They had a rough design, but it was with the arrival of Andy Serkis’ audition tape that changed everything. In the “ Gollum” chapter from The Appendices Part 3 on the Extended Edition DVDs, the original idea was that they would only need a voice actor for Gollum. He is deeply troubled, is following his own agenda, is the antagonist with the most screen time, and in maybe the greatest performance of the entire series, has dual-conversations with himself.Īpproaching the creation of this character was, without a doubt, a challenge. Gollum also has to deliver one of the most convincing performances in the entire series. “Unnatural” is the perfect definition for his physique, voice, and behavior. For 500 years, it poisoned his mind.”īy the time we really see him in The Two Towers, these five centuries have reduced his form to nothing more than skin and bone. Many skillsets are being learned, but one that was especially challenging was how to create the fully computer-generated character of Gollum/Sméagol.įor anyone out there who has been living under a rock (like a certain friend of ours), the brief history of this character is that he was once a Hobbit, but his discovery and obsession over his precious ring “brought to Gollum unnatural long life. Characters, story, and design are in a constant state of transformation for The Lord of the Rings. Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) Gollum Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Today, our journey continues through Middle-earth and beyond with Andy Serkis’ vastly distant characters of Gollum and Caesar in: Previously in Middle-earth: the team’s creative development behind Heavenly Creatures helped pave the epic road to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The introduction of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers opened up a whole new expanse of possibilities that continues to evolve to this day, but it reached new heights in 2017 with War for the Planet of the Apes. In 2002, we saw the next leap forward with dramatic motion-captured performances. Andy Serkis’ rise to king of motion-capture has been one of the great sights to witness in modern cinema.Įvery decade or so, a team of people come around with a pioneering spirit that causes a tectonic shift in filmmaking.
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