Cleolinda sends us these two scans from the latest issue of ‘Entertainment Weekly’. Check out the Viggo Mortensen Article!
Category: Old Special Reports
Harvester brought news to Barliman’s last night of his LARP’s good fortune over the past week. His Live Action Role Playing society, [Ravenskeep] (based in The Netherlands), wanted to rent a theater for a showing of FOTR, so they spoke to the local distributor about arrangements. When the distributor found out the group’s interests, she got in touch with the overall contact for the movies in The Netherlands, who offered Ravenskeep a gig at the Rotterdam premiere on Tuesday, Dec. 11, as well as an appearance at a Tolkienforum screening in Eden the following day. Costumed members of Ravenskeep met actor John Rhys-Davies at the screening in Rotterdam.
Harvester was ebullient in his praise for FOTR, saying, “This one (movie) will eat you up and spit you out to (see) it over again and again and again…even though you know what will happen…somehow it simply takes you into the realms of beyond.” He and his best friend worked very hard to make their costumes, “Lots of latex and work… yet it is so worth it. It’s devastating for the body… the costume that is…yet it is so worth it to contribute to the event of all times.”
Ravenskeep has 250 players and 30 active crewmembers, according to Harvester. This week members will also appear on Tuesday in Nijmegen and Wednesday (The Day We’ve All Been Waiting For) in Amsterdam. The LARP society will also be on hand for the premiere of TT in 2002 and ROTK in 2003. When asked if the group was being paid, Harvester replied, “No…we get to see the movie and get some cool goodies… and tons of beer *grin*” Check out these pictures: Harvester as an [orc] and Harvester(r) the orc meets John Rhys-Davies(c) in the bottom picture [here]. Congratulations to Ravenskeep on a job well done!
Oregoonie writes: I’m not sure if anyone’s talked about some of the cast being on TRL yesterday, so here’s my run-down, if you’re interested:
Opening scene: Carson Daly standing around looking completely average in every way.
Elijah and Liv came out to Pat Benetar’s “The Warrior,” Elijah shaking his fists with glee. They talk about NZ and Carson asked them if they ever ate “roo” and Elijah looked stunned and said, “NO!…that’s Australia!” Carson asks Liv about her working with all boys and Elijah put his head on her shoulder and she said, “Oh, they’re very sweet, I was spoiled rotten!” then they cut to commercial as Liv and Elijah bop each other on the head with their mics.
Back from commercial, bring out the rest of them (Dom pokes audience member in the eye), etc. etc. Carson asks more about New Zealand and Liv says how great the food is. Carson asks, “Eat a lot of sheep?” And Sean says, “33 million sheep in New Zealand, three million people. So it’s all about sheep.”
Carson: “What does it taste like?”
Sean: “Eh…like chicken!” Then Carson says something about sheep jerky and Sean laughs, “No, no, you don’t say jerky. That means something else over there!”
Talked about filming and how close they all got and Sean put his arm through Dom’s, very sweet. Elijah said they were all brothers, etc….. I’m glossing over the bits we’ve heard before. Then Dom apologizes to the girl, “I’d like to apologize to that girl over there, the one in the ‘I love NY’ shirt..is that NY? Oh, The Calling. Very lovely girl, I poked her in the eye when I came out BANG! oh, sorry!” Then they go down the line, describing their characters (sean, dom, billy, orlando, liv and elijah). Carson starts talking to liv about being the only girl and Orlando says, “But you’re a boy-girl,” to which she agrees but then says, “But then they would pinch my butt and lift up my dress and do rude things,” and laughed. Oh, and Orlando says he has a crush on the Elven princess. And Dom says Merry is the gayest of all hobbits, according to Tolkien, to which Carson asks, “happy or gay?” and Dom says, “Just very happy.” Or something along those lines, lol. Then they do the Buckleberry ferry clip.
