From spacecast.com (via Elda): Doug Jones, the actor who is famous for playing the elaborate creatures in Guillermo del Toro’s movies (Pan in Pan’s Labyrinth, Abe Sapien, in the Hellboy series) has announced that he will be in del Toro’s next high-profile projects, The Hobbit and Frankenstein. “We have not had any conversations about what he wants [for The Hobbit],” Jones explains, “but he’s ‘wink-wink, nudge-nudged’ me a couple times with that ‘Yeah, yeah, The Hobbit, yeah, we’ll see you,'” Jones told us. “I don’t know what I’m doing or how many characters it will be, because he tends to like to use me the whole time depending.” More..
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Check out The Noldor Blog, written by a Wellington-based LOTR tour operator who hears all sorts of interesting rumours. He can expand on Red Carpet Tours’ discovery that Viggo had been in New Zealand on film work recently. If you read down to here you’ll see a spy report suggesting Viggo will be in both Hobbit movies and reprise his role as a Dunedain protecting the Shire.
Evie writes: I surmise you might have wondered what Sean Bean is currently up to – after portraying Zeus in the upcoming “Percy Jackson” movie. This regularly updated bi-lingual English/German page about him (looking very much like Boromir) fighting the Plague in “Black Death”. More…
Or A Few Thoughts On Creatures That Don’t Exist
Last October, I was asked if I would write a foreword for a book on… dragons. Having just had Forging Dragons publish at about the same time, they were still very fresh in my mind. Small world. Full of dragons. They seem to be everywhere, their ubiquity matched only by their variety. No other creature speads such colossal wings or drags its scaly belly across the mythical lands of so many cultures over the aeons. They span the spectrum from devilry to divinity, from blackest evil to boundless good. They come in all configurations, they speak, or they make our minds reel with the power of their thoughts, they squat athwart hoards of treasure untold. They are story. They are dragons.
But just what is it about dragons ?
The director of The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro, settles down at his favourite Wellington cafe to talk to Tom Cardy about bringing his debut novel to life. When Guillermo del Toro was 13, he wrote a short story about a girl who lives near a graveyard. Lightning wakes her one night. She looks out of her bedroom window and sees an animated corpse on the street staring back at her. The girl goes missing and is later found inside a coffin in the cemetery, the corpse’s arms wrapped around her. Inside the mind of a vampire lover
The New Zealand tourist board is expecting The Hobbit, the new film based on JRR Tolkien’s book, to have a similar effect on tourism in the country to the hugely successful Lord of the Rings movies. Guillermo del Toro is taking over directing duties from Peter Jackson for The Hobbit, which will be released as two films in December 2011 and 2012. The Lord of the Rings trilogy led to a major boost in tourism for New Zealand, with the locations used in the films seeing more than 37,000 annual visitors after the films were released. The Hobbit set to benefit New Zealand tourism