Bernard Hill was in The Scorpion King. He invents gunpowder, so was obviously taking notes when Orthanc was overthrown.
Hugo Weaving was in a couple tiny, obscure sci-fi films about an alternate universe run by computers and powered by people farms. Something Reloaded. I forget exactly. Maybe you saw it?
That he was - he played “Mr Smith”
Well, I see that the new remake of “Flight of the Phoenix” features Miranda Otto.