{"id":29631,"date":"2008-08-31T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29631"},"modified":"2008-08-31T17:53:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T22:53:25","slug":"fictional-frontiers-8-31-08-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/08\/31\/29631-fictional-frontiers-8-31-08-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictional Frontiers 8-31-08 transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a title=\"Fictional Frontiers\" rel=\"lightbox[pics28969]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fictional_frontiers.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28971 alignright no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fictional_frontiers.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Fictional Frontiers\" width=\"200\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>Larry Curtis did the honours from DragonCon for the installment of TORN&#8217;s bi-monthly radio show on &#8216;Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib&#8217; &#8211; WNJC 1360 AM Philadelphia. Larry talks about the Hobbit Panels conducted by TORn, the fans, and the how he can now sleep at night knowing the Hobbit scripting has begun &#8230; and much more.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Transcript Fictional Frontiers TORn DragonCon segment<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>31st august 08.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><a href=\"mailto:Sohaib@fictionalfrontiers.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Sunday 31<sup>st<\/sup> August (US) Monday 1<sup>st<\/sup> Sept (AUS) 08<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Larry. Hello Larry? Did we lose Larry?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Hello, hello.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Hello Larry are you there?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry:<\/strong><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Hello.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>I thought we&#8217;d lost you for a sec there. I guess you have to find a proper area to get a good signal down there in Atlanta, I know you told me you had to go outside between two building to get (laugh) a ..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Yeah, I&#8217;m kind of in a back alley trying to be where it quiet, and everything was quiet and then all of a sudden the moment of truth and there we go &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: (laughs) well, be careful. Atlanta, it&#8217;s a nice city, and I know you&#8217;re there for <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">DragonCon<\/span><\/strong> a couple of weeks ago but, refresh our listeners memories on what exactly <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">DragonCon&#8217;s<\/span><\/strong> about and what&#8217;s been going on at the show. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Well, it&#8217;s easy to talk about because people down here are really into it, and I love this convention, its different than say, err ComicCon which is more corporate involved. This is really all about fans, and I think there&#8217;s lot of things to go to and lots of things to see, but the number one way to spend time here is to just walk around and look at people in costumes, I&#8217;m not exaggerating, that&#8217;s the number one attraction. People are just so into their fandom and they let it all hang out &#8211; its 24 hour &#8211; its 3 o&#8217;clock in the morning there&#8217;s plenty going on &#8211; fans &#8211; and all kinds of stuff &#8211; it really phenomenal. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: Did you take a lot of pictures or where you really there as an observer this time?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Well, you can&#8217;t help but take photos of everywhere you go &#8211; there&#8217;s eye candy everywhere but that means whatever you think it means &#8211; all kinds of things to look at &#8211; but we were here, we were invited to present a panel about the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hobbit<\/span><\/strong>, and kind of speculate about that, and that&#8217;s kind of our purpose. But we&#8217;re also here just to see fans and get face time with people and you know, maybe recruit some new people. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: And, talk a little about the 2 panels. Because I know you had one on Friday and one on Saturday dealing with <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">the Hobbit<\/span><\/strong> films or again, how do .. I know I&#8217;ve been talking to other people about the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hobbit Project<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>&#8211; How do you refer to the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hobbit films<\/span><\/strong>? Do you call them prequels or &#8230; I know I&#8217;m a big fan, I just curious because when I talk to laypeople I&#8217;m like; are the prequels or what &#8211; again , it&#8217;s the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hobbit<\/span><\/strong>, but its technically a prequel, but I don&#8217;t know how to refer to the second film in the series.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Well its, there plenty of terms thrown around for the Hobbit, we just call it <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Hobbit Movie<\/span><\/strong>, we <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>don&#8217;t call it anything like a prequel, but since there will be two films, and there&#8217;s only one <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hobbit book<\/span><\/strong>, the first film will be all about the Hobbit. But the name for the second film is really kind of been a trick &#8211; we had called it the Bridge film for a while but because it would bridge our viewers from <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Hobbit<\/span><\/strong> to the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Lord of The Rings<\/span><\/strong>, but <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo del Toro<\/span><\/strong> said &#8220;No, it&#8217;s not really a Bridge Film, so don&#8217;t call it that&#8221;. So in our presentation, a kind of a fun thing for the fans, we just call it <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">H2 <\/span><\/strong>or Hobbit 2, or we call it <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">F2<\/span><\/strong> for Film Two. Because we don&#8217;t know what to call it, it&#8217;s all in the mind of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">del Toro<\/span><\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Jackson<\/span><\/strong> at this point.