>Aragorn Will Be Recast in 'Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' (EXCLUSIVE) - (via @KnightEdgeMedia)>Today, we at Knight Edge Media have learned exclusively that the character of Aragorn will be recast with a younger actor in the upcoming Lord of the Rings spin-off film, The Hunt for GollumWho should be cast as Aragorn?
>>216494173maybe aaron taylor johnson
>>216494173Idris Elba
>>216494173Paul Dano
>>216494173A heckin' black trans woman, I honestly hold these opinions and am not just desperate for (you)s
>>216494359Dude stfu fag
>>216494253Too short>>216494324Too old>>216494333No juice
>>216494173Aragorn didn't even know Gollum existed. Not in the books, not in the movies.
>>216494173greatthey will cast zendaya and she will be the lost daughter of Arathorn and true heir of gondor or some shit like that.
Why didn't Viggo return?
>>216494173
>>216494439older than gandalf
>>216494173>Who should be cast as Aragorn?None other than Viggo Mortensen (using additional de-ageing).
>>216494432>eyo we was Numenoreans and shiiiiiet, Isildur was really an orc
>>216494518They tried that with Indiana Jones. The problem is a 60 year old man sounds very different from a 25 year old man and the human ear notices right away
>>216494630Old people move like old people.
>>216494518there is an story about aragorn as king elessar in his last days ruling gondor.they could show him telling the stories about the war of the ring to his grandchildren or whatever.but its not going to happen.
>>216494485Damn, you're right. Viggo is older now than Ian was when they filmed LOTR.
>>216494630Yeah, voicing may be the main issue with it. What >>216494658 pointed out is also valid (see The Irishman), yet most of it can be mitigated with body-doubles.The de-aging itself may also take relatively less effort, not only due to newer techniques - compared with previously attempt like in Rogue One - but also since at the time of the LOTR all main actors did lifecasts of their faces, preserving how they'd looked. Viggo's voice would be a challenge though.
>>216494173>The Hunt for GollumBut we already know they won't find him.Wait did anyone even tried to find him to begin with? Iirc only Bilbo met him and no one cared until Frodo crossed his path.
>>216494173why the fuck are they making shit about fucking GallomI cannot express my thorough disinterest for this character into words
>>216494173>let's turn the short children's novel into an epic CGI slop trilogy>let's not adapt Tolkien's writings, but instead some fanfic nonsense with diversity quotas and ugly british actors as elves>what should we do next? Oh yes, let's turn Aragorn's one line about hunting Gollum into a three hour blockbusterWhoever is in charge of this IP needs to be shot into outer space
Steve from stranger things
>>216494173Because that always works great.
>>216494173They already did a Gollum video game and it sucked monkey ass
>>216495679Obi Wan.
>>216495534>>let's not adapt Tolkien's writingsExactly. Lets not. Just think of what could be>The Teleri, a tribe of dark skinned fishermen, wronged by white supremacist mad man, Feanor and his MMEGA cult>Luthien, a heckin’ smart and strong woman who dunks on Morgoth (there is no Beren in the adaptation)>Elrond: The Early Years - three hours of homoerotic tension between him and GlorfindelConfining Hollywood to only making fanfiction is the best outcome because it doesnt bastardize anything Tolkien actually wrote and normal people can safely dismiss it.
>>216495977>Elrond: The Early Years - three hours of homoerotic tension between him and GlorfindelAm I an irredeemable letterboxdfag if this actually piqued my interest?
>>216495976Han Solo.
>>216494173Ke Huy Quan
>>216495381Gandalf tried to find Gollum.
>>216494173>>216494518wait wtf the original cast isn’t in this? not interested, dropped
>>216495534Yes, exactly. Death of the author.
>>216496491Everyone is in except Virgo.
>>216494518He doesn't want to be in it, that's why they're recasting him
>>216497152Based. He knows it's shit after the Hobbit disaster.
>>216496979Cool. It's been a while since we got some Christopher Lee kino
>>216497188Everyone liked the Hobbit movies except contrarians in the internet. They did 900m each for a reason.
>>216494413Nice try, but you fail.
>>216497247Don't care. They are objectively bad.
>>216495534>let's turn Aragorn's one line about hunting Gollum into a three hour blockbusterI read somewhere that this could be multiple movies, there is some sort of war going on and they are going to cover that too.
>>216495977>there is no Beren in the adaptationkek
>>216495483easiest member berries since he's CG, everyone else in the cast looks too old now to play the same character
>>216496979????????? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa???????What the FUCK is that faggot doing??????????
