January 12, 2005
Surfing Hobbiton scene cut from Return of the King: Dominic Monaghan (Merry), Sean Astin (Sam), Elijah Wood (Frodo), & Billy Boyd (Pippin). Upcoming projects:
ELIJAH WOOD
- Happy Feet: Wood does voice of Mumbles, computer animated dancing penguin. With Brittany Murphy. 2006
- Hooligans: An expelled Harvard boy moves to England where he's drawn into violent soccer club subculture. 2006
- Everything is Illuminated, based on Jonathan Safran Foer's novel about an American Jew who travels to the Ukraine in an old Trabant, searching for woman who saved his grandfather from Nazis. Aug 12 2005
- Sin City: Hypervisual Robert Rodriguez film based on Frank Miller's dark comics (with Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, & Rutger Hauer). April 1 2005
- Lost: Plays Charlie on ABC TV series
- The Purifiers: Scottish martial arts West Side Story. Guardian review: "A humourless, tensionless mess of a kung-fu movie about gangs of handsome teenagers back-flipping around shadowy, futuristic retail parks." No US release date.
- Shooting Livien: Dark indie about a disintegrating rock singer. Debuts at South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin March 11 2005.
- Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School: About a man who takes a dying man's wish too far & assumes his identity. With Marisa Tomei, John Goodman, Donnie Wahlberg, Sonia Braga, & Danny Devito. Sundance, Jan 2005.
- Thanks to Gravity: As HS debating coach. With CSI Miami's Adam Rodriguez aka one of People's Sexiest Men Alive. Fall 2005
- Slipstream: Sci-fi about a scientist who uses time-travel meme to rob a bank. London Sci-Fi Film Festival Feb 2005
- Mark Twain's Greatest Adventure: More time travel - Astin as HG Wells, who allies himself with Samuel Clemens, Arthur Conan Doyle, & Jules Verne to stop a villain. Pre-production.
- Once in a Lifetime: Ghastly-sounding weeper about washed up baseball player & a kid with leukemia. Dec 17 2005
- Smile: Filming in China, about relationship between American & Chinese teens. No release date
- Bigger Than the Sky, aka Caught in the Act: With mom Patty Duke in tale of luckless man who no acting ability who ends up in community theater production of Cyrano. No release date
- Seed of Chucky: With psycho-cutie Jennifer Tilly. 2004
- On a Clear Day: About a man determined to swim the English Channel. With Brenda Blethyn. Sundance, Jan 2005
Posted by Jeff at January 12, 2005 10:20 AM