The Hunt for Gollum
The Hunt for Gollum premiered at the London SciFi film festival thingumie yesterday. As I had friends heavily involved with the making of it, I got to see it twice this weekend on the big screen. And of course I had to pimp it out to you fine folk - because I know you'll probably like it too.
They made all of this for about £3,000, and because it's a 'fan film', they're not making any money out of it. It's amazing what you can do if enough people love a project enough to get it made. Oh, I lost you at 'fan film', didn't I. No no, ya see, the production values on this little 39 minute film? Very very high. If I had waited to tell you it had a budget of 3k til after you watched it, you'd never have believed me. The music, the costumes and makeup, the direction - all amazing. The CG alone will blow you away, seriously. And most everything was volunteered and donated.
http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/trailers.htm
for all of the bits and bobs and trailers
http://www.thehuntforgollum.com
which is the film itself - it downloads automatically from this link
Set before the Lord of the Rings trilogy but after the Hobbit, Strider and Gandolf must track down Gollum before he alerts that big glowing eye thing to the existence of the Shire and Hobbitses.
The story is taken from the appendixes, and almost didn't get made. Why? Because Guillermo del Torro was still deciding what bits post-Hobbit he would be adding to his own project. Gotta hate it when that happens. ;-)
So go watch it, tell your friends, and share the love. Made of awesome, it is. (And the "making of" documentary is brilliant as well!)
EDIT: AH! Here we are - a web-viewable rather than downloadable!
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/huntforgollum/video/x93zji_the-hunt-for-gollum-hd-version_shortfilms
They made all of this for about £3,000, and because it's a 'fan film', they're not making any money out of it. It's amazing what you can do if enough people love a project enough to get it made. Oh, I lost you at 'fan film', didn't I. No no, ya see, the production values on this little 39 minute film? Very very high. If I had waited to tell you it had a budget of 3k til after you watched it, you'd never have believed me. The music, the costumes and makeup, the direction - all amazing. The CG alone will blow you away, seriously. And most everything was volunteered and donated.
http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/trailers.htm
for all of the bits and bobs and trailers
http://www.thehuntforgollum.com
which is the film itself - it downloads automatically from this link
Set before the Lord of the Rings trilogy but after the Hobbit, Strider and Gandolf must track down Gollum before he alerts that big glowing eye thing to the existence of the Shire and Hobbitses.
The story is taken from the appendixes, and almost didn't get made. Why? Because Guillermo del Torro was still deciding what bits post-Hobbit he would be adding to his own project. Gotta hate it when that happens. ;-)
So go watch it, tell your friends, and share the love. Made of awesome, it is. (And the "making of" documentary is brilliant as well!)
EDIT: AH! Here we are - a web-viewable rather than downloadable!
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/huntforgollum/video/x93zji_the-hunt-for-gollum-hd-version_shortfilms