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29/9/01 ~ Dimension Jump 2002 announced!
Dimension Jump 2002 (DJ:IX) 22nd - 24th March 2002 at Britannia Royal Court Hotel, Keresley, Coventry, England
Guests include - Chloë Annett, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn and Hattie Hayridge.
06/08/01 ~ Pasty Faces, staring Chloë
Annett! Chloë Annett, aka Kochanski, stars in a new British film named
Pasty Faces. Chloë plays Lena, a gun-toting, casino-haunting thief. The film centres
around a pair of actors who rapidly discover that Hollywood isn't all it's cracked up to
be. Go to the The Official
Website for more info.
16/03/01 ~ Lister & Holly in
Lexx!
With a curious echo of the last series of Red Dwarf surely in mind, the producers of
cult SF show Lexx - currently screening in the UK on Channel 5 - have placed Hattie
Hayridge and Craig Charles into their coming fourth series.
Hattie plays
Heidi, a Texan prison warden, with Craig appearing as her husband - albeit without
the Texan accent - in the episode P3X. "It was good," Hattie said, "because I'd never
acted with him that way before (as Holly) I was always in my separate
bit."
Asked how this bizarre partnership came about, Craig said, "I think
Hattie was offered the part originally, and once she'd said yes to it, they thought they'd
make it sort of a Red Dwarfy tie in. Hattie plays this Texan - a cross between Jerry
Hall and Daphne from A Streetcar Named Desire - and I play this English governor in
a Texan jail. I'm the warden, she's my sub-warden and my wife. We've got this
daughter who is completely insane..."
Did he know what he was letting
himself in for? "Lexx is like S&M meets science fiction It's a very sexy show - I felt
like a dirty old man half the time. During the filming, sometimes I just thought, 'I
hope my wife doesn't see this'."
Hattie agrees, "They said it was the most
risqué one they'd done - half-naked men holed up in dungeons. Naked women in the
showers in the women's prison..."
Hattie remembers the costume being
particularly fun, "The costume woman said, 'Oh, you're much thinner than I thought
you'd be. Maybe we'll change it when you get over here...' She was imagining a great
big, fat Texan! I was meant to be wearing trousers and a shirt - it was a little bit Cell
Block Hy. But when we got there, me and the make-up women and the costume
women got together, all girly, and made her a bit more Dolly Parton! It's still prison
uniform, but I wear a shirt that's two sizes too small and a really short skirt. They
curled my hair up - just a few curls, my own hair."
"Hattie is horrible in it!"
Craig insists. "She's horrible - the wife from hell. She's really mean - the wife from
hell! She constantly insults me." Hattie agrees: "It's a marriage not made in heaven.
We were thinking, 'Where would we have met?' Because I'd obviously never been out
of Texas. He must have been passing through when we met, and
married."
But perhaps the most memorable part of the shoot was the
weather. "Halifax, Nova Scotia - the coldest place I've ever been," Craig shudders. "It
was like minus 20 over there! They had the worst recorded level of snowfall since
records began while we were over there. It was great - like a big winter
wonderland."
Although - Craig being Craig - there is one other abiding
memory, "All the cast are really nice. Michael McManus is a nice fella. Didn't really
socialise with the girl who plays Zev. She's got remarkable lips. They can't be real!
Apparently one of the cameramen was saying that sometimes they cast
shadows!" Taken from The Official Red
Dwarf Site
20/01/01 ~ Danny John-Jules signs up for Blade 2
Danny John-Jules (aka Cat) has recently signed up for the sequel to the
smash hit vampire action movie Blade. Blade 2:Bloodlust, will again feature Wesley
Snipes as the half-man, half-vampire out for revenge. The plot apparently centres
around a group of mutated vampires who will even feed off their own kind, thus
threatening both the human and vampire populations.
The film will be
directed by Guillermo del Toro, who has already scared the pants off audiences with
Cronos, the tale of a kind of vampiric clockwork insect, and the Mira Sorvino sci-fi
chiller Mimic.
Danny is just a part of the largely European flavour the film
is taking.Aside from del Toro, Alien: Resurrection's multi-lingual Ron Pearlman and
Britain's own Luke 'Bros' Goss are also slated to appear alongside Snipes and Kris
Kristofferson, who reprises his role of Whistler, even though he was killed off in the
first movie!
Shooting of the million movie begins in the Czech Republic's
Prague Studios in the Spring. Taken from The Official Red Dwarf
Site
20/01/01 ~ Rimmer in Tomb Raider
Film!
Chris Barrie (aka Rimmer) seems determined to get into the film business early as it
is announced that he will be taking a key role in the forthcoming Tomb Raider
blockbuster, based on the massively successful video game.
Lara Croft will be played by Angelina Jolie, the daughter of John Voight, who has
apparently undergone rigorous training and voice-coaching for the role. Chris will
play Hilary, Lara's butler.
Given this casting, it's hard to imagine the film will be taking itself too seriously.
