You’re making a movie. You need a sword. You happen to have starred in one of the most famous fantasy films of all time which itself has some famous swords in it.
Plus, wouldn’t you know it? You’ve got one lying around. What are you doing to do? Not use your own sword? That’s basically what happened to Viggo Mortensen on his latest film, The Dead Don’t Hurt. The Western, which is now in select theaters, features fantasy sequences, one of which required a sword.
So, the star of the Lord of the Rings trilogy went and grabbed Andúril, Aragorn’s sword from the series, which he just so happened to own. But it wasn’t quite that simple. “We had everything for this sequence with a knight,” the actor/director “We had found this great, spirited horse, the right kind of saddle, and we made a medieval kind of blanket, and we had the costume for the knight.
Everything was right, and then I said, well, we should have a sword. And I did look and there were some good ones and I thought, well, it might be kind of good to use this one that I had because it’s really good. But I knew I would have to ask permission because I’m sure somebody would notice it, even if you only see it for a few seconds, it’s not really essential to the scene and certainly not to the movie, it’s just something in passing that you either see or you don’t.
” So if you want to ask permission to use a prop from the Lord of the Rings, who do you call? The director of Lord of the Rings, of c.