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: Sounds like a Cloverfield kind of scenario &#8211; let&#8217;s hope it doesn&#8217;t go with <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">H2<\/span><\/strong> as <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>the title (laughs). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: It&#8217;s good for now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: (laughs) definitely, definitely. Now, I know off the air we talked a little bit about the response to the panels, but evidently they were over flowing just like they were in SanDiego. Talk a little bit about what happened, specifically about the panels. What were the main topics of discussion and interest among the fans. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Well, its kind of an interesting thing, err, scheduling wise, there&#8217;s so much going on here. We were Friday, we were scheduled <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>against <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Sean Astin<\/span><\/strong> panel, he&#8217;s here and he was talking not about anything <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Lord Of The Rings<\/span><\/strong> related, but still that &#8211; we thought well that&#8217;s going to hurt our audience, but plenty of people wanted to hear just about <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Hobbit<\/span><\/strong>. And we also were also scheduled both days against a FireFly panel which had many actors. Now, people love the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hobbit<\/span><\/strong>, they love the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">TheOneRing<\/span><\/strong>, but you know, there&#8217;s &#8216;actors&#8217; &#8211; famous people (Sohaib laughs) so we were genuinely worried, but people were just chomping at the bit for the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hobbit<\/span><\/strong>, and they were chomping at the bit for any information about what these film might be like, and who&#8217;s involved and we follow this thing day to day almost, but a lot of people don&#8217;t have the time or they don&#8217;t know where to go, or they don&#8217;t know how to follow it day to day.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>So those news titbits that readers at the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">TheOneRing.net<\/span><\/strong> might have gathered over the last six months, we crammed it into an hour of presentation with photos, visuals and they just like, for instance, we said &#8216;Yes, Ian McKellen will be back as <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Gandalf&#8217;<\/span><\/strong>, and the place just went bananas. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: (Sohaib laughs) and its funny, I&#8217;m actually at your sire right now as were speaking &#8211; this is just a side note, this is funny, that <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">John Noble<\/span><\/strong> actually not going to be returning in (Larry: &#8220;Right&#8221;).. and I was just sort of surprised, everyone was so excited, Is it because of the series &#8216;<strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Fringe<\/span><\/strong>&#8216;, or is it just, do you have any more information about that? Information about why <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">John<\/span><\/strong> decided not to return.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Oh. Yeah. Well, he&#8217;s busy with the TV series which the name eludes me at the moment, but he&#8217;s kind of excited about that I think, and err, it&#8217;s a big commitment too. Some people had moved their whole house and their whole lives to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">New Zealand<\/span><\/strong> and that a great experience, not one actor or person who was involved regretted it, but to do it again is not a casual thing, and his career, he&#8217;s a busy guy. (Sohaib agrees) You can&#8217;t just walk away from a TV show. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">We talked about the mystery of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Film2<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; it could have been, not centred, but it could&#8217;ve had a lot of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Denethor<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">John<\/span><\/strong> <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Nobles<\/span><\/strong> character in it &#8211; and so the whole kingdom and his sons <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Faramir<\/span><\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Boromir<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; that could have been part of the film, but err, it seems likely because he&#8217;s busy, that <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">del Toro<\/span><\/strong> will probably look elsewhere, although they may have been looking elsewhere anyway. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: Right, right, right. And I know that off the air we talked a little bit about, I don&#8217;t want to say a concern of the fans, because I myself, I was thrilled, I&#8217;ve been thrilled since the announcement was made, but there&#8217;s still a little concern as far as who has taken the reins &#8211; the Director reins on this project &#8211; some people are concerned about <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo del Toro<\/span><\/strong> working on the project &#8211; talk a little bit about that, and what&#8217;s your personal feel and personal belief and feeling about <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> directing the film, because I&#8217;m thrilled. He was the one person other than <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Peter Jackson<\/span><\/strong> that I thought could handle a project of this magnitude.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Well, my personal feeling is that he&#8217;s the perfect guy, at the perfect time, for the perfect project I just think if all the stars lined up, it&#8217;s just as it should be. