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12-24-2007, 01:33 PM
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Loremaster of Annúminas
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Hey, I'm not unopposed to Willis.
How about this cast, then? Bruce Willis Sam Jackson John Travolta Ving Rhames Uma Thurman Amanda Plummer Tim Roth Harvey Keitel Working title: Kill Bilbo, Vols. I & II.
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12-24-2007, 01:51 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Uma Thurman is one one actor who would force me NOT to see a Middle-earth film.
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12-24-2007, 01:57 PM
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12-24-2007, 02:30 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Yes --- but when an actor would be asked to play someone three decades younger - and that is in human terms - and do a physically strenuous role like Bilbo walking all across the wilds and mountains - then that rules Mr. Holm out.
Lee would be fine- much more than fine actually, and God willing he can be with us to do it again with the White Council scenes that have been rumored. |
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12-27-2007, 01:33 PM
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Alive without breath
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I have given a lot of thought to this ever since I saw the Lord of the Rings Films, having recently read The Hobbit... My first thought was of the Dwarves. A few of them were amusing and a few of them were serous considerations of who could play the rolls...
Thorin: Brian Blessed (Come on! You know he'd be perfect!) Some other dwarves could be played by... Dwalin: Tony Robinson (Played like Baldric from Blackadder, obviously) Balin: Bill Baily (The musical scenes would be so much funnier) Bombur: Collin Baker (Because he's FAT) Bifur: Tom Baker (Because he is ACE) Dori: David Mitchell (Why not?) Kili: Julian Barrat (One part of the double act) Fili: Noel Fielding (the other part of the double act from The Mighty Boosh) Dáin Ironfoot: Billy Connolly (with a banjo) Beorn: Oliver Reed (after seeing him in Baron Munchausen, I thought he'd be good for the roll) Bard the Bowman: Christopher Eccleston (Because he SHOULD be northern) Smaug: Vic Reeves (Of course) Thranduil: Rowan Atkinson (No idea why, the concept just amuses me) Drunken Elf: Dylan Moran (Obvious, really) Not entirely plausible. But it would be a darn fine film!
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12-27-2007, 02:39 PM
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This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. My vote for Thranduil would be Daniel Day-Lewis. 
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12-27-2007, 03:48 PM
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12-28-2007, 10:06 AM
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Spectre of Capitalism
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I've been giving this some thought, though apparantly not as much as some...however, provided that the principals from the LOTR movies are used as appropriate (Weaving/Elrond, McKellan/Gandalf, etc.), I offer these ideas as conversation-fodder, as most of them have not yet come up:
Mayor of Lake Town - David Bradley (Filch from the HP movies) Thranduil - Marc Warren (or Johnny Depp, if you've got the budget) Fili and Kili - For some reason James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley) keep popping into my head -- properly made up, of course. Voice of Smaug - Ian McDiarmid Voice of the raven Roac, son of Carc - Gilbert Gottfried Bard - James Purefoy Thorin - Dadgummit, I can't get the voice of Hans Conried (from the Rankin-Bass version) out of my head. Bombur - Mark Addy (Roland from A Knight's Tale) Beorn - Timothy Spall
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12-28-2007, 01:00 PM
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12-28-2007, 04:14 PM
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Flame of the Ainulindalë
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Alan Rickman would make a believable Thranduil with some make-up (forget the HP films and just look at the man himself). Sadly Clint Eastwood is a bit too old now. Ten years ago he would have been one to consider!
Robbie Coltrane could be a bit too baby-faced & nice to be a fit Beorn but he might make one of the dwarwes... not Thorin or Dwalin perhaps but one of the others Jackson & team will bring forwards from the rest. Daniel Craig could make a good Bard the Bowman - just imagine him a full beard with your mind's eye and you get it... I do agree with Hookbill: Brian Blessed would be perfect as Thorin! Or you could possibly make him Beorn as well... Kenneth Branagh as Bilbo? Mature enough but not too old...
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