Some Rings trivia for y'all. The film geeks among you may already know this, but whatever.
1. The first Orc Aragorn kills on Pelenor Fields is Viggo Mortensen's son.
2. Stuart Townsend was originally cast as Aragorn, and was in New Zealand when, according to IMDB.com, "after four days of shooting" he left the production because "they realized he was too young for the role". In fact, Townsend was kicked off because he was an arrogant bastard that didn't get along with the other actors and above all Peter Jackson. Has anyone seen him in anything memorable since then? No? Now isn't that a surprise.
3. Liv Tyler had some serious problems during the shoot. She couldn't handle a horse at all, and when she finally figured out how to sit in a saddle, she managed to stab her horse over and over while attempting to sheathe her sword. Her character, Arwen, was also supposed to be at Helm's Deep for some reason, and she was there to film it. However, when she fired her bow she kept letting go of the bow instead of the arrow, hitting herself in the face over and over. In the end, Weta Digital made her hair blond so Jackson wouldn't have to reshoot the shots where she's just standing there.
4. Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf, for a percentage of the profits. He turned it down. Had he accepted, he would have made 450 million New Zealand dollars (about 2.2 billion kronor) and counting. Good call, Mr Connery. He went on to do The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen instead (which I won't link to on sheer principle, since its such a horrid POS). Who else was in that movie? Stuart Townsend, ladies and gentlemen. Good choice to the both of you.
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Tur att inte den gode herr Connery fick rollen. Kan inte tänka mig Gandalf med hans skotska dialekt.
Schoo Frrrodo where isch the rrring.
Väldig tur. Problemet är att han gör varje roll till Sean Connery, istället för tvärtom.
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