‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’ Sets Cast: Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood Officially Return, Plus Jamie Dornan as Aragorn and More

Those first three are going to be hard to beat. Just in terms of, well, everything.
Werner1975 said:
Not sure about Jamie Dornan but let's see.
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Think it's pretty hard to find replacement for this role. I have no idea who this is, so I had a quick glance and yeah, could work.
Just add beard. In visual sense. Don't know if he can depth it out like Viggo. Pretty good casting, but will have to
wait and see.

Elijah Wood returns >> massive win. No dark clouds there. ))
If they had to recast for Frodo, oh dear.CGI Frodo? , Deepfake, AI?

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As long as he can copy Viggo's Aragorn he could looks wise fit the part.

Because Viggo done such a good job with the character, Dornan needs to be able repeat the softness of Aragorn yet still present the noble, warrior and leadership qualities that he portrayed.

Gonna be a tough job.
Pitty that Viggo didn't want to be de-aged for the movie, well that's what I heard is the reason they didn't cast Viggo.
 
Meh, I'd be far more interested in The Silmarillion brought to screen rather than a narrative arc.
 
I find it amazing that Elijah Wood hasn't aged and still looks like a young Frodo lol. He can still play young Frodo 20 years from now too. :p

No such luck for poor Viggo.
 
SHL said:
Meh, I'd be far more interested in The Silmarillion brought to screen rather than a narrative arc.
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I think about this more than I should. I'd love it but there would be scale and narrative arc issues... Basically LotR was three movies featuring three primary set pieces, Moria, Helm's Deep, and Pelennor Fields, but Frodo's arc ties them all together.

Recon you could leave out the Ainulindalë, the Valaquenta mostly and all of the Akallabêth, but you just don't get that Frodo-like continuity throughout the Quenta Silmarillion. There are only two characters there from the get-go to the end nearly 5000 years later... Morgoth, but he's the antagonist and the story really is all about the protagonists, and Galadriel who spends most of the First age in Doriath and takes no real part in the events of the age, and therein lies the problem.

Do you follow Fëanor for the Silmarils and oath, sure, but, you know, Gothmog ends his arc.

Fingolfin? Nope, 'cos Morgoth ends his.

Fingolfin's descendants? Fingon? Nope, Gothmog again... Turgon? Better option. Gondolin 'tho... Turgon gets you Idril and Tuor 'tho, and that gets you Eärendil. Eärendil gets you Elwing (also Elrond who could also connect dots for movie-only folk) who connects you to Thingol and Melian (with Galadriel as the bit player) but arguably opens up the best arc of the whole Quenta Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien.

So, no one to really anchor the whole story for folks watching a movie/movies.

Also which set pieces and arcs could you leave out to manage run-time? Morgoth and Ungoliant? Fëanor killing Elves, burning ships and fighting Balrogs? Sudden Flame and Fingolfin fighting Morgoth? Unnumbered Tears? Beren and Luthien? Túrin? Gondolin? Eärendil's voyage? The War of Wrath?

As I said, scale and narrative arc.

Anyway... Back on topic, I suspect Jamie Dornan will do just fine as a younger Aragorn.
 
greg0205 said:
I think about this more than I should. I'd love it but there would be scale and narrative arc issues... Basically LotR was three movies featuring three primary set pieces, Moria, Helm's Deep, and Pelennor Fields, but Frodo's arc ties them all together.

Recon you could leave out the Ainulindalë, the Valaquenta mostly and all of the Akallabêth, but you just don't get that Frodo-like continuity throughout the Quenta Silmarillion. There are only two characters there from the get-go to the end nearly 5000 years later... Morgoth, but he's the antagonist and the story really is all about the protagonists, and Galadriel who spends most of the First age in Doriath and takes no real part in the events of the age, and therein lies the problem.

Do you follow Fëanor for the Silmarils and oath, sure, but, you know, Gothmog ends his arc.

Fingolfin? Nope, 'cos Morgoth ends his.

Fingolfin's descendants? Fingon? Nope, Gothmog again... Turgon? Better option. Gondolin 'tho... Turgon gets you Idril and Tuor 'tho, and that gets you Eärendil. Eärendil gets you Elwing (also Elrond who could also connect dots for movie-only folk) who connects you to Thingol and Melian (with Galadriel as the bit player) but arguably opens up the best arc of the whole Quenta Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien.

