Rick Porras c. 2001
Rick Porras (born 1969) is an American film producer, known mainly as one of the multiple film producers of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 - 2003), with Peter Jackson, Barrie Osborne, Jamie Selkirk, and Mark Ordesky. He was also Second Unit Director for the three films.
When filming in early stages before the props were fully developed, Porras and Peter Jackson were filming a scene in Bag End, and used Porras' wedding ring as a makeshift prop for the One Ring. Peter decided that he liked the way Porras' wedding ring looked as a prop, and used it as inspiration for the design of the final prop. During the shooting phase, Porras once embarrassingly served as a stand-in for Gollum, for a shoot of a scene in Ithilien, while Andy Serkis was unavailable. In the Extended Edition behind-the-scenes feature The Taming of Sméagol, Porras gives commentary on the dilemmas of how to depict and render Gollum for the screen.
Before the making of the trilogy, he had worked with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh on The Frighteners (1996), as post-production supervisor.
Documentary appearances[]
- The Lord of the Rings film trilogy appendices
- Part One: From Book to Vision > From Book to Script
- Part Two: From Vision to Reality > Visual Effects > Scale and Miniatures
- Part Three: The Journey Continues > Gollum's 'Stand-In', The Taming of Sméagol, and New Zealand as Middle-earth
- Part Four: The Battle for Middle-earth Begins > Visual Effects > Miniatures
- Part Four: The Battle for Middle-earth Begins > The Soundscapes of Middle-earth and "The Battle for Helm's Deep is Over..."
- Part Five: The War of the Ring > Designing Middle-earth, Big-atures, and Weta Workshop
- Part Six: The Passing of an Age > Weta Digital and The End of All Things
