I wanted Colin Farrell to get the role of Professor Lupin in the Harry Potter movie. The fellow they did pick doesn’t look remotely like the mental image I got from the books, not to mention he’s doesn’t look young and world-weary like is mentioned in HP:PoA. Oh well.
Tim Roth should really really be Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter movies. (I recently read that Roth was originally slated to play Severus Snape, but bowed out and the role went to their second choice, Alan Rickman.) I don’t know much about the actor, David Thewlis, who IS playing Lupin in the forthcoming movie, but he’s gonna have to be pretty darn good to shake my conviction that Roth would have been perfect.
Similarly, the role of Ludo Bagman in the fourth Harry Potter movie should be played by Eddie Izzard. They’ve apparently cast an Australian actor named Martin Landham, but the movie doesn’t start filming for another month, so I’m hoping that someone in casting slaps himself upside the head and says, “NO!! IZZARD! THAT’S who we need!!”
elfkin - that was probably the most bizarre simulpost that’s ever happened to me.
This has been bothering me since the first time I saw Pulp Fiction: the part that Tarantino played, Jimmy, should have been played by Steve Buscemi. Instead, Tarantino gave an overly mannered, unconvincing, and downright annoying performance where he never looked anyone and seemed to be playing himself. Buscemi, who was in the movie for 15 seconds as a surly waiter, could have mined that role for smart-ass comic wonderfulness. JMO.
But Buscemi was actually playing Mister Pink (from Reservoir Dogs) as the surly waiter!
“Warlock” Julian Sands? Good lord. He was already in at least one bad vampire movie.
Anyone other than Minnie Driver in An Ideal Husband.
Anyone other than Meg Tilly in Valmont.
Interesting. I actually pictured Eddie Izzard as Lupin.
Really? I never thought of that, I just thought he was a random waiter! In that case, it’s absolutely genius, concidering mr Pink’s anti-tipping rant in Reservoir dogs.
Naaah. Lupin’s the quiet type, whereas Bagman is jovial, a former star athlete, a high roller, and an all-around bouncy guy. In other words, he’s Eddie Izzard.
I first thought of Roth as Lupin when I saw him in the movie The Legend of 1900. Really good little oddity of a film.
I like Mortenson as Aragorn… but console yourself with the fact that the role could have gone to Stuart Townsend.
Swap out Linda Fiorentino with Janeane Garofalo in Dogma. Linda F. was neither believable nor pleasing in that role. Whereas Garofalo was great in the…what, three minutes of screen time she was given?
Actually, I’m not the only one that wishes this had been done. Kevin Smith himself has said on occasion that he wished he’d done exactly that.
Also, put the guys from Mr. Show in more movies. I absolutely love Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.
I think Val Kilmer is generally brilliant at everything he does (check out Wonderland for a terrific performance by him), though I’ve heard he’s difficult to work with, which could explain his bad reputation. (Yeah, I know his cousin posts here, but I can’t remember who it is. iampunha maybe?)
Odd, but I just went and checked on my DVD collection to see if I can find any parts I thought other actors would’ve been better at, and I couldn’t think of a one.
I thought Chris O’Donnell was a poor choice to play Robin in the 1997 Batman and Robin – just because he was too old. I’m sorry, but I’m a purist, I think such adaptations should be as faithful as possible to the storyline of the comic. Robin is not the young adult wonder. Robin is not the teenage wonder. Robin is the boy wonder. Make all the NAMBLA jokes you like, but when Robin first hooks up with Batman, he should be no older than twelve!
Of course, that (a 12-year-old) Robin can’t be done in a modern movie. People would say: “Wait a minute. Bruce Wayne is Dick Grayson’s guardian – responsible like a father for the kid’s health and safety – and he’s going to take him along on adventures where people will try to kill him?”
But nobody raised that objection when Robin the Boy Wonder first appeared in 1940. Not only that, but Robin gave rise to imitators. Captain America had Bucky, the Human Torch had Toro – and nobody seemed to mind the obvious fact that “sidekick to superhero” is much too dangerous a job for a minor child. How our culture has changed!
Somewhat esoteric, since it’s not a movie.
I love George Bernard Shaw’s St. Joan (although I’m not that fond of the Richard Widmark film they made of it). I’ve seen it on stage several times. At one performance they had pictures from previous plays about Joan of Arc, and I saw that Boris Karloff played the Head Inquisitor in a performance of Jean Anouilh’s The Lark (l’Alouette). I would’ve lloved to have seen Karloff take that role in the Shaw play.
Well, back in the 40s, when these characters were introduced, comics were written ONLY for kid readers, as opposed to today, when the audience is much older (with very few kids at all still reading comics). Kid and teen sidekicks were used so the younger readers could have characters to identify with, but by today’s standards, superheroes having youthful sidekicks seems WEIRD as well as dated and unnecessary.