The Hobbit : Dream Cast

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli

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.

Incidentally, Philip Pullman's choice to play Lee Scoresby in The Golden Compass was Samuel L Jackson. That would have been fab. So long as there were no snake Daemons in his balloon or it might have got a X cert - "Get these **** snakes off this **** balloon"

[Sauron the White]

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.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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!

[Quempel]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Thranduil: Rowan Atkinson (No idea why, the concept just amuses me)

Mr. Bean does Thranduil.
This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time.

My vote for Thranduil would be Daniel Day-Lewis.

[Thenamir]

Originally Posted by STW

How many picked Ian McKellen for Gandalf?

Actually, back in the day, my two top picks for Gandalf were Christopher Lloyd and Tom Baker...but I was hooted out of the board by the Connery faction.

[Thenamir]

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

[Lord Halsar]

Originally Posted by Thenamir

Voice of the raven Roac, son of Carc - Gilbert Gottfried

Ahahahahahahahaha! Are you serious? His voice on another bird (be it animated or CGI, I don't care which!) would take all of the seriousness out of it for me! Everyone coming out of the theater would be saying, "A movie with a talking bird I can stand, but another one where HE does the voice is just wierd..."

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Quempel

Mr. Bean does Thranduil.
This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time.

That would be hilarious, my sister owns that show on DVD and he is really funny, but let us not kill the skwirelz by my mindless banter.

[Nogrod]

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...

[Thenamir]

The list I put together is of slightly lesser known actors, that hopefully wouldn't blow the entire casting budget. Of them, James Purefoy, who played Edward Prince of Wales in A Knight's Tale makes a perfect picture in my mind of Bard, especially when I envision him running through the flaming Lake-Town amid the chaos of the Dragon attack:

Then Bard drew his bow-string to his ear. The dragon was circling back, flying low, and as he came the moon rose above the eastern shore and silvered his great wings.
"Arrow!" said the bowman. "Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!"

I get shivers thiking of that scene -- they'd better do it up right.