>>216497247Not really. Me and my dad watched the first one and hated it, never even bothered with the others. Everyone I knew hated it too. Maybe if you were in middle school they liked it but adults knew it was shit.
>>216497247the reason is they were still coasting off the sterling reputation of the LotR trilogy
>>216497220kek
Goddamn they sure want to milk dry that franchise
>>216494173>>216494518>>216497706LMAO I read this as “Aragorn will be racist” my bad
>>216497706Mostly directing movies now
>>216495483Agreed gollum is annoying. Hopefully he's barely in it because they can't find him. If he just shows up for one or two encounters like in the hobbit that would be ideal
>>216494324Pretty sure they were originally intending to use a black but changed their minds now that its obvious no one is paying to see that kind of shit anymore.
>>216497621The first one was pretty good except for some bad dwarf depictions. It had the adventurous feeling of the book. The second one was stretched to make a third and that's why it sucked after that.
>>216494173Clearly a perfect role to launch John Boyega's big comeback.
>>216494333Worst actor in SAG btw
>>216494173The only good Tolkien adaptation is Fellowship of the Ring. This will suck like most of the others. Christopher Tolkien was right about literally everything and the Jackson franchise is spiritually vapid and cynical Hollywood action movies for 14 year old boys
>>216499186The Hobbit 1977 is pretty good for a made-for-tv Rankin Bass film
>Gollum game flops so horribly it's delisted and is likely to be lost media>Why not make a movie too?
they keep milking it huh
>>216499467I like the animated LotR in part because it's only the first two books but mostly for the rotoscoping kino
W E
>>216495381The internet says Gandalf asked Aragorn to look for gollum and that they knew gollum was following the fellowship, but I don’t see where that’s written down anywhere.
>>216499186The 1981 BBC radio adaptation was quite good
>>216494395No, this isn't your safe space cunt.
>>216496929>Death of the author.The clarion cry of the midwit.
>when Gollum finds the ring again and he starts flossing while repeating "Oppa Gollum Style"
>>216495483gollum is the emotional heart of LOTR and easily the most well-rendered character in the books. He's empathetic because of how well Tolkien understood Grendel and he poured a lot of that into the character. He's the bridge that keeps everything from being black and white, good vs. evil.It comes across in LOTR, but only because of Tolkien's sensitivity as a writer. It'll be a mess working from an original script.
>>216501444Maybe if Amazon was making it but I think Peter Jackson is.
>>216502263Lol at best Jackson will have a producing credit. Hes not directing anything but documentaries anymore
>>216494333Austin Butler would be better
>>216494173Stuart Townsend
>>216494173Really scraping the bottom of the barrel aren't they? Making a whole film out of Aragorn tracking down Gollum. Something that was barely expounded on even in the book.
>>216494173This shit is going to flop so hardEven normies are angry that this even exists
>>216494173BLACKESTBANTUESTBIG LIPPEDSPEARCHUCKINGRED LIPPEDAPE-LIKE
>>216494173Elliot Page.
>>216494173Literally any black guy will do
>>216499944>aragorn is a nog>arwen is still whiteKek
>>216500582Very good. I just finished the audiobooks of them (get a library card Anons!).
>>216494333Classic
>>216494173A Black Tranny to honor Tolkien
Doesn't it make more sense to make stories from the Silmarillion? Or maybe children of Hurin.Or is there a rights issue? Who leads the Tolkien estate these days?
>>216494173Stuart Townsend. It's time to redeem himself.
>>216504651Nobody has the rights to adapt the Silmarillion or CoH.
>>216494173Lizzo
>>216494173FUCK
>>216494173This movie could be cools as a sort of high fantasy Jeremiah Johnson but you just know they'll fuck it up.
>>216499607They have two other movies planned after this.
>>216494173>Some utter garbage that will have nothing to do with Tolkien's actual work and will at best be marginally superior to the Rings of Power which isn't hard to pull off at all>Also Aragorn will probably be blackOh. I can't wait...
>>216497621The M4 book edit is good. It's the only way I watch The Hobbit nowThe intermission is a shit idea and I've seen plenty of people agreeing online. He reworked the edit last year and still kept the fucking intermission, and I don't understand his attachment to it.
>>216494413Actually, Gandalf mentions Aragorn searching for Gollum in the books.Too bad it's one line and they're making an entire movie of it.
>>216506432I've seen the Maple Books edit and liked it.
