From: the hairless Pukel-Boy
Producer: Howard Shore
Street Date: 12/10/02
selections: TBD
Disk two (Limited Edition only): Lost Lothlorien Suite, plus previously unreleased tracks from FOTR sessions; TBD enhancement with trailer, photo gallery and more.
CD: $19.98
2CD: $TBD
“The soundtrack album to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers follows last season’s gold, Top 40 album to The Fellowship of the ring, among the highest-grossing films in history…”
“…The limited-edition… TTT album adds to the regular release a second disc featuring the bonus music from (the four-disc DVD edition of FOTR). The limited-edition version also includes a special booklet and leatherette packaging.”
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Merry Tee reports from Denmark, ” I just recieved an official mail from SF Film (the Danish distribution of TTT) saying that ticket sales for the premiere will start here November 11. The mail also tells us that FOTR wil be on the big screen here again from December 13.”
Greetings from Norway: A fan’s-eye perspective of the build-up to TTT, from Tolkien-Freak-Girl:
“I’m really sorry about my bad english today, it’s just that I’m so excited for the moment that I can hardly move my fingers!!!!!
“You should se what the Norwegian Cinema Crew has done for the fans. They have actually created a Middle-Earth-ish, Hobbitonlike queue area, in a grand park outside the cinema.
“We are being met with a great tower at the entrance, and inside there are wraiths, elves, horses, sheeps (hihi), music, competitions, nights where we all gather and sing Tolkien-songs, fireplaces and here’s the best!! On the 3. of november (the last night) they will show The FOTR on a big screen in the park, together with all the TTT trailers!!!!!!!
“Are we lucky to live in Norway or what?! :)))
“And the biggest thing: The person with the best costume and “livingplace” (in the queue, if you see what I mean) wins a trip to NewZealand for two…..”
Meanwhile fans in Rumania are MUCH less happy. In fact they sound pretty bitter.
Radu writes, ” Hi. I write this to let you know of the disapointment and anger we Lord Of The Rings fans in Romania. (I’m speaking for a group of people – but I know it’s the same thing in all our hearts).
“First,the Two Towers are only getting here in 28 February (!!!!!!!!!); second-there was no launch of the DVD or tape yet of The Fellowsip. I don’t know who to blame or what to say more, but please does anyone have some data about what’s going on in here – a least an aprox. date on the tape’s launching here.. ps.. The Two Towers Trailer was here today, but…surprise-surprise……[it was] the old one-released in spring..”
So there you have it. Anyone that’s in touch with the New Line distributors for Rumania, tell us what’s going on, please!
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Any guesses on what the ‘big plunge’ might be that’s described as the breathtaking, amazing opening to TTT? It’s mentioned in this article on the TTT script?
My favourite guess so far from Eddie: ‘Gandalf and the Balrog falling”
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Loressar Erchamion writes: I just got my Nov/Dec issue of scr(i)pt, a screenwriters’ magazine available at Barnes and Noble. It features a 4-page interview with Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyen discussing The Two Towers. Very interesting from a screenwriter’s point of view, cruelly uninformative from a spoiler seeker’s point of view.
For the first page or two, they mostly talk about the work involved in writing the script, what it’s like to work on a project of this magnitude, etc. This is followed by something about how TTT gets more into the world of men.
The part that follows could count as a semi-spoiler as to the film’s opening, so I’ll give it verbatim here:
scr(i)pt: Will there be anything to help a novice find his/her way into The Two Towers, some recap of what has happened so far, or will we plunge right into it?
Philippa Boyens: Pretty much a big plunge, you might say – a rather large plunge! [Both laugh as if sharing a wicked, private joke.] – the deep breath before the plunge. Well, it’s a terrible pun; and you’ll understand it when you see it, but I think it’s one of the most amazing openings ever – pure Peter Jackson!
They then talk about intercutting the two halves of TTT, a bit about Ents and their place in the story (Boyens mentions the challenges brought to scriptwriting by the long-winded Ents!), and the moving of Shelob to RotK.
The interviewer asks about the dialogue between Frodo and Sam about “tales”. Walsh and Boyens are adamant about how much they love that passage, but don’t tell us if it’ll be in the film.
There is a question about looking at the movie in light of the events of September 11, which the interviewer acknowledges happened long after they began work on the screenplay. Both writers are hesitant to reply, but then offer some nice insight from the pages of Tolkien. Walsh quotes Eomer (“How shall a man judge what to do in such times?”), and Boyens quotes Frodo (“I wish none of this had happened”) as well as Gandalf’s response (“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for you to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.”) On that note, the interview ends.
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“In my local WH Smiths in the U.K. they have the new Two Towers chess set. It’s made by the same people who did the FOTR one just released in the US, only now done in an antique marble effect rather than the bronze and silver FOTR one. They’ve replaced three of the pieces (don’t know which ones), with a warg rider, wormtonge, and Treebeard. It is priced at £29.99. WH Smiths also had the new TTT Risk game also priced at £29.99.”
From ringerspy J ARMAN
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Kyriel writes:
I was just looking through some of my old TORN pictures, spy shots of burnt ruins everyone thought were Minas Tirith. But I’ve just realized that buildings are actually part of Osgiliath. The frame-by-frame commentary on the official movie site shows a picture of almost identical ruins with a caption saying that Faramir takes Frodo here, to Osgiliath!
Isn’t it funny that we only got a glimpse of the uined city in the trailer – but TORN had a full-on overhead shot two years or more ago?
I’m enclosing copies of four spy photos from TORN and a screen capture from the newest trailer so you can see for yourself. Hope this’ll get me “super spy” billing on the front page of TORN. ;-P
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