tor_greg

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There Will Be No RoTK Teaser Trailer
Demosthenes @ 7:58 pm EST
Lately it seems we receive Teaser Trailer rumours only to have them refuted hours later. Ringer Spy Mike, however, has just furnished us with the first hard evidence against the existence of a Teaser Trailer for RoTK.
He writes:

I am head projectionist at our local movie theatre, and today we received a tube with 3 rolled teaser posters for Return of the King. Also, included with the posters was a sheet from New Line Cinema that explains that it is the teaser for Return of the King, notes that it is not for internet use and should be displayed immediately, and THEN goes on to say "There will NOT be a teaser trailer this summer".



We have also received an independent confirm of this from another source. Ringer Spy Jeff - who contacted us about the got in touch with us again recently after being asked to investigate this rumour we were sent.

Someone on another board I'm on found some press bit from the UK saying the trailer would be attached to their release of The Hulk, which is July 18th, I believe. Mid-July is what everyone's hearing, so it would seem that the best candidates for a US trailer release around that time would be Pirates (7/9), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (7/11) or Seabiscuit. Remote possibilities include Bad Boys II (7/18) Tomb Raider II (7/25) or Spy Kids III (7/25).

The full trailer is apparently going to be released with New Line's Secondhand Lions on 9/26.

This is what Jeff found out:

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 23:59:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: ROTK Teaser Before T3

Well when I got to work today I talked with my manager, and she said that there's not gonna be a trailer for ROTK until September, we got the posters today so I'm guessing there was something with them that said that. So it looks like no teaser, just a trailer after the summer.

DGibFen

Considering Peter Jackson said that there would be no trailer for ROTK at the end of TTT run (the FX work for TTT:EE was too much to try and do both in the same time period, so they went with nothing this time) I'm not surprised by this news. This may mean they are spending the time working their behinds off on ROTK (we can hope!) or working finishing the FX shots for TTT:EE.

Either way, I can wait.

DRG

They should just attach this to Freddy vs Jason.

Jepthah

And this will help push TTT DVD sales into the stratosphere as if they needed more of a boost...on disc #2 will be the first glimpses of ROTK footage (well, unless you count the file which will be ripped and traded beforehand).

Then a trailer in September which will cause mucho excitement.

PalmerJoss

It's about what I expected. I'd rather have Peter Jackson and co. focus on the movie rather than doing a trailer. I'm excited enough about seeing it, so a trailer really isn't needed(though it would help, I'm sure).

LivingINClip

I don't know. I look forward to trailers and I think most people do. I was really, really looking forward to a ROTK trailer.... On the brith side, this means everything I see in ROTK will be new. I won't be watching it and goin', "wow, I saw that in the trailer" as I do oh-so many movies now'a'days.

tor_greg

There will be a trailer, just no teaser. And there is already a couple minutes of footage online now.

Jackskeleton

where?

caiman

I would also like to know this.

Stoolie

[echo]Where can this footage be found?[/echo]

PixyJunket

Where's the poster?

lisadoris

Not surprised by the news either. I can live without a teaser. Hell even if they didn't do any trailers at all my butt would still be planted in a seat when ROTK opens. I've seen the one sheeet at a couple different theaters already.

tor_greg

Sorry about the delay, guess I missed the request over the holiday.

ftp://ftp.herr-der-ringe-film.de/pub...railerfull.zip

caiman

Is that footage from the video game?

eedoon

RotK already have three hour long teaser. Two of them.

Jackskeleton

it has to be.

Jepthah

The shots in the first 2/3 are film footage, then they dissolve into some VG shots at the end.

In any case it's hard to see anything. The trailer in September will be somewhat clearer and more polished, perhaps.