Fan-Casting a Lord of the Rings Live-Action Movie Made in the 80s

[Legatus Legionis]

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[trancejeremy]

Gandalf - Peter Cushing
Saruman - Andrew Robinson (mostly a character actor, but really good at being sinister)
Aragorn - Kevin Costner
Boromir - Bill Paxton
Legolas - Kyle MacLachlan
Galadriel - Kim Basinger
Frodo - Fred Savage
Sam - Stephen Dorrf
Corey Feldman and Corey Haim as Merry & Pippin

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

This casting, back then, would've been just too perfect!

Corey Feldman and Corey Haim as Merry & Pippin

 

[Eltab]

Tim Curry as Wormtongue would make the character more sinister, but he does a good job of maintaining a front of innocence.

He could preview his Cardinal Richelieu in 3 Musketeers. ("Oh, you've heard all the rumors about me, sire. I lust after the queen, I covet the throne...")

 

[Aeson]

I think that they'd have used child actors as Hobbits in the '80s.

They did in the Peter Jackson movies for some distance shots. They relied on staging and camera tricks more often than CGI for the hobbits. So, children were used in some scenes.

Lorne Green as Elrond
I like Dirk Benedict as Boromir because I don't see Aragorn with a big honkin cigar.
Richard Freakin Grieco as Aragorn
James Earl Jones as Gimili
Huey Lewis and Phil Collins as someone, anyone
Alan Alda as Gandalf
Alan Arkin as Wormtongue
The Coreys as Merry and Pippin
Sean Astin as Frodo, tell me he wasn't Frodo like in The Goonies
John Astin as Sauramon

Vangelis does the score

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Yes, please!

Vangelis does the score

 

[Eltab]

Huey Lewis and Phil Collins as someone, anyone

Insert a band under the Party Tree.
This band somehow re-appears for Aragorn & Arwen's wedding.

 

[Ryujin]

Vangelis does the score

Realistically it would be a toss-up between Vangelis and Tangerine Dream anyway

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Vangelis does the score

Surely it would be America (see; The Last Unicorn) and Alan Silvestri (Back To The Future, innumerable others. He's one of the unrecognized greats of movie score composers)?

 

[Ryujin]

Written and directed by John Hughes.