Yesterday’s answers:
Tehanu’s name comes from the novel of the same name by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Xoanan’s name, is from a character in the Dr. Who series.
Calisuri hails from State College, PA, and Corvar from Milwaukee, WI.
And the winner is….drum roll please……
WonderBroad!!
Today’s trivia question:
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b.
c.
Can you name these three men?
1. a. Xoanon b. Corvar c. Calisuri
2. a. Calisuri b. Xoanon c. Corvar
3. a. Corvar b. Calisuri c. Xoanon
4. a. Brad Pitt b. Robert Redford c. Benjamin Bratt
5. a. Tehanu b. Jincey c. Quickbeam
Make sure you send your answers to tornbday@theonering.net (no others will be accepted). And no TORN staffers can play! That’s cheating! Naughty!!
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The May issue of ‘French Primere’ Magazine had a small tidbit on LOTR when they had an interview with Cate Blanchett (Galadriel).
Unfortunately, (Cate) was not allowed to tell us much about her month long adventure in New Zealand filming ‘Lord of the Rings’. Due to her loyalty to the production, as well as a clause in her contract forbidding her to do so.
‘There are so many creatures in LOTR, due to Tolkiens wild imagination, that speak a number of languages. Galadriel, speaks the language of the Elves, and we found many ways to get that in the film, we made it seem very natural’
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From: Ghost of Deagol
In today’s edition of the movie program “Bogart” on Danish television, they started by announcing a look at Cate Blanchett’s career + an interview. Of course that got my attention, and thus I put away the remote hoping for some LoTR stuff. And although brief, it was there!
During the interview she said the following (I think I got most of it):
– Cate expressed her facination with the technical side of the production, namely the CGI stuff. She has seen a few examples of it and said that it looks really amazing.
– She talked about Peter Jackson as a director, and the fact that he is not a “slave to the books”. These movies will be HIS vision (as if we didn’t know that!).
– Quote: “Since the books are so well-known, the movies must have a life on their own. They offer a new take on the tale”.
The host of the program ended the show saying: “Right after Cannes we’ll take a closer look at The Lord of the Rings”. And that, Cate, will be your shining hour! (Get your VCRs ready, fellow Danes!)
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This came in thanks to Tiggy, who saw it in the Wellington paper” The Dominion.”
A jolly and very loud hobbit, Frodo, was overheard, by a surely overpaid Diary spy in Oriental Bay’s exclusive White House restaurant, complaining about production difficulties and a promotion for LOTR which had brought him, Viggo Mortensen and others back to Wellington. The interest for our spy was how anyone could be in a complaining frame of mind while dining on the restaurant’s Oysters Kilpatrick.”
(Well, a twelve-hour flight would do it to me – T)
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I just recieved this from somone inside the Disney camp.
It is CONFIRMED that the FOTR trailer (Teaser Trailer #2, in our parlance) will be with Pearl Harbor.
But here’s the catch: juct because the teaser is going out with the film, doesn’t mean you will see it. It is one of MANY trailers (from several studios) to go out in the cans of PH.
It is up the the individual theatres which trailers they want to show. So, if fans go to the theatre come May 25 to see the trailer with PH, know that they may not see it. They (the theatre managers) will have the trailer somewhere, whether it’s just sitting around, or showing with another film in the multiplex.
And another story from our very own TORN Messageboards
From: Goeth-Helm
Last night my girlfriend and I attended the local multiplex to watch ‘The Mummy Returns’, a fun thrill ride of a movie. Upon entering the first thing I saw was the concession stand (of course). Then a 12′ X 20′ poster for ‘Shrek’. And then there it was… in a large free-standing display case, 3.5′ wide X 6′ high, was Frodo, looking me in the eye, almost asking that I take the ring from him. I got a chill form it. My girlfriend pulled me away saying that we need to get a seat before they’re all taken.
For each preview I waited with anticipation that by some freak chance the next one would be THE TRAILER, but to my dismay I had no such luck. So after the movie I sought out one of the managers and asked if he could tell me which movie they were showing THE TRAILER with. The first manager I asked directed me to a second saying that he was in charge of such matters for the entire theater. Talk about “the man in the know”.
When I asked him my question he said “New Line has pulled the trailer for a few weeks and will be getting a new one at that time… right around when Pearl Harbor comes out”, he did not clarify if it would be showen with pearl or not and I did not ask. Well that set us into a short chat about CGI’s and how he thought that the LOTR CGI’s are going to be something we’ve not seen before and that WETA has some cutting edge stuff. He then recommended that we go see the Mummy Returns not knowing that we had just come from there.
Hmm…seems like my prediction MAY ring true, we may be seeing a NEW FOTR trailer within the next two weeks!
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Ringer Spy SS sends along a very interesting report about what he/she saw in the NEW ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ tralier that has apparently only been complete as of yesterday!
SS says that the trailer is due out in theatres (and hopefully online) within a few weeks! Now, if this story holds any beans, which I’m working on getting confirmed as we speak, my guess is Pearl Harbor. I’ll let SS tell you the rest!
More info below!
Some highlights of the trailer:
A lot of flashing text that describes the Ring and its powers (obviously intended for those who never read the books… things like “The ring brings evil to whever possesses it.. etc).
Gandalf enters Frodo’s home in the night, panicking
Brief glimpse of the council at Elrond’s house
Boromir shouting that “We should use the ring’s power to help us!”
Shot of the Companions on a boat, in a murky river
Shot of the Black Riders racing to the (gap at Rohan?)
Overall, it was a *very* dark trailer. There were many shots of Gandalf depicted as a hard-edged, panicky and scrawny man. Not the wize, white-bearded wizard I always imagined him to be. And the companions in general look to be very grim and heavy-hearted.
Well well, seems an interesting take on the first tale of 3, perhaps this is the ‘adventure’ trailer, and we’ll be seeing the ‘drama’ version come out a few months down the line. You can see different versions of trailers for the same film, it’s not new. Well, I’m waiting on bated breath like the rest of you for confirmation. In the meantime rip this story apart below!
UPDATE
Ringer Spy SS sent along some additional info on the trailer:
The trailer is already done. All they needed was the music for the first part of the piece. So New Line hired Michael Giacchino to compose the score. The last part of the trailer, they licensed one of the songs from Hans Zimmer’s “The Power of One”.
The score was recorded at Frank Jones’s studio in Calabassas, CA. I believe the conductor was Tim Hirschwin.
Additional spoiler warning, highlight to read:
There was a part I don’t remember in the book. There was a part when the companions were gathered in a circle. Perhaps they were in the Mines of Moria and they stared up because they heard a whisper “MY PRECIOUSSSSS”
A couple of the guys who watched laughed and said “Gollum?” but i dont remember that being in the book,I am betting it was in the mines… the whisper was loud with an echo.
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This comes by way of an insider in the Pearl Harbor camp.
I have it on good authority that there will NOT be a LOTR trailer in front of Pearl Harbor. However, this is not 100% set in stone.
TORN Message Board: NEW FOTR Trailer Coming Soon?!
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