Taglines: The fellowship is broken. The power of darkness grows…
The Fellowship has been broken. Boromir is dead, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee have gone to Mordor alone to destroy the One Ring, Merry and Pippin have been captured by the Uruk-hai, and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli have made friends of the Rohan, a race of humans that are in the path of the upcoming war, led by its aging king, Théoden.
The two towers between Mordor and Isengard, Barad-dûr and Orthanc, have united in their lust for destruction. The corrupt wizard Saruman, under the power of the Dark Lord Sauron, and his slimy assistant, Gríma Wormtongue, have created a grand Uruk-hai army bent on the destruction of Man and Middle-earth. The rebellion against Sauron is building up and will be led by Gandalf the White, who was thought to be dead after the Balrog captured him. One of the Ring’s original bearers, the creature Gollum, has tracked Frodo and Sam down in search of his ‘precious’, but is captured by the Hobbits and used as a way to lead them to Mt. Doom. The War of the Ring has now begun…
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 New Zealand-American epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and based on the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings. It is the second installment in The Lord of the Rings film series, preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and concluding with The Return of the King (2003).
Continuing the plot of The Fellowship of the Ring, the film intercuts three storylines. Frodo and Sam continue their journey towards Mordor to destroy the One Ring, meeting and joined by Gollum, the ring’s former owner. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to the war-torn nation of Rohan and are reunited with the resurrected Gandalf, before fighting at the Battle of Helm’s Deep. Merry and Pippin escape capture, meet Treebeard the Ent, and help to plan an attack on Isengard.
Meeting high critical acclaim, the film was an enormous box-office success, earning over $926 million worldwide and is currently the 42nd highest-grossing film of all time; and also the highest-grossing film of 2002. (inflation-adjusted, it is the 62nd most successful film in North America). The film won numerous accolades and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing.
The Two Towers opened in theaters on 18 December 2002. It made $64.2 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada. The movie went on to gross $342,551,365 in North America and $583,495,746 internationally for a worldwide total of $926,047,111 against a budget of $94 million. It was the highest-grossing film of 2002 worldwide. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 57 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian Mckellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Sean Bean, John Rhys-Davies
Screenplay by: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
Production Design by: Grant Major
Cinematography by: Andrew Lesnie
Film Editing by: Michael Horton, Jabez Olssen
Costume Design by: Ngila Dickson
Set Decoration by: Alan Lee
Art Direction by: Dan Hennah, Philip Ivey, Jules Cook
Makeup Department: Peter Owen, Jeremy Woodhead
Music by: Howard Shore
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for epic battle sequences and scary images.
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: December 18, 2001
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