Practicalmadness

In an e-mail to Ain't It Cool News, Lord of the Rings producer/director Peter Jackson has shot down growing rumors and anticipation regarding a possible 'to be continued...' preview trailer for The Return of the King (reportedly to be attached to prints of The Two Towers in just two short weeks) as utter balderdash. That's right: balderdash. Deck balderdash.

As far as I'm aware the first ROTK trailer will hit cinemas about May or June.

We're not doing a ROTK trailer for the end of Two Towers like we did last year. The reason is that the TT extended DVD has been so complex this year, it would have taken too many resources away from trying to get that finished.

The FOTR extended cut had 35 extra CG shots - the TT extended cut has over 150. Weta are plowing through those, plus starting ROTK. We have a huge TT extended cut sound mix in a few weeks. It's all very complex and we deemed an early ROTK trailer as simply too much to take on this time around.

So in being a killjoy with regard to The Trailer, Jackson has also confirmed that there will be a Platinum Series extended edition DVD of Two Towers, and reading between the lines I would guess that the extended scenes will focus on CG carnage, rather than lovely character bits.

Addendum: ComingSoon.net actually broke the (un-)story with confirmation from New Line Cinema yesterday. TheOneRing.net, who posted the rumors that started this whole business, have since broken the bad news to the geek hordes.

(AICN via...oh, skip it. I done told you already. Deck!)