Connery Lost Hundreds of Millions Turning Down Gandalf »

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Had Sean Connery taken the lucrative deal that was presented to him in 1999 by New Line Cinema to play Gandalf the Grey in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, he could have cleared up to as much as $434 million.

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Maldovar
Nov. 26, 2006, 2:12 p.m.
Is it just me or can anyone else here NOT see Connery playing Gandalf? Don't get me wrong, I love him as an actor, but I think McKlellan fit the part perfectly. Tall, thin, kind of weathered from the years, and he seemed to understand the role of the character. IMO, connery made the choice when he passed on the part.

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  ind06
  Nov. 26, 2006, 4:18 p.m.
  Yes, McClellan OWNED Gandalf. Connery might have played the king of Rohan well, but not so much Gandalf. He said he turned down the Larry Fishburn role in the Matrix also!
  
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    ind06
    Nov. 26, 2006, 4:18 p.m.
    He's still the best Bond, by FAR.
    
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kaizersozey83
Nov. 26, 2006, 5:12 p.m.
who cares what he did. He made a choice, we had a good gandalf. Whats the problem?
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chevydog
Nov. 26, 2006, 7:59 p.m.
All actors make choices about parts all the time. Some they later regret, some not.
IMHO though, it would have been hard to improve on McKellen's Gandalf.
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mozzer
Nov. 26, 2006, 8:27 p.m.
You shall not pass!
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Harbeas
Nov. 26, 2006, 9:52 p.m.
As if he needed the money......
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greeneyes
Nov. 27, 2006, 4:16 a.m.
Yeah - really who cares how much richer a rich man could have made. Like I give a crap if someone steals Travota's friggin plane, parked on his lawn and polluting the air! Cry me a river. I've got real problems, thank you.
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DoubleEdgedSword
Nov. 27, 2006, 4:23 a.m.
I likewise can't imagine Connery in "Lord of the Rings". He was right to turn the part down. McKellen worked out great.
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AbuAmirah
Dec. 11, 2006, 2:08 p.m.
I agree Christopher Lee and Ian McKellan were perfectly cast. I'm sure that there's a role for him out there, othere than 007, that he could make his own. Oh, he did already, Indiana Jones's dad