Posted on 05/19/2002 5:01:59 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Beyond this point there be spoilers!
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Don't say we didn't warn you! Spoilers are what this thread is all about. So bring your rumors (substantiated or not!), spoilers, spy reports, and bones of contention about them here as the snippets of TTT news, photos and interviews come rolling in.
I wouldn't even recommend pinging people to this thread unless you know they want to see them. There are a lot of purists out there that hate to have anything given away before the movie comes out. I, however, am not one of those.
I will start a "TTT spoilers ping list" separate from the other Tolkien ping lists… so let me know if you want to be on the spoiler alert list!" If we use this thread for that kind of stuff, we won't shock people who don't want to see it. (though I bet they look anyway!)
Report 'em if you got 'em!
Even More Spoilers! RotK Style...
Tookish @ 6:15 pm ESTDon't read this if you HATE to know the ending of a good story! From Ringer Miss Mac:
I Just got my Entertainment Weekly, and there is a little quote in the section called "ReelWorld" that I thought may be of interest to you guys.
Heavy spoilers.
"Rings Redux
We bring you news all the way from Middle-earth. Sir Ian Holm, who plays hobbit Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring, may not appear in the sequel, but don't count him out of the trilogy totally. 'I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm back in three... as a very old man.' Says Holm.
'Bilbo just suddenly appears at the end of the movie and says 'I'm ready for another adventure.' He goes off with Frodo into the sunset.'
Sounds slightly hobbo-erotic to us."-Rebecca Ascher-Walsh,Entertainment Weekly, #662, July 12, 2002
or should we say it is an Un-Spoiler alert!?
TORN has updated/retracted/changed their report from Game Day reported here at Post 127.
It unspoils a few things, and adds a few new twists (Like Arwen not being at Helm's Deep) that you guys may find interesting, reassuring or amusing:
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TTT Spoilers...-Update-!!
Xoanon @ 3:48 pm ESTXoanon here, when I posted those reports from Game Day on July 4th, I guessed they would cause ripples, but I wanted to get the word out there. Shortly after I posted them some insiders deep within WETA have written to me to tell me that some of the rumors are somewhat false other are plain imagination. Check out this one email from one of my regular inside contacts in WETA:
I can't get too specific without breaching my confidentiality clause, however I will tell you this much, as you probably already know most of it anyway-
Arwen at Helm's Deep? Utter nonsense as I'm sure you're aware.
PJ wants Gollum slimy? Even if it were true, how on Earth would this guy know? No details about Gollum are known outside Weta, so this is speculation.
PJ said he wants to make The Hobbit? When? And to who? Wouldn't that be news? How does a GW employee know what the details of PJ's deal with NL are?
PJ is working on two more movies including a WW1 movie? Not in this Universe he ain't. Complete nonsense.
There's a bunch more stuff in here that is supposition being portrayed as fact, but I can't mention which ones without inadvertantly giving away the truth of the matter and thus breaking my contract, but suffice to say- much of what is presented here as fact is in actuality nothing more than fan speculation. I suspect the said GW employee had his knuckles wracked if what's reported here is what he really said. I can't believe New Line would have sanctioned this content.
I don't wish to provide any new information and thus infringe trust, but merely state what is already known or can be guessed when the source of the supposedly true statements is analysed. Simply put- when someone makes such claims, you have to wonder how on earth they could know that.
Anyway, I hope this helps clear it up a little. It simply irked me to see someone shooting off at the mouth and misrepresenting what we're all up to down here.
All the best, and keep up the good work.
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Talk amongst yourselves!
The score is being recorded next month in London, and as you know if you've ever seen those 'behind the scenes' stuff for movies, the movie is played on a big screen as the music is recorded to get all the timings right etc.
It's a long, long, long process that requires many amendments. So all the sound engineers and all the musicians will be able to see the movie during the recording sessions.
I remember the first semi-review I read for FOTR was by a musician who was there during the recording of the first soundtrack. So maybe the same will happen again. :-)
If a movie has pretty horses, I don't much care how bad it is otherwise. And here is a wonderful movie with horses, too. Remember that awful "Man in the Iron Mask" remake with the Titanic boy? What horses!
One of the most beautiful horses in my experience was a twelve year old Percheron/thoroughbred cross, pure white and an open-jumper champion. Big boy. A shame the Arabs are so tiny, they have such fine style. Maybe for Merry or Pippin...
Viggo bought his horse! Well, I wonder if it's a stunt horse? Heard stories that you have to be careful how you ride them, because they know how to fall on command!
Even American Indians tied a latigo around the lower jaws of their ponies...They're not just galloping a horse at libertry, they're running him-with rider--among other galloping horses. And you know how exciting that might get...the stunt rider needs his own Oscar.
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