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The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
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Peter
Jackson's
motion picture "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
is to appear in 2002. It is based on "The Two Towers".
It is part two of a cinematographic trilogy, with the other two
movies appearing in 2001 and 2003. It is the first movie project
ever made shooting 3 movies at the same time. New Line Cinema
invested more than 240 million USD in this project. The movie
was recorded in New Zealand.
TITLE: The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
YEAR: 2002
TYPE: Motion
Picture
DIRECTED BY:
Peter Jackson
STORYLINE:
J.R.R. Tolkien (books), Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa
Bowens
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Elijah Wood
as Frodo Baggins
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Ian McKellen
as Gandalf
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Sean Astin
as Samwise Gamgee
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Viggo Mortensen
as Aragorn
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Dominic
Monaghan as Meriadoc
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Billy Boyd
as Pippin
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Ian Holm
as Bilbo Baggins
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Orlando
Bloom as Legolas
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John Rhys-Davies
as Gimli
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Christopher
Lee as Saruman
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Cate
Blanchett as Galadriel
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Liv
Tyler as Arwen
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Andy Serkis
as Gollum
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CONCEPT ART:
Alan Lee and John Howe
RUNTIME:
unknown
COUNTRY:
New Zealand/USA
LANGUAGE:
English
In 1995, director
Peter Jackson started a huge project, trying to bring J.R.R. Tolkien's
masterpiece to the Big Screen. Together with wife Fran Walsh and
co-writer Philippa Bowens, Jackson adapted the book to a filmable
screenplay. He planned to film the book as a trilogy.
New Line Cinema
was the film company which dared to take the step to finance 3
movies at once. It was Jackson's goal to record all three movies
with the same cast within 14 months. New Line agreed to invest
240 million USD in the project. On the 11th of September 1999,
filming started. The environment in which the movie was filmed
was New Zealand. The variability and roughness of this country
was the ideal setting for the landscapes required in the movie.
Artists John
Howe and Alan Lee agreed to join the project as conceptional artists.
Their experience in bringing the world of Middle Earth to paper
contributed in the design of the movie. New Zealand based WETA
International was the special effects and props company who took
care of the important CGI effects in the movie. According to Peter
Jackson "was the time and technology right for bringing
the book to life".
After the
success of "Fellowship of the Ring"anticipation is high
for the release of the second movie in the trilogy.
For
the latest movie news: New
Line official movie site or TheOneRing.net
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- The
Lord of the Rings, the official movie guide. Brian Sibley HarperCollins
Publishers, 2001.
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