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News & ArtsWednesday, February 18, 2009
Film Pretty Fly (For a Fan Film)
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM
I'm not a Tolkien fan, but even I have to admit that this looks pretty neat:
The website for the full film, which will be released on May 3rd, is here.
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Seems a lot like a Sci-Fi channel made-for-TV movie: lots of wandering around SW British Columbia, much talking, a few CG shots, almost no action.
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It'll be a killer resume piece for the guys who made it. The trailer looks sweet, and the audio work is really impressive. It'll probably be better than the sappy Peter Jackson ones, but that's not saying much.
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Such a pity the whole premise of the film is crap. The idea behind the film is not canon and therefore outside the whole LOTR reality.
There never was a 'Hunt for Gollum'.
Gandalf finally determined that 'The One Ring' was about but at no stage did they ever suspet that a) Gollum existed or b) that the ring was in his possession.
As close as they came to that fact was that there was someone/something chasing the ring down.
Gandalf only discovered that the ring which Bilbo had was The One Ring shortly before Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday celebration.
They could at least make a film by fans (who had read the books)for fans.
There never was a 'Hunt for Gollum'.
Gandalf finally determined that 'The One Ring' was about but at no stage did they ever suspet that a) Gollum existed or b) that the ring was in his possession.
As close as they came to that fact was that there was someone/something chasing the ring down.
Gandalf only discovered that the ring which Bilbo had was The One Ring shortly before Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday celebration.
They could at least make a film by fans (who had read the books)for fans.
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I'm a huge fan of LOTR, both book and movie, but @7
Why? Says who? The movie police? People write Trek and Harry Potter fiction all the time. Tolkein wrote LOTR explictly to try to give the english a mythology that they lacked. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Why not riff on the cannon?
That said, this movie looks boring.
They could at least make a film by fans (who had read the books)for fans.
Why? Says who? The movie police? People write Trek and Harry Potter fiction all the time. Tolkein wrote LOTR explictly to try to give the english a mythology that they lacked. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Why not riff on the cannon?
That said, this movie looks boring.
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@7- it seems like this takes place after bilbo's birthday, when Gandalf went off and tried to find gollum to get info, and also so that he wouldn't tell Sauron about giving the ring to bilbo. He of course failed, gollum went to Mordor and that's why the dark riders went to the shire.
In the book he was gone for a long time (a year?) before Frodo actually left for Rivendell.
Correct me, nerds, if I'm wrong.
In the book he was gone for a long time (a year?) before Frodo actually left for Rivendell.
Correct me, nerds, if I'm wrong.
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@7,
Presumably you've only seen the movie?
@9,
Seventeen years pass between Bilbo's birthday and the time Frodo leaves the Shire. During that time, Gandalf researched information about the ring, consulted with Saruman (oops), and got Aragorn to track down Gollum and imprison him. Understandably, the movies considerably shortened that time span.
Presumably you've only seen the movie?
@9,
Seventeen years pass between Bilbo's birthday and the time Frodo leaves the Shire. During that time, Gandalf researched information about the ring, consulted with Saruman (oops), and got Aragorn to track down Gollum and imprison him. Understandably, the movies considerably shortened that time span.
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not a tolkien fan - that doesn't mean you can appreciate the lotr movies, right? cuz if that is what i means, you are an idiot.
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In book II chapter II, The Council of Elrond, in the "The Fellowship of the Ring", Gandalf and Aragorn share with the others of how they hunted Gollum seventeen years earlier. So, it appears the movie is indeed based off of the "The Lord of the Rings".
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The guys who made this film based it on some material in the appendices of the LOTR trilogy. I've been writing about them on my daily fan film blog, fancinematoday.com for months. For what it's worth, if you want to find out more about fan films in general, I wrote the first book about the history and future of 'em, Homemade Hollywood, which just came out.
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