Issue #306 • ships from Jan 8 2004
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Bumper 100-Page Issue

The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King
• The Master of Mystic Monochrome bids us one final farewell as he heads off to the Grey Havens. Sir Ian McKellen regales us with talk of toys, coins, Father Christmas and X3…
and
We go behind the media furore surrounding Christopher Lee’s fury over Saruman being cut from the final film.
and
The conclusion of our two-part interview with Isildur’s heir as Viggo Mortensen discusses kingship and, er, ‘faking it’

Paycheck
• Legendary director John Woo reveals the secrets behind his latest Sci-Fi flick, featuring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman and based on a 1953 short story by Philip K Dick..

Star Trek: Enterprise
• Linda Park, aka Enterprise’s language expert, Ensign Sato, gets candid and tells us that Season Two "became kind of boring". The solution is a season-long story arc…

Battlestar Galactica
• Meet the kind of girl your mother warned you about. Although we doubt she had a Cylon in mind. Tricia Helfer talks about her role as Number Six in the new galactic mini-series.

Master of Dreams
• Comics legend, best-selling author and chronic wearer-of-black Neil Gaiman gives us the low-down on his various, exciting projects.

• Things to Come in 2004
• Batman Raises Caine
• Buffy: Time Lord Assistant
• Whatever happened to… X-Files 2?
• X3 and Wolverine
• Angel’s New Direction
• Astro City
• Return to Babylon 5
• Enterprise Corner

• Peter Pan
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Big Fish
• Tooth

• Angel
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Jake 2.0
• Andromeda
• Stargate SG-1
• Mutant X
• Alias
• Charmed

• Trailer Park – Our humorous slant at a movie's trailer
  This issue we get in a flap over The Butterfly Effect
  
  
• Our usual detailed look at all the new Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels, TV releases both new and old on DVD, and we check out the best new collectables…

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Paramount Pictures, UPN, Sci-Fi

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2004. Not for reproduction

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