A Question About Dates

[atanvarne-lj.livejournal.com]

According to what I've been able to figure out, filming for LoTR began on October 11, 1999 and ended December 22, 2000 (except for pickups and ADR and stuff). Sean's casting was announced on September 9,1999 and Viggo's on October 15, 1999. Does anyone know when they each arrived in New Zealand? Who got there first? And does anyone know when Sean wrapped?

Comments

[cykie.livejournal.com]

I remembered reading a quote and went in search of it for you. According to this he would have finished about September 2000 I guess.

"I left the set three months before the others, which felt strange. I wanted to be with them in the fantasy world, not stuck in traffic in England. It was quite an anticlimax."
~Sean~

[karelian]

...please tell me you have a source for this quote!

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Fellowship Diaries (http://www.orlandomultimedia.net/diary/fellowship_diary.html). Bottom of the 3rd page.

[cykie.livejournal.com]

It's on Green Opals was well. In fact I think I've seen it in a few places :)

[msilverstar]

The best info I've found is at Versaphile's canon site, which has a timeline. It's incomplete but helpful.

[atanvarne-lj.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link to the canon site. It's definitely a great resource! And one I hadn't seen before.

[helens78]

http://www.compleatseanbean.com has a great list of when Sean was in NZ, but not when anyone else was.