Many of you have written in expressing great joy at seeing the LOTR poster at your local cinema. It just makes the whole event so much more REAL when you see it outside the confines of cyberspace. These movies are REALLY going to happen! and soon too!!! So when word got to me that MY local cinema had the LOTR posters, I had to get some photos of them and show them to you!
The manager at Famous Players Kirkland was kind enough to allow these photos to be taken. He’s so very pumped about the films as well!
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The latest Aragorn picture showing a little more of Viggo on horseback comes as the illustration to an article that is on the Spanish Tolkien website Elfenomeno. Under it is a long article which mostly talks about things we know (and the writer’s got his facts straight, too, unlike some of the magazines we see!)
My Spanish isn’t great, but I thought this seemed unfamiliar news, or maybe it’s just worded differently to how I’ve seen it before:
Firstly they describe the release dates of the three movies as being dependent on each other: the first film comes out when the second is ready, the second when the third is ready, in order to ensure there won’t be an enormous lag between them. The writer says that, as filming has stuck to schedule “with military precision” there is no fear that the films won’t be released as expected, a year apart starting this coming December. I haven’t heard it put in those terms. As I understand it, all three films have finished principal photography; there would logically be the most pressure on post-production work for the first film throughout this year, combined with getting the actor’s voices and any pick-up shots finished before they have moved on too far from their current age and appearance.
The other interesting thing is where Peter Jackson talks about how long before they started filming, they made a kind of sketch of the movie using animated storyboards with a bit of music and dialogue. “In this way we have the film already made in a very basic form which serves as an orientation. It gives us a very good idea whether a scene is long, if the camera angles are right or whether the screenplay works. It allows us to see the whole film without filming it and feel whether we are on the right path or if the structure is right or if the characters are working well.”
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Marton Csokas (Celeborn) has been a busy Kiwi. He’s starring in a new TV Movie as well as one for the silver screen.
‘The Farm’ is a TV mini series which as Csokas as Adrian Beckett. The story tells the tale of a long-established grazing family in central west New South Wales, Australia who get into trouble in the early 1980s when they finance their development plans with a foreign currency loan the full dangers of which neither they or their local bank manager is aware of.
‘Down and Under’ is a Castle Rock/Jerry Bruckheimer Films action comedy set in Australia as well. It tells the tale of two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, who get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $100,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo. This film has no release date and is currently shooting in Australia.
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Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)
28 Days (2000) 
Walk on the Moon, A (1999)
Perfect Murder, A (1998) UK 
Portrait of a Lady, The (1996)
Passion of Darkly Noon, The (1995)
American Yakuza (1994)
Boiling Point (1993)
Ruby Cairo (1993)
Young Americans, The (1993) UK
Two Small Bodies (1993)
Young Guns II (1990)
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) UK
Witness (1985)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Dr. T and the Women (2000)
Cookie’s Fortune (1999)
Plunkett & Macleane (1999) UK
Onegin (1999)
Empire Records (1995) UK
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Bless the Child (2000)
Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)
Miracle Maker, The (2000) (TV)
Simon Magus (1999/I) UK
eXistenZ (1999)
Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) UK
Big Night (1996)
Henry V (1989)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Chariots of Fire (1981) UK
Time Bandits (1981)
Alien (1979) UK
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Robin and Marian (1976) UK
Juggernaut (1974) UK
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) UK
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Fixer, The (1968) UK
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Airborne (1998)
When Saturday Comes (1996) UK
Shopping (1994) UK
Jacob: A TNT Bible Story (1994) (TV)
Stormy Monday (1988)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Matrix, The (1999) UK
Karl Urban (Eomer)
Heaven (1998)
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) UK
David Wenham (Faramir)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Deep Impact (1998)
Faculty, The (1998) UK
Forever Young (1992) UK
Avalon (1990) UK
Internal Affairs (1990) UK
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Ideal Husband, An (1999) UK
Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) UK
Elizabeth (1998)
Paradise Road (1997)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
X-Men (2000)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Apt Pupil (1998) UK
Shadow, The (1994)
I’ll Do Anything (1994)
Last Action Hero (1993) UK
Walter and June (1986) UK
Plenty (1985) UK
Alfred the Great (1969) UK
