>says no to Lord of the Rings >misses out on a $500 million payday>gets butthurt>says yes to the next big budget fantasy movie>it nukes his whole career
>>217358816He was like 80 at the time so he said he had a good run and decided to retire for the next decade until he died. LotR is better without him and he likely wouldn't have been casted as Gandalf. His accent is too goofy and intense.
>I'll take Le Tits Now for $400
I saw League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a teen when it opened, and I remember enjoying it somewhat. It wasn't kino, but it wasn't so terrible that I'd quit making movies afterward. He took the criticism too seriously, I think
>>217358816A lot big name actors turned down roles in The Lord of the Rings, mostly because the long term commitment and moving to New Zealand for years.
>>217358856>likely wouldn't have been casted as Gandalfbruh, they wouldnt have offered him $30m and 15% of gross if they were uncertain
Thank god they both passed
>>217358816>fly, you foolshno thanks. ian mckellen was perfect.
>>217358869Someone gave it to me for my birthday so naturally in the days of DVDs I rewatched it like 5 times. Can't remember shit from the plot except a big submarine
>>217358816What are you talking about? Sir Billi was a smash hit.
>>217358856He was ok as a gray robed, bearded old mentor in The Name of the Rose, but he was also more than 20 years younger at the time.
>>217358869It was NOT kino. It had a good premise (victorian era Justice League) and the adition of Dorian Grey was genious. But the execution is sloppy and laughable. Combining man in the iron mask with Moriarty was retarded. Me and my friends always hated it. Years later i was flipping channels and this happened>movie comes on>bobby cops in 1880s england are banging on a WWI era tankInteresting>next scene shock troopers blow up a Zepplin factoryNow you had my curiosity now you have my atten...>man in ugly retarded maks walks out Noooooo its just league of extraordinary gentleman>turn tv off
>>217358869The production was a disaster, the director quit the film business afterward which is a shame because he also did the first Blade movie which was great.
>>217358906I'm sure Connery would have done fine, but Cage absolutely not kek
>>217358953Had the dementia already started setting in when he did that? The whole thing was so bizarre that it seemed like something he was tricked into by hollywood leeches looking to advantage of him
>>217358906My friendsah... heh... You, uh, bow to no-one...
For me, Connery had always been old. Same as Leslie Nielsen or More Gun Free Man.
>>217359119This but Christopher Lloyd
APOLOGIZE
>>217358816I can't blame himTurning down LOTR was a highly highly dumb thing to doGreat actor not great at picking movies though
>>217359038His grandson was the director or something.
>>217359914Damn, imagine being that guy and knowing you’re responsible for tarnishing connery’s legacy
>>217358816the way it gets told it's absolutely hilarioushe rejected it because he "didn't get it", so when he was presented with LoEG and "didn't get it" again, he thought it must be a guaranteed hit
>500millThe cast of lord of the rings earned very little In the grand scheme of things.You have the remember the bigwigs chanced like 150mill usd on something that could easily fail and they made sure they took their money back+ profits and designed the contracts around that.Think I heard merry/pippin netted around 300k total. Aragon around 2mill and frodo 3million.I reckon gandalf made maybe 3 million.
>>217359715Tut's mir Leid, milord. I kneel.
His wife or daughter or someone was friends with the person who wrote the script, so he did it as a favour. That person later went on to become a "Real Housewife" in one of the English versions of the show.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12926306/?ref_=nm_knf_c_3
>>217358906>Aragorn Cagewe missed out on vultrakino, bros...
>>217360675Those actors were no-names who were just happy to have their big breaks. Connery was supposed to be the megastar that brought in the normie audience, so they offered him 15% of gross. Not net profit, but gross. So even if they wanted to, they couldn’t screw him over with hollywood accounting like they often do to actors who are dumb enough to accept a percentage of the net profit
>>217358974yeah the idea is cool, but even as a kid i couldn't help but think>tom sawyer, tom fucking sawyer is the lead's kid and is a crack shot with a rifle?the vampire chick was hot and captain nemo was cool as fuck from what i remember
who
He was already too big to fail. Just like Falcohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2hYQsJ9yQ
>>217358964i felt so bad for the books, all because that murderer creep was afraid of humor...
>>217359038nothing Hollywood about Sir Bili - that shit was straight up Scottish
>>217359119Have you never seen his Bond movies? The Longest Day? The Hill? He wasn't some whippersnapper in those either but you surely don't see the elderly Connery on the screen.>>217360558He should have followed the philosophy of the great Gary Busey on the matter.
>>217358906Aragon as Nick Cage (you read that right, I'm not being dyslexic) would have been the greatest performance in acting history.
I like League of Extraordinary Gentleman
>>217358856>>217358906go to be Patrick
>>217359715kino
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>>217358816>>217358906Reminder Sam Neill also passed on LOTR to do Jurassic Park III.
>>217358974Must be retarded, that movie is great
>>217363057>accept short commitment for more money vs multi-year commitment for less moneymust have been a tough decision.
>>217363067And yet clearly the wrong one as well :-)
>>217358906This version would have been forgotten along with the rest of the fantasyslop that came out of the 90s. Glad they passed on it
>>217358917>>217358869>>217359017Yeah I don't know how people are inferring that Connery would have ruined LOTRBy that point Sean Connery had been typecast as Elderly Mentor Guy and the movies weren't always great but I don't recall him ever shitting up a performance the way, say, Late Brando did
>Nicolas Cage was offered Aragorn>Sean Connery was offered Gandalf>Uma Thurman was offered Eowyn>Ethan Hawke was offered FaramirIt's crazy how we are in the ONE timeline where the Lord of the Rings was just perfect.
>>217358816Still the best dragon though...
>>217359119Connery aside you made me curious about the other two, so I looked them up. Young Leslie had kind of a chad look to him. Young Morgan was just some random black kid though, getting old really helped him look more distinctive.
I like that thief/heist movie he did with Catherine Zeta Jones. Definitely not kino. But I remember watching it a bunch as a kid.
>>217363384I don't know if it's just the photography style, but something about Morgan there is strongly reminding me of ... some jazz, blues, swing musician; like an old album cover, that sort of thing
>>217358856>casted
YOUR THE HOBBIT NOW, DAWG
>>217360558>he rejected it because he "didn't get it"This never made sense to me, he had no problems with Zandor but didnt understand the most popular and accessible fantasy book?
>would you rather spend 3 months filming in New Zealand or a couple days recording lines right where you live?keep in mind he was a geriatric multi millionaire
>>217363817>Dostoevskyyou're the nigger and you're not my friend
