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Weta Podcast: Richard Taylor and Shane Rangi

Submitted by GregR on May 22, 2009 19 Comments

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We get an update from Richard on which of the 50 million projects they are working on at Weta and Shane Rangi, kiwi (and Maori) stuntman extraordinaire talks about his work.

Shane (Ngati Porou) was in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (as the “Witch-king of Angmar” “Easterling NCO” and Harad mÃ»makil ‘driver’).Â In 2005 he played General Otmin, general of the White Witch’s army in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In 2008, he played the Werewolf and Asterius, in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.Â Shane also was a stunt man in the three LOTR films, King Kong and X Men 3.

You can find the podcast here.

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Anthony says:

May 22, 2010 at 9:23 am

Hey thats a great post. I would like to congrats you for such a nice blog.

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James from Kids Witch Costume says:

May 30, 2010 at 11:34 am

The Chronicles of Narnia was a fantastic film. The White Witch army was awsome! Some amazing stunts and no doubt many of them down to Shane.
.-= James @ Kids Witch Costume´s last blog ..Disclaimer =-.

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Karen says:

May 2, 2011 at 8:21 am

Thanks for sharing.

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