Back from commercial (and here’s where I snipped off a bit, but nothing much) and they do the “how well do you know each other” game. Sean gets the first question (“who’s favorite movie is ‘Rushmore’?”), which Orlando answers and Dom scolds him, “He said SEAN!” Orlando, “Oh! Oh,did he?” So Sean got that one. Then Billy gets, “Who’s favorite food is a Subway meatball sandwich?” To which he answers (in an American accent), “Subway meatball…would that be….Sean Astin?” Right! And Liv goes, “Gee, that was hard!” and Dom goes, “and like…twenty five of them,” and Sean says “at a time.” Next he asks Elijah who’s favorite band is the Beatles, which he answered correctly.
Orlando is next with who’s favorite band is the Smashing Pumpkins, which he answered correctly. And last, Dom gets “Who spent most of their time golfing when they weren’t filming?” “Sean Astin.” Correct! Then Sean says something about how it went well with all the meatball sandwiches.
Back from commercial, they’re all standing, Sean in front, Billy, Elijah, Dom, Orlando and Liv behind him, arms around each other. Carson says they get fifteen seconds to talk about the movie, and the honor goes to (who else) Sean. And whilst poor Sean is trying to enlighten the pop-culturally dulled souls of the audience members to the wonders of all that is the Lord of the Rings, his dear friends go mad. Elijah and Dom immediately begin dancing, Orlando mimes shooting his bow, I can’t really see what Billy’s up to, but you can be sure it’s no good. Orlando starts molesting Liv, who dances away back to the safety of the couch. Dom starts strutting around and in front of Sean and bounds back to the couch and jumps on it. Time’s up and poor Seanwise is cut off. And there was much rejoicing.
End of interview, the hobbits and elves wave to the audience, hug each other, and wave to the camera.
From: Rugby Gimli
At 7pm/6 Central, PAX TV will be bradcasting a show called Good Entertainment, in which they examine family films released this holiday season and whether or not they really are appropriate for the whole family. The Lord of the Rings trailer was featured prominently on the TV spot.
Also, TV Guide has been running an advert on its website saying the following: “Meet the Stars of the Lord of the Rings…Watch Hollywood Insider at the Top of the Hour.”
Peter Jackson was a guest on ‘Open Mic with Mike Bullard’ tonight. He was of course promoting LOTR:FOTR. Sporting some chaki slacks and an orange polo top, you can basically call that ‘dressed up’ for the man. I love his clothes sense! 🙂
Peter was intelligent, candid and witty…the crowd loved him, any mention of his previous works was received with a loud round of applause.
Peter spoke about his journey making these films, and told Mike that there were times where he indeed was frassled by the pressure of the whole thing.
The host joked with him and told him he looks a bit like Harry Potter…and that he has a running bet with his music man on which film will make more money, PJ assured him that LOTR will ‘win the bet’.
Peter recounted the casting of Elijah, and how they spent 3 weeks in England looking for the right non-hollywood actor, when a package arrived with a video of Elijah, whom Peter had never heard of, decked out in a ‘cheesy’ Hobbit suit and a cockney english accent. In that video Peter said he found his Frodo.
Peter also told the tale of Viggo Mortensen and his surfing fiasco. As we all know, the Hobbit boys all became interested in surfing while filming the movies. One day, during the Moria shoot, they convinced Viggo Mortensen to try it, Viggo got a surf board to the face…and Peter was forced to film him from his left side for a few days…look for that during the Moria sequence!!
Here are a few pics:
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) was on ‘Open Mic with Mike Bullard’ tonight. John was as lively and sarcastic as ever. He mentioned that the airline hostess mistaked him for Pavarotti, and that he was once mistaken for Mr. T. He also mentioned how he loved New Zealand, and that New Zealand salmon was almost as good as its Canadian counterpart.
He demonstrated how he was on his knees plenty of time during the production. And how he fell flat on his face a few times while fighting. He also spoke about his time on Indiana Jones, and how he adores Pter Jackson.
Here are a few pics for you:
