Save Sean Bean: Fans support online campaign to keep actor's latest character alive
FANS have launched an online campaign to save Sean Bean – because they are tired of seeing the veteran actor's characters killed-off.
The Lord of the Rings actor has died on-screen over 20 times - suffering shootings, beheadings, burials and falls from enormous heights.
Video sharing platform Youtube is filled with compilations of Sean's impossible death rate.
Hahaha Can he survive? #DontKillSeanBean pic.twitter.com/av0xNvPcpW
— Kelly Stewart (@kstew004) July 27, 2014
I’ve died a lot of different deaths. Maybe it’s the quality of my death people are fascinated by
But fans have decided that enough is enough and are now battling online to save the Brit actor, 55, from being dispatched in his new TV series Legends.
The viral hashtag #DontKillSeanBean was launched on Twitter and Facebook by producers of the new US show.
In America, billboards advertising the upcoming crime drama carry the message and Sean Bean himself has even been pictured in a T-shirt supporting the campaign.
Ok directors enough already... #stopkillingseanbean #DontKillSeanBean pic.twitter.com/cnivSVSkTu
— Stephen Henderson (@StephenH_NI) July 27, 2014
Hoping Sean Bean survives @LegendsTNT #dontkillseanbean pic.twitter.com/SRodC3km6P
— Scarlett Byrne (@ScarleyByrne) July 25, 2014
The Game of Thrones star said: “I’ve died a lot of different deaths. Maybe it’s the quality of my death people are fascinated by”
Sean will kick the bucket again in the lead role of a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
But American channel TNT – who have commissioned 10 episodes of new drama Legends – is staying tight-lipped about whether FBI agent Martin Odum, played Sean Bean, will survive his first season.