London calling...
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
DXMachina - Mar 11, 2005 9:41:51 am PST #3750 of 3902
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 11, 2005 9:45:21 am PST #3751 of 3902
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I don't want to go to Chelsea!
Kathy A - Mar 13, 2005 6:10:29 pm PST #3752 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I read this snippet of a report on the talk Peter Jackson gave over the weekend in Australia, about the Miramax 1-film version of LotR (the one that PJ absolutely refused to do):
it essentially had the name ‘Lord of the Rings’, and not much more than that. For example, the whole Moria sequence was gone, the idea being that they’d pick the story up on the other side and Frodo would say ‘Well, damn, weren’t those caves/orcs something. Pity about Gandalf.’ Applying the ‘Tell not Show’ principle, obviously. Gondor and Rohan were to be collapsed into one country, ruled over by a synthesis of Theoden and Denethor. The mind just boggles.
‘It can’t be done!’ PJ and Fran said, ‘You will alienate everyone who has ever read the book!’, they said. ‘Oh yes it can’, he said. Weinstein had already lined up a scriptwriter, and a director to take over the project if PJ decided to bail. PJ and Fran said they had to think about it, and flew back to NZ. They went away for the weekend (it was Fran’s birthday) and discussed it as they were walking along the beach, and decided to opt out of the likely ‘debacle’. So they rang their agent and told him to contact Miramax, and call it off. However, their agent pointed out to Miramax that this was a project that PJ had brought to them, not vice versa, and that PJ should have the opportunity to pitch the project elsewhere before Miramax took over. They agreed, PJ’s agent contacted him to say they had 4 weeks starting that second, so that was the end of the weekend.
Katie M - Mar 13, 2005 6:21:41 pm PST #3753 of 3902
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
PJ's agent is my favorite agent ever.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2005 6:28:38 pm PST #3754 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder what the guys at Miramax thought during last year's Oscars...
You win some, you drive some away?
Consuela - Mar 13, 2005 9:00:42 pm PST #3755 of 3902
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
PJ's agent is my favorite agent ever.
God, yes.
sumi - Mar 14, 2005 5:57:47 am PST #3756 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, that's right -- Miramax turned them down. New Line was the company that LotR saved.
(I was just watching the Project Greenlight marathon on Bravo yesterday -- and I'd forgotten.)
sumi - Mar 14, 2005 6:50:45 am PST #3757 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Almare - Mar 14, 2005 1:49:39 pm PST #3758 of 3902
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "
Mmmmmmmm, Peter Jackson....
sumi - Mar 15, 2005 7:55:12 am PST #3759 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!