trevelyan in 1995’s ‘Goldeneye’.
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) was General Leonid Pushkin in the 1987 film ‘The Living Daylights’, starring Timothy Dalton as Bond
Christopher Lee (Saruman) was the man in question in the 1974 hit ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’, Lee played Scaramanga opposite Roger Moore’s Bond.
Who’s to be the next LOTR star to play a bad guy? Our best guess is Billy Boyd! Yes the Scotsman will play Terry McCurdy in the 21st Bond movie ‘To Kilt For Love’. The story revolves around Boyd’s character opening up a kilt warehouse outlett mall in Orange County, the kilts control people’s mind and make them want to Riverdance! Bond comes to the rescue!
CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY FOR THE LORD OF THE RINGS FANS
Advance Tickets For The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Go On Sale November 22
Los Angeles, CA, November 21, 2002 – To keep pace with the mounting anticipation of the December 18, 2002, release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central film in Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien classic, New Line Cinema has forged an unprecedented agreement with exhibitors to begin advance ticket sales on November 22, four weeks ahead of release. The announcement was made today by David Tuckerman, New Line’s president, domestic theatrical distribution.
Box office presales will be available both at theater box offices across the US and Canada, and the official movie website www.lordoftherings.net, commencing twice as early with The Two Towers as was done in 2001 for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Last year’s release broke presale records around the world, with online sales ultimately representing 8.25% of the film’s domestic opening weekend. The film went on to gross $860 million worldwide.
“The fan base has exploded since the release of the first film, with skyrocketing DVD sales and increased pressure on exhibitors to make The Lord of the Rings tickets available throughout the Christmas season,” Tuckerman said. “It is incredibly encouraging to have this kind of pressure for tickets this far out.”
New Line Cinema presents The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Peter Jackson’s epic adventure scheduled to open December 18, 2002. The trilogy represents an unprecedented undertaking – three films made simultaneously over a year and a half of production. The first film in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, was released December 19, 2001, to widespread critical acclaim and garnered $860 million worldwide. The film was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, more than any other film in 2001, and won four.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stars (in alphabetical order) Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Brad Dourif, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Karl Urban, David Wenham, and Elijah Wood.
New Line Cinema presents a Wingnut Films Production, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, directed by Peter Jackson. The screenplay, by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair and Jackson, is based on the classic trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film is produced by Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne. Also executive producing is Mark Ordesky. The director of photography is Andrew Lesnie, A.C.S. The production designer is Grant Major. Michael Horton is the editor. The co-producers are Rick Porras and Jamie Selkirk.
Sean Bean (Boromir) starred as Alec Trevelyan in 1995’s ‘Goldeneye’.
Christopher Lee (Saruman) was the man in question in the 1974 hit ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’, Lee played Scaramanga opposite Roger Moore’s Bond.