>>216506462He doesn't even find Gollum until he gives up and starts his (almost 10 year) journey back which he then runs into him randomly, captures him and hands him off to Legolas (Gollum escapes shortly after)For the movie they have to fill that entire 10 years or condense it and god knows how they'll fuck it. Maybe Aragon will run into some female elf woman warrior. Or make friends with an Orc. Or who knows what other stupid shit they'll shove in.
Who will play Aragorn's female cousin that constantly saves his ass in every situation and provides him with the inspiration for his speech in Return of the King?
>>216504840kek
>>216506432>M4 book editYeah that makes it watchable. The last act with the battle of the five armies is still trash though. No editing can fix that.
>>216494333
>>216506733Not even the Maple Films edit could fix that. Battle is unsalvageable film. Even Peter Jackson knew it before he made it.
>Wasn't into LotR at the time>The Hobbit comes out>Eventually go and see one in the cinema>It's The Battle of Five Armies>Three hours of a giant, pointless fight between various dudes in armorI regret going to it so much. I missed out on the amazing experience of seeing the original trilogy on the big screen but got subjected to THAT instead.
Ok if Viggo isn’t in that kind of sucks but what about all the other side-jackasses like the guy from LOST? Are they in? What do they look like these days if Viggo is too haggard to reprise his role?
Please be blackI want to see the world fucking burn
>>216506578>>216508421Peter Jackson is making this, they’re probably going to get a vaguely similar guy to pretend to be Aragorn. It will be Hobbit tier at worst, it’s not going to be some creepy AI-written kikefest like Amazon.
wtf is this shit? who asked for this shit?
>>216508454Yeah, being The Hobbit tier is the best we can hope for. It'll be a stain on the franchise, but not the spit in the face of Tolkien that Rings of Power was.
>>216494173A black man, just like Snape
>>216494173hopefully they find someone who can sell a coherent tax policy
>>216494518He wouldn't do it, he's got to much artistic integrity.>>216498016Same.
>>216494173I had assumed they were already shooting. Christ it takes forever for these retards to make things these days.
>>216494173I'm mad as all hell they're doing this.It won't have a scrap of Tolkien's DNA in there, so it's going to be hacks trying to ape his style, which will never work, especially in our current climate. I get why they're doing it - LotR was that one trilogy that did almost everything right and people love it for a reason, so of course they want to recapture that magic. But it won't work, and it's stupid to even try.Heh, captcha was NGG0R.
>>216494413Retard>>216506462>one lineActually, Gandalf goes into a good amount of detail about it.
>>216499999The story is told by Gandalf at the council of Elrond.
it's going to be anal juice
>>216494173They're going to replace him with a nigger.
I wish they'd leave the franchise alone. Just make lego sets of LOTR and leave it alone.
>>216508891>Actually, Gandalf goes into a good amount of detail about it.Fair point, but not enough detail that we can get a whole movie about it.
>>216494173Aragorn is an 87 year old man during the time when these events happen.
>>216494173some gay nigger
>>216494173Daniel Day-Lewis. He will de-age himself because he's just that committed to the role. Another easy Oscar!
>>216508970Tolkien hated racist shits like you btw
>>216509186Yeah and he lived to be 210 so he's not even middle aged.
>>216509270But not as much as he hated darkies. Proof? They are all evil, base creatures in his works.
>>216509270Actually he didnt
>>216494173Leo Suter, I'd guess.
>>216509326But how will they make Aragorn lose his shirt for every scene?
>>216509296>>216509313The only romance is his book is about two characters with two different races.Tolkien hated any kind of prejudice.
>>216509407Elves are just nordics, ie. better and more pure than the other whites.
>>216509407The world you created inside your head isnt real
>>216497247Strange definition of "everyone" you have there.
>>216509353If there's a will, there's a way. BTW, i heard that this guy is going to be the new Bond and i called bull but he looks completely different clean shaven so it could work. only in 2025 would a tall English chad like him be relegated to a BBC detective show as his most recent work.
>>216495483Andy Serkis is very easy to work with
This casting was the definition of perfection and it will never be topped by any film ever again.
>>216509418They are still different races.
>>216509493Imagine it was made today>Timothée Chalamet as Frodo>Zendaya as Arwen>Anya Taylor-Joy as Lady Galadriel>The Rock as Gimli>Pedro Pascal with a fake beard as Gandalf>BTS as "Elves"
>>216509493Where's the dwarf guy
>>216509711far left
>>216509493Yeah, even if we live to see things getting better, even if a more skilled director gets the project, a remake of the original trilogy will never live up to what we got.Every single actor was perfect for their role, and clearly gave a massive shit about doing the work justice.
