actor for aragorn

mithrilminer · 11-23-2002, 02:46 PM

I remember reading that another actor was originally cast to play aragorn but was replaced by Mortensen- does anyone remember who this was?

Andúril · 11-23-2002, 03:25 PM

Stuart Townsend.

***IronParrot*** · 11-23-2002, 11:02 PM

Yeah... according to Peter Jackson, the guy seemed right for the part at auditions, but when shooting began and he got into costume and all, Jackson realized that he wasn't right for the part.

Eowyn of Rohan · 11-24-2002, 05:52 AM

I heard it was scheduling conflicts.

GandalfTheWhite · 11-26-2002, 12:30 AM

wouldnt that suck to get into your costume and stuff and then have the director be like hmmm you look to young get out of here?

Ërendil · 12-15-2002, 05:53 PM

Yeah, that would be horrible

Varda Oiolosseo · 12-15-2002, 05:55 PM

That would be horrible!!
If it was me I'd feel pretty upset!

claudia silver · 12-15-2002, 08:34 PM

You can read Stuart Townsend's version of events at:

http://speculativevision.com/scifi_news/lotr/

Blackboar · 12-16-2002, 02:49 PM

Thanks!

I'd hate that too

Erawyn · 12-16-2002, 10:39 PM

Stuart Townsend would have made a bad Aragorn!!!

Millane · 12-17-2002, 10:11 AM

i couldnt be bothered reading that Stuart Townsend thing but what i read in Empire was that he was a big fan and about 4 days into it he said he thought he was too young then PJ decided to agree and they ditched him
they had that fella from willow cast for Bilbo and some other chick i forget for Eowyn

Varda Oiolosseo · 12-17-2002, 01:35 PM

Yeah i bet he would be gutted even if he agreed he was too young!! I mean it's the lead role in LOTR!!
I wonder what he would have been like?
I doubt very much he would be as good as Viggo!

I read that Christopher Lee had a feeling years ago that they would do a LOTR film and that he would be cast as Saruman! and he was!!

eowyngirl14 · 12-25-2002, 06:05 PM

I just read the artical posted by claudia.(Thanx, it was great!) Stuart Townsend sounds like a sore loser to me. I mean he must have been soooo embarresed to be fired the day before filming, and then they didn't even pay him! But I think he is just being spitful by not going to see either lotr movie. He should be happy that he was chosen in the first place and had the chance to meet such wonderful people. (ex. Peter Jackson, Elija Wood, and Orlando Bloom...ect) I think that Peter Jackson probably should have paid him. If only to prevent hardfeelings. Does anyone know where I can see a picture of Stuart Townsend, especcialy appreciated would be a picture of him in his Aragorn costume...

samwise of the shire · 12-26-2002, 05:15 PM

Eowyn I dont have a picture of him in Aragorn costume but I do have a website that I JUST looked up http://www.stuarttownsend.org
Be prepared for a fright. Just thank goodness PJ chose Viggo...he is MUCH better suited for Aragorn.
Cheers,
Sam

Sminty_Smeagol · 12-26-2002, 06:54 PM

thank goodness they chose Viggo! He has a much more rugged look than Stuart seems to possess... and as much (or as little) as I know either or them, viggo seems much more gentlemanly.

Coney · 12-26-2002, 07:07 PM

The Townsend bloke looks more suited for the part of Haldir.

Amandil · 12-27-2002, 01:04 PM

When the movies just started to be made, I got all confused and thought Viggo would be Boromir and Sean Bean would be Aragorn. I wonder how that would have turned out?!

I tried to think back to previous roles, and it seems that Bean has pretty much only been cast as a baddy -- Janus/006 in Goldeneye, that Irish terrorist in Patriot Games, Boromir... I wonder if he could have pulled it off as Aragorn? Ach, who cares? Viggo does fine.

eowyngirl14 · 12-27-2002, 05:46 PM

I am very very very very very very very very very very very very very glad that thye chose Viggo. He is sooo much better looking and probobly better for the part of Aragorn!

Amandil · 12-27-2002, 06:30 PM

Interesting. I'm not very well equipped for weighing the looks of Viggo against the looks of Sean Bean. My wife, however, was crestfallen when she (i.e., we) learned that Viggo, rather than Sean Bean, would play Aragorn. She got over it, though!

