We got this from alert Ringer Androg:
‘I got ‘The Summit’ (The magazine of the sports clothing dealer Kathmandu’s Summit Club) in the mail today, and found an article about the movies. It’s four paragraphs of text, but the only information that I think is new was in the first paragraph:
“At the end of February this year the staff at Kathmandu started working on what would prove to be an exciting connection with the production of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in New Zealand. The cast and crew of this huge production were offered a considerable discount at selected Kathmandu stores, and since then actors, crew members, and extras have been able to keep warm and look cool in adverse locations such as volcanic Rotorua [really? First we’ve heard of it -T.] in the North Island and alpine Twizel in the South Island. There is a lot of waiting around when filming, especially for the extras, and in order to fully enjoy being part of such a fantastic experience they need to keep warm. Therefore we set up a deal so that those who wanted to could cosy up in our Polartec, Gore-Text, and Ecofleece clothing, and stay warm and dry throughout the filming.”
–Sonja Hepso, Editor, The Summit
Also, at the end of the article they mentioned three websites about the movies, one of which was theonering.net!
Hmm, well if Kathmandu’s going to mention us, I’ll mention them back. My Kathmandu polartec windbreaker is my favourite gear and I’ve worn it everywhere from location-scouting in the Alps to cycling to work to looking trendy at after-match functions. Nice to know the LOTR crew share my taste.
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From: An unkown spy
Well I had a day to myself on Saturday, and a car to myself, so I took my trusty Pentax P-50 on a tour of Wellington to see what I could see.
First stop of course was Haywards Hill to see how the set was progressing there. A few workmen were being kept busy but I’d say there’s still another week or two before this set becomes live. Which doesn’t leave them much time to film, I guess!
I also scored some angles that readers may not have seen before
Then I took a trip out to Paekak to see the action out there. Lots of rehearsing, but all the extras were in civvies and seem to be milling around on horses. Here’s a view of the oliphaunt/nazgul from behind.
Not wanting to get prosecuted for trespass, I didn’t get any closer, so I left it at that. There was a patch of ‘burnt-looking’ grass by the feet of the model, as evidenced in the previous photo on TORN. However, there didn’t seem to be much else in the way of set that I could say. Maybe something’s coming in later?
Yours anonymously
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From: Deagol
I just tracked the origin of your last news concerning the trailer…
Cinébobine reported the news from here:
http://www.chez.com/angrenost/Textes/Courrier/cyrille.html
So, and for what it’s worth… the translation of the french text is not complete nor accurate. There’s a few tidbits inside:
According to the spy:..
– December 2000: world presentation of the new teaser and press conference live from NZ.
– Cannes 2001 : “a big launch of some sort “… in fact, it says: World launching, presenting the 1st movie and the trailer of the 2nd movie! (It could mean a world premiere in Cannes!), major press event.
– Fall 2001: world premiere of the final trailer.
– December 2001 : worldwide release of the first film.
(and that’s a great news… especially in France where we had to wait 5 more months to get SWE1) (the three movies are planned to be released in 25 different languages.)
– US marketing: over $ 50 million
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Ringer Spy STTNG sends along this article from New Zealand.
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Ringer Spy Silmarien sends in some great pics from the Minas Tirith set, in Upper Hutt.
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The ‘Wheel’ we can see in these two
pics are a wind turbine thingy, I think. And if the wizard is on a white horse, it’ll be Gandalf.
This is from the chapter The Seige of Gondor:
“In rode the Lord of the Nazgul, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax….”
Plus the white horse has no bridle or saddle, which is how Gandalf rides him.
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