LOTR, starring Connery, Connery and Connery!

[IronParrot]

You know, Sean Connery can play so many different roles in LOTR it's not even funny. Let's list them all.

Gandalf (one of the rumors as far back as 1997 when the project was first announced, I think)
Denethor
Theoden
Treebeard's voice
Saruman
Radagast

And at a stretch...

Bilbo - digitally alter him to make him shorter.
Boromir - digitally edit in a younger Sean Connery.

Come to think of it, with the way technology is heading, one day they could make a version of LOTR where the only actor involved is Sean Connery. Galadriel is a bit of a stretch, but hey...

[Fat middle]

:lol:

and in that version Tom Bombadil would be absolutely necessary! ;)

[Darth Tater]

LOL

[Gilthalion]

Connery has already done a fantasy with "the little people!"

Go rent "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" in the Disney Children's section of your nearby (well stocked) video store.

You will see young Sean Connery in a fine role in a great little picture. He even sings!

Which makes him perfect for Theoden King, now that he is old and ready for such roles. Who is the actor actually playing him in the movie?

[noldo]

Hehe...

Nah, I couldn't see him as Radagast. Maybe after a long line of make-up and wigs, but nah. ;)

[Strider]

Treebeard is james earl jones for me :)

[Strider]

oh and can someone please tell me where to put in the url for my pic :)

[Fat middle]

i think you have already entered the url at the right place, cuz it appears in your profile.

To make that it appears in your posts you must switch on the case under the personal photo url (my control center >> personal >> edit preferences)

nice pic, btw :)

[RKittle]

What a preposterous idea that Connery would fit anywhere into Middle-Earth. He has become such an obligatory movie face (rivaled only by James Earl Jones and recently Bruce Willis) that the only way to keep the movie 'special' is to NOT have him involved in any way. Casting Connery would just make it the 'newest Connery film' and not the 'much awaited Tolkien film'. Forget him and drop the 'siren of the month' (you know who I mean) and the films have possiblility!

But to tell you the truth, Sean could play Frodo and James Earl Jones could be Sam and I'd still go see these movies. :) So what am I complaining about?

[IronParrot]

RKittle, that's what's funny about this thread. Connery's not going to be in it, but everybody's rumoring him in every role there is! So I played on the satire... :p

Nice to see you around here again, btw.

[bmilder]

Well JEJ is hardly a movie face... some of his most famous roles are voice-overs! (Darth Vader, Mufasa)

[Eruve]

Connery could play Cirdan too!
And the Mouth of Sauron!

[Shanamir Duntak]

He could play Sauron and Shelob!
:lol:

[IronParrot]

And a Nazgul. Nobody would know under that hood.

[Strider]

he could play a great Scottish Gollum. hoots mon, me wee fishiess....me bonnie precious where are ye?

[arynetrek]

i'd wonder how he'd pull off Eowyn...

Strider, love the pic!

aryne *

[IronParrot]

Oh, Eowyn's easy, because she dresses up as a man anyway.

Galadriel and Arwen, now that would be interesting.

[Gilthalion]

Presently, with a wave of his hand and a nod, he invited Frodo to come over and sit by him. As Frodo drew near he threw back his hood, showing a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes.

'I am called Bond. James Bond,' he said in a low voice.

[arynetrek]

what'd be REALLY interesting is the wedding of Connery & Connery, presided over by Connery, & witnessed by Connery, Connery, Connery, Connery & ... you get the idea.

but Aragorn's character would suffer greatly if he was associated with such "characters" as Miss Galore & her cronies.

Maker of Stupid Comments,
aryne *

[Film Hobbit]

I'm not sure why, but this thread frightens me.

[Strider]

thanks [b]arynetrek<b/>

:)

[RKittle]

Back to James Earl Jones for just a second... that man has been in more movies than I can count. You may remember his voice from a couple movies, but if you look you'll see him everywhere. Kind of like Gene Hackman (of course, Gene doesn't do many voice-overs). They're everywhere!! Ack!

[Shanamir Duntak]

Here in Quebec it's Edgar Fruitier who's everywhere... He's doing lots of translations, in fact, i wouldn't be surprised if he does the LOTR translation...

[Taimar]

Gilthalion, I heard that Bernard Hill will be playing Theoden. He is a very talented British actor, probably most famous for the legendary BBC drama `Boys from the Blackstuff`. I think he will the part of Theoden very well.

