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December 01, 2003
Gollum
Andy Serkis, Gollum from Peter Jackson's screen-adaptation of The Lord of the Rings talks about the role, the film and whether his Gollum-voice ever emerges of its own accord (a quasi-spoiler warning applies to the interview).
No, it doesn't just pop out. A lot of people have asked me to do their answer phone messages and that. And it's great the fans are into that and excited by it but I guess it will get to the point where I'll say 'right that's it, I'm not doing it any more'.
The films appear to have prompted a New Zealand tourism boom. The Flea has been scanning the antipodean academic job ads on the strength of the movies... The New Zealand Herald features more Tolkien goodness with Sean Austin, barking moonbat Viggo Mortensen and Gollum himself.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 1, 2003 09:30 AM
Comments
I've enjoyed the movies a lot so far, especially the extended versions, but I think Jackson has a slightly shallow view of the books.
The first sign was the arrival of the Elf Ninjas at Helms Deep. And now Newsweek reports on a seriously drastic plot-alteration in the final film. The explanation given doesn't reflect well on Jackson.
Don't click if you don't want to see any spoilers - http://www.learnedhand.com/rotkspoilers.htm
(HTML in the Comments section is FUBARed?)
Posted by: Michael at December 1, 2003 07:45 PM
No, it is not fubar'ed, it is FUBTFWIS.
Fouled Up Because The Flea Wishes It So.
As I found out once!
Posted by: John of Argghhh! at December 1, 2003 08:38 PM
Six-legged spectral tyrant!
Posted by: Michael at December 2, 2003 02:50 AM
Thanks for the spoiler warning... I know of at least one major plot change in the last film but am not posting anything about it until a few days about the release. It is entirely possible your post is about a different spoiler so I will not be looking for now!
I disabled html in the comments to deny comment-spammers their linky reward. My tyranny knows no bounds!
Posted by: Nicholas Packwood at December 2, 2003 04:04 AM
The first review I've seen is very positive (no spoilers as far as I can tell):
http://wormtalk.blogspot.com/2003_11_30_wormtalk_archive.html#107042129478274005
Posted by: Michael at December 4, 2003 01:38 AM