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Billy,
What's happening with this film that you and Dom are trying to make? I've heard lots of rumours, what's the real deal?

Yours,
756 Billy Fans....

Quite a few people have been asking what is happening with the script Dom and I are working on? Well here is the story so far…….from the beginning!

We came up with the idea of doing a film together while sitting up a mechanical tree, for anyone who has not seen LOTR and the Two Towers in particular this may seem a bit strange, but stick with me. Dom and I were already very close by this time but the friendship was escalated by the trauma of the 15-hour days sitting on bicycle saddle at 18 feet.

So a lot of ideas came together in this time and slowly became the outline for a script which was polished somewhat by improvising scenes onto a Dictaphone while driving to LA from Mexico while I was making Master and Commander.

Now because we had been working on different projects in different countries since LOTR finished we were finding more and more difficult to get together to work on the script, but with the draft we had, and outlines of some other ideas we did get a producer involved at this point and all agreed it could be a good time to get a writer on board.

Now I was working on a play called San Diego by David Greig and suggested David, so Dom came to Edinburgh, along with assorted other Lord of the Ringers, stretching from the King of Gondor to Stunt men and the odd Hobbit or two, watched the play then we all got together to discuss the film.

Dom got on very well with David and could see his ideas were very similar to ours. I think this was a great time to get David involved as Dom and I because of other commitments had started to slow down with the script and this new input of ideas from David was just what we needed, and anyone who knows David’s work will know how exciting and interesting it is.

So the story took some new directions, which got us all fired up and excited again on the project.

So as it stands at the moment….

David has just come back from LA where he was working with Dom and we have just had a meeting together and it looks like a first draft of the new script is imminent. It does seem like it is taking a long time, I know, but we are all adamant that we want it to be as good as possible and we are not willing to do something second rate.

This philosophy seems to be working out as some of the directions and ideas the story has taken lately are the most interesting we have all come up with.

So sorry if there is anyone out there who wants to see this film, but hopefully when we actually get round to doing it the wait will be worthwhile.

Billy X