LAMBROS LAW: September 2010

Monday, September 13, 2010

ILMING on The Hobbit, the long-awaited prequel to The Lord of the Rings, should start in the new year, according to former Bolton School boy Sir Ian McKellen.

“The aim is to start filming in January,” he said.

The actor is slated to reprise his role as the wizard Gandalf, for which he received two Oscar nominations, but has said he wouldn’t be “sitting waiting” for shooting to start.

In the meantime the actor is filming in the archives of The Lowry, in Salford Quays, for a new documentary about the painter.

And he has revealed he owns a painting by Lowry, which he has bequeathed to Bolton School in his will, “on the understanding it will not be hung in the headmaster’s office but somewhere everyone can see”, he said. “However, hopefully they won’t be receiving it any time soon.”

The star visited his former school the day after filming for the documentary, which is produced by Foxtrot Films and will receive a cinema release next year, took place in Manchester.

“I think Lowry was a great painter — many other people do too,” said the actor. “I do think Lowry had a bad rap from a lot of people in the art establishment, mainly for snobbish reasons,” he said. “He was a working man and he was from the North, he didn’t fit with their idea of an artist.”

However, he sees him as one of the most important British painters.

“He taught us how to look at a crowd,” he said. “No-one had done that before, but we are all part of the crowds he painted, we are all like the people in his pictures.”

Margy Kinmouth, who is directing the documentary, agreed Lowry was often overlooked.

“The purpose of the film is to put Lowry’s stature to rights with the art world,” she said.

“Despite his immense popularity he is not completely accepted by the art establishment.”

She described Sir Ian’s involvement in the documentary as “fantastic”, and said: “Sir Ian is someone who has had a long term interest in the theatricality of Lowry.”

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$765 a bottle beer....oh yea served in a dead ass squirrel

You'd expect a lot from a bottle of beer costing $765. What you get is 55 percent alcohol — and served in a squirrel.

According to Scottish firm BrewDog, "The End of History" is the "strongest, most expensive and most shocking beer in the world."

Just 12 bottles were made and the company has already sold out. They will be shipped out to buyers in the United States, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Scotland and England next week.

The dead animals which were used to create the beers' unusual appearance were four squirrels, seven weasels and a hare. All were roadkill, James Watt, co-founder of BrewDog, told msnbc.com.

The name of the blond Belgian ale is taken from the title of a book by philosopher Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History and the Last Man" which the company said had been chosen to imply "this is to beer what democracy is to history."

Watt said the beer should be treated with care when drinking.

"It tastes more like a whisky and you have got to handle it in that way as opposed to the way you would handle a normal beer," he told msnbc.com.

via weird news

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martin freeman turned down bilbo baggins role?

Belive this one at your own risk: The Sun in the UK is reporting that, due to his commitment to the BBC series Sherlock, Martin Freeman has turned down an offer to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.

The idea that Freeman might be offered the part isn’t at all difficult to believe, and he’s long been one of the first names mentioned in fantasy casting of the film. Between roles on The Office and as Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Freeman has already been a big part of two geek-friendly properties. Might as well go for the trifecta.

And he looks rather Hobbit-like already, so why not have him be Bilbo? Other than the fact I”m not really convinced that Freeman has what will be required to hold down the center of a pair of fantasy adventure films like The Hobbit parts one and two. Looking the part isn’t quite enough, and while I like Freeman a lot and think he’s quite appealing as a comic actor, I’m not convinced that he’s the guy around whom to build these films.

Anyway, this is the Sun, which is correct about movie casting news roughly as often as your dog might be if you asked him to drool on a list of actor names for any potential film. So this isn’t yet anything to take very seriously in the first place.

via /film via theonering.net