From the attatchment with the latest issue of SFX
Category: Old Spy Reports
News has reached me that filming will head on down to the South Island on NZ. Ringer Spy Gardin sends the scoop:
a few images from Central Otago
A friend, I know is going for a part as an elf and apparently they called him to say the first part of filming in the South Island will begin in November, probably in Central Otago, some where. He suspects that they are filming the prologue there. You know the big battle where they first take out Sauron and consequently where the ring is lost.
He also told me a bit about the second audition in Queenstown, but I won’t go into that..
Could we be seeing Sauron and Isildur battle it out? Maybe….
Thanks to Gardin for the tip!
An anonymous source sent us this little piece of multimedia that puts you in the seat of an extra.
And here is what is said:
“Hello…__
oddest thing, I was walking home from my ‘yoga’ classes yesterday, when I was ushered into a limo by 2 men in black suits and sunglasses (the fact that it was midnight obviously didn’t bother these two). They slammed the door behind me, and I was facing an elderly man who I can only describe as ‘well manicured’. He slipped me an envelope and told me to go out there and do my job that I was born for! He then proceeded to shoot his chauffeur and blow himself up….very odd.
I ran home and opened the envelope, it contained what you now see before you, a WETA test shot, we assume somewhere near Rivendell, given all the text mumbo jumbo associated with it, which we cropped out of the right hand side (which we have now added back in!). please note: This is just a TEST shot, hence the shabby looking wall on the right, it’s kinda like when you take a portrait, and you need to test for the lighting, same thing. but very pretty no!
Don’t believe me? ok since ‘the thruth is out there’ I’ll let you in on the skinny. New Ringer Spy Mega Boom sent this in to me by ways and means unknown 🙂
DD
Here’s some information that might be of interest to you people. Liv Tyler and Sean Bean, both staying in the same hotel at a cost of $500 (New Zealand dollars) per night, booked in for a month. That’s just under $30,000 (or around $14,000 US) for accomodation costs only. Add living costs……and you get a good picture of how well New Line and Peter Jackson look after their actors and actresses.
Another example would be the story of one of the members of the crew, who have their own penthouse, which has a jacuzzi, and they get their own “wardrobe allowance”, “drinks allowance” etc etc…..very nice employment perks indeed.
Thanks to Blade for the tip!
Last night i headed out with Xtem to see if we could get a looksee at the filming going on at Mt. Victoria. We managed to trudge through some woods and animal paths and get within a few hundred meters, but the filming ocured in two natural bowels in the hill, resulting in us bassically seeing nothing. We could make out the odd crew member, some big lights and smoke throught the trees, but didn’t think it was prudent to get much closer.
After another rece at a different approach we were spotted by some security guard on the other side of a fence a few hundered meters away, he pointed a torch some, but we scarpered into the bushes. At that point we figured it wasn’t worth trying to get too close since there were lots of guards around and we didn’t particularly feel like being shouted at.
So we returned to the car and drove up to a checkpoint and chatted to a friendly (person) who in his charming way described some “Scary looking dudes on horses and stuff, running down the hill”. Sounds like some more generic Ringwraith stuff doesn’t it!
It was a nice change to sit there and have a wee chat rather than all the james bond stuff!
Even started to feel like the hobbits on the way to Bree, ducking down a bank and behind a tree as a car drove past on the secured roads.
Enough for one night, time for bed! O thanks to Xtem for the lift.
Dynamo