[Runs in breathlessly while you're watching "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" at home] Did you know Viggo Mortensen broke his toes in the scene where Aragorn kicks a helmet across the ground?!!
Okay, yes, this is likely a piece of trivia that anyone who's even remotely into Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" films has absorbed by now. Still, Mortensen was far from the only actor to suffer a nasty injury during production on Jackson's Tolkien adaptation. Sean Astin sliced his foot; Orlando Bloom broke a rib falling off his horse; Brett Beattie, who served as John Rhys-Davies' stand-in, dislocated his knee. Most horrifically of all, Dominic Monaghan got a tiny splinter in his foot while shooting the Bucklebury Ferry scene for "The Fellowship of the Ring." Who knew making a sweeping 300 million fantasy war epic on-location in New Zealand could be so treacherous?
Out of all the "Lord of the Rings" actors,...
Okay, yes, this is likely a piece of trivia that anyone who's even remotely into Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" films has absorbed by now. Still, Mortensen was far from the only actor to suffer a nasty injury during production on Jackson's Tolkien adaptation. Sean Astin sliced his foot; Orlando Bloom broke a rib falling off his horse; Brett Beattie, who served as John Rhys-Davies' stand-in, dislocated his knee. Most horrifically of all, Dominic Monaghan got a tiny splinter in his foot while shooting the Bucklebury Ferry scene for "The Fellowship of the Ring." Who knew making a sweeping 300 million fantasy war epic on-location in New Zealand could be so treacherous?
Out of all the "Lord of the Rings" actors,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
The 2001 film "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" tells a tale of a small, intelligent, talking blue hedgehog — a hedgehog possessed with the ability to run at tremendous speeds — who must protect his bag of mystical golden rings from the forces of evil. The hedgehog's rings allow him to skip merrily between dimensions, and are coveted by the mad scientist Dr. Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung), who possesses a set of ten mystical rings of his own.
Oh, but this has been a merry jest.
One of the more visually striking things about Peter Jackson's sextet of popular films set in Tolkien's fantastical Middle-earth was his ability to shrink down human-sized actors into the realm's many diminutive humanoid species. Using forced perspective, digital overlays, stand-ins, stunt doubles, and then-revolutionary motion-matching CGI technology, Jackson was able to envision numerous hobbits and dwarfs — about 3 ½ feet and 4 feet respectively — standing...
Oh, but this has been a merry jest.
One of the more visually striking things about Peter Jackson's sextet of popular films set in Tolkien's fantastical Middle-earth was his ability to shrink down human-sized actors into the realm's many diminutive humanoid species. Using forced perspective, digital overlays, stand-ins, stunt doubles, and then-revolutionary motion-matching CGI technology, Jackson was able to envision numerous hobbits and dwarfs — about 3 ½ feet and 4 feet respectively — standing...
- 8/16/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Polygon continued its year-long celebration of Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy with a true gift to fans: The first-ever extensive interview with Gimli stunt double Brett Beattie. While John Rhys-Davies played Gimli and was credited in the film accordingly, Beattie was more than just your average stunt double and said he spent at least 189 days playing Gimli in the trilogy. Beattie was originally hired to do horse stunts but his role evolved into a stand-in actor for Rhys-Davies because his height of 4’10” better resembled a dwarf. Rhys-Davies also had an allergic reaction to the facial prosthetics needed to transform him into Gimli, which only made the production rely more heavily on Beattie.
“I am aware that a lot of the people, even hard-core ‘Lord of the Rings’ fans assume that a lot of the shots are some tricky sort of camera angle or some CGI shrinking John Rhys-Davies down,...
“I am aware that a lot of the people, even hard-core ‘Lord of the Rings’ fans assume that a lot of the shots are some tricky sort of camera angle or some CGI shrinking John Rhys-Davies down,...
- 6/16/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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