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09-04-2009, 08:31 AM
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Armitage isn't a bad choice, especially since I'd imagine
Bard's role will be rather expanded in the movie(s).
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09-04-2009, 09:20 AM
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A Mere Boggart
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 Two more good suggestions I read on a Guardian comments page were Sam Troughton - last seen as Much in the BBC's now sadly axed Robin Hood and Rafe Spall who was last seen as Holman Hunt in Desperate Romantics. Both of them could take on Bilbo quite well.
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09-04-2009, 10:48 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
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I like Martin Freeman and think he is best realistic candidate but I don't think he is perfect if you think of the book Bilbo who is a Tookish freespirit trapped in a very bourgeouis conventional exterior. Freeman does the ordinary bloke caught in odd circumstances well and he was good as Arthur Dent - a more modern arthur Dent than the posh "silly ***" type played by Simon Jones.
However Richard Armitage... I might even go and see this misbegotten movie if it has Hugo Weaving and Richard Armitage.  And I would love Bill Nighy to play Galion... I know I have said this before but noone does dissipation like him..save perhaps Richard E Grant... |
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09-04-2009, 11:33 AM
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A Mere Boggart
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I'm also holding out for Richard Wilson to voice Smaug as his is the voice I hear when I read the Dragon's words! I don't know, however, if he'd consider it too close to his role in Merlin what with the talking dragon in that and everything...wasn't he also in that awful Demons?
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09-04-2009, 11:43 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
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The Exorcist thing? I actually quite liked that in a so bad it is good sort of way ....
I don't think he would complain... actors like to work.... I'd choose Leslie Philips Well hel-lo!
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09-04-2009, 12:29 PM
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The problem of being in roles too similar to roles already taken is what would stop James McAvoy from taking on the role of Bilbo, I reckon. He's already played Mr Tumnus so I think he'd avoid being Bilbo. I think it bothers younger actors more than older ones though.
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09-05-2009, 11:43 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
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Philip Glenister? Eh? *googles* sorry I was thinking of Apparitions (which featured a different slaphead alongside Martin Shaw). I never saw Demons...
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