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Where ROTK Follows the Book.
Tehanu @ 8:36 pm EST
Jess sends in this quote from the Australian Empire magazine:
'Destined to be even more incident-packed than The Two Towers, The Return of the King will see Frodo and Sam battle the giant CGI spider Shelob and Aragorn travel the Paths of the Dead in an attempt to forge an army capable of vanquishing Sauron's hordes. And as Andy Serkis reveals, the third film will provide audiences with a chance to see how Smeagol became Gollum.
"You see me on-screen transformed into Gollum once he kills his best mate Deagol," enthuses the actor. "You see this whole descent into madness."'

A spoiler perhaps worth a ping! (also see the other minor reports recently above, if you haven't seen them.

Spoiler alert!

Makoare Talks ROTK/The Hobbit
Xoanon @ 12:17 pm EST

Amy writes:

Today at the Armageddon Expo in Auckland Lawrence Makoare jumped up on stage for a bit of an impromptu chat during the Weta/Sideshow discussion panel.

Not sure if you already knew, but he mentioned that he and Miranda Otto were returning in May to reshoot the entire Witch King sequence, as apparently PJ decided his armor looked altogether too similar to Sauron's. [news to me that this actor is also playing the witch-king (he is the guy who played Lurtz ~Hair)] Lawrence didn't mention the inclusion of Merry here, but HOPEFULLY this was just an oversight on his part...eek!

He also revealed he has a very strong hunch that PJ will make The Hobbit, and the guy from Weta expressed extreme glee at the prospect of designing a dragon.

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