Finally us European fans will get the chance to tape the new trailer as well ’cause the nice folks over at BBC’s Film 2001 will be showing it tonight (thursday) at 11:35 (which I think will be GMT) on BBC1, so ready your vcr’s!
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“With the long-awaited release of a big budget, live-action The Lord of the Rings just around the corner, fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s hugely popular trilogy are practically rabid with anticipation. With such great expectations placed upon them, you would think the people making the film might be just a tad overwhelmed by the pressure, the scrutiny, the Internet gossip… you would think.” [More]
Thanks to Ringer Spy Pippin Skywalker for that!
A male choir singing in dwarvish, a drummer from an Irish folk band and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra combined to make the soundtrack for The Lord Of The Rings films, it has been revealed. The details were released in an article on music for the $650 million project on American website E Online this week. [More]
TheMacObserver has a fantastic article on the journey of the Lord of the Rings trailer from format to format. From Quicktime to Real Media and back to Quicktime, the article (with some past TheOneRing.net stories as evidence) explains just why the rights to the Lord of the Ring trailers are one of the hottest properties in Hollywood today. [More]
[Dunno why the writer of this article thinks I’m a guy though. What did I do to give people that impression? – Tehanu]
The latest Time Out in the UK has an interview with Ian Holm (Bilbo) for his theatre run of Pinter’s “The Homecoming,”. [More]
Thanks to Timothy for the tip!
The latest Time Out in the UK has an interview with Ian Holm (Bilbo) for his theatre run of Pinter’s “The Homecoming,”which includes:
“Lord of the Rings is ‘very good,’ he promises. ‘Christopher Lee knew Tolkien, and is a devotee. He came out and said, “That’s Tolkien,” so you can’t get better then that. I like it because it’s not just a special-effects movie, it’s very performance-orientated, lots of good stuff in it. And yes, battle with 5,000 Orcs and the rest of it. I think it’s going to be a sort of landmark, really.’ He plays Bilbo Baggins, uncle to Elijah Wood’s Frodo, and wil also appear in the third film (the trilogy was shot conccurently at a budget of $300 million, or thereabouts). And what was Peter Jackson like? “A terribly nice little man, rather nervous with a bit of a stutter, thick black hair and extraordinary bow legs. He wore shorts and sneakers and would bicycle between one set and another and direct by cell phone. I don’t know how he did it.’