The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Cutting Room
How do you film a battle that runs the best part of an hour, almost entirely at night, in the rain? You shoot for months, you wear out everyone involved, and you emerge with Helm's Deep.
Peter Jackson's The Two Towers (2002) is the middle chapter of The Lord of the Rings, the one that had to bridge two other films and still ended up many people's favourite of the three. It also gave us Gollum, and with him a motion-capture breakthrough from Andy Serkis that quietly changed screen acting.
John, Westy and Matt get into Jackson's direction, the writing, the New Zealand mega-production shot all…
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