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December 21 : 2008
Recently I linked to news of my interview on “Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib” and more recently to the online podcast version. Now there’s a transcript of the interview, kindly done by Deleece Cook, posted on TheOneRing.net. Thanks to all involved!
December 11 : 2008
In July I had the pleasure of meeting Sohaib Awan at Comic-Con. He’s the host of “Fictional Frontiers,” an interview show on radio station WNJC-1360 AM in Philadelphia. I’m sure many of you have listened to Sohaib’s interviews with some of the folks from TheOneRing.net over the past few months.
Now it’s my turn. I’ll be one of the interviewees this coming Sunday, December 14, talking about The Frodo Franchise and the LOTR film trilogy. You can hear it on the show’s website. Just click the “listen now” button at the upper right. The program starts at 11:00 EST and runs for an hour. I hope you enjoy it!
If you miss the interview, Sohaib assures me that it should be posted as a podcast within a few days after it airs. I’ll post a link to that when it happens.
December 4 : 2007
A Conversation with Rick Porras, Part 3
For Part 1, see here; Part 2, here
The Question and Answer Session Continues
Q: He [Peter Jackson] also said something about re-doing the whole thing in 3-D. Is that possible? I mean financially.
RP: There’s a lot of different ways to do things these days. There are companies like Real-D, I think the name of the company is, that do have software that can turn a film that was originally shot in 2-D into 3-D. So you could do that. At one point there was talk about, can we do an Imax reel or whatever, but it ended up that we just didn’t have time. That would have been cool. That’s something that filmmakers are now doing more and more of. We did see the tests that Imax did with Apollo 13, I think was the first film they did that process, where they put 3-D into an Imax theater. That would be cool. more »
November 27 : 2007
(Read Part 1 here)
KT: One of the things I talk about in the book is how the film was financed in part by New Line selling the distribution rights for various countries to these little companies in countries around the world. I think there were 25 or 26 of those. One thing that intrigues me is the fact that a lot of them were brought down to
November 20 : 2007
The co-producer of The Lord of the Rings, Rick Porras joined me on September 27 at Barnes & Noble in
The
Frodo Franchise
by Kristin Thompson
Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2007.
hardcover 978-0-520-24774-1
421 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 12 color illustrations; 36 b/w illustrations; 1 map;
1 table
“Once in a lifetime.”
The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson’s
The Lord of the Rings. The film’s 17 Oscars, record-setting earnings,
huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and
to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a
crucial moment in Hollywood—the special effects digital revolution plus
the rise of “infotainment” and
the Internet—to satisfy the trilogy’s fans while fostering a huge
new international audience. The resulting franchise of franchises has earned
billions of dollars to date with no end in sight.
Kristin Thompson interviewed 76 people to examine the movie’s scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, video games, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson’s Rings as one the most important films ever made.
cover of Penguin Books’ (NZ) edition of The Frodo Franchise, published September 2007. The tiny subtitle reads: “How ‘The Lord of the Rings’ became a Hollywood blockbuster and put New Zealand on the map.”
