It was 20 years ago today that Hollywood came to Wellington with a 421m-long red carpet down Courtenay Place to celebrate the final instalment of The Lord of the Rings films.
Wētā Workshop co-founder and owner Sir Richard Taylor told the Herald it’s hard to express just how amazing the premiere of The Return of the King was.
“People were literally standing up on top of buildings. It was five-deep at the sides of the red carpet. The red carpet stretched right through the city.”