Touch of Love, A (1969) UK
Mark Ferguson (Gil Galad)
Every Woman’s Dream (1996) (TV)
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Au Pair (1999) (TV) UK
Secret of the Andes (1998) UK
Cats Don’t Dance (1997)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) (TV)
Firewalker (1986) UK
King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Nairobi Affair (1984) (TV) UK
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Andy Serkis (Gollum)
Topsy-Turvy (1999) UK
Among Giants (1998) UK
Mojo (1997) UK
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Sweet Talker (1991)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Sean Astin (Sam)
Kimberly (1999)
Icebreaker (1999)
Bulworth (1998) UK
Long Way Home, The (1997) UK
Safe Passage (1994)
Teresa’s Tattoo (1994)
Encino Man (1992) UK
Toy Soldiers (1991) UK
Staying Together (1989)
War of the Roses, The (1989)
White Water Summer (1987) UK
Goonies, The (1985)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) UK
Tale of the Mummy (1998) UK
Jinnah (1998) UK
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Mio min Mio (1987) UK
Safari 3000 (1982)
Eye for an Eye, An (1981) UK
1941 (1979) UK
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) UK
Airport ’77 (1977)
Three Musketeers, The (1973) UK
Wicker Man, The (1973) UK
Horror Express (1972) UK
Scream and Scream Again (1969)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
Cockleshell Heroes, The (1955) UK
Crimson Pirate, The (1952)
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK
True Crime (1999) UK
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Shirley Valentine (1989) UK
Gandhi (1982) UK
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
Bride of Chucky (1998) UK
Nightwatch (1998)
Urban Legend (1998) UK
Best Men (1997)
Death Machine (1995)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Exorcist III, The (1990)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Ragtime (1981)
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) (TV)
Jim Rygiel (SFX)
Anna and the King (1999)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) UK
Desperate Measures (1998)
Cliffhanger (1993) UK
Last Action Hero (1993) UK
Alien³ (1992) UK
Batman Returns (1992)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Solar Crisis (1990) UK
Ghost (1990)
Howard Shore (Composer)
Cell, The (2000)
Analyze This (1999) UK
eXistenZ (1999)
Game, The (1997) UK
Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996) UK
Crash (1996) UK
Se7en (1995)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992) UK
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Moving (1988)
Big (1988)
Places in the Heart (1984) UK
To get more information, use the sites I use like:
mydigiguide.com, tv-now.com and IMDB.com
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Matt sent me a link that quite frankly came close to making me lose my dinner suddenly. It could be a joke…I mean, we’ve all made jokes about things like the Arwen doll with light-up Evenstar and poisoned Frodo….the Asfaloth with custom galloping action…but could these things ever become reality? According to the news at Elostirion, they could! Well, there’s never been a proven limit to bad taste, otherwise after 30 years of giggling at flares, people wouldn’t be wearing them again.
I know I know, in a free country it’s not actually a crime to suffer from bad taste, (shame, that) and the toys people play with in the privacy of their own homes is nobody elses business but their own…. but really, you have to marvel at this. Don’t miss the link at the bottom to the LOTR marble bag . Collect and trade! (You WILL be assimilated. Where’s the little marble that says “All your base are belong to us”?) (More…..ARRRGH!)
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Ok, so these aren’t creepy facts about the LOTR cast and crew, more like coincidences. But after all, Friday the 13th isn’t supposed to be creepy…just kinda semi-creepy.
3 LOTR Stars in James Bond films
Christopher Lee (Scramanga in ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’)
John Rhys Davies (General Leonid Pushkin in ‘The Living Daylights’)
Sean Bean (006 in ‘Goldeneye’)
Ian Holm/ Ian McKellen
Both named Ian
Both knighted
Both born in England
Total Number of movies from the cast: 954 ( Christopher Lee [Saruman] has been in 22% of them)
Most films by a star: Christopher Lee 215
Least films by a star: 
Orlando Bloom 1
Ian Holm and John-Rhys Davies have the exact same number of movies under thier belts (92)
Ian Holm was in ‘S.O.S Titanic’ as J. Bruce Ismay, Bernard Hill was in ‘Titanic’ as Captain Smith. Jonathan Hyde was in ‘Titanic’ playing J. Bruce Ismay, he was also in ‘Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’, Ian Holm was also in a production of ‘Hamlet’
An inordinate amount of LOTR Stars have been in ‘Shortland Street’:
Marton Csokas
John Leigh
Robyn Malcolm
Craig Parker
Mark Ferguson
LOTR Stars in the same movie:
John Noble, Marton Csokas: The Monkey’s Mask
Christopher Lee, Marton Csokas: Star Wars: Episode II
Miranda Otto, Viggo Mortensen: The Thin Red Line
John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee: Journey of Honor
Movies in Which Jim Rygiel (SFX) worked on:
Last Action Hero ( Ian McKellen)
Movies in Which Howard Shore (Composer) worked on:
That Thing You Do! ( Liv Tyler)
Esther Kahn ( Ian Holm)
eXistenZ ( Ian Holm)
Different Native Countries of LOTR Stars:
United States of America
England
Scotland
New Zealand
Germany
Australia
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