January 3, 2025 at 12:41 p.m. in Cinema
It is one of the most popular cinema licenses released in recent years, we are of course talking about Lord of the Rings. British author JRR Tolkien’s work was adapted for the big screen by Peter Jackson who offered us his trilogy as well as that of the Hobbit. The actors who play the characters are ingrained in the minds of the audience and fans. But at a time when artificial intelligence is gaining more and more momentum, an Internet user had fun imagining the French casting of the Lord of the Rings.
The Lord of the Rings, a license anchored in popular culture
The trilogy of Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson was a box office success. She brought in a whopping $3 billion. Critically, fans were won over and the series of three films was rewarded with 17 Oscars with 4 for the first opus, 2 for The Two Towers and 11 Oscars were won for the last episode entitled The Return of the King. A hell of a performance because to this day, the last part of the saga is the film having received the most awards in the history of the Oscars, tied with Ben-How et Titanic. Everyone has in mind the actors who play the characters imagined by JRR Tolkien on the big screen. Among them are Elijah Wood in Frodo Baggins, sir Ian McKellen who lends his features to Gandalf or even Viggo Mortensen in the role of Aragorn and without forgetting Orlando Bloom who portrays Legolas.
With artificial intelligence offering increasingly impressive results, an Internet user (Antoine Lrt) had fun using Grok, the AI developed by Elon Musk to ask him to imagine the casting of the Lord of the Rings with actors and actresses from French cinema. The result is as funny as it is impressive and we invite you to discover it in the images below.
#1 Danny Boon as Frodo Baggins
#2 Gérard Darmon a Gandalf
#3 Jean Dujardin as Aragorn
#4 Pierre Niney as Legolas
#5 Kad Merad a Samsagace Gamegie
#6 Jonathan Cohen in Peregrin Touque
#7 François Civil in Bilbon Sacquet
#8 Gérard Depardieu as Gimli
#9 Philippe Katerine as Gollum
#10 Mélanie Laurent as Galadriel
We admit that Philippe Katerine who plays Gollum in place of Andy Serkis is excellent. And you, what do you think of this 100% made in France distribution if Lord of the Rings was adapted by French cinema?
