RotK facts, spoilers or anything related discussion!

[Niluial]

<B>Well this is just a thread to discuss the coming RotK. You can discuss anything (e.g. facts, things said, spoilers etc) you wish as long as it is related to RotK.</B><P>Everything has been leading up to this… it’s taken five years, a R2 – billion (what’s R2 – billion in $?) budget, thousands of pairs of hobbit feet and endless patience on the part of the fans ! But at last the wait is almost over the long wait! Brace yourself for murderous spiders, betrayal, madness and a final bloody battle which according to those in the know is going to make all previous epic fight scenes look like “a hobbit family picnic”. <P>After a three bum-numbing hours of drama it will al be over – good will triumph over evil and the world will be a safer place again. The Return of the King is being billed as the saddest and most harrowing episode in the series. It’s expected to be one of the front runners in the best picture race at the next year’s Academy Awards. <P>Us fans are on tenterhooks to see what the monstrous spider looks like – so far no pictures have been released of and all we know for sure is that like Gollum she’s a digital creation. And given that Peter Jackson suffers from arachnophobia these scenes are bound to be, um, creepy. Peter says that the shelob shots did scare him and made him want to flinch. While the two hobbits pit their wits against the awful arachnid, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas are gearing up for the battle of Minas Tirith in which their small group fights off the dark Lord’s army of 200 000. It took the film crew of hundreds of experts roughly six months to build Minas Tirith and mastermind the battle. No expense is spared and after all that hard work the end result is so terrifyingly realistic its being ranked as one of the most exciting war scenes ever to be brought to the big screen. <P><B>Here are some facts</B><P>- The first two films scored 19 Oscar nominations and won six. Together they’ve both grossed more than $1, 8 billion worldwide, making it the most successful fantasy series since Star Wars. Wowee… imagine making that much money.<P>- More than 2 400 people were involved in the trilogy<P>- A special weaponry workshop was set up to produce 48 000 swords, scabbards, axes and shield; 900 suits of armour and 200 orc masks. Imagine playing with those o_O<P>- For the battle of Minas Tirith, digital effects were used to create he enemy army of 200 000.<P>- The scenes were filmed on a sheep farm. The catering team needed 1 440 eggs and 400 loaves of bread a day to prepare breakfast for the cast. Just breakfast what about Lunch?<P>- Liv Tyler (Arwen) revels it wasn’t much fun kissing Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) because of his prickly facial hair. <P>- Many of the elf actors were hoping to keep there pointy ears as mementos but unfortunately because they were made of gelatine the melted.<P>- Live Tyler (Arwen) hated her long elvish robes. “Its so hard to walk gracefully when your tripping ever two seconds” she sad. “I would be trying to look all ethereal and then I would trip and scream, ‘Ah, this ******* dress!’ Then I would hear ‘cut’ because they defiantly didn’t us the ‘f’ word in middle earth.” Or do they o_O?<P>~Niluial<p>[ 8:49 AM December 07, 2003: Message edited by: Niluial ]