{"id":25661,"date":"2003-04-26T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2003-04-27T03:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/04\/26\/rotk-length-a-bit-of-detective-work-2\/"},"modified":"2003-04-26T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2003-04-27T03:12:38","slug":"rotk-length-a-bit-of-detective-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/04\/26\/25661-rotk-length-a-bit-of-detective-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RoTK Length &#8211; A Bit Of Detective Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Ringer Fan Peter writes in about an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/vancouver\/theprovince\/story.asp?id=C46CC241-C486-4840-A27C-A4CEDDBC176C\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> we posted regarding Howard Shore&#8217;s take on the rough cut of ROTK : <\/p>\n<p>Peter writes: <\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>Shore says: &#8220;You&#8217;re ultimately dealing with a nine- to 10-hour film,&#8221; Shore explains. Furthermore, music is an ongoing part of the creative fabric. &#8220;You&#8217;re creating a large musical work, a 10-hour piece, using all the Tolkien languages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking that if he was just talking about the theatrical releases, then this implies that since the FOTR was ~3 hours, TTT was ~3 hours, then this means the last movie is 3 &#8211; 4 hours, adding up to 9 &#8211; 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>If he meant the extended cuts, then since FOTR was ~3.5 hours, and TTT will be ~3.7 hours, then ROTK should be 1.8 &#8211; 2.8 hours?! This isn&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n<p>So it must be the first, implying that ROTK may even be 4 hours long, especially given that he actually says &#8220;You&#8217;re creating a large musical work, a 10-hour piece.&#8221;.  Of course this isn&#8217;t really isn&#8217;t new news, but might be a good, early indication of how long ROTK will be.<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Remembering that Jackson has said that RoTK will be &#8220;as long as it needs to be&#8221;, and that Shore needs to be intimately acquainted with the film to write his score, this could indeed be a good early indication of the ultimate length we&#8217;ll see at the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also important to remember how long speculation went on for the cut length for Two Towers. I wouldn&#8217;t be laying any big bets just yet &#8211; Demosthenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringer Fan Peter writes in about an article we posted regarding Howard Shore&#8217;s take on the rough cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6FT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}