Huzzah! Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will revisit Middle-earth alongside the cast members of the epic film trilogy Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler and Elijah Wood.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema set up the event, which will be organized by “Ring Nut” Stephen Colbert. Over the course of three weeks from March 26, The Late Show The host will chat with Jackson and the cast members to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the films based on JRR Tolkien’s novels. Fans can submit questions to the assembled panel until March 10 using # LOTR20 on Twitter.
The meeting will initially be exclusively for theatrical displays of the new 4K remastering of Lord of the Rings trilogy. The meeting is part of the “Support local cinemas” campaign, which includes star-studded questions and answers, available exclusively to cinemas around the world for free.
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“One of the experiences that I miss the most in the past year, besides hugging my friends and traveling, is sitting in a dark cinema, looking forward to a new cinematic experience,” said Wood (also known as Frodo Baggins), who led the attack assembling the cast and crew. “When Tim [League] I came up with the idea that we could come together to bring the much needed support to independent theaters around the world, I grabbed the chance to help.
“We are extremely confident that, after Covid, the pent-up demand for the magic of going to the movies will be very strong and the industry will return and flourish,” said Tim League, founder and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse. “In the meantime, we are grateful to Peter Jackson, the gracious participating cast members and Stephen Colbert for participating in these very special events and allowing fans to experience these incredible films on the big screen in open and secure cinemas.”
The schedule of the reunion can be read below:
The Fellowship of the Ring (starting March 25)
Presented by Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood.
The two towers (starting April 1st)
Featuring Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler.
Return of the King (starting April 8)
Featuring Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis.
As vaccination levels rise across the country, Drafthouse will follow safety protocols and continue to offer special events like Lord of the Rings reuinon, which is a “welcome back” for visitors to safely return to local cinemas. Future events of this type will be produced by Alamo Drafthouse and made available free of charge to any cinema in the world. For complete details on THE Lord of the Rings event click here.
The news is a silver lining for the genre-oriented Austin movie chain that caters to film buffs. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema recently announced that it has filed a Chapter 11 voluntary application in the Delaware Court and has agreed to sell basically all of its assets to a group of investors, including one of its founders, Tim League. It will close three cinemas, the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz in Austin, and locations in Kansas City, Missouri and New Braunfels, Texas, and halt the development of a cinema in Orlando. Other cinemas will continue to operate, but the company said it will continue to assess the integrity of all rentals during the Chapter 11 process.
Watch the teaser Lord of the Rings above event.