Hypothetical Studio: The Lord of the Rings (As Cast in the 1980s)
source: http://www.popbunker.net/2010/07/hypothetical-studio-lord-rings-casted-1980s/
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I have to imagine that many, many readers of our site occupy an insane amount of time discussing with friends the casting of some iconic book or comic property for when it finally gets adapted for the big screen. My circle of friends and I would waste hours on my friends Steve and Jeff’s porch, drinking cheap beer and smoking… cigarettes, while trying to come up with our dream cast for various projects. By far the one we spent the most time on was The Lord of the Rings. We had this thing figured out… and the results of those nights are incorporated a good deal in this week’s Hypothetical Studio.
Filmmaking in the 1980s was much like the rest of the 80s – a study in gluttonous excess. We maxed out our credit cards; we bought boats, cars, and giant houses we didn’t need; we snorted seven pounds of cocaine a month (ok, not me, but coke was popular in the 80s, right?) and took the biggest and best of everything because the bigger and more obnoxious something was, the better it would be, yeah?
So it is with that in mind that we cast our The Lord of the Rings in the spirit of the 1980s.
With this cast and this story, you have to start off with Aragorn. Why start there? More on that later, but the main reason is the who to perfectly play Aragorn. The reason Frodo does not get top billing is because a real little person will have to be used. There is nothing wrong with that (it would in fact be closer to my idea of what a Halfling looks like), but there is only one semi familiar 80s little person of the right age and he does not have near the drawing power of our top billed cast.
One thing that many LOTR purists were upset about was the exclusion of Tom Bombidil in the aughts The Lord of the Rings. That is addressed in the 1980s version. As is the lack of any skin color but white. Quite possibly at the same time.
We also have pop idols, a creature effects master, knights, and several film icons. Strap in.
>>Finish this story at the link
Filmmaking in the 1980s was much like the rest of the 80s – a study in gluttonous excess. We maxed out our credit cards; we bought boats, cars, and giant houses we didn’t need; we snorted seven pounds of cocaine a month (ok, not me, but coke was popular in the 80s, right?) and took the biggest and best of everything because the bigger and more obnoxious something was, the better it would be, yeah?
So it is with that in mind that we cast our The Lord of the Rings in the spirit of the 1980s.
With this cast and this story, you have to start off with Aragorn. Why start there? More on that later, but the main reason is the who to perfectly play Aragorn. The reason Frodo does not get top billing is because a real little person will have to be used. There is nothing wrong with that (it would in fact be closer to my idea of what a Halfling looks like), but there is only one semi familiar 80s little person of the right age and he does not have near the drawing power of our top billed cast.
One thing that many LOTR purists were upset about was the exclusion of Tom Bombidil in the aughts The Lord of the Rings. That is addressed in the 1980s version. As is the lack of any skin color but white. Quite possibly at the same time.
We also have pop idols, a creature effects master, knights, and several film icons. Strap in.
>>Finish this story at the link
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