The Hunt for Gollum
Co - producers: Brian Lavery Gladys San Juan Julianne Honey- Mennal
- Adrian Webster: Aragorn
- Patrick O'Connor: Gandalf
- Arin Alldridge: Arithir
- Rita Ramnani: Arwen
The Hunt for Gollum ( German: The Hunt for Gollum ) is a fantasy film from 2009, which refers to the book The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien refers. He tells an intermediate episode, which is described in The Fellowship and the Annexes. He falls under the heading no-budget film.
The film takes visually very heavily on Peter Jackson's The Lord of The Rings film trilogy reference. The Hunt for Gollum is sold exclusively through the Internet, where the movie is free to watch.
Action
Like Peter Jackson's trilogy is The Hunt for Gollum in the fictional world of Tolkien, Middle-earth, level. The film is temporally throughout the book The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship locates. He plays Bilbo Baggins between 111th birthday and the departure of his nephew Frodo Baggins of the Shire.
The film begins with a tavern scene in which the wizard Gandalf and the Rangers strings (actually Aragorn, the secret heir to the throne of Gondor ) meet. Gandalf Aragorn informed about the fact that Sauron, the Lord of Mordor, has come to power again, and after looking for a ring, a powerful magical relic that he once lost and now is in the possession of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Gandalf fears a reign of evil, the ring Sauron should fall into the hands. Although few know people where to find the ring, but there is a risk that Gollum, a self-reliant, vile creature, Bilbo once took away the ring ( Gollum considers him a thief, but what he is not, see The Hobbit ) could fall into the hands of Sauron and Bilbo's name and the Shire could betray the location where the is to find a ring.
To prevent Sauron Gollum blackmailed knowledge of the ring, Gandalf asks Aragorn to make Gollum locate and interview him about his knowledge regarding Bilbo and the ring.
Aragorn embarks on the search for Gollum in the vicinity of Mirkwood and learns that even a horde of Orcs is looking for the creature. It finally manages to make Gollum locate and capture him. However, you get ambushed by Orcs, against Aragorn can defend only with difficulty. Finally it comes to an encounter with a ghost ring, before Aragorn and Gollum only be saved by the unexpected appearance of a group of elves.
Finally, Aragorn meets Gandalf again, in the face of Gollum knowledge extremely concerned shows up and decides to continue to bring the ring as soon as possible from the Shire.
Production
The project began in early 2007, developed as a director Chris Bouchard the concept. The first filming finally began in September 2007. The budget for The Hunt for Gollum was less than £ 3,000. The shooting took place in North Wales, Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest. At the filming of 160 volunteers were involved as volunteer extras. Chris Bouchard intended from the outset to reject the film stylistically to the trilogy Peter Jackson: ' Peter Jackson's style was very inspiring for us; it was an adventure for us to play in the world he had created. " Accordingly, it is strongly based the look of the wheels on the Jackson films. The most difficult aspect of the film was, according to Bouchard, the role of Gollum:
"I did not back down if I knew at the same time that Gollum's appearance would constitute an important part of the film. We really have used just about every trick in the book to make Gollum appear on the screen, without that we had the options of Weta Digital. "
For example, Aragorn transported the captured Gollum in a sack, so no complex detail animated Gollum was necessary.
The shooting of the film were made in HD format. The subsequent processing of the sound recordings and the soundtrack were held in Manchester in the Future Works Studios.
Publication and reception
The Hunt for Gollum was created as a non-commercial fan project from the beginning. In the run- trailers were first published, that could be found on the homepage of the project, as well as on YouTube. On 3 May 2009, finally celebrated the finished film on the Sci-Fi London Film Festival premiere.
Subsequently, The Hunt for Gollum was placed on the platform Dailymotion online. While the trailer had previously already received mostly positive criticism from the spectators, and the finished project was judged very favorably.
Laura Sydell appeared on National Public Radio impressed by the quality of Fanproduktion: "The Hunt for Gollum looks exactly like the Hollywood version. I fell for it when I saw it the first time [ ... ]. The special effects in the trailer are impeccable. " Simon Vozick - Levinson of Entertainment Weekly has said that those responsible " apparently created a worthy low-budget version of Peter Jackson's best film of all - time visuals ' " would have.
In German-speaking countries, there were only few reactions that primarily limited to private blogs. However, for example, recommended Dave Dempsey on the Austrian radio station FM4 the movie.
Legal Aspects
The producers of Hunt for Gollum move on with their movie in a legal gray zone. In the trailer of the film, the makers make it clear that it is the film is a fan project, and waive any income. However, the legal situation between Chris Bouchard on the one hand, and the Tolkien Estate and New Line Cinema as the owner on the other side is unclear. Fred von Lohmann, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out that the high quality of production, and their worldwide distribution via the Internet could well lead to legal disputes. However, Bouchard said on BBC News:
"We have contacted with Tolkien Enterprises, and have made an agreement that we will not violate its provisions, as long as we act nonkommerziell. We must be careful not to violate their intellectual property. They support the fans in their attempts to bring their enthusiasm expressed. "
Film Music
The film score was composed by Chris Bouchard, Adam Langston and Andrew Skrabutenas. It is not commercially available, but they can be download free.
The soundtrack includes the following titles: