Arnold Schwarzenegger plays every character in a new The Lord of the Rings AI video. Director Peter Jackson brought the world of Middle-earth to life his trilogy of acclaimed movies in the early 2000s, which adapated the books by author J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first in Jackson’s trilogy, sees Frodo (Elijah Wood) embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring with a fellowship of companions as decided during the Council of Elrond.
Voice actor Sam Hughes on Instagram now dubs his Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice impression over an AI video created by Jarkan VFX, with the end product being a Lord of the Rings Council of Elrond comprised only of characters played by the iconic Austrian action star. Check out the videos below:
Who Arnold Schwarzenegger Could Play In The Lord Of The Rings
And Why It’s Best That The Cast Remains Unchanged
While The Lord of the Rings cast is one of the trilogy’s greatest strengths and arguably no character should have been played by another actor, it’s still interesting to imagine where Schwarzenegger would best fit as one of Tolkien’s characters. The Predator star, for example, could have played Sauron himself during The Fellowship of the Ring‘s prologue sequence, with his muscular physique perhaps lending itself well to the franchise’s overarching antagonist.
If one were to give Schwarzenegger a speaking part, however, there’s an argument to be made that he would make a good Boromir, a character played in the film by Sean Bean. Boromir is a close-minded but hardy warrior who succumbs to his own dark desires for the Ring before ultimately redeeming himself during The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings‘ ending fight. Schwarzenegger certainly could capture the physicality of the character, and it would be interesting to see him take on such a flawed but heroic figure.
Schwarzenegger is probably not well suited to playing a Hobbit or an Elf, but he could potentially make a compelling Eomer. Eomer is a warrior of the Rohirrim, the Horse-lords, and Schwarzenegger has proven himself a capable horse-rider in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian and 1994’s True Lies. Ultimately, however, Schwarzenegger’s inclusion in The Lord of the Rings is perhaps best left to meme videos, as the actors who ended up in the films are just too good to replace.
