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Wight
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In front of my PC
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STW, you have a point, but us poor fans need something to tide us over while we wait for news of the film's development. What can we do but speculate idly?
![]() Here's more: Balin: Bill Nighy Saruman: Sir Christopher Lee(If he's still alive, and they'd better shoot his scenes first) |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 903
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zxcvbn... my apologies for looking like I am trying to rain on your parade ... and I do not mean to do that. There are exercises like this going on all over the boards that discuss Tolkien or film related topics. It is a favorite pasttime and certainly gives people something neat to do.
I wonder if you went back to the pre-LOTR casting days and read the posts in such a thread on something like torn or torc , what would you find. How many people do you think would have picked Viggo Mortensen for Aragorn? How many picked Ian McKellen for Gandalf? I wish I had a dollar for all the Sean Connery suggestions then I could buy a new car. But have fun and maybe somebody will come up with a real gem beyond the obvious. Maybe you will even convice me ![]() |
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In a flower
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As long as Jack Black doens't get cast as Bilbo.
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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Hey I think Jack Black's funny. But yes, not as Bilbo!
![]() OK - if not Ian Holm as Bilbo (and note, the guy is not all that old [how rude!]) then I think Martin Freeman has the right tone and can do the little Englishman to a tee. Of course, Ian McK as Gandalf and Andy Serkis as Gollum. Etc. Some more choices for my Dream Cast: David Tennant voicing Smaug, Ray Winstone as Beorn, Johnny Depp for Thranduil (why not? ![]()
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Rude? Rude? Since when is giving a factual bit of information considered rude. You may want to not that Mr. Holm was born in 1931 making him 76 as of now and he will be 78 when they need him for filming. Plus the man has had some admitted health problems over the last couple of years.
Rude? Sorry. Let me be polite. Ian Holm is only 45 and in great health and has the same genetic make-up that Dick Clark did. Oh yeah, there is this painting in his attic.... |
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Lalwende ... no offense intended towards your father. At 74 he is in the prime of life compared to where people used to be fifty years ago. My remarks were geared for the standard applied to actors where age is not always considered an asset. Pity the poor actress who is considered over the hill and washed up once she hits forty.
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I would probably cast Brian Blessed as Beorn. Anyway, Oliver Reed is dead.
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