![]() With the final bill likely to come in somewhere near $400 million when production and marketing costs are all tallied, one has to credit New Line Cinema with a tremendous amount of guts for shooting the moon for all three pictures with a young New Zealand director with only one genuinely notable, and small-scaled, film (“Heavenly Creatures”) to his credit.īut Jackson must have convinced someone that he would do it right, a view thoroughly borne out by what’s up on the screen. Partially adapted for the screen once before by Ralph Bakshi in an unsuccessful 1978 animated version, Tolkien’s 1,000-page yarn poses all manner of challenges for a screen transfer - imaginative, logistical and financial. Exhibs and audiences therefore have much to anticipate, as, on the basis of “Fellowship,” Frodo will give Harry a healthy, if not quite even, run for his money. As all three portions of the book (which was initially published in three volumes between July 1954-October 1955) were lensed over the course of 274 shooting days, there will be “Rings” features released on each of the next two Christmases, just as “Harry Potter” entries will precede them each November. Tolkien’s trilogy, looks to please the book’s legions of fans with its imaginatively scrupulous rendering of the tome’s characters and worlds on the screen, as well as the uninitiated with its uninterrupted flow of incident and spectacle. ![]() With the world newly obsessed with the clash of good and evil, the time would seem to be ideal for “The Lord of the Rings.” An epic by any standard, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first installment in Peter Jackson’s vigorous and faithful adaptation of J.R.R.
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