>>216497247The first one was ok, but the others sucked balls, and the high framerate horseshit made everything look extra fake.
>>216494333>autistic screaminghe'd actually be a good Gollum
>>216508395Apparently at least Serkis (duh), McKellen, Wood, Bean and Bloom are in.
Gollum is by far the worst thing about the Lord of the Rings movies. Andy Serkis fucking sucks
>>216510312That's a bit harsh, but I must admit the audible version of the book is pretty bad. Serkis is great but he can't sing for shit and some of the voices he does is terrible. I will always compare his Tom Bombadil to those episodes of Keeping Up Appearances where Hyacinth sings at Emmett, who clearly fucking hates it.
>>216510312He's alright, but he was overused for "remember the hobbits are still doing their thing!" scenes in between the actual fun action stuff and epic speeches in Rohan and Gondor.
this guy? Obviously dyeing his hair
>>216494432Hopefully they rewrite the story and have Sauron replace all elves and white men and show how the last ones are degraded and raped before they're thrown into Mount Doom.
>>216510660He's old now and looks like shit, swedes in general age terribly.
>>216494173I thought it said aragorn will be racist in Lord of the Rings lol
>>216495381>Gandalf, during the 17 years he was researching the Ring and doing other stuff, caught Gollum, interrogated him, and then let him go >Gollum is then captured by Mordor, tortured in Barad-Dur by Sauron himself, where he gives up the names "Shire, Baggins," then is released >Learning of this, Gandalf hires Aragorn to hunt Gollum, who finds him and hands him over to the elves of Mirkwood >Sauron attacks Mirkwood as a feint so Gollum can escape This is basically the entirety of the story as told in the book, and the movie doesn't even really mention any of it besides briefly showing Gollum being tortured. Hackson and Serkis want to stretch this out into a 3 hour movie lol
>>216495260They should use the same mo-cap from Gollum to to both Gandalf and Aragorn, that would not only keep the same actors but also make Gollum look less fake.This is gonna be a disaster anyway, just like >>216495483
>>216495977>Elrond: The Early Years - three hours of homoerotic tension between him and GlorfindelNgl this sounds like kino
>>216494173Damn, they're really going to scrape the arse out of this barrel aren't they?
>>216511243why did sauron want gollum to escape mirkwood?
>>216511622They fucked
>>216494630They have voice de-aging too, but they didn't use it with Indy for whatever reason
>>216494173It will definitely do as good as the Gollum video game!
>>216508970Why do they always give them white people hair?
>>216509493Gimli is actually the tallest. Never noticed he was tall in the Sliders show, just remembered him as the physics nerd.
>>216494173Jazz from I am Jazz.
>>216509493>LotR is the ultimate manlet fantasyWe bow to no one
>>216511880>Never noticed he was tall in the Sliders showHow, he was the largest of the cast by far.
>>216494173Scott eastwood
>>216494439He's like 80 years old now
>>216509270you will go to hell for speaking ill of the dead, let alone twisting their words and work for your own benefit
Chris Hemsworth boom
>>216511622Sauron had no direct leads on the location of the Ring after Frodo left the Shire. Gollum is a wild card that would never give up his hunt for the Ring, so Sauron believed that Gollum being loose would eventually lead him to it. He had no compulsions sending a few hundred orcs into a suicide mission just on the offhand chance Gollum could aid him in finding the Ring
>>216512160Very handsome but unfortunately a charisma black hole. He should stick to rom-coms
>>216509647>The Rock as Gimliit would have to be dinklage or he'd shut the production down
>>216494518They can still use Viggo as an older, maybe close to his death Elessar and he thinks back when he was on the hunt for Gollum.
>>216494173Obviously Timothee
>>216509647>Anya Taylor-Joy as Lady Galadriellol no, Florence Pig
>>216514836I love that cute little piggy like you wouldn't believe.
>>216494173me, with no doubt
>>216514954>Easterling soldier #37
>>216494173bad decision, viggo would bring a billy for them at least now its joever.
>>216515044thanks god at least ain't orc
shan't be watching this slop, i bet they won't even use forced perspective
>>216494253Kickass was his first and only good movie and even then he was an annoying little bitch in it. Fuck off.
>>216494253fuck no. stop.