[Strider]

I believe Bernard Hill isn't doing the role of theoden because he felt the role wasn't large enough to justify the strenous Shooting times which he didn't like.

[Shanamir Duntak]

Then he don't deserve to play in it!

[Gilthalion]

Taimar, I don't know of Bernard Hill. I'm sure from your recommendation (and I just met you really in the US PRESIDENTIAL RACE thread, you're a smart cookie!) that Mr. Hill is a fine actor and suitable for the part. I hope the rumor that he's turned the part down is wrong!

If he has turned his back on the role of a lifetime I hope it is with good reason!

If he was too frail for the shooting, then it's very tragic.

If he was just being a wimp, then Shanamir is absolutely right.

[Strider]

Taimar you might of seen him as the captain of the Titanic in the film Titanic. :)

[Dfsg]

I just found a usefull site about the actors, but It probably hasn't been updated for a while... but here goes...


www.casema.net/%7Eauggie/lotr/cast.html (http://www.casema.net/%7Eauggie/lotr/cast.html)

it seems that Sean Connery wasn't in the list, so I probably havent been of any help, but too bad.

[bmilder]

Heh, this week's TolkienTrail.com Poll (http://www.tolkientrail.com/poll.html) was inspired by this thread. :)

[Taimar]

I did not see Titanic, Strider. It`s not my kind of film. Bernard Hill is excellent in Restless Natives, one of my favourite movies ever. I must admit I shall be a trifle disappointed if he has turned down the part of Theoden.

Gilthalion, you are far too generous. I am married to a woman with an IQ of 188 who makes me feel like an idiot on a daily basis.

[Gilthalion]

Taimar, in my VAST and LONG experience with women I have concluded that ANY of Them, regardless of their quotient of intelligence, can make ME feel like an idiot! On a daily basis!

They are a strange Race, some sort of symbiotic creature that is hard to live with, and impossible to live without. They have strange mental powers, unknown to Men (or Hobbits). They can read minds, evidently, for they expect the male to be able to do so as well!

"What's wrong, Dear," asked Gilthalion, mystified.

"You should KNOW without my having to tell you!" the Mrs snapped.

This Power is enhanced with a set of Rings...

"Two Rings to blind them both and in the Chapel bind them."

Feminine Telepathy then seems to increase in Power tenfold as they mature, especially with the onset of Children. At this point, the Female Race develops an ability to read thoughts and actions of their posterity from thousands of miles away. This is a Power I call MOMNIPOTENCE.

Beware the Female! She may be reading your naked thought even now. (Mine is still asleep! I 'm only concerned she will awaken and accuse me from a dream!)

(And with that, the little hobbit looked fearfully over his shoulder before hitting the Add Reply Button.)

[Taimar]

Very well put, Gilthalion:lol: . The situations you so wittily described are very familiar.

I have been asked on several occasions just what it is that my good lady sees in me, and after 11 years of marriage I believe I have come up with the answer. The intellectual gap that exists between us is small enough to allow the cut and thrust of educated debate on a wide range of issues, but is large enough to ensure that when said debates inevitably degenerate into heated arguments my wife will emerge victorious.

[Shanamir Duntak]

... Women from Quebec are exactly as you describe it. They expect us to show that mental talent too but hey, I'm just a man!

Ms: - What are you thinking?
Me: - (My toughts: "Hum... a good beer")
- That I love you :D
Ms: - You lie! What are you thinking...
Me: - Well, I'm thinking of having a good blue dry! :p
(Slap in the face)

This is fiction, but sometimes, things like that happen.
So I try to always think of how I love her, then when she reads my thoughts, she's happy :p

Shan

[Elbreth of Carhouth]

LOL :D
You guys are absolutly hilarious. I can't say that we're necessarily telepathic, although sometimes we can't figure out why the male half of the species can't see something that is blatently obvious. ;)
So we're thinker's, what's wrong with that?

[IronParrot]

Us males don't see something that is blatantly obvious because we choose not to.

If a girl wants to tell me she has issues with me, doesn't like me, will never go out with me and has no interest in me or whatnot, she'll have to say it to my face.

(Just one example.)

[Gilthalion]

Sean Connery doesn't have these kind of troubles.

[Shanamir Duntak]

:lol: . Yeah, i hope i had as much charisma as he does...

[Elanor]

I loved Darby O'Gill! :D

I really think he'd do a good job as the voice of Treebeard...:)

[Gilthalion]

Darby O'Gill & The Little People was a greatly underrated movie!