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Wednesday, August 16, 2000
This is scary...
Hard Liquor and Chess, the
perfect match?
Posted by Mark on August 16, 2000 at 10:56 PM .:
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Ok, so
RedRival is still in the process of "upgrading", but I'm going to start posting stuff anyway.
Salon recently ran an interesting
article about the new "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy that is presently
in production. I am currently reading
The Fellowship of the Ring, which is the first book of the trilogy. When I first heard that
Peter Jackson would be directing, I was a bit suprised. This is such a high profile film that I would have expected a "safer" director to be chosen. While Jackson is best known for his mainstream work (
The Frighteners and
Heavenly Creatures, neither of which did blockbuster business), he was also known as a bit of a B-film maker, with some real disgusting movies under his belt (
Meet the Feebles,
Bad Taste).
Also suprising is that all three films are being filmed at the same time. Generally, the first film is made and released, and, if it does well, the next two are put into production (the scream trilogy and the matrix trilogy are two recent examples). To have all three put into production at once, without a proven box office draw, is unprecidented.
Posted by Mark on August 16, 2000 at 03:03 PM .:
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