Back in November we of a forthcoming fan film The Hunt For Gollum. Fan films are a sophisticated genre these days, with pro-level tools and equipment increasingly available to the fan in the street. We subsequently caught up with actor Adrian Webster, who's working on The Hunt For Gollum, stepping into the big shoes of Viggo Mortensen - that's right, he is Aragorn/Strider! He chatted with SFX about the experience of making an independent film in the Tolkien u♐niverse. Remember, if you are , you would have had a sneak peek of this article last week...
SFX: Have you made many films before? Where might we have seen your work?
Adrian Webster: "I've been active on the independent circuit for a while now making features and shorts. I've worked with the director [of Gollum] before on a zombie flick called . It's 🐬really exciting to work with young film m𒊎akers because they are the future of the British film industry. There's also a short film, produced as a test run for the cast and crew of Human Residue. A strange vision of the future called ."
"And I'm producing a feature film. An action movie about an ex-soldier running from his past in the military. It's produced with modern standards but I wanted to capture the feel of the action movies from the '80s and early '90s. I'm a big fan of Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Vಌan Damme (the three Kings of action cinema for me). I'd love to make features in this genre."
SFX: What other productions are you most proud of?
Webster: "I'd say I'm most proud of a film called , which is my directorial debut as a film maker. It's a 20-minute short about two guys who are kidnapped. I wanted to focus on the drama, so it's🎉 mostly dialogue, based around events out of their control. These events bring a certain level of drama and tension to the situation. It's an improvised piece so I suppose, f♐or film, it's experimental. It's almost ready for the festival circuit and just needs some audio mixing, but other than that it's good to go."
SFX: Gollum is an epic fantasy story - is that an unusual genre for you, or have you worked in this milieu before? Are you a Tolkien fan?
Webster: "Fantasy films are certainly unusual for independent cinema; unfortunately with low budgets it's generally not possible. I'm glad to say that with good locations, costumes and CGI it's looking great so far. I don't want to spo꧙il it for the fans but I'm very excited about the incredible action sequence in the movie, when Strider is confronted by a hoard of Orcs. It's great to do months of training, learning techniques with the sword and running through fight choreography in the studio. You can't do a LOTR fan film without some bone-crunching Orc action and I'm glad to say we have it!"
"I'm definitely a fan of the [Peter Jackson] films, one of the best trilogies ever made! I wasn't quite as knowledgeable about the actual books, my first introduction being fr𓂃om [directory] Mr Bouchard himself, who understands the mate𓆉rial extremely well."
SFX: Despite it being ostensibly a "fan film" it looks very professional indeed - what was the experience like of working with so many volunteers?
Webster: "Working with an indepe𓆏ndent crew is great. At the end of the ♑day nobody's getting paid, so you know we're all there to make the best movie possible. It started with a small crew but as word got round we had plenty of people on location. It's definitely the biggest and most talented independent crew I've worked with."
SFX: Thanks Adrian!
You can check out the trailer over at the site , and keep your eyes out for a another picture in SFX issue 178, on sale next week. Are you working on any exciting fan projects? 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Get in touch with SFX and let us know!
