August 12, 2003

Re: Sulimo and Mr. Underhill
Bob Praz

About the ROTK DVD, I think it's too early to say anything on that, but there are two factors to consider. One, the TTT DVD release was pushed back to allow the marketing campaign for ROTK to begin after the big summer movies had past. For ROTK this hopefully won't be an issue, as there will be no more movies to advertise that same year, and as far as I can think of there are no BIG movies coming out next year. The second factor is how long ROTK will remain in theatres. If it will be as good and successful as it is claimed to be, then it may be in theatres for many, many months (even TTT is still in some theatres, albeit few), and therefore New Line won't release it on DVD any time before it's nearly completely out of theatres. These are just my deductions, but we'll see next year.

As for Mr. Underhill, I don't know if you'll get all these answers before your read this article, but here goes anyways. The ROTK trailer you heard about was a minute-and-a-half long clip of the end of the ROTK preview that will be featured on the TTT DVD. Theonering.net somehow got its hands on it and posted it on their site some days ago, and were forced by New Line to remove on the same afternoon. I manage to dowload it and watch it once, but now I'd rather wait and see it in full on the DVD. As for re-registering, the whole site went down for a week and all data was lost since July 19th or something (therefore the registrations and postings included).

PS: Alright, not that it's the end of the world or anything, but I keep writing "Bob Praz" as my username when I submit articles, and when they appear on the forum it only says "Bob". And I did register as Bob Praz. If, by any chance, someone could help me on this, I would appreciate it (unless, of course, it DOES say "Bob Praz" this time, ironically).

PPS: One last thing, I'd just like to mention that Danny posted a very good argument about the Army of the Dead at the Pelennor Fields, and now I'm interested and anxious to see what PJ is going to do with this issue.