oh Godly one, this is Galadriel
I’ve killed again…
…This time my target was an American, much to my surprise. He was from LA and flew in just recently, the details of what followed may be of interest to you.
He was an exec from New Line Cinema, he arrived today and was treated to a ‘Maori Haka War Dance’ by the extras who are playing Uruk Hais in the film. My secret mics picked up the info that this dance may perhaps be used in the film.
The words used in the song are Maori but they are the following:
‘Kamate, Kamate, Koura Koura’
I then learned the following after performing Chinese water torture on a contact close to my target:
Christopher Lee (Saruman) has been in New Zealand for a while, and was recently trying on his costume with Peter Jackson looking on (not in that way, I hope 🙂 – xo).
Lee was also preparing for a scene he filmed with 150 Wild Men from Orthanc, these Wild Men are supposed to attack the Men of Rohan, with Saruman stirring them up to do so.
I also squeezed info on what the ‘Wild Men’ will be wearing, apparently it’ll be the Uruk Hai and Rohan costumes that were either broken or mismade, but will be cool none the less.
I followed my target back to Wellington, and there he met up with Peter Jackson, who is back in town and was thrown a ‘Welcome Back Peter’ Tea party. I’m a loner, but I managed to slip into the party for some tea, it was rather nice…
…back to mission…
My target was given a rundown on what was going to happen soon with the filming.
at the Rivendell set, which is at the Miramar Studios in Wellington, there will be a ‘March of the Elves’.
I finally had to off my target, but that story remains with me and my Gods…until next time
– Galadriel
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Galadriel’s recent report on the sets for Rivendell and Helm’s Deep in the old chemical warehouse in Miramar sparked my interest, because not two days before I was talking to a contractor who had delivered “some stuff” to an indoor set in Miramar, and got to hang around and watch the Maori blessing on the site. (Why? I don’t know. I didn’t know there was a tapu on chemical warehouses.)
My contact described a set that looked like a large amphitheatre the height of a two-storey house and maybe 30 metres across, paved with stone and apparently made of stone, though as usual it was polystyrene. There would have been room for a hundred people or more. At the top of the tiers there were carved faces looking inwards, with beards, he thought. I asked about crowns but he didn’t think so. The surrounding walls were all blacked out so they wouldn’t show up during filming.
That was all he saw.
There’s no real use for something like this at Helm’s Deep, but no reason why the Council of Elrond couldn’t be held in such a structure, so maybe this is one of the sets that Galadriel was talking about. Though probably not the one they’re filming in first, if Elrond’s only just been cast.
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TheoneRing.net Spy Galadriel sends in the following:
I was out on an assassination assignment the other day, I was given special orders to off a local who was apparently into some nefarious business. yes, Galadriel is my name, yet I am no fair Elf, I’m a trained Koga Ninja who would easily kill you if someone paid me enough…
…so I tracked down this job and slipped into his room without making a sound. I slipped my sword right under his nose and he awoke and began so shoot off some info you may be interested in…
‘Ok ok! I’ll talk! They’re filming at Miramar, a suburb of Wellington, near seatoun!…
…They are filming interior scenes inside a chemical warehouse, it’ll be used as interiors for Helms Deep and Rivendell, they’ll obviously fix it up inside..
..They’ll be there starting tomorrow and Peter Jackson may be there himself..that’s all I know, Honest!’
The rest will remain with me and my Gods…I thought you’d like to know
UPDATE
I recieved this in my mailbox this morning:
They are using an old paint factory and an old cosmetics factory.. different areas of Miramar.
the cosmetics factory has become “Camperdown Studios” as it is on Camperdown Rd.
Weta productions is also housed in the same building.. (weta does all the Computer Effects) a weta is a native NZ insect.. quite menicing..
There is a big Castle that has been built in the Haywood Hills in the Lower Hutt Suburb of wellington for a lot of the Sceens.
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TheOneRing.net was privy to some information regarding a 15 minute short, fully edited, from the Helms Deep set.
The major cast and crew were shown this short a few weeks ago and apparently it was fairly stunning!
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Thanks to: Lance from Cate Blanchett Online
The New Zealand Herald
28.02.2000 – By ROBERT WARD
LOS ANGELES – It was a great way to show New Zealand to Hollywood’s movie glitterati.
New Zealand’s ambassador to the US, former Prime Minister Jim Bolger, presided over a bash that included the best of New Zealand food and drink, rousing speeches from two of the country’s best-known mayors and a six-minute preview of The Lord of the Rings.
There was only one snag – the people the Kiwis really wanted to impress were not there.
Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey and his Wellington counterpart, Mark Blumsky, are in Los Angeles drumming up support for New Zealand – especially Waitakere and Wellington – as a great place to make movies.
The big prize they are angling for is the third Star Wars “prequel,” due to be released in 2005. New Zealand missed out on Star Wars II, which is now being filmed in Sydney.
But nobody from Lucasfilm, which makes the Star Wars movies, was at Mr Bolger’s party. Neither were any other movie moguls – just people at various levels of film production.
And Mr Harvey’s scheduled meeting with an executive of Twentieth Century Fox, which distributes Star Wars, fell through.
But the party, held at the home of Consul-General Jim Howe in Los Angeles on Saturday, was still good exposure for what movie magic and New Zealand scenery can achieve.
The six-minute “showreel” of The Lord of the Rings was the highlight of the evening.
It showed dark, hooded figures against magnificent New Zealand landscapes, some of the 20,000 extras and computer clones in battle scenes, a quaint, rustic Middle Earth village, artists’ drawings that inspired the production design, and the stars – Sir Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Christopher Lee – in costume.
Mr Bolger’s guests greeted it with enthusiastic cheering and whistling. He encouraged them to make their films in New Zealand.
As a logo saying “The World in One Country” was projected across the screen, Mr Bolger said he spoke for the embassy and consulate staff and Film Commission executives when he said: “We’re from the Government. We’re here to help.”
Actor Kevin Smith (Ares in Xena: Warrior Princess) did a down-home, Kiwi-bloke act as MC. And Mr Blumsky boasted about the range of films being made in Wellington, from the $1.8 million Stickman to the $400 million The Lord of the Rings.
Mr Harvey did some boasting of his own, about Xena and the west coast beaches of Waitakere City.
And Richard Ross, senior vice-president of production for Studios USA, which makes Xena, told his fellow American film-makers what a “wonderful” experience his company had filming in New Zealand.
Partygoers were rewarded with cheeses, green-lipped mussels, eel fillet and smoked salmon rolls, seared lamb tenderloin and venison casserole.
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From: Kotukunui
Attached are some vidcaps of the footage of four of the cast taking part in the Auckland Dragon Boat festival this weekend.
Orlando “Legolas” Bloom, Elijah “Frodo” Wood, Billy “Pippin” Boyd and Dominic “Merry” Monaghan all took part in the celebrity bath tub race.
The bath tubs turned out to be rather difficult to manoeuvre and the event degenerated into a swimming race. Elijah seemed to be the weakest swimmer as all thoughts of fellowship were abandoned, bath-tubs were boarded, pirate style and the contestants swam for the finish line.
The actors happily posed for photo ops with fans and seemed to enjoy themselves tremendously. Orlando claimed victory but Elijah seemed to think that Dominic had taken the gold medal.
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