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Now the problem with fans, or the problem fans have, isn&#8217;t that they don&#8217;t like <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong>, but some are not aware, not everybody pays attention to who directed what &#8211; they just to cool movies that they like &#8211; they don&#8217;t quite know, he&#8217;s <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>an unknown quantity, and there are those still devoted to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Peter<\/span><\/strong> <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Jackson<\/span><\/strong> vision of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Middle-earth<\/span><\/strong> that they want <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Jackson<\/span><\/strong> in that Director&#8217;s chair, but we remind people that (you know) the way things worked out, if Jackson had the time and absolutely wanted to be in that chair Directing the Films he would be. But I think he saw the wisdom too, that you know &#8216;hey some new creative ideas would be good for the film&#8217;, so he&#8217;s still involved as the Executive Producer and the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">WETA<\/span><\/strong> workshop people will be involved and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">John Howe<\/span><\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Allen Lee<\/span><\/strong>, <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Ian<\/span><\/strong> <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">McKellen<\/span><\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Andy Serkis<\/span><\/strong>, those people will also be involved. But <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> brings a little bit of a fresh idea, which I think is very healthy for the movie. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">We still have the continuity, but we have some energy and kind of his.. You know I&#8217;m just thrilled as can be. So I think it&#8217;s just nothing but positive, but fans have to realize that, as devoted as they are to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Jackson<\/span><\/strong>, this is the way <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Jackson<\/span><\/strong> wanted things as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: Exactly. It&#8217;s funny because about a week or two ago I actually spoke to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Kristin Thompson<\/span><\/strong>, and she&#8217;s going to be on, we&#8217;re going to be running her segment in a couple of weeks and, you know she still had some &#8211; cause she&#8217;s obviously, she&#8217;s a huge <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Tolkien<\/span><\/strong> fan, and for those of you who are not aware, she&#8217;s written a book titled &#8216;<strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Frodo Franchise<\/span><\/strong>&#8216; &#8211; she had mentioned that when she first saw <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Fellowship of The Ring<\/span><\/strong>, I was actually surprised by her comments, but again I can understand given her background being such a fan of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Tolkien<\/span><\/strong>&#8216;s seminal work &#8211; but she was not really happy with <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Fellowship of The Ring<\/span><\/strong>, it took her a few times (Larry: &#8216;WOW) to &#8211; yeah she mentioned that &#8211; it took her a few times to actually I guess embrace the film and again, I think it&#8217;s funny so many people now embrace <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Peter Jackson<\/span><\/strong>&#8216;s work, and I think a lot of those people were .. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">&#8230; again, if you look at some of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Peter Jacksons<\/span><\/strong> prior work, obviously he did <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Frighteners<\/span><\/strong>, but if you look at some of his independent work with like <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Bad Taste<\/span><\/strong> some of those little puppet films he did, if anyone who is a literary critic or a fan of those works actually watch those films, I can imagine they probably would have been in complete horror. You know, they&#8217;re concerned about <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong>, none of his works are out<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>&#8211; I don&#8217;t want to say as &#8216;off the beaten track&#8217; as Peters prior work, but it&#8217;s funny you think now those same fans; some of them are a little concerned about <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; it&#8217;s interesting that you mentioned the fans &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to say fickle nature &#8211; cause I think it&#8217;s just they&#8217;re so passionate, they just want to see a continuation of the quality of work that they saw in the previous three films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Well, you&#8217;re absolutely right, and it is a kind of a fascinating parallel, I mean there are a lot of similarities to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Jackson<\/span><\/strong> 1998 and 99 getting the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Lord Of The Rings<\/span><\/strong> going and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> doing that now. I mean they definitely both have a background in horror &#8211; and in fact if people haven&#8217;t seen the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Devil&#8217;s Backbone<\/span><\/strong> it&#8217;s such a good movie that <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> made. It&#8217;s a lot like a companion piece almost with <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Pans Labyrinth<\/span><\/strong>. But, his works &#8211; yeah, you could look at them and say wow, how can this guy tackle a two gigantic big budget <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Middle-earth<\/span><\/strong> films that depend so much on characterization and other things because they see him as a &#8216;horror&#8217; guy &#8211; which, you know,<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>I personally think a Director