UPDATE:
You don't have AOL, and suffer the
scorn of your friends, who speak of things you can only dream
of: "keywords," "lost connections," "AOL
staff reading your email." You've told your family you're
on AOL, knowing that there is no way they'll check and discover
your secret shame. You've waited. You've been good. You know that
someday, you'll be able to see what AOLer's have being seeing
for nearly 24 hours. Well, the wait is over. It's
here. Sell your family and pets. Put cement over your front doors.
Set a moat around your home. It's time. It's here.
CLICK HERE FOR THE TRAILER FOR The
Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers.
And then talk
about it here.
-Ian
FANS WORLDWIDE GET FIRST LOOK
AT NEW LINE CINEMA'S
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS TRAILER
AT 12:01AM ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2002,
EXCLUSIVELY ON AOL
Los Angeles, CA, September 24,
2002 In anticipation of the December 18 release of the central
film in Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers, New Line Cinema will debut the film's main
theatrical trailer at 12:01AM, Monday, September 30, exclusively
on America Online worldwide.
America Online users will be the
first to glimpse the trailer by logging onto AOL Keyword: Lord
of the Rings. Available exclusively for 24 hours on AOL, the trailer
will be live at the official site at midnight Monday.
"We are tremendously energized
by the passion and dedication of the online community that have
been such an important component of the worldwide phenomenon surrounding
The Lord of the Rings trilogy," said Rolf Mittweg
and Russell Schwartz, president and chief operating officer, worldwide
distribution and marketing, and president, domestic theatrical
marketing, respectively, for New Line Cinema.
The AOL launch will be accompanied
by enriched and upgraded content on New Line's official www.lordoftherings.net
website. The official website continues the journey with the characters
from the film with unique companion content modules that feature
exclusive behind the scenes production videos, downloads and interviews
with the cast and crew. A new interactive map will take users
across the plains of Middle-earth to new locations such as Edoras,
Fangorn Forest and Helm's Deep.
In April 2000, New Line's website
for the trilogy, www.lordoftherings.net,
made history when the internet preview for the first film, The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, was downloaded
approximately 1.7 million times during its first 24-hours of availability,
marking the highest-ever number of downloads of film marketing
footage ever. Records on the official The Lord of the Rings
site were shattered almost immediately as fans of the J.R.R.
Tolkien novel began logging onto www.lordoftherings.net
for exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the motion picture project.
The new trailer for The Lord
of the Rings: The Two Towers will debut in North American
theaters on Friday, October 4, and widen throughout the world
through the month of October.
New Line Cinema presents The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, an epic adventure of good
against evil set in a time of uncertainty in the land of Middle-earth,
scheduled to open December 18, 2002. The trilogy represents an
unprecedented undertaking three films made simultaneously
over a year and a half of production. The first film in the trilogy,
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, was
released December 19, 2001, to widespread critical acclaim and
garnered $860 million worldwide. The film was nominated for 13
Academy Awards, more than any other film in 2001, and won four,
including Best Visual Effects.
The central film in the trilogy,
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, follows the three
separate journeys of the splintered Fellowship Hobbits Frodo
(Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) as they venture deeper into
enemy territory, with the mercurial creature Gollum (Andy Serkis)
serving as their guide; Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy
Boyd) in the mysteriously alive Fangorn Forest; and the human
Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the Elf archer Legolas (Orlando Bloom)
and Gimli the Dwarf (John Rhys-Davies) in the besieged Rohan Kingdom.
Together they must stand against the gathering darkness emanating
from the Two Towers -- Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupted
wizard Saruman builds his lethal army of Uruk-hai; and Sauron's
fortress at Barad-dûr, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.
The Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers stars (in alphabetical
order) Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd,
Brad Dourif, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Dominic
Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy
Serkis, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Karl Urban, David Wenham, and
Elijah Wood.
New Line Cinema presents a Wingnut
Films Production, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, directed
by Peter Jackson. The screenplay, by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens,
Stephen Sinclair and Jackson, is based on the classic trilogy
by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film is produced by Barrie M. Osborne,
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Robert
Shaye and Michael Lynne. Also executive producing is Mark Ordesky.
The director of photography is Andrew Lesnie, A.C.S. The production
designer is Grant Major. The editors are Mike Horton and Jaybez
Ollsen. The co-producers are Rick Porras and Jamie Selkirk.