Dylan242

This story is false.

Movieweb, you may want to update this.

There has been no mention about this in New Zealand apart from one online newspaper that got the country's geography completely wrong.

It also doesn't make sense considering that the mountain range in a national park and legally the local iwi have no control over the park. Them declaring it "sacred" occurred way back in the 1800's - and so this story here doesn't seem real at all.

And to make matters worse this article reads that Jackson, just out of hospital, went down to Queensland to have a look at Mt Taranaki - which is strange considering that Queensland is near the bottom of the South Island, and Mt Taranaki is on the eastern side of the North Island. They're miles away from each other, not even on the same piece of land.

Let's report on a story that isn't real.
Let's screw the Geography.
Let's screw the law and politics.
Let's provide a quote that is irrelevant.
Let's provide a false cast.

Nicely done, MovieWeb. You're normally better than this.

wait a moment...Ron Perlman is in The Hobbit? Since when?

This story has a lot of issues. For starters; the department of conservation has the ultimate authority over the mountains, not the iwi - it is, after all, a National Park. Mt Taranaki is in the North Island whereas Queenstown is in the South Island - they're nowhere near each other. The Southern Alps run the entirely of the South Island, not just Queenstown - which is at the farthest end. The volcanic range is called Tongariro, not Ngauruhoe. The range was declared sacred by the iwi in the 1800's which is why it became a National Park. In LOTR, they used Ngauruhoe as the face of Mt Doom, but then filmed all of the scenes on Mt Ruapehu - which is right beside Mt Ngauruhoe. This story, in itself, is only rumored and there has been no confirmation at all - it was only reported by two news websites in New Zealand.

anywho, enough of the corrections. Mt Taranaki would be the perfect Misty Mountain - it's almost identical to the depiction on the traditional book cover.

Lost and Fringe writers-----unite!

um..your top ten whoop-do includes b-rated movies, and for your supposed love of quantum of solace and the dark knight...where are they on the list?

Still stand by my last comment, but i think everyone will agree that they must not cut out characters, this film should include Fenrir Greyback and the oldest weasly brother, Bill, if they dont then there will need to be significant changes made to the layout of the seventh film

i really wish they wouldn't spend the bulk of the film exploring teenage relationships, even though it is included in the book they put far more emphasis on it than was necessary in the fifth installment in the movie franchise. Both the fifth and six books include relationships but to a degree, as much as i like harry potter...if they spend to much time filming love triangles rather than delivering the Voldemort storyline then the films are going to fail

well judging from this story, we can surely say that the joker doesn't die in the new batman film...which might i remind you hasn't been officially released....perhaps this story should have come with a spoiler warning, or perhaps be released after the film itself has been released... ...just saying

"Ohh wanna play?"
lol that's great, there's also someone in the truck with him...just thought i'd point that out