13 September 1999
Source: Teletext
Sean Bean in Lord Of The Rings
Sean Bean will be one of the stars of Hollywood's adaptation of
Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings.
Star of ITV's Sharpe, he will play the warrior
Boromir in The
Fellowship Of The Ring, the first of the trilogy being filmed
back-to-back in New Zealand.
Other British stars already cast are Christopher
Lee, Sir Ian
McKellen and Ian Holm. Boromir joins the quest to destroy the
evil
Sauron.