Sarah Connor and Boromir Get the Black Death!
Sometimes the strangest things come from pairing things that maybe shouldn’t be paired. Who would’ve thought that peanut butter and chocolate could work well together? One is part of America’s favorite sandwich and the other is dessert. And don’t even get me started on the whole concept of the tur-duc-hen, a baffling combination of a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken. At least I think that’s how it goes–not what you’d call sane enough to really try hard and keep straight.
And in this topic, we get the upcoming indie thriller Black Death, which will feature a real tur-duc-hen of a cast including Lena Headey, star of Fox’s new series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Sean Bean, Boromir himself from the various Lord of the Rings movies.
Now, granted, such a combination might well elicit some geekgasming, but they’re not even part of the same genre. Can they overcome their differences and work what similarity mojo they’ve got to pull off a third genre that neither of them is exactly well-known for?
I don’t know, offhand. We won’t until Black Death gets released to us in the poor old general public later on this year. But in all honesty, I’m thinking it might well work. It’s not as though Lena’s not a capable actress–she is!–and the story is the same with Sean Bean. You’ve even got to wonder if, maybe, the fact that neither is playing on home turf might well be an advantage! Weird logic, I know–but wrap your head around it. None of them do much horror, so they’re both noobs on the same field. They’re on equal terms.
Yeah. I know.
But anyway, until we see how Lena Beans play out in Black Death, swing on over to Kwanzoo for some Lord of the Rings trivia just to keep up with Sean Bean.
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Maybe you are not fully versed on Sean Bean’s career, but he has done a number of horror films… and his acting prowess is so good that he can play anything, really. He starred in the remake of The Hitcher (if that ain’t a horror flick, what is?) as well as the movie version of Silent Hill, another horror film called The Dark and he has played in a lot of thrillers. I look forward to this film and the cast all seem very interesting so far. Thanks for blogging about it.
Mayzee–Thanks for the infodump. I don’t personally consider The Hitcher to be a horror movie, but rather a suspense / thriller film. There is a difference, and it’s highly subjective, but it’s still there. I’m looking forward to it myself, and it should prove solid, even though Bean’s horror career is nowhere near as extensive as that of, say, Robert Englund’s.
I was about to make some snarky comment about Robert Englund, until I visited his Wikipedia page and found out that he’s been in lots of horror movies that weren’t Nightmare on Elm Street. Then I found out that he describes himself as a “classically trained actor” and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Nobody cares that you did Chekov, you’ll always be Freddy.