Millane · 12-28-2002, 01:20 AM

Didnt PJ want Daniel Day Lewis to play aragorn before Stuart Townsend... coz i must admit he would have been an awesome Aragorn aswell... all you need is Hawkeye togrow a beard

11-23-2002, 02:46 PM	#1
mithrilminer Sapling Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1	actor for aragorn I remember reading that another actor was originally cast to play aragorn but was replaced by Mortensen- does anyone remember who this was?

11-23-2002, 11:02 PM	#3
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Yeah... according to Peter Jackson, the guy seemed right for the part at auditions, but when shooting began and he got into costume and all, Jackson realized that he wasn't right for the part. __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

11-24-2002, 05:52 AM	#4
Eowyn of Rohan Enting Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Chicago, IL, USA Posts: 73	I heard it was scheduling conflicts. __________________ It's called TTTTTTTT, Tolkien's Time Testing The Two Tower's Trailer Trauma. I'm sorry to say, there is no cure. It's chronic and progressively debilitating. You are doomed. ~ Eowyn killed the Witchking, not Merry. ~

11-26-2002, 12:30 AM	#5
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	wouldnt that suck to get into your costume and stuff and then have the director be like hmmm you look to young get out of here? __________________ "Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council." -Gandalf The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom." -Gandalf "A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong." -Gandalf

12-15-2002, 05:53 PM	#6
Ërendil Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 389	Yeah, that would be horrible __________________ "You're one of the Abaharaki, oh I had forgotten. Look at me, I am completly drenched! I do hate the rain, it makes me so depressed..." "Hehehehe, moeru moeru!" "That's it, set it all on fire; we're gonna smoke out Escaflowne!" "Oh, I hit the wrong target... never mind that creature was useless to us anyway. Our orders were to get the girl? So he isn't our concern, we don't need him!" ^_^ Isn't Dilandau just fantastic? You just have to love the insane, murderous pyro :-D

11-23-2002, 03:25 PM	#2
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	Stuart Townsend.

12-15-2002, 05:55 PM	#7
Varda Oiolosseo Tea Bag Queen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 973	That would be horrible!! If it was me I'd feel pretty upset!

12-15-2002, 08:34 PM	#8
claudia silver Enting Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: North West England Posts: 58	You can read Stuart Townsend's version of events at: http://speculativevision.com/scifi_news/lotr/ __________________ "The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears." Boromir

12-16-2002, 02:49 PM	#9
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	Thanks! I'd hate that too

12-16-2002, 10:39 PM	#10
Erawyn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: america junior Posts: 320	Stuart Townsend would have made a bad Aragorn!!! __________________ peace never hurt anyone "Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth." Johann Georg von Zimmermann

12-17-2002, 10:11 AM	#11
Millane The Dude Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: at the altar of my ego Posts: 1,685	i couldnt be bothered reading that Stuart Townsend thing but what i read in Empire was that he was a big fan and about 4 days into it he said he thought he was too young then PJ decided to agree and they ditched him they had that fella from willow cast for Bilbo and some other chick i forget for Eowyn __________________ Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free,

12-17-2002, 01:35 PM	#12
Varda Oiolosseo Tea Bag Queen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 973	Yeah i bet he would be gutted even if he agreed he was too young!! I mean it's the lead role in LOTR!! I wonder what he would have been like? I doubt very much he would be as good as Viggo! I read that Christopher Lee had a feeling years ago that they would do a LOTR film and that he would be cast as Saruman! and he was!! Last edited by Varda Oiolosseo : 12-17-2002 at 01:39 PM.

12-25-2002, 06:05 PM	#13
eowyngirl14 i don't know what i am talking about either, so don't ask Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,353	I just read the artical posted by claudia.(Thanx, it was great!) Stuart Townsend sounds like a sore loser to me. I mean he must have been soooo embarresed to be fired the day before filming, and then they didn't even pay him! But I think he is just being spitful by not going to see either lotr movie. He should be happy that he was chosen in the first place and had the chance to meet such wonderful people. (ex. Peter Jackson, Elija Wood, and Orlando Bloom...ect) I think that Peter Jackson probably should have paid him. If only to prevent hardfeelings. Does anyone know where I can see a picture of Stuart Townsend, especcialy appreciated would be a picture of him in his Aragorn costume... __________________ 'The coming of dawn is ever the hope to the heart of men' -Aragorn 'Then I will die as one of them' -Aragorn TTT movie “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” - Benjamin Franklin arms are made for hugging avatar from the avatar shop! made by Eowyn, Lady of Rohan

