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Phone lines became extra busy yesterday as film extras where warned (namely Rohan and Orcs) that they will be needed for the filming of Helms Deep during the months of January to March.
Such a long period of time gives indication of something to look forward to in terms of battle scenes, apart from the fact that they will be filming only at night.
Fittings will take place obviously prior to the start of filming, and a specific time and place has already been alloted for this.
Guesses are that filming will start with just the extras first, and then the main actors joining in after their holiday break (between Christmas and the 2nd week of January – delayed due to the flooding of the sets in the Queenstown area). Other speculation is that the extras will have a few days in which to “train” in the arts of warfare, before full filming gets underway.
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“I saw a great picture taken from the air by the local paper, Mountain Scene.
They’re not willing to part with it though.
The image they have is of the top of some grand stone building with huge statuary on it. It’s being built on a knoll near Closeburn. There are blue squares that are being laid out next to it, they look like crash pads, so there might be some flying stunts planned to happen there.
Some people claim that the film co. have bought the property that this new set is on, but their publicist denies this. PJ may have bought a neighbouring bit of land here.
I saw the remains of the set by the Kawerau River, basically some polystyrene steps and bits of masonry, painted to look like slimy stone. Don’t know if they’ll rebuild in the same place. There used to be a natural stone arch or bridge there and it’s been washed away. The whole area is wasted by the floods and the water is still roaring with incredible speed and power all through the gorge, even though it hasn’t rained seriously since the floods.
Filming is still going on pretty intensively in the Paradise Valley. People reported seeing the forest filled with smoke during filming one day.”
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Harry over at Ain’t It Cool News has gotten his hands on more set pics taken from what appears to be another magazine:
LORD OF THE RINGS pics… Frodo, Ring Wraiths and Liv…. new stuff
Hey everyone… got more stuff for ya it looks like. Seems ol Hairy Reems, scanned in some pics at higher res and better quality and man… this stuff looks great… Now none of them are final shots. Elijah as Frodo is eating off a styrofoam plate… This is not a scene from the film!!! Actually… none of these are actual shots from the film. Just either publicity shots or smuggled shots… I imagine they were smuggled. But here ya go…
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Xoanon here,
Tehanu needs your help! She has taken human form again and has remained stuck! Her proximity to The Remarkables, the wonderous mountains near Queenstown, has sapped all her magic. As a result she needs shelter in the wonderous land of Queenstown. And she wants to meet all our fans while she’s down there!
Tehanu will be at the ‘Squealing Pig Cybercafe’ today (Tuesday) at 5PM and tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1PM. She’s wants to meet all our fans, talk Tolkien and websites and find someone willing to give her human form a place to stay!
The ‘Squealing Pig Cybercafe’ is located next to the info center at 45 Camp street. Click here for a map.
Click here to email ‘The Squealing Pig’ and ask for more details.
Click here to email Tehanu to ask her for more details.
Thanks to the manager and staff at ‘The Sqealing Pig’.
Spoiler Space (Helms Deep pics below)
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We started our adventures by climbing to Mt. Owen, in the top of the South Island. It only took about two days to get to where we could see the Owen massif peaks all around us, covered in golden tussock. Fantastic views. Nice to know that PJ and the crew got up here by helicopter in about ten minutes. Later down closer to sea level we recovered from our walk at the Kohatu Tavern. The locals said that the film crew had been helicoptering in and around those peaks for a few weeks up until three weeks before. They filmed in a cave, we were told. We’d seen plenty of caves but none that you could get to without abseiling. One girl at the pub said she’d seen Peter Jackson.
“Where?”
“Over by my Nanna’s place.”
Right. As though I was going to know.
“Where’s that?” I asked
“By the Tapawera campground.”
Later we drove on round to Murchison on the other side of Mt. Owen. At the cafe they reckoned that people further up the Matriri valley had seen big lights up around Mt. Owen as well.
I had photos of those peaks – not going to do all that
walking for nothing – but won’t be near a scanner for
weeks. Meanwhile, imagine a landscape of fantastic twisted silvery marble peaks sheltering a high rolling basin of golden tussock dotted with tiny tarns reflecting the sky. Below us, clouds churned and boiled as though held back from us by a spell.
No clues on WHAT was being filmed there, something with caves, that gives about three options, so you can make up your own minds when we finally post these photos.
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