Well, New Zealand’s media was out in force at the Wellington premiere of The Two Towers at the Embassy Theatre.<\/p>\n
The unveiling of the menacing Gollum was one of the highlights. All I had was the Middle Earth Cam video feed, and I thought it looked quite spectacular!<\/p>\n
As Ringer Fan Richard first reported, the other was confirmation of the persistent rumour that the world premiere for Return of the King would be in Wellington next year.<\/p>\n
Before an audience of thousands of (undoubtedly parochial) onlookers, Jackson made New Line Executive Mark Ordesky promise that the debut for RoTK would be in Wellington.<\/p>\n
Very cool stuff. And nice for all the antipodeans to finally get a piece of the action. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Also, Ringer Fan Telkemeniel reports that all the announced cast were there: Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Peter Jackson & Richard Taylor, Lawrence Makaore, Karl Urban. The latter two stayed with the crowd for a long time!<\/p>\n
As I mentioned, the Kiwi media was there in force, here’s a roundup of stories (and pictures) from them:<\/p>\n
NZoom — [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n The NZ Herald — [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n Stuff.co.nz (check out Gollum looming over Embassy theatregoers!) — [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n Scoop.co.nz (great shot of the red carpet … and the banners!) — [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n And just a reminder from Ringer Fan Willomere: An exhibition of the WETA workshop wonders seen in FOTR and TTT will be on display at the Te Papa<\/a> in Wellington. A wealth of items including backdrops, costumes, weapons, and models — not the least of which is Saruman’s tower Orthanc — will be on view from December 19, 2002 through February 28, 2003. [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, New Zealand’s media was out in force at the Wellington premiere of The Two Towers at the…<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-25959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t