Roheryn heard the Figwit interview on netcast, and writes,
“The interview was great! It was good to hear the guys; they were in the studio for over half an hour. The interviewer started off by asking some lame questions (“Jemaine, you’ve done some directing…what advice would you give to Peter Jackson?” Jemaine: “More jokes.”) but he got better, and the guys were really funny. They played two of their songs, “Frodo, Don’t Wear the Ring” and “Albi, the Racist Dragon”, and the interviewer asked Bret a bunch of questions sent in by other people (“How’d you get in to your costume?” “What were you wearing underneath all those robes?”) Found out something I don’t remember hearing before – when Bret was 7, he played Frodo in a stage play of The Hobbit. I bet he was adorable!
“The interviewer twice gave the wrong address for the Figwit Lives! site – and both times Bret corrected him! I thought that was hilarious. One cute little moment: Bret saying “My name is Figwit the Elf. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
“And of course the best part – the guys saying they met us in Edinburgh, and Jemaine said “Actually, they’re probably listening…Hi Iris! Hi Jen!” That’s inDUHvidual and me. *grin*”
Demos here with an addendum:
InDUHvidual over at Figwit Lives recorded the 3RRR interview and converted it into an MP3 format. It’s a 6MB download, but you can grab it from here. We are also co-hosting the interview, so alternatively, you can grab it off the TORn server here. The Frodo song is really funny, and after a slowish start, the interview is very interesting with some great moments from both Jemaine and Brett.
Conflicting reports: Joyita complains that the version of TTT that was shown in her town was CUT!! NOT THAT AGAIN!!
“It’s true that people here in India like TTT more, but there were MANY scenes cut. They didn’t even cut it off properly and we were left staring at a blank screen for several seconds. It was so crude that they didn’t leave the credits and the music didn’t blend properly. Its sad that many ppl in India will never see much of the deadmarshes, Edoras,Arwen and Galadriel. The 3 hour movie was cut to two and a half hours. Even FOTR was cut better(and that wasn’t very good). Not that the movie wasn’t enjoyable, but NewLine should hang its head in shame anyway. Its because of things like this that pirating is rampant in India.” [Note – I think it’s the distributors doing the cutting, not New Line – Tehanu]
Varun in Mumbai:
“The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers was released here in Mumbai,India on Friday the 28th,of march. It released in 11 theatres across the city which for an english film is pretty awesome.The movie is currently running 4 shows a day at all the 11 theatres nearly a week after its release which by standards here is amazing. Even folks who haven’t read the books were enthralled by the visual effects and enjoyed the movie.The battle at Helms Deep,the ents,gollum and of course Legolas and Gimli turned out to be great favourites with the audiences.i have seen TTT twice already within 6 days of its release and plan to see it atleast twice more.”
From Mumbai also, Tunali writes,
“Well as you know TTT has released in india on the 28th. I have been unlucky enough to not be able to see it yet thanks to my exams and also to the huge crowds it has drawn. The movie is at present going housefull and will continue too i hope for a long time… hopefully more than FOTR; which went on for more than a month here. It seems that the Ring really yields more power and all who see it seem to be enchanted by it! The one ring seems to fade the “razzle dazzle” of chicago…. As always tolkien still remains a “hot topic” for discussion and I cannot tell you how eager I am to see the movie for myself!”
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.”‘
Eto writes, “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” was released in India yesterday (March 28th 2003). It opened in 7 theatres in my city, and that’s a pretty big release. I went for the evening show and the hall was packed to the brim (more than 500 people). Lots and lots of claps and whistles during Legolas’s mounting of the horse, his slide on the shield, Eomer’s arrival at Helms Deep, the charge of the Ents, and of course Gollum was the favorite. The last hour of the movie was full of claps, whistles and cries. IMO, a much better response than FoTR. May be because of all the action, the war and … Gollum.”
Chris writes: New Zealand TV Guide had an article on the reshoots for ROTK. According to them they have it on good authority that it will be at the start of May and Viggo Mortneson let it slip in a recent interview that Sean Bean was coming back to do flashback scenes for the upcoming third film.
King Kong News:
Jess heard on the radio in NZ that “Peter Jackson is looking for tall, hairy folk. I guess that they are tall means he can’t cast himself! LOL!!!”
Todd noticed this: ‘At the end of the Xbox and Gamecube EA TTT Game, there is a scene from the ROTK. It is Gandalf talking to Aragorn at night, much like a shot in TTT. He quotes almost dircetly from the book, ‘ Sauron is afraid of you Aragorn’ and so on. I was happy when I saw it because those were a few lines that I was hoping they would include in the next movie. It also states how (again almost straight from the book) ‘the thought of us destroying the Ring has not yet entered into his darkest nightmares.’