12-26-2002, 05:15 PM	#14
samwise of the shire Radically Tolkienited Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: If home is where the heart is, and my heart is in heaven...that should answer your question. <+>< Posts: 967	Eowyn I dont have a picture of him in Aragorn costume but I do have a website that I JUST looked up http://www.stuarttownsend.org Be prepared for a fright. Just thank goodness PJ chose Viggo...he is MUCH better suited for Aragorn. Cheers, Sam __________________ Jesus is my all in all <><+<><+<><+<><+<><+<><+ People who are so concerned with escapism do have a name...we call them jailers. ~J.R.R Tolkien Radically Saved, Totally Tolkienited GOD... BLESS... AMERICA...

12-26-2002, 06:54 PM	#15
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	thank goodness they chose Viggo! He has a much more rugged look than Stuart seems to possess... and as much (or as little) as I know either or them, viggo seems much more gentlemanly.

12-26-2002, 07:07 PM	#16
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	The Townsend bloke looks more suited for the part of Haldir. __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica

12-27-2002, 01:04 PM	#17
Amandil Guy-who-should-come-here-more-often Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Alberta, in spirit -- Vlaanderen, in body (Canada? Never heard of it!) Posts: 120	When the movies just started to be made, I got all confused and thought Viggo would be Boromir and Sean Bean would be Aragorn. I wonder how that would have turned out?! I tried to think back to previous roles, and it seems that Bean has pretty much only been cast as a baddy -- Janus/006 in Goldeneye, that Irish terrorist in Patriot Games, Boromir... I wonder if he could have pulled it off as Aragorn? Ach, who cares? Viggo does fine. __________________ Amandil Mithadan "Why would you want to tamper with anything Tolkien did?" --Ralph Bashki "Seeking self, I find nothing but myself, but in this I drink the cup of gall I really am. I want everything, and I may have everything, but I have nothing except what I have. What I have I know is not what will fulfill me, and I know this in the bitterness of satisfied desire. Everything I have is still not enough, and in getting everything I have, I have not myself, indeed what I have may have twisted what I am and might be into an image of my own possessions. I will to possess, but I end up possessed by what I possess." -- William Desmond (Ethics and the Between, p. 209-210) Last edited by Amandil : 12-27-2002 at 01:06 PM.

12-27-2002, 05:46 PM	#18
eowyngirl14 i don't know what i am talking about either, so don't ask Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,353	I am very very very very very very very very very very very very very glad that thye chose Viggo. He is sooo much better looking and probobly better for the part of Aragorn! __________________ 'The coming of dawn is ever the hope to the heart of men' -Aragorn 'Then I will die as one of them' -Aragorn TTT movie “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” - Benjamin Franklin arms are made for hugging avatar from the avatar shop! made by Eowyn, Lady of Rohan

12-27-2002, 06:30 PM	#19
Amandil Guy-who-should-come-here-more-often Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Alberta, in spirit -- Vlaanderen, in body (Canada? Never heard of it!) Posts: 120	Interesting. I'm not very well equipped for weighing the looks of Viggo against the looks of Sean Bean. My wife, however, was crestfallen when she (i.e., we) learned that Viggo, rather than Sean Bean, would play Aragorn. She got over it, though! __________________ Amandil Mithadan "Why would you want to tamper with anything Tolkien did?" --Ralph Bashki "Seeking self, I find nothing but myself, but in this I drink the cup of gall I really am. I want everything, and I may have everything, but I have nothing except what I have. What I have I know is not what will fulfill me, and I know this in the bitterness of satisfied desire. Everything I have is still not enough, and in getting everything I have, I have not myself, indeed what I have may have twisted what I am and might be into an image of my own possessions. I will to possess, but I end up possessed by what I possess." -- William Desmond (Ethics and the Between, p. 209-210)

12-28-2002, 01:20 AM	#20
Millane The Dude Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: at the altar of my ego Posts: 1,685	Didnt PJ want Daniel Day Lewis to play aragorn before Stuart Townsend... coz i must admit he would have been an awesome Aragorn aswell... all you need is Hawkeye togrow a beard __________________ Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free,