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Posted on 11/08/2002 4:57:57 AM PST by maquiladora
New Zealand movie maker Peter Jackson faces a frantic month of re-editing Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers to make sure it's complete in time for its December 18th release. Nervous movie executives have been told the movie isn't complete yet - due to the fact Jackson has been busy ever since the first film picked up multiple awards at the Oscars and British Academy Awards earlier this year. Producer Barrie Osbourne says, "Everything went late but the thing about Peter is, he'll fight to the last minute to perfect the film, but when you finally say you must have it, he'll have it for you."
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WETA has their wrap party a few weeks ago, so the SFX are finished. My guess is that Jackson is extending the length of the movie after a last minute change of heart.
Well, it is from the IMDB news section and has quotes from the producer, so it sounds pretty geniune to me. But, man, he really is leaving it late to start re-editing!
I think I read on TORN a few days ago that FotR is being screened in some theatres in the coming days.
Well it can't be much of an addition. Every little bit they add will have to go through alot of processing, both visually and audibly. Plus, I wouldn't put it past him to call WETA back in if he thinks of a better way to do something. But again, it can't be too much of a change. Not this close to release.
They're taking it down to the wire to complete "Lord of the Rings II: the Two Towers" in time for its Dec. 18 debut.
"It's really a nail-biter for me," admits producer Barrie Osbourne of the flick in which Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellan and Orlando Bloom reprise their roles from last year's blockbuster. (An extended-edition DVD of that flick is due next week).
How can it be that a movie that finished principal photography in December 2000 is still in post-production? Strangely enough, it has to do with all the accolades received by the first "Lord of the Rings" early this year. Its 13 Academy Award nominations, its multiple British Academy awards, plus other honors resulted in major time commitments for director Peter Jackson. And that, explains Osbourne, "made us start editing the second film late, and that made the pickup shooting we did go late, and everything else went late."
"The thing about Peter is, he'll fight to the last minute to perfect the film," Osbourne says, "but when you finally say you must have it, he'll have it for you."
Osbourne notes that the director is "intimately involved with every creative decision" on the movies - and that's saying a lot, when you consider the staggering "Lord of the Rings" logistics, from moving around some 26,000 extras to developing "ground-breaking CGI" (computer-generated imagery). "When the audience gets to see the character Gollum, well, you've never seen anything like him on screen before," Osbourne promises. "It's mind blowing."
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