Lately we’ve seen movies that are usually decent but cram packed with ‘big’ stars.
Ocean 11 seems to have been the first to do this since the olden Hollywood days. Now we have The Expendables and RED.
Which got me thinking… The Ocean movies put George Clooney and Brad Pitt on the screen at the same time, what would happen if you tried putting Clooney, Pitt, and Robert Downey Jr on the screen at the same time?
Mars Attacks had quite a few big-name stars prior to Ocean’s 11.
As for my “could it be done trio”… well, can I have more than three? I gotta go for more than three.
I would love to see a movie about a group of aging Shakespearean actors starring Patrick Stewart, Ian McKlellan, Charles Dance, Gary Oldman, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren. Throw Peter Dinklage in there to play Puck and I’d be happy.
(I’ve been toying around with collaborating with a writer to put together a pitch for something like this, but I had better hurry up before half of them die…!)
It had quite the effect on me too. Redford was pretty but Newman? Those eyes and that smile… much thinking on swooning.
I guess what I was shooting for, and not very well, was the wattage of star power. These are actors that when on screen even if not speaking, you can’t look away from.
And I would love to see that cast in an adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
Trying to think up two actors to pair with Idris Elba…
The first? Old Hollywood was gone by 1960, yet you had movies like The Way We Were, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Gosford Park, Bran Stoker’s Dracula, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet (all directed by Kenneth Branagh), and Glengarry Glen Ross, to name a small sampling.
The Way We Were was Redford and Streisand and I’m looking for more than two huge stars.
Much Ado About Nothing had a great cast but Americans (most I know anyway) would only recognize Denzel and Keanu if they even saw the movie. Ditto for Hamlet.
While the actors in Gosford Park might be big in the UK they are not the big Hollywood draw I was thinking of.
And Glengarry Glen Ross? Most folks when asked who was in it would remember Al Pacino and maybe Alec Baldwin but not that Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, and Alan Arkin were too.
I haven’t seen Love’s Labour’s Lost. The 70’s stuff while exciting then doesn’t thrill much anymore. The rest you listed… Loved Branagh’s movies, Really enjoyed Gosford Park. Glengarry Glen Ross, was hoping to see a movie where Pacino is not constantly screaming.