ROTK - Extended Edition (SPOILERS!!)

[Rokenn]

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From AICN

* I’ve been secretly emailing Billie and Katie Jackson, trying to get them to start sending me some insider info. Billie, unfortunately, has felt some sort of curious loyalty to his parents and refused to spill the beans. Katie, on the other hand, claims that Dark Horizons was offering her two chocolate frogs and an orange lolly... that damn Lolly put it out of the budget range Harry allowed for the caper so it was then that negotiations broke down. Luckily, we still have top spies imbedded deep within Mount Doom, and here’s what they had to offer on the upcoming Extended Edition of RETURN OF THE KING...

(BEWARE... Spoilers abound)


- Word is that New Line are balking at the price for another Extended Edition, and may be farming out the FX to El Cheapo American FX House Inc rather than the high-quality excesses of WETA... our scooper (Toss the Dwarf) pointed out that this is strictly rumour-mill stuff, but remember who told you first.

- This one isn’t going to come as a surprise, but for the record: we’ll be seeing Gandalf and his Power Rangers confronting Saruman after the Helm’s Deep battle, followed by the multi-coloured one falling to his death.

- Merry will pledge his allegiance to Theoden in a scene similar to the Pippin/Denethor bit. Toss points out that shots from this scene have appeared in an early ROTK teaser, as well as a *very* early LOTR teaser from way back in the beginning.

- Following his acceptance of Anduril from Elrond, Aragorn uses the Palantir to reveal himself to Sauron. Sauron shows him a vision of Arwen’s sickness. This stuff was used instead during the dream sequence just before Elrond arrives at Dunharrow in the theatrical cut.

- From the horse’s mouth: ‘Remember the scene in which the Witch King is asked what he’s going to do with Gandalf, and he says I will break him? This pays off big time in a battle between the Witch King and Gandalf as Gandalf and Pippin ride to save Faramir from the pyre. At the end of the battle, the Witch King breaks Gandalf’s staff and then the Rohirrim turn up and the Witch King gets distracted. The beginning of this confrontation is one of the $$$ shots in the ROTK trailer: the Witch King’s fell beast landing on the ramparts in front of Gandalf and Pippin on Shadowfax.’

- ‘We see Gamling die on the Pelennor Fields theres a quick shot of Eomer bawling in the ROTK trailer.’

- ‘In the Houses of Healing, Aragorn heals Faramir, who then meets Eowyn and they fall in love. Aww.’

- ‘A disguised Frodo and Sam join a column of marching orcs on the way to Mt Doom. Their master is a ferocious orc captain with a whip. Remember the line heard over the sweeping shot of the orcs marching down through Mordor right after the Cirith Ungol sequence? That’s him, yelling Come on you slugs!.’

- ‘The Mouth of Sauron scene changes the emphasis of the entire final battle between men and orcs at the Black Gates. In the theatrical cut, Aragorn and Co. ride up to the gates, they open, and orcs come out to fight. In the extended version, they are greeted by the Mouth of Sauron (played by the Matrix’s Train Man, Bruce Spence), who has pointy teeth and a pointy helmet that covers his eyes (he doesn't need them, see? He's just a mouth). He rides out to show the heroes Frodos mithril vest, recently stolen by the orcs at Cirith Ungol, and to let them know that Frodo is dead and the ring is on its way to Sauron. Aragorn believes him, and the heroes despair. Going into battle at the Black Gates, the heroes have no hope at all it’s their last stand for sure, and Aragorn’s line for Frodo refers to his sacrifice, not to buying time.’

Well, there you go. I quoted Toss word-for-word there for the most part so I wouldn’t have to think too hard about the film before I saw it! More to chew on until November of next year...

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[Dar'tanian]

If this is true....the extended version will be the GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE and will be way better then the theatrical version. I still wish they had not written-out the 'scourning of the shire'

[Larry_OHF]

<font color=skyblue>My reports tell me that P. J. did not like the Scouring of the Shire part of the book...thought it was too anticlimatic and took away from the ending of the real story...and so he never intended to show that on his film.</font>

[Dar'tanian]

P.J makes a good point, it does kind of draw the readers intention away from the main climax of the story which of course would be Frodo and the Ring.

[Link]

Nevertheless, an ending that lasts like 15 minutes with nothing but slow-motion camera work, and sobby good-byes is not much better either. I would've liked it better if the good-byes had been cut out and the movie had finished after Frodo wrote the last words in his Lord of the Rings book.

[Dar'tanian]

I belive it should have ended at Minas Tirith when all the people where bowing to the remaining hobbits.
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(Link you might want to put a spoiler tag on your post it technocally gives away the fate of Frodo)

[Link]

I don't agree it's a spoiler. Does it reveal more about the 'fate' of Frodo? No it doesn't. If I would tell more about where Frodo goes (for those who haven't read the books, that is) then I would be telling spoilers about his fate.

[Gnarf]

Well, I haven't seen the extended edition of TTT yet, but after seeing this trailer for it, I doubt they'll be able to top it with RoTK...

<font size=0>I'll see RoTK today, weeeee!</font>

[Dar'tanian]

Originally posted by Link: I don't agree it's a spoiler. Does it reveal more about the 'fate' of Frodo? No it doesn't. If I would tell more about where Frodo goes (for those who haven't read the books, that is) then I would be telling spoilers about his fate.

Well if you say that he finishes the book at the end then they would know that he lives out mordor...thats all I meant srry...

[Rokenn]

Originally posted by Dar'tanian: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Link: I don't agree it's a spoiler. Does it reveal more about the 'fate' of Frodo? No it doesn't. If I would tell more about where Frodo goes (for those who haven't read the books, that is) then I would be telling spoilers about his fate.

Well if you say that he finishes the book at the end then they would know that he lives out mordor...thats all I meant srry... </font>[/QUOTE]FRODO LIVES! now you've spoiled the whole thing [img]tongue.gif[/img]