Superheroes and Sci-Fi always seem to lead the way when it comes to franchises that get the fan film treatment. Perhaps it’s because they’re more challenging to low-budget filmmakers; it’s not easy to make it look like your actors are on another planet, or that a superhero is tossing cars like empty beer cans. Fantasy, [...]
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Born of Hope, a Lord of the Rings fan effort that was announced years ago, has sprung back to life. For ages it appeared that no progress had been made on the film—that’s usually the kiss of death for a fan production, so I figured the film had simply stalled out. Luckily, I was wrong. [...]
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I have lots of little news items that have been lying around, and for some reason, they all concern countries other than the one that monopolizes fan films—the U.S. I meant to give each of these its own massive post, but I think a general catch-all is in order instead, like a giant meeting of [...]
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A few weeks ago, I mentioned The Hunt For Gollum, a slick, 30-minute Lord of the Rings fan film that’s being shot in the U.K. The folks behind it have been working away on the project for ages, and now the end is in sight; the film will hit the internet in December, 2008, and [...]
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Yesterday, I mentioned that despite the worldwide popularity of J.R.R. Tolkein’s epic The Lord of the Rings trilogy, there aren’t tons of related fan films out there. It’s not all a barren wasteland, however—here’s some LOTR fan films that the fans swear by (or at, and occasionally even in): The smartest LOTR fan film I’ve [...]
Given the massive success of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkein’s epic book series, it’s a little surprising that there aren’t more LOTR-related fan films out there. Now it looks like you’ll be able to check out what might be a pretty cool dramatic flick by the end [...]
When it comes to fan films, one of the places that even the biggest productions skimp is the music. More often than not, it gets liberally ‘borrowed’ from a soundtrack CD or two, whether from the franchise the fan flick is paying tribute to, or another film’s disc that the filmmakers just happen to like. [...]
There are people who make a fan film, there’s a handful who make fan films, and then there’s the folks who just latch on to the idea of producing fan flicks like Homer Simpson cuddling a brand-new, baby beer. That’s a bit like HowItShouldHaveEnded.Com. A homemade animation studio of sorts, the HISHE crew is basically [...]