can do more than one thing . There&#8217;s a lot of parallels which is really interesting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: What do you think<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>&#8211; I don&#8217;t think <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> needs to do this but &#8211; I had the wonderful pleasure of actually attending the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">New York Comic Con<\/span><\/strong> many moons ago, and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> was there with the entire cast of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hellboy<\/span><\/strong>, and I think it&#8217;s to me &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to say that &#8211; because I was already someone who believed in Guillermo, and I wanted him to Direct the film and not to take anything away from <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Sam Raimi<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; but I was shuddering in horror, because I did not want <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Sam Raimi<\/span><\/strong> (he&#8217;ll probably be never on our show now) but I did not want him to Direct The Hobbit Films. And when I heard that he was (<strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong>) was going to be the man I was all really excited but &#8211; I would encourage anyone who is not sold on <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> to simply (you know) maybe go into YouTube maybe you know, watch a video of any of his presentations that he&#8217;s given &#8211; and not just Hellboy, any of his other films and you will see someone &#8211; I haven&#8217;t seen anyone with that much energy and passion in Hollywood in a very long time. The only other person I think I&#8217;ve seen with that much passion actually was <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Peter Jackson.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Yeah, I agree with <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong>, I think you said it perfectly. Slightly away from your topic, I&#8217;m standing here in my little back alley &#8211; there&#8217;s two photographers and a scantily clad <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Super Girl<\/span><\/strong> doing a photo shoot (Sohaib laughs) &#8211; which is just the essence here &#8211; we are talking about film and here&#8217;s some fans with crazy costumes &#8211; it&#8217;s the essence of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">DragonCon<\/span><\/strong> so (Sohaib laughs) &#8230; I should have had a little video camera <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: (laughs) I was going to say hopefully maybe you have a couple of images you can send them to our website, we&#8217;ll definitely post those on Fictional Frontiers on our <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fictionalfrontiers.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff;\">www.fictionalfrontiers.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Website, but I&#8217;m going to hopefully be there in attendance next year and Larry we have about 5 minutes left &#8211; so you said the enthusiasm was wonderful about the films &#8211; What about aside from the fan response, have you heard anything else about the film itself, because I actually got an opportunity to speak to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Richard Taylor<\/span><\/strong> a couple of weeks ago when I was in <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">San Diego<\/span><\/strong>, and again, that was a couple of weeks ago, and he&#8217;s still seemed to be a little bit vague about some of the specifics. He said there wasn&#8217;t an outlaying of budget, a budgetary limitations or there&#8217;s not really that much out there but they&#8217;re still in the formative stages &#8211; What do you expect to see over the next couple of weeks and months probably leading up into 09?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Well that&#8217;s actually a brilliant question because there really is some actual real news that &#8211;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>I sleep better at night knowing<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>what I&#8217;m about to talk about &#8211; When we spoke to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Guillermo<\/span><\/strong> last he was just doing his <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Hellboy<\/span><\/strong> publicity and he said his wife was dictating a vacation, which he needed, then he was going to get onto of the writing phase<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>of The Hobbit, which we thought would maybe the very early part of September. But in the last week, it&#8217;s come out that they are actually are in the scripting stage of The Hobbit. Now I don&#8217;t know if that means Guillermo&#8217;s on the phone with the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Lord Of The Rings<\/span><\/strong> scriptwriter <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Philippa Boyens<\/span><\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Fran Walsh<\/span><\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Jackson,<\/span><\/strong> but that is underway. So I like knowing when I wake up today &#8211; here I am at <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">DragonCon<\/span><\/strong> today as we speak, <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">that the Hobbit script is being worked on.<\/strong> That makes me a happy guy. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">And that has to happen of course so that they can get things ready, so they can look at budgets &#8211; it&#8217;s hard to have a budget without a script, it&#8217;s hard to begin part or pre-production without a script, <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">so as the script progresses to the end of the year, which is the schedule we&#8217;ve been given<\/strong>, it will allow <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">WETA<\/span><\/strong>, and it will allow Hollywood to fix budgets, come up with sets, attack a shooting schedule and post production and pre-production, and really figure the film out, so that&#8217;s happening now. To me that&#8217;s really&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: Oh yeah, that&#8217;s good. That&#8217;s very exciting news for me as well and &#8211; just on a side, I&#8217;m not trying to name drop here but hopefully in the next couple of weeks actually I&#8217;ll have an opportunity to speak to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Howard Shore<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; he&#8217;s going to be&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Ahhh!