The Lord Of The Rings – The Return Of The King: Extended Edition
Blu-ray
Directed by Peter Jackson
Starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and Sean Astin
New Line Home Video
Release Date: August 28, 2012

You can read Dr. Geek, Ph.D’s review of The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition from July 2011 here.

“The battle of Helm’s Deep is over; the battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin.”

In Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 film Pierrot le Fou the late filmmaking giant Samuel Fuller, a legendary purveyor of uncompromising dramas and adventures that were not afraid of journeying into the darkest realms of the human soul, said, “Film is like a battleground. Love. Hate. Action. Violence. In one word…emotion.” Though he was making a cameo in a movie instead of granting an interview that brief speech perfectly summed up Fuller’s philosophy of cinema, a philosophy that is alive and well in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the third and final installment in one of the most thrilling epic trilogies in motion picture history.

If Sauron’s Ring was the one ring to rule them all, then Mondo would be its equivalent in poster form. As you might have guessed based on the opening, Mondo has announced that they will be releasing specially commissioned posters for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of The Rings film series. The poster series will include all films from the trilogy drawn up by multiple artists. And to start things off we have a poster for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by artist Aaron Horkey, which was unveiled this last night at the Mondo Mystery Movie X at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

Like most of these Mondo Mystery Movie screenings, you don’t know what you are going to see until they hand out the print to you. Not that it would deter me from watching it, but these posters are only available to those who attend the screenings, and that’s what bums me out the most. Still check out the cool Mondo poster here for The Return of the King below.