News of The Two Towers (theatrical version) DVD (due August 26) breaks over at TORN.Net, with all kinds of enticing screen caps and sundry goodies. Apparently, the TTT-EE will show up Nov. 18, giving us a month of geek-out time before ROTK. Update: More information here, including Quicktime shorts of the (very nice) animated menus and the look of the EE packaging (It might look familiar.)
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25% more Ents.
Still quiet on the ROTK front for the time being (other than [Spoiler] Eowyn’s big moment being reshot), but Peter Jackson has recently sounded off on the extended Two Towers due out in November. Apparently, it’ll contain 43 extra minutes (as opposed to 32 in the FOTR EE)…veddy nice.
But does he like baby newts?
The Amazing Spiderman, which was filming on campus this past weekend, gets better with the addition of Dylan Baker (Happiness, Thirteen Days) as Dr. Curt Conners, a.k.a. The Lizard. Chameleon-like character actors like Baker and Alfred Molina are definitely preferable as villains than the hammy A-listers WB brought to the Batman films. Let’s just hope they find a way in Baker’s makeup to atone for the idiotic decision to put a mask on Willem DeFoe the first time around.
Oxford Blues.
By way of LinkMachineGo and Lots of Co., Phillip Pullman announces he’s bringing back Lyra (of the His Dark Materials trilogy) for a short story and follow-up novel. No word on the Ratner-Mendes film reports of a few days ago.
I don’t want to see this, Jonesey!
Detective Story, the third web installment of The Animatrix, is now online. Nice to look at, but wooden dialogue and a pointless story make this one rather disappointing. I’ve heard good things about Final Flight of the Osiris, but first I have to steel myself to sit through Dreamcatcher.
The Subtler Knife.
Contrary to the Ratner report of a few days ago, AICN reports that Sam Mendes will take on His Dark Materials. Better than Ratner, surely, but I for one didn’t think all that much of Road to Perdition. Can’t we draft Gilliam for this project?
Crichton Signs Off.
I didn’t get a chance to say this while I was in Vegas, so I’ll do it now…So long, Farscape. Your time came much too quickly.
Feel the love, Mr. Burns.
Salon examines the fan movement to save Farscape and speculates on how the tactics being created for this endeavor might work to change the TV-viewer relationship in the future. What with only two episodes to go, it may all be wishful thinking at this point…but it’s a shout-out nonetheless. (Sent via High Industrial.)
Toy on the Run.
Lego’s Run, via Goatee Style. I’ll betcha Gregory Harrison comes by to check the progress every day.
Fellowship of the Ringu.
For Sauron will have dominion over this Middle Kingdom, even unto the ending of the world.A Hong Kong newspaper imagines an all-Asian Rings trilogy.