Before Viggo Mortensen played Aragorn, Stuart Townsend was cast in the role.Townsend was an up-and-coming Irish actor with only a handful of credits to his name at the time. He had appeared in ...

Stuart Townsend cast as first Aragorn in ‘Lord of the Rings’ No one involved with the production for Lord of the Rings denied the camaraderie on set among the cast and crew.

As is widely known, Stuart Townsend was hired to play Aragorn originally, and he trained for some time, before director Peter Jackson decided to make a change and bring in someone older, ...

But it was Irish actor Stuart Townsend who was cast as Aragorn. However, Townsend famously lost the role when Jackson had a breakthrough revelation: the actor was just not right for the part. At ...

And how different the iconic trilogy could have been if director Peter Jackson had gone with his first choice and hadn't fired Irish actor Stuart Townsend from the role of Aragorn just one day ...

The role of Aragorn is arguably the most-well known performance of Viggo Mortensen‘s career, though he only came in at the last minute to replace original actor Stuart Townsend for Peter Jackson ...

Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of " Thor ... He had been cast as Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy but was replaced at the last minute by Viggo Mortensen.

LOS ANGELES — Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production. Townsend had been cast as ...

Funnily enough, the film role was originally filled by actor Stuart Townsend and he was let go from production, after training for two months, because Jackson thought Townsend was too young.

In a bit of Irish poetry, Stuart Townsend, the actor who was originally cast to play Aragorn in Lord of The Rings, has been selected to star in director Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit.' ...