So, no one to really anchor the whole story for folks watching a movie/movies.

Also which set pieces and arcs could you leave out to manage run-time? Morgoth and Ungoliant? Fëanor killing Elves, burning ships and fighting Balrogs? Sudden Flame and Fingolfin fighting Morgoth? Unnumbered Tears? Beren and Luthien? Túrin? Gondolin? Eärendil's voyage? The War of Wrath?

As I said, scale and narrative arc.

Anyway... Back on topic, I suspect Jamie Dornan will do just fine as a younger Aragorn.
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Yeah it doesn’t make for a good movie as you’d just had these seemingly random set pieces all over the place.

It is a history book of sorts after all.
 
Werner1975 said:
Not sure about Jamie Dornan but let's see.
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Probably going to be a bad casting, just like when they used that poofter to play the role of Christian Grey in 50Shades of Grey. My wife laughed so hard when the macho character Christian Grey he was playing, at one stage in the movie he had to carry Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) to the bedroom and his legs clearly buckled because he just wasn't up to the task.
 
As long as there is a solid story to support this am in, just as long as we don't get overlong pointless sh*te like the Hobbit trilogy (although I still think there is enough good material in that one for one and a half very good movies)
 
Herr der Verboten said:
Eh .. wait until you guys realise theres a sequel in the works for return of the king.
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A new live-action Lord of the Rings sequel film, The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, is being written by Stephen Colbert and produced for a future release, set 14 years after The Return of the King. The film reportedly follows Sam, Merry, and Pippin retracing their steps while exploring a mystery regarding how the War of the Ring was nearly lost...

:love: all new "acolyte" girlboss :love:
 
Herr der Verboten said:
A new live-action Lord of the Rings sequel film, The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, is being written by Stephen Colbert and produced for a future release, set 14 years after The Return of the King. The film reportedly follows Sam, Merry, and Pippin retracing their steps while exploring a mystery regarding how the War of the Ring was nearly lost...

:love: all new "acolyte" girlboss :love:
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Jirre, poor Tolkien
 
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oh lawd..... Colbert?... this is going to be chock full of preachy political ideology and will fail after the first season.

We should maybe make a bingo:

"Ork lives matter"
"Female with no weaknesses showing how it's done"
"Sauron being Trump"
"Cultural melting pot medieval village"
"Marvel humour"
 
greg0205 said:
I think about this more than I should. I'd love it but there would be scale and narrative arc issues... Basically LotR was three movies featuring three primary set pieces, Moria, Helm's Deep, and Pelennor Fields, but Frodo's arc ties them all together.

Recon you could leave out the Ainulindalë, the Valaquenta mostly and all of the Akallabêth, but you just don't get that Frodo-like continuity throughout the Quenta Silmarillion. There are only two characters there from the get-go to the end nearly 5000 years later... Morgoth, but he's the antagonist and the story really is all about the protagonists, and Galadriel who spends most of the First age in Doriath and takes no real part in the events of the age, and therein lies the problem.

Do you follow Fëanor for the Silmarils and oath, sure, but, you know, Gothmog ends his arc.

Fingolfin? Nope, 'cos Morgoth ends his.

Fingolfin's descendants? Fingon? Nope, Gothmog again... Turgon? Better option. Gondolin 'tho... Turgon gets you Idril and Tuor 'tho, and that gets you Eärendil. Eärendil gets you Elwing (also Elrond who could also connect dots for movie-only folk) who connects you to Thingol and Melian (with Galadriel as the bit player) but arguably opens up the best arc of the whole Quenta Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien.

So, no one to really anchor the whole story for folks watching a movie/movies.

Also which set pieces and arcs could you leave out to manage run-time? Morgoth and Ungoliant? Fëanor killing Elves, burning ships and fighting Balrogs? Sudden Flame and Fingolfin fighting Morgoth? Unnumbered Tears? Beren and Luthien? Túrin? Gondolin? Eärendil's voyage? The War of Wrath?

As I said, scale and narrative arc.

Anyway... Back on topic, I suspect Jamie Dornan will do just fine as a younger Aragorn.
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I was just hoping to see something like this in IMAX....

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