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August 9, 1999Rings Names HODs
The Lord of the Rings producer Tim Sander has named a stellar cast of department
heads who will be on set when production starts shooting in Wellington next month.
A third producer joins Sanders and
producer/director Peter Jackson. He's Barrie Osborne, who produced Matrix, Face Off, and
Dick Tracy, and worked on Apocalypse Now and Dick Tracy on a production capacity. "We
wanted another pair of hands to share the workload of three big back-to-back films,
commented Sanders.
Costume designer is Ngila Dickson, who
worked on Heavenly Creatures and was till recently costume designer on Hercules and Xena.
Post-production producer is Jamie Selkirk,
who will supervise editing with Jackson. Selkirk has cut all of Jackson's film - The
Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures, Braindead, Forgotten Silver, Bad Taste & Meet the
Feebles.
The production department is headed by Nik
Korda (Lost in Space, Cleopatra, The Quest), who'll be working with Bridget Bourke (The
Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures, Bread & Roses) and Elena Azuola (a US financial
controller who worked on Stargate, Cutthroat Island, Lost in Space).
Associate producer is Rick Porras (Contact,
Forest Gump).
Casting department: Liz Mullane is
currently "in the thick of Kiwi casting", and Sanders says US, UK &
Australian casting directors "are nearing completion of their work".
Special effects: working alongside Richard
Taylor and Charlie McClellan at Weta is Mark Shetson (joins as FX supervisor). He's
worked on The Fifth Element, Bladerunner, and Ghostbusters.
Steven Ingram (Willow, Never Say Die,
Frighteners, Braindead) is the physical effects supervisor, working with Grant Major and
Dan Hennah in the art department.
Camera: DP is Andrew Lesnie, an Aussie who
shot Babe and Babe: Pig in City, Two If By Sea, and Temptation of a Monk.
Specialised sword work is to be
handled by Bob Anderson (Mask if Zoro, First Knight, 3 Musketeers, Highlander, Princess
Bride) working alongside stunt coordinator Bruce Brown.
Assistant directors: Carolynne Cunningham
(Moby Dick, Shine, Escape from Absalom, Heavenly Creatures) has been working as main unit
1st AD for some time as well as working with 2nd unit 1st AD Dave Norris (Via
Satellite, Greenstone, Last Tattoo). |