Thursday - October 08, 2009
The $5K Prequel
Talk about your indie productions meeting extreme fanfic! This bunch of folks put together a 40 minute film that fleshes out a completely missing part of old J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic tale.
Called The Hunt For Gollum, a film made by fans for fans, that’s exactly what it’s about. It looks, sounds, and possibly even tastes like it was done by Peter Jackson, but it wasn’t. It tells a bit of the story that was only alluded to in the main text, and only slightly touched on in JRR’s appendices. Nicely done! And they did it all for only $5000.
They’ve had a number of public screenings if this film, even managing to wrangle being selected as an Official Selection by Icon, Israel’s International Sci-Fi Festival. It’s also a bit of a gray area whether they have any legal rights to tell the tale. Um, legal rights to tell the tale of a tale that wasn’t really written. So, to get around that, they aren’t selling any tickets. It’s all for free. For the fans. And it’s all on the internet. Cool. About 10,000 people a day watch it, either at the homepage or out at YouTube etc.
Here’s the link. Go ahead and spend the time to watch. I think you’ll find it ... Precious.
By doing a superb job of bringing LOTR to the screen, Peter Jackson opened a big can of worms. While he told most of the story in about 12 hours worth of film, there are still numerous parts of the tale still untold. And with today’s technology, the rabid fan base is out there filling in the cracks. Good for them.
Personally, I want a believable film that explains Tom Bombadil. I’ve read every thing J.R.R. wrote, even the Silmarillion, many times, and I could never quite pin down who or what he is. Some kind of a godling I think, one of those watcher spirits, but of a higher order than the wizards. But not higher in the way that he was portrayed in Bored of the Rings all those years ago, although that would add some fun to the mix!
Hard core LOTR junkies have not only seen The Hunt For Gollum a dozen times already, they’re fully aware that yet another online indie effort is in the wings. Called Born of Hope, it tells yet another unwritten Tolkien backstory, about what happened to the generations of the Dúnedain after the fall of Arnor, their ancient kingdom in the North, until the final Coming Of The King in LOTR. This one will debut in another 2 months. You can watch the trailers for it and stuff here.
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