When director Peter Jackson went with the Lord of the Rings in the early 2000s: The companions first went to Tolkien’s world in Jrr, he wanted Liam Neeson with him. This should have played the figure Boromir.
A film death was enough Liam Neeson
The production history of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is almost as adventurous as the films themselves-starting with the casting of the actors: inside. As Movie Web 2020 reported, the director had Liam Neeson (Schindler’s list, 96 hours) at the time) intended for the role of Boromir. As we all know, the role ultimately went to Sean Bean:
Boromir, sprout of the Kingdom of Gondor, dies in the Lord of the Rings: The companions. When trying to protect Frodo and Co. from attacking orcs, he is given a heroic but also very early death. And that was the problem for Hollywood actor Liam Neeson.
Another big franchise was to blame
And Star Wars. It was only in 1999 that Liam Neeson played the role of the Jedi master Qui-Gon in Star Wars: Episode I-the dark threat. He discovers Anakin Skywalker as a qui-gon. However, Darth Maul is not done long afterwards. Years later, Neeson’s figure was supposed to rise again in Star Wars galaxy.
At the time, the actor did not feel like a role in which he was shortly would die again.
Sean Bean, on the other hand, has no problem with film and series deaths
On the contrary. Sean Bean’s career is characterized by constantly handing over the spoon on the canvas. So he was impaled in the hour of the patriots, thrown into the abyss in James Bond 007 – Goldeneye, headed in Game of Thrones and as a Boromir in the Lord of the Rings: Borest the companions of numerous arrows. For this we even dedicated him to a top 7 of his best film death ten years ago.
Among his Over 25 deaths played in front of the camera But is actually his favorite death as Boromir. How nice that Liam Neeson gave another actor with his cancellation such a nice acting experience.
Instead, Liam Neeson chose a role in the horror film the ghost lock. Most recently he was seen in the action thriller Absolution in 2024.