CAST FOR THE HOBBIT ANNOUNCED
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Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
It would be small if the movie followed the book and was a single flick.
With 2 movies, I think they were planning to "pad it out", hopefully with some scenes of Gandalf, Radagast and the other wizards.
It would be small if the movie followed the book and was a single flick.
With 2 movies, I think they were planning to "pad it out", hopefully with some scenes of Gandalf, Radagast and the other wizards.
Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
Seriously for a momnet, what is with all the male BBC talent being in this movie?
given that they have cast Sean Slater from EE, I think you might be rightDid they run out of actors?
Seriously for a momnet, what is with all the male BBC talent being in this movie?
Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
I always find that funny. Lord of the Rings chopped stuff out like Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire, and yet here we're already padding.
I always find that funny. Lord of the Rings chopped stuff out like Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire, and yet here we're already padding.
Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
Yeah, but Bombadil sucked.
I wish they weren't padding...
I always find that funny. Lord of the Rings chopped stuff out like Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire, and yet here we're already padding.
Yeah, but Bombadil sucked.
I wish they weren't padding...
Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
I've always loved McCoy so this is great news.
I've always loved McCoy so this is great news.
Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is R-R-R-R-R-R-R-Radagast. A pleasure to meet you."
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is R-R-R-R-R-R-R-Radagast. A pleasure to meet you."
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Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
Wasn't he in the running for Old Bilbo, first time round? While Tom Baker was supposed to be auditioning for Gandalf.
Any word on Tennant's alleged involvement in The Hobbit, as rumoured a few weeks ago?
Wasn't he in the running for Old Bilbo, first time round? While Tom Baker was supposed to be auditioning for Gandalf.
Any word on Tennant's alleged involvement in The Hobbit, as rumoured a few weeks ago?
Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
^ Graham McTavish is a fucking giant! But IIRC, John Rhys-Davies was the tallest man onset in LOTR and he played a dwarf.
I can't help but wonder if Tennant and Armitage were up for the same role. Similar ages, shapes of faces, heights.
^ Graham McTavish is a fucking giant! But IIRC, John Rhys-Davies was the tallest man onset in LOTR and he played a dwarf.
I can't help but wonder if Tennant and Armitage were up for the same role. Similar ages, shapes of faces, heights.
Re: Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role
Woot! Woot I say!
Woot! Woot I say!
Casting for Middle-Earth: non-whites can totally audition!
There'll be orcs in The Hobbit, right? Maybe an Uruk-Hai or two? Or, failing that, I bet Weta could make some kick-ass white-face latex masks for crowd scenes, so long as they don't get any close-ups or anything. And then there's always the option of digitally repainting faces - expensive, sure, but the point is, The Hobbit is looking for all sorts of multi-ethnic actors. Perhaps we'll finally see the long-rumored Latino elf tribe?
Comedy, courtesy of the AV Club:
Though one can also see her point: any non-white actors she sees take up time that could just as easily be spent finding a scene-stealing newbie white person, and one big way casting directors get ahead in life is making just those sorts of discoveries. Even if she found some hugely talented non-white actors to grunt and walk around in orc masks, that's not really going to get her noticed, is it?
Still, a job's a job, she had one, so she shoulda played it safe. After all, this is a hugely expensive film project, not a societal statement about togetherness, equality, and going on journeys that open minds to new experiences by meeting different kinds of (non-white) people!
There'll be orcs in The Hobbit, right? Maybe an Uruk-Hai or two? Or, failing that, I bet Weta could make some kick-ass white-face latex masks for crowd scenes, so long as they don't get any close-ups or anything. And then there's always the option of digitally repainting faces - expensive, sure, but the point is, The Hobbit is looking for all sorts of multi-ethnic actors. Perhaps we'll finally see the long-rumored Latino elf tribe?
Comedy, courtesy of the AV Club:
All kidding aside, though, as much as the director may have simply been trying to save people their own valuable time, it's hard not to side with Jackson. There are certain... er, white lies society as a whole agrees to tell, and if the casting director has to waste his/her time auditioning people who are too non-white to have any reasonable expectation of getting a part, at least she's getting paid to do so, yes?
Though one can also see her point: any non-white actors she sees take up time that could just as easily be spent finding a scene-stealing newbie white person, and one big way casting directors get ahead in life is making just those sorts of discoveries. Even if she found some hugely talented non-white actors to grunt and walk around in orc masks, that's not really going to get her noticed, is it?
Still, a job's a job, she had one, so she shoulda played it safe. After all, this is a hugely expensive film project, not a societal statement about togetherness, equality, and going on journeys that open minds to new experiences by meeting different kinds of (non-white) people!
Re: Casting for Middle-Earth: non-whites can totally audition!
And while it's correct that most of the roles without makeup will be white - such is the way of LOTR, after all - it's also true there are other roles, such as goblins, where race need not be a deciding factor in casting.
And I think that's a reasonable qualifier to make.
There are of course nonwhites in Lord of the Rings... they just live far away and I doubt we'll get to the Southrons in these movies.
Indeed there will be.
And while it's correct that most of the roles without makeup will be white - such is the way of LOTR, after all - it's also true there are other roles, such as goblins, where race need not be a deciding factor in casting.
And I think that's a reasonable qualifier to make.
There are of course nonwhites in Lord of the Rings... they just live far away and I doubt we'll get to the Southrons in these movies.
Re: Casting for Middle-Earth: non-whites can totally audition!
No good reason some of the characters couldn't be other than caucasian.
No good reason some of the characters couldn't be other than caucasian.