Topic: The Hobbit Movie

[Feanor Fire Heart]

I saw the poster realse for the movie "The Hobbit"
So since no-one (or at least me) doen't know whose in it I figured we could do a fun game of guessing who it could be.

So the question is who do you think will play Bilbo, thorin, and the human guy from dale whose name I have forgotten.  Most likely the same dude who played gandalf will play him again.

[Warlord]

You mean Bard?

Hopefully Elrond and Gandalf will be consistent with the LoTR movies.

[Mostlyharmless]

I'm looking forward to the elves acting playful and whimsical, though I have difficulty seeing Agent Elrond showing the least bit of mirth.

[Shadowwolf]

Ditto that, Mostlyharmless.

Shadowwolf

[patsy02]

I've heard Sir McKellen is playing gandalf again, which deserves a big fat huzzah.

[wissenlander]

I was just watching the 1977 cartoon version youtube the otherday.  A new release would be cool.  I didn't think they were going to make it though?

[Donnachaidh]

The last bit I read in the press said it was getting closer to happening, but still some way off pre production.

The movie company (forget their name - New Line?) and Pete Jackson have just started talking again after they fell out.

One of the other people hyped to helm the movie was Sam Reimi, which I would have like to have seen.

Bruce Campbell as Bard?

[wissenlander]

I could see Bruce Campbell as Bard.  Instead of a bow he'd have a boom stick!  Somehow it just doesn't seem to fit in with Tolkien though.

[Johan Willhelm]

They should have Christopher Lee as the voice of Smaug - he does love his Tolkien . . .

[Lord Drahcir Selig]

Midaski as Smaug and General Helstrom as Bard or Wyzer1 as Bilbo and Rufas as Golume.   
p.i.o.m(aka Smaug).t

[Wyzer1]

Wyzer1 as Bilbo

Why am I Bilbo?

[Mostlyharmless]

It should be narrated by Morgan Freeman.

[Midaski]

Wyzer1 as Bilbo

and his mate McKnurgle as 'Bulbous'


PS: My Missus will play the dragon thanks

[Feanor Fire Heart]

LOL Bruce Campbell as Bard would be the greatest thing EVA!

As far as bilbo I think Paul Giamatti would be perfect, he almost always plays a nervous guy or highly strung dude.  Elrond and Gandalf should stay the same so it looks like its part of the series.  But who should Thorin be? he is the other big character other than bilbo (at least as far as speaking parts)  I'm going with russel crowe, just because.  Or maybe kurt russel.  Voice of smaug should be Brad Garette, Robert from Everyone loves raymond.  Just a natural deep voice that could be scary.

[wissenlander]

I don't see anyone too big getting a major role.  People in the trilogy had some movies under the belt beforehand, but none of them were really that big of names.  Elijah Wood had some stuff a long time ago, and Sean Astin had been in a lot of stuff, Ian McKellan is cool but not many people really knew of him, Viggo Mortenssen had minor roles, Liv Tyler's claim to fame was her dad, and the list goes on.  None of them had had really really big roles prior to this trilogy or at least around the same time (Elrond/Agent Smith).

To keep it the same they should somehow get the guy who originally played Bilbo and make him look younger.

[Feanor Fire Heart]

I don't see anyone too big getting a major role.  People in the trilogy had some movies under the belt beforehand, but none of them were really that big of names.  Elijah Wood had some stuff a long time ago, and Sean Astin had been in a lot of stuff, Ian McKellan is cool but not many people really knew of him, Viggo Mortenssen had minor roles, Liv Tyler's claim to fame was her dad, and the list goes on.  None of them had had really really big roles prior to this trilogy or at least around the same time (Elrond/Agent Smith).

To keep it the same they should somehow get the guy who originally played Bilbo and make him look younger.

All true however bruce campbell's evil dead movies are on the B circuit and has never really stared in a big hollywood movie.  So him as bard could still be viable.  However I think they will probably pick up some minor guy from brave heart like steven the irishman.

I have a feeling they are going to pull a lucas and cut the new bilbo in the begginging scene of him finding the ring in FoTR.

[wissenlander]

Oh definitely, Bruce Campbell is one of those 'cult' movie stars that has got a large fan base but just hasn't quite reached that cusp, for some reason.  I think his status would work, I don't know if he himself would though.  Everyone would be like, 'IT's ASH...WHERE'S HIS BOOM STICK???'  You know what I mean?  It would be incredibly awesome, though my wife would probably immediately dislike the movie.

They could cut Bilbo out, but it would have to be done in multiple spots.  There's the part in the middle of FotR where they meet up in Rivendell, and then in RotK, at the end, where they again meet in Rivendell.  Nothing that couldn't be undone, but I think that lacks so much class.  And shame on Lucas for doing it and setting a horrid precedent.

[Feanor Fire Heart]

Nah i just meant that one scene were young bilbo finds the ring and you hear golum screech "precious!" then he runs off camera.  Could still keep old bilbo the same.

Okay lets say Bruce isn't bard, who else could be bard?  Still think steven the crazy irishman would be a good canidate.
 

[Von Breden]

Bruce Willis as the bard. 'Nuff said.

[wissenlander]

Oh, I get what you mean, FFH.  I think Steven from Braveheart would do good in that part as well.  Maybe we should send a letter?

[Gneisenau]

Bruce Willis as the bard. 'Nuff said.

Shouting "yippi-ka-yey" before shooting the black arrow?

That could be an option. Not likely, but still.

I would agree on Mr. Lee as the voice of Smaug, it fits nicely.

I would love to see Christopher Walken as Thorin...:
"He'd be damned if any goblins gonna put their greasy green hands on his birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his beard. Five long years, he wore this map up his beard. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the map. I hid this uncomfortable piece of parchment up my beard for two years."

etc.

[lonearcher]

OMG, I think I’m going a little koo-koo from pain pills. (I just got back from the dentist – had a wisdom tooth yanked  )

But Christopher Walken could do the whole movie! With his nasaly voice and his patented talking with his hands and twitching his shoulder. I’d be on the floor cracking!

I think I need more pain pills.

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”-perfect!

[Rosencrantz]

If you changed any of the Hobbit, story wise it really would be a sacrilage (I'm sure I mispelled that). The Lord of the Rings is barely suited to literature (Don't get me wrong, I love those books as much as the most rabit Star Wars fan loves that, but it's obvious Tolkien didn't write them to sell) and so needs tweaking for a movie, but The Hobbit has the straightforward no nonsense story that only a childrens book can have.

Anyway, I'd have as many actors from the film Lord of the Rings as possible. Ian whatsisname, I forget needn't be much younger than as he is portrayed in the Shire - he was fifty when he went "There and Back Again" as it were. Smaug will be interesting to see, I always imagine him as a great golden red dragon (the illustration on the front of my first copy of The Hobbit as of an ethereal Bilbo walking into Smaug's lair, damn good it was too, so it stuck)

Rosencrantz 

[Donnachaidh]

Brian Blessed (Prince Vultan in the 80's Flash Gordon movie) for Thorin.

He's loud, has presence, and can do bombastic

[Perambulator]

Gah! My eyes!!!

(he's perfect!)