Transforming into a Middle Earth dwarf requires the weight of a newborn baby. And no, these are not ingredients for a “Lord of the Rings” spell.
Prime Video series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” uses awe-inspiring CGI and practical effects, including prosthetics, to properly capture the fantastical world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Executive producer Lindsay Weber revealed that the entire cast was tasked with completing a multi-hour course on tricks to make the dwarves and harfoots look smaller than elves. Production employed “scale ambassadors” to make sure everyhing was proportioned correctly, from costumes to props. “If a button on a jacket is the wrong size, it’s over,” Weber told Time.
Production tricks included oversized props, big hair and beards, and people wearing cardboard faces on top of their heads so their scene partners know where to look when delivering their lines.
Now, actor Owain Arthur admitted...
Prime Video series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” uses awe-inspiring CGI and practical effects, including prosthetics, to properly capture the fantastical world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Executive producer Lindsay Weber revealed that the entire cast was tasked with completing a multi-hour course on tricks to make the dwarves and harfoots look smaller than elves. Production employed “scale ambassadors” to make sure everyhing was proportioned correctly, from costumes to props. “If a button on a jacket is the wrong size, it’s over,” Weber told Time.
Production tricks included oversized props, big hair and beards, and people wearing cardboard faces on top of their heads so their scene partners know where to look when delivering their lines.
Now, actor Owain Arthur admitted...
- 9/2/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
When it comes down to it, Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power and House of the Dragon can't be compared. As the Rings of Power creative team notes, besides being sweeping fantasy series, they don't share all that much in common. So why have the two shows been pit against each other? Well, Rings of Power executive producer Lindsay Weber suspects it's all about getting clicks. "It's totally manufactured by the media for headlines," Weber said during a Rings of Power panel discussion Aug. 23, according to Variety. "I'm quite certain that the cast and crew doesn't feel any of it either. They know how hard it is to make these...
- 8/25/2022
- E! Online
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The Lord of the Rings, the property that became a founding mythology for modern geek culture, returned to San Diego Comic-Con Friday with Amazon showing off a new trailer for the mega-budget The Rings of Power TV series. The panel kicked off with composer Bear McCeary and an orchestra (including a choir) performing music from the show for Hall H’s 6,000-strong crowd.
The pageantry set the tone for emcee (and noted Tolkien fan) Stephen Colbert to take the Comic-Con crowd to Middle-earth. The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age. The series is set thousands of years before Peter Jackson’s films and centers on the rings of power that allowed the Dark Lord Sauron to spread evil across Middle-earth. Colbert noted the Second Age is one of the least-explored aspects in the Tolkien mythology. “It’s a story of loss,...
The Lord of the Rings, the property that became a founding mythology for modern geek culture, returned to San Diego Comic-Con Friday with Amazon showing off a new trailer for the mega-budget The Rings of Power TV series. The panel kicked off with composer Bear McCeary and an orchestra (including a choir) performing music from the show for Hall H’s 6,000-strong crowd.
The pageantry set the tone for emcee (and noted Tolkien fan) Stephen Colbert to take the Comic-Con crowd to Middle-earth. The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age. The series is set thousands of years before Peter Jackson’s films and centers on the rings of power that allowed the Dark Lord Sauron to spread evil across Middle-earth. Colbert noted the Second Age is one of the least-explored aspects in the Tolkien mythology. “It’s a story of loss,...
- 7/22/2022
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Willow Smith takes a seat on the most coveted horned-lap in the music biz!! Yes, that’s Lady Gaga, and despite my reservations about certain members of the Pinkett-Smith family (namely, everyone but Will), I am not completely heartless. It’s adorable. I Welcome This Future With Open Horn-shouldered Arms. Bring it, Angry Lord of Earth. (via Lindsay Weber’s Tumblr)...
- 2/14/2011
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
Things were different in 1992. I was 11 years old, in 7th grade, and befriending a group of slutty pothead Italian girls in the gifted program. (I remained drug free for the next 40 years btw.) Wayne’s World and Sister Act were the talk of the cinematic town, and Miley Cyrus and Nick Jonas were brought into this world as infant children. (Kill me.) But what of most adorable man Paul Rudd? What of he?? Well, other than starring in a short film about parental abuse, Rudd was busy long shorting it up as a Bar Mitzvah DJ with a Butt Hair Cut. Paul Rudd: Bat Mitzvah DJ from Jewish Forward on Vimeo. And so, the question is: Where were you in 1992? Say you weren’t born yet. We dare you. (via Buzzfeed via Lindsay Weber via Dolorosa)...
- 8/3/2010
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
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