Comic Con Liverpool 2024 Lord of the Rings Panel Hobbits and Legolas

just roast her? I know, excuse me, this is something that happens in modern writing from the old days, it happens a lot in Star Wars, the um uh Last Jedi, there's a whole like I'm going to um when he talks to General Hux and he says uh wait for General hu, like it's a phone call, sorry, let me put a patch on what you're talking about, it's a phone, so the same thing is in the menu, what menu are they talking about, it's definitely a, it's a thing where he just takes Liberty because it's a funny joke, you know, it's a good bit of writing as Luke Skywalker, so that just made him cosplay as Luke Skywalker, so you made it, well, perfect.

I think you, Buri, are the protagonist of that. The question when she says sweet meat is that the one you're talking about is a sweet meat, but I think it's different, it's a different character, but it's the same general reference, it's sweet, she's hinting at the notion of a restaurant with I think I think you're conveniently skipping what they serve us, yes, that's us, sweet meat, behind the place. Guys number three, back, no more culinary questions, please, no, I'm hello, first of all, thank you for bringing us, Sir. of the Rings, the best movie series of all time, but my question is for Billy and Dom after the battle of Ising Guard, one of the most iconic scenes when they both smoke the long ass.

Leaf after intestine, which character could you spawn with? to share that with you and why are you referring to a character from the world of The Lord of the Rings, yes, a character from the Lord of the Rings book or movie series, I mean, the easy answer for someone to sit down with enjoying pipe weed would probably be Gandalf the grey, right, I mean, he likes it, he likes it, we and just to deviate from your question a little bit, Pete actually said to Billy and I when we were doing that scene, let's do some different passes of this, let's do it, tired, let's do it.

He's excited, let's make him drunk, let's make him drunk on pipe weed, we'll just leave him behind, the kids in the audience, what do you think you don't want to say? Do it like you mean, do it, he wanted us to act. I understand. Tom Tom BM Oh, Tom BM, it would be great, fantastic, to sit and smoke a pipe with him, it would be fantastic, to smoke it himself, yes, it matters, it would be like a 10 hour flight with Christopher Lee, he would tell you some things when, in the blink of an eye, I love Tom Bomo before moving on to the next question, obviously we haven't really talked about Peter Jackson, who at the time was mainly known for horror films and Heavenly Creatures as a New York drama.

Zeeland, and then giving him the keys to the biggest fantasy franchise there is and making three consecutive films at once was possibly a surprise and what was your relationship with Peter like? What was it like working with such an incredible and gifted filmmaker? A gifted man. I remember being really excited. When I heard that he was directing it, I was actually a big fan of his work, mainly Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners, um, and it weirdly made a lot of sense to me, especially the heavy creatures, which is kind of the fantasy elements. It refers to the world of their dreams that they create for each other and it is also rooted in the real human drama of these characters who are going through something quite atrocious in their deep relationship and then ultimately this murder that they lead to. out together.

I love that movie. So much so that yes, I was delighted to work with him and to go to New Zealand and I had heard about the kind of world he created there with WETA and the effects company and the kind of things they were creating and it sounded exciting and exciting. , you know, my father John Aston, the original family Gomez Adams Adam, he played a character called the judge on Frighteners and he had his jaw bone sticking out and you know, He'd been dead for a long time and he had a bloodhound that had been dead for a long time and he came to um My little chi my wife and I had a little two bedroom house in the valley in Los Angeles Sherman Oaks, he and my stepmom came with pictures of his experience with Weda and he showed us the whole process out of the mold and basically introduced us in the photos to Richard and Tanya and just described this cinematic experience, this fantasy world that it was. you know, like from another, from another time, from another world, I mean, and he did that, so I was so envious of him when he described it and then when we got the movie and when I got the movie, I thought, "I'm going to get". go and do what my dad did and then we get there.

Peter has what they call the military command presence, he's just very confident and inspires confidence in everyone around him and either he's always prepared or he can fake it. better than anyone I've ever met and uh and you just don't seem like such a big deal that they handed him the keys to this big thing and they would have missed something if they hadn't He presented them with a great opportunity and they just had to look for two seconds at the conceptual design work and the little video clips, you know or whatever, like computer simulations that they did and you know, so yeah, they sound, guys.

