Go Go Wave

Lord of the Rings fans around the world breathed a sigh of relief this week as filming on the a long time coming prequels to the Lord of the Rings trilogy finally got underway. It’s taken years for pre-productions to get off the ground for the LOTR prequels thanks in large part to lawsuits, financial concerns and petty bickering that had many fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy asking themselves if the prequels would ever be filmed.
 

Thank You Peter Jackson

After a labor conflict, earthquake in New Zealand and loss of director Guillermo del Toro. Peter Jackson finally stepped in to rescue the troubled prequels and ensure that filming would finally get underway. For fans who didn’t believe that Jackson was actually involved with the series he launched a new Facebook page with new photos of him on the set of the new LOTR prequels. Movie fans, especially LOTR fans are rabid for details and authenticity so Peter Jackson even took the photos a step further by specifically dating the photos and displaying the morning’s newspaper in one of the photos just to insure the fans that the movie was really going to happen.
 

What to Expect

The Lord of the Rings prequels features British actor Martin Freeman (Sherlock & The Office) as Biblo Baggins and many of the actors from the first trilogy will be featured in the prequels as well like Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Christopher Lee as Saruman and Cate Blanchett as Galadriel. The first two films in the prequels are expected to be released in December 2012 and the third will be released a year later. To make these prequels even more successful than the first LOTR trilogy Peter Jackson is shooting them in digital 3-D plus Howard Shore, who composed the original score for the first LOTR trilogy will compose the score for the prequels as well.