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06-01-2007, 03:06 PM | #1 | |
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15 LOTR actors sue New Line
straight from VARIETY
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Sheds a bit of light and understanding on the complaints of one Peter Jackson does it not? |
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06-01-2007, 09:20 PM | #2 |
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The more things chenge, the more they stay the same.....
Kind of makes you wonder how Hollywood studios have stayed in business all these years, since according to them no movie has ever made a profit, not never. |
06-01-2007, 09:22 PM | #3 |
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Lessee: Jed Brophy was the leader of the wolfriders, Bruce Hopkins was Gamling, and Craig Parker was Haldir. How about the rest?
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06-03-2007, 01:18 PM | #4 |
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William - here is the info you requested
Noel Appleby: Everard Proudfoot , Jed Brophy: Snaga/Sharku , Mark Ferguson: Gil Galad , Ray Henwood: Man from Rivendell , Bruce Hopkins: Gamling , William Johnson: Old Noakes , Nathaniel Lees: Ugluk , Sarah McLeod: Rosie Cotton , Ian Mune: Bounder , Paul Norell: King of the Dead , Craig Parker: Haldir , Robert Pollock: Mordor Orc , Martyn Sanderson: Gatekeeper (Bree) , Peter Tait : Shagrat and Stephan Ure: Grishnakh/Gorbag Hope that helps put faces to the names. __________________ |
06-03-2007, 01:29 PM | #5 |
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Come on was Gil-Galad even in the film?
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06-03-2007, 02:11 PM | #6 |
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Of course...look at FotR, right in the beginning.
Gil-Galad is shown fighting against Sauron.
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06-03-2007, 10:27 PM | #7 |
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Pretty interesting. There are action figures of Ugluk, Gamling, Haldir, Shagrat, Gorbag, King of the Dead, and Gil Galad. The mentioned and the rest were pictured on the trading cards. This must be what they are sueing for? What else would it be?
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06-04-2007, 03:31 AM | #8 |
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Greed
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06-04-2007, 07:01 AM | #9 |
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And you would define GREED how? Perhaps feeling that you are entitled to what the contract agreed you would get? Sounds to me that is more like justice.
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06-30-2007, 09:02 PM | #10 |
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Never saw him fighting Sauron, dude. Elendil and Isildur were mainly shown doing that. Gil-Galad was just shown stabbing someone. For such a pivotal character, he got precious little screen time. And he looked so cool too.
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06-30-2007, 11:08 PM | #11 |
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Knight, well Gil did say Gil-galad was fighting against Sauron, not that he fought Sauron...there's a difference.
Well, Gil, I would call it GREED, but GREED upon the part of Newline not the actors. Corps do this quite a bit. If the actors claim is true than they were guaranteed a certain cut from the profit off merchandising (and if it is Newline using their faces to make 'money' off of, then I can't blame the actors) and it seems as if they were cheated from their proper cut. It all depends upon the contracts though...as the World Poker Tour (WPT) is facing a lawsuit from several professional poker players saying pretty much the same thing as the actors of LOTR. The WPT is using their faces to make money and they want to see some of that money. The key difference is there is nothing in the pro poker players contracts that guarantees they get a cut of the profit...in fact it directly states that the WPT may use the pro players faces for merchandising all they want because in return the poker pros are getting their face on TV and taking a chance of winning millions. So, it was them who signed themselves over to the 'devil' so to speak. Where the LOTR contracts it seems like it specifically states these actors were guaranteed part of the profit and they never got their cut.
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07-01-2007, 01:01 PM | #12 |
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The point of the lawsuit is the merchandise though, and gil-galad has been merchandised. There was an action figure, i believe he was in the card sets and he was in the GW game.
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07-05-2007, 09:11 PM | #13 |
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I know there was a Gil-Galad action figure, because I have it.
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