Lord of the Rings – the quick Sliver

1.25.19 War of the Rings

January 25, 2019 Mike Keeler

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“By 1918, all but one of my close friends were dead.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, survivor of the Battle of the Somme Peter Jackson really wanted to make a reboot of King Kong. In 1998, he was a 37-year-old New Zealand filmmaker who had directed only five movies, one of which…

6.8.12 Art and Life, for Real

June 8, 2012 Mike Keeler

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Oscar Wilde wrote that Life imitates Art more than Art imitates Life. And he wasn’t even considering the tourism factor. Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was the fact that it wasn’t shot in Europe (as author J.R.R. Tolkien envisioned it), but on…

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10.29.10 Hobbit Headache

October 29, 2010 Mike Keeler

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To Arms! To Arms! The Battle for Middle-Earth rages anew! Hollywood never had much hope for The Lord of the Rings. It was “the book which could not be filmed.” But then in 1995 an unknown director named Peter Jackson went to Hollywood to try to convince Universal to do…

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