Hollywood meets Hobbiton

[serai]

My excellent good friend Cat and I were chatting today, and we were wondering what LOTR would be like if the cast were all Hollywood A-List performers. Perhaps a concept others have tackled before, but we had fun with it.

So here's our cast listing for the epic three-part Lord of the Rings, as packaged by CAA and William Morris...



Lord of the Rings - The Cast From Hell

Ashton Kutcher as Frodo Baggins
Tom Cruise as Aragorn son of Arathorn
Sean Connery as Gandalf the Grey
Adam Sandler as Sam Gamgee
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took
Bruce Willis as Boromir of Gondor
Leo DiCaprio as Legolas Greenleaf
Danny DeVito as Gimli son of Gloin
Harrison Ford as Elrond Half-Elven
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Arwen Undomiel
Cameron Diaz as Lady Galadriel
Russell Crowe as Lord Celeborn
George Clooney as Haldir of Lorien
Jim Carrey as Gollum
Clint Eastwood as Saruman the White
Mike Myers as Grima Wormtongue
Brad Pitt as Eomer son of Eomund
Mel Gibson as Theoden King
Jennifer Lopez as The Lady Eowyn
Keanu Reeves as Faramir of Gondor
Jack Nicholson as Denethor the Steward
Tom Hanks as Bilbo Baggins
Drew Barrymore as Rosie Cotton
Anne Bancroft as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
Robin Williams as Tom Bombadil
Meg Ryan as Goldberry
Christopher Walken as The Witch-King of Angmar
Tim Allen as The Mouth of Sauron
The Rock as Lurtz
Peter Falk as The Dark Lord Sauron

And of course, Arnold Schwarznegger as The Balrog


The three films would have three different directors, because a project that took that long couldn't go without a changeover in personnel.

The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Joel Schumacher
The Two Towers, directed by Michael Bay
and
The Return of the King, directed by Steven Spielberg


Of course, the music would be by John Williams, and the costumes by whoever did Legend.


Edited to reflect some terribly clever suggestions by readers. Thanks!

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Re: safe! safe!

[serai1.livejournal.com]

As far as the book thing goes, I beg to differ! Tom Cruise starred in Interview with the Vampire and, Born on the Fourth of July, Sean Connery in Name of the Rose, Ben Affleck in The Sum of All Fears, Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley and All the Pretty Horses, Bruce Willis in North, Leo DiCaprio in Total Eclipse (about the poet Rimbaud), Danny DeVito in War of the Roses, Harrison Ford in the Jack Ryan films, Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Haunting, Cameron Diaz in The Last Supper, Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind and Master and Commander, George Clooney, in Out of Sight and The Thin Red Line, Jim Carrey in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Bridges of Madison County, Brad Pitt in Interview, Legends of the Fall and Fight Club, Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight, Mel Gibson in Hamlet (can't get more literary than that), Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing, Jack Nicholson in The Shining, Drew Barrymore in Firestarter, Tom Hanks in The Green Mile and Forrest Gump, Robin Williams in The Bicentennial Man and What Dreams May Come, Christopher Walken in The Dead Zone and Sleepy Hollow - hell, even Arnold starred in Total Recall (by Philip K. Dick, no less).

Only a couple of our stars have not done any book-based projects. :)