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>&#8230; Yes, he&#8217;s going to be here in the Philly region, there&#8217;s a special celebration involving <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Macey&#8217;s<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>in Philadelphia<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to talk to him for a brief period of time. I going to ask him about the scoring of the new films, because obviously he&#8217;s going to be involved with the Hobbit and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">H2<\/span><\/strong> as it&#8217;s being referred to as, and maybe he can give us a little more insight into what&#8217;s going on along those lines&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">But before we go Larry, I know this is completely off the beaten track as far as <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Lord Of The Rings,<\/span><\/strong> but you mentioned an interesting rumour you heard over at <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">DragonCon<\/span><\/strong> and again its funny, (I dont) &#8211; you know I started this show with a bashing, but I guess for lack of a better phrase, a bashing of <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>the Indiana Jones film this Summer, and you actually heard an interesting rumour at <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">DragonCon<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; Could you elaborate a little bit on that before we head out? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Yeah, yeah. How much time do I have?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: (laughs) you have about 2 minutes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Ok. <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Frank Darabont<\/span><\/strong> wrote a script for the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Indiana Jones<\/span><\/strong> movie that we &#8211; you know, the latest one <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; and his script was somewhat rejected by <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Mr Lucas<\/span><\/strong> and they kind of re-wrote it, and re-did it and changed it, and the film came out and, like you, its not quite what I hoped for. Well, <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Darabont<\/span><\/strong> if people don&#8217;t know is the writer of <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Shawshank Redepton<\/span><\/strong> and he&#8217;s really quite a craftsman from a script point of view. And word is Harrison Ford and Spielberg &#8211; now again, this is totally rumour &#8211; but the people I heard this from gives me some pause, it could be real. So <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Harrision<\/span><\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Speilberg<\/span><\/strong> said well, this maybe wasn&#8217;t how we wanted to end <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Indianan Jones,<\/span><\/strong> so maybe we should think about another film and maybe we should really think about <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Darabont<\/span><\/strong> again. And you know, George had his day, and maybe we could move the whole film over &#8211; a little bit away from him<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>and his influence and work the way that Spielberg wants it and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Harrison Ford.<\/span><\/strong> So again, <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>a rumour, but, kind of lights up my Christmas Tree to think that those guys could work and again, make these Indianan Jones, the final Indianan Jones Movie one last shot and that&#8217;s pretty cool to me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>That actually excites me as well because I think that I was so disappointed by the other film that, you know again, <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">George Lucas<\/span><\/strong> in his own way he&#8217;s a genius (Larry agrees) but I think that every genius, every project they work on, does not necessarily mean that they are going to replicate that level of expertise that they demonstrated on their previous project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">But Larry it&#8217;s been great! Have a safe trip back from Atlanta, and hopefully we&#8217;ll do this again in the next couple of weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Larry<\/strong>: Yeah. I want to say, thanks again for having us on, love it that you help the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">TheOneRing<\/span><\/strong> and if people haven&#8217;t been to DragonCon go ahead and make your plans now it&#8217;s always a (?) weekend. You&#8217;ve got a whole year for this unbelievable experience.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Sohaib<\/strong>: Yes, it is. And do visit the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onering.net\/\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff;\">www.TheOneRing.net<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">You&#8217;ve been listening to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Sohaib<\/span><\/strong> on <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #984806;\">Fictional Frontiers<\/span><\/strong>. We&#8217;ll see you next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Transcript (c)by Deleece Cook 31\/8\/08 for theTheOneRing.net &amp; Fictional Frontiers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Curtis did the honours from DragonCon for the installment of TORN&#8217;s bi-monthly radio show on &#8216;Fictional Frontiers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[16,122,14,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-conventions","category-events-dragoncon","category-events","category-events-other"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7HV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29631","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}