Interviewed recently, Chris admitted, "I think there is a comic element to it."
The film like the game, will have more than a touch of the Indiana Jones's about it
and will be directed by Con Air helmer Simon West, who has put off directing The
Prisoner movie to take Lara on.
Asked how he became involved with the film, Chris said, "I went to see Simon West,
the director, early in the summer and we had a nice chat. He's a very down-to-earth
English guy, no airs and graces. We just chatted about it and I seem to remember him
saying that if anything came to mind as they were writing the screenplay, he'd bear me
in mind.
"I'd forgotten about it, and I read somewhere that Tomb Raider was starting to shoot -
it reminded me that I'd been to the casting! I thought, 'Oh well, bang goes another one.
Hey-ho, such is life.' And lo and behold I get this call that they want me on board! So
you don't really ask questions about what went before. You just get there, hit your
marks and do your lines."
Director West has already admitted that he does not have a huge interest in video
games, and while Chris shares his lack of fascination, he does admit that, when
playing on a simulator recently at a corporate event, he was almost lured in: "The
jet-biking one I just couldn't get off! So I thought, 'I'm not going to have a go on the
other machines or games, otherwise I'm likely to be hooked!' For the first time ever
the virtual reality on the jet-bike really did hit home. In a few years time it's going to
be mind-blowing!"
Does he think he'll end up with one at home? "I reckon so!"
The film is currently in production at Pinewood Studios and is due for release next
year. Taken from The Official Red
Dwarf Site
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17/01/01 ~ This site is
born!
19/01/01 ~ Pictures section put up.Don't forget to email new
ones!
20/01/01 ~ Guestbook added.Please sign it.Also Character profiles of
Lister,Rimmer,Cat and Kryten,More coming soon
21/01/01 ~ Cat and
Rimmer both in films!Visit Red Dwarf News
26/01/01 ~ Holly and
Kochanski profiles put up.
1/02/01 ~ Fav Character Poll put up, so please
take some time to vote.Also, About RD page made and put up,
enjoy.
3/02/01 ~ A to Z of Red Dwarf page made.More will be added to it in
the near future.
11/02/01 ~ Second page of pictures made. To go to it, go to
the first page and click on the link.
12/02/01 ~ Third page of pictures
made.A bit more done on A to Z of Red Dwarf.
13/02/01 ~ Links page made
and more work done on A to Z, most letters now have at least 2 enteries.
16/02/01 ~ Web ring page made.
25/02/01 ~ Web Rings page deleted and put in the Links page. Coming very soon:
Games page.
02/03/01 ~ This site has been put in the Holly Hop Ring. Go to the links page for the
bar thingy. Also, its rumoured that the actors who play Lister and female Holly are
going to be in an episode of Lexx. More info about this soon.
03/03/01 ~ Games page finished. Go and play Who Is It?.
09/03/01 ~ Red
Dwarf.iwarp.com's new look is finished! YEY!! I've also changed the guest book so
you'll have to sign it again, sorry. Coming in the next few weeks - Downloads, Lyrics
and Episodes.(I already have a list of all the RD eps in the About Red Dwarf section,
this new page will have a description with each episode as well)
10/03/01 ~
New Poll made and the downloads page also made, I have only put some desktop pics
in it but there will be sounds and other stuff coming soon.
16/03/01 ~ Lister
and Holly in Lexx - full info and interview in the Red Dwarf News.
07/04/01
~ The two episode pages are up and so is the new poll. Please take some time to vote,
also if you have an idea for a poll please email me. Finally, sounds to download will
be coming in the next week or so.
11/04/01 ~ 16 Sounds have been put up in
the downloads page. Enjoy!
05/05/01 ~ Intro page made and a few more
links put up.
28/05/01 ~ Go to the About Red Dwarf page to see the
Digiguide, to find out about when Red Dwarf is on. Also the intro page improved.
COMING SOON: The Red Dwarf Personality Test! If you can come up with a good
poll idea please email me, thanks!
31/05/01 ~ New poll made, please vote!
I've also put up the Message Board link. And finally, I've made two more picture
pages, that makes 5 now!
11/06/01 ~ The Personality Test is here!! go to the
games section to play, also there is a TicTacToe game where you play against
Holly.
24/06/01 ~ More links put up in the links section and I have changed
the side bar.30/06/01 ~ Quotes and Lyrics page made, new poll and links added.
I've also updated the intro page and the side bar. 09/07/01 ~ Red Dwarf.iwarp.com
get an award!! Go the Intro page to see it. 06/08/01 ~ Its been a while since the last
update but here it is. Go to the News Section to find out
about Chloë Annett's new film. In the next few weeks (hopefully) you'll see the brand
new look and name for this place, that is why you may have noticed that a few things
aren't working. I'm sorry but it'll be ok soon! 29/9/01 ~ Were back up, and with a new poll more pictures and news about the forth coming Red Dwarf convention! See the News Section for more info.
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