Same thing, yeah, totally, I think it's like, you know, people say the word genius, but I think he's a film genius, you know, and I think his whole life had led up to that, like he was making masks to learn how to use masks. letting you know when he was younger, after years and years of learning all these skills, you felt like he could take anyone's job on set and do it perfectly, you know, so he was absolutely the perfect guy to do it and, strangely, You moved on to Make the Beat movie too, right? That's really it and they're from here.

We have 3 minutes and 40 seconds left. I've been whispering in your ear for almost 45 minutes, guys. I appreciate their time and I know they appreciate their time. I have time for one last question and I'll let you choose. Oh really, what a choice number, yeah, see, where were we? Where were we last? Sorry, three was the last one we got to the last three. I'm getting a lot. from people saying number one should go so we'll give it to him we'll give it to number one sorry two four three um hello thanks for that um so you mentioned Tik Tok earlier and this is a fun question to end the afternoon, um, I don't know if you remember Dom and Elij who did an interview about 20 years ago, never forget, I think I remember, and I just wanted to ask if there's any update on the following. you ask uh do you wear wigs?

Do you have wigs or will you wear wigs and when will you wear wigs? I do, I certainly will again and as far as when or where it was when I think about when, when will I wear wigs, uh, there is, actually, a movie called The Toxic Avenger that's a remake of a troma movie that's coming out. at the end of this year. I hope he wears a wig because you know what's funny about that thing and I'm sure it's funny on some people. from our other Lord of the Rings experiences, certainly for me with that particular thing that happened, you'd never be able to know what was going to catch fire if someone said to me, you know, in that Lord of the Rings experience, what's happening. to be the moments that are going to stand out, I could say oh this and that I would never have said oh, this silly little interview I did with Elijah is going to have some kind of permanent legacy, but Billy is on Tik Tok all the time. time and I know Sean is too constantly Billy will be like that wig is back on, back on, we have the same Tik Tok, yeah, you know what we know, we never thought about this.

Hans Yensen should have his own talk show, you know? I proposed it to Pete, did Pete love it that much? And I said: why don't you know what Hans Jensen is? Why don't you let me interview you as hands and people? It was like it was a good idea, it didn't happen, but maybe at some point you'll let me do it, yeah, I think it's a series on hold, uh, when I was half-hearted, I was doing this and when I told people that I was doing the Lord of the Rings interview in my head they were going to go to your interview at the Har but you're going to ask this first question for the best person, I told him it was Will, I wasn't kidding, I'm not kidding, well it's bigger than The Lord of the Rings, I'm just going to say that it's not just that they are the game that they invented, the tig game and that at a certain point people wanted to extend their experience of The Lord of the Rings to their creation and to our friendships and So you know that kind of thing and although I think the line about when you're going to wear wigs is funny and you know it came out of nowhere and all that kind of stuff, my favorite line in that thing is z Dophin. he's dead died in a car accident because you just look at Elijah's face and he's like what are you talking about?

I think that perfectly sums up your friendship, your Brotherhood, and the whole making of the film, and it's a perfect place, thank you. Thank you very much for putting a marker on this

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, but you have to make it clear to them that the dolphin did not die in a car accident and unfortunately that is where we have to end. Liverpool, thank you very much. Please thank him. More amazing time, you were very good in that photo. I just want to say thanks. Oh wait. I'm going to walk off stage for a second and leave these guys if you guys stay so I can do this.

Um, so we lost a member of our family, uh, this morning, Ber Hill passed, uh, King Thein, so we just want to take a moment before we come off the stage to honor him. He was supposed to be here. He was supposed to be here yesterday. um, we loved it, it was uh Intrepid, it's funny, it's Gruff, it's um, erasable, it was uh beautiful, just um, we were actually watching it, I think, and we were talking about the movies and I said to Dom, I don't think no one will speak. Token's works are as great as Bened.

I think the way he just based those words on this realism would break my heart when I saw it on screen. He was a wonderful man and he surely will be. lost yes w