If Stuart Townsend had played Aragorn...

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Sorry if this has been done before, but search showed nothing.

But just how bad would have the LOTRs sucked if he had played Aragorn? I just cant see that whiny bitch playing him, so I must be eternally grateful that he stepped down.

Its fun to imagine Gandolf played by Patrick Stewart though. “Number One, you shall not let him pass!” and especially after watching the X-Men. “Gandalf, why do we have to wear these yellow tights?” But Ian McKellan completely owns that role now.
Any other roles you are grateful the original actor declined?
Actors you wished had been cast in a role?
And what if Hugh Jackman had played Aragorn?
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Tom Selleck, Lucas’s first choice, as Indiana Jones. Thank god for Magnum P.I. contractual obligations.

I can’t imagine anyone else playing anyone in LOTR. Wasn’t Townsend fired (or more politely, “let go”), rather than stepped down? Viggo was PERFECT.

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I think Hugh Jackman would have played a fine Aragorn, but I expect he would have played a very *different *Aragorn, in fact probably closer to the one I imagined while reading the books. Gruffer, a little surlier. Mortensen played him a little quieter, gentler, more androgynous than the Aragorn in my mind. I remember in the book being surprised when Strider was revealed to be noble - there’s no way Mortensen would have fooled anyone, he was regal from the first frame.

Townsend, while I like him a lot, is way too young for Aragorn. Chronologically and energetically. He’d have made a great elf, but he’d be too manic and “up” as Aragorn. Even when he’s broody, he’s energized.

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Wasn’t Jackman the third choice for Wolverine (Dougray Scott got hurt)?

There is NO ONE on this planet that could have played Wolverine better than HJ.

He made me like a character I had despised for 20 years.

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Peter Jackson says on the extended edition that the previous Aragorn turned uot to be ‘too young’ for the part.

And Viggo’s son (who much later got a small part in the movie) told his Dad he had to do it!

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Sorry to hijack, but I heard from a coworker that Glen Danzig, former vocalist of the Misfits, was the first pick to play Wolverine. Has anybody else heard this rumor, and if so is there any truth to it?

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I don’t know if he was ever officially attached to the movie in any way, but I’d heard Danzig bruited about as the ideal actor to play Wolverine for at least a decade before the first film was made.