The Rare Times Sean Bean Doesn’t Die: A Brief List.
1 min readMay 9, 2020
Actor Sean Bean has had some legendary roles over the years; Game of Thrones, The Fellowship of the Ring, Goldeneye, plus many more. What’s more legendary is most people’s first thoughts when hearing Mr. Bean’s name in a movie: “Oh, that guy that always dies”. But every now and then, there’s a cinematic unicorn that appears every once in a while, like an eclipse or Mavericks, or an erupting volcano… there are roles where Sean Bean fucking lives.
Below is a list (that I’m sure will be added to), in no particular order, of the times he became The Man Who Lived:
- Black Beauty
- Ronin
- Troy
- National Treasure
- Silent Hill
- Silent Hill: Revelation
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Flight Plan
- The Martian
- Pixels
- Sharpe (TV series)
- When Saturday Comes
- Jupiter Ascending
To be continued?