Re: Lord of the Rings Casting Call (WAS Re: Glorious...)

[rmhowe <magnusm@ncsu.edu>]

Poster: rmhowe <magnusm@ncsu.edu>

David KUIJT wrote:
> 
> Poster: David KUIJT <kuijt@umiacs.umd.edu>
> 
> > > I don't see the strength in Peter O'Toole that Gandalf needs, however.
> > > His frame
> > > seems too spare.
> > >
> > > Hmmmm.  A good point.  Maybe O'Toole would be a better Saruman?
> 
> I think Peter O'Toole would do very well as Gandalf, Denethor, or Theoden.
> All of them should be old men, skinny, tall, capable of switching from
> abstraction to frightening intensity in a moment.
> 
> I think Derek Jacobi would make a better Saruman, because he does a really
> good "oily", and it would take a brilliant actor to make the speeches
> standing on the steps of Orthanc that are required of Saruman -- trying to
> convince Gandalf, or Theoden, to join him even though he has betrayed them
> utterly and is entirely helpless and without power.
> 
> Sir John Gielgud would have been a wonderful Gandalf, except that I think
> he has inconveniently died in the last couple of years.
> 
> Here's a thought -- Patrick Stewart.  He could take any of the four
> "Powerful Old Men" roles (Gandalf, Denethor, Theoden, Saruman).  He'd make
> a wonderful Denethor -- I've seen him play King Lear, and you need to be
> able to transmit that sort of madness and despair.
> 
> D

Magnus wants Nigel Williamson.
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