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| Lord of the Rings Trailer,
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Jerry Carpenter,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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Big movie time folks. Perhaps the biggest film effort ever, to film all three books in JRR Tolkein’s seminal fantasy The Lord of the Rings. They fudged it once, when they jammed odds and ends from all three into the 90 minute animated feature in the seventies. But now in the hands of Kiwi horror-meister Peter Jackson the trilogy is coming to life, being filmed back to back down under (now there’s a Twister scenario)
Scraps of information are pretty scarce about what’s going on, but not in a nasty Lucasfilm closed set/threat of litigation style. The storyline is no secret, and the plan is to keep as close as possible to the original tale. The castings done, Ians Holm and McKellen, Liv Tyler, Elijah Wood, Sean Bean (Gulp), Jude Law (double gulp !), no big hitting A-list stars – probably a good thing. And finally the trailer has surfaced, so now we know what it looks like.
Half the trailer (available from the website) is behind the scenes footage narrated by one of those gravel voiced types. The effect of this feels like one of those tacky late night ITV ‘making of recent film’ publicity exercises masquerading as a documentary, and it’s off-putting. The GCI bits are nothing to scream about, as is the Orc make-up. There’s some cool shots of actors wearing amazing extended limb armatures, I’m guessing that’s the tree people. Then the real trailer kicks in with some swordplay, and epic armies marching over bleak landscapes. Elijah certainly looks the part as Frodo, and Liv looks radiant as always. It’s easy on the effects stuff, and I wasn’t blown away by any individual scenes in the same way as I was by the ‘Independence Day’ trailer – but then look what a dog that turned out to be. The trailer fades out with the release dates of each individual film, and seeing how long you’ve got to wait boggles the mind. The first film doesn’t come out till next Christmas, and you won’t be seeing the final part till the year 2003 !!. Blimey, I might be able to take a kid if I get my arse in gear.
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