THE GODFATHER is one of the most nearly perfect movies ever, but suppose that for some reason you were assigned to do a remake today. Money and availability are no object, but it has to be actors who are alive and working today. Who would you cast?
I’ll start with:
Don Corleone: Daniel Day Lewis
Sonny: Christian Bale
Tom: Leonardo DiCaprio
Michael: Joseph Gordon Levitt
Feel free to completely rewrite the above or give multiple options.
Don Corleone: Gary Oldman with just a bit of age makeup, blah, blah, blah
Mama Corelone: Talia Shire
Sonny: Edward Norton
Tom: Matt Damon
Michael: Ally Walker, change to Michaela
Fredo: Walter Goggins
Connie: Amy Adams
Carlo Rizzo: Mark Ruffulo
Kay: Jennifer Lawrence
Sal Tessio: Abe Vigoda or barring that, Jeremy Renner
Pete Clemenza, change to Frankie Five Angels: Robert Downey Jr.
Hmmm interesting. I’m sure I’ll get it wrong in my own head and regret putting anything down later.
Don Corleone: Going out on a limb: Alan Alda. He’s Italian and some of his recent work shows he can play a menacing son of a bitch very well. As well as being affable. So an affable, intelligent menacing son of a bitch when he needs to be. Perfect.
Fredo: Michael Imperioli
Michael: I can’t do better than Joseph Gordon Levitt. Good call.
Sonny: Scott Caan. Why not?
Tom: Matt Damon
Tessio: Chazz Palminteri
Clemenza: Vincent Pastore
Kay: Amy Adams
Luca: Steve Schrippa
Johnny Fontaine: Justin Timberlake
Jack Woltz: Jason Alexander
Moe Green: Eliot Gould (but that would basically be his Ocean’s 11 role)
Zeljko Ivanek is in every crime movie so room must be made for him.
Vito- Alfred Molina
Michael- James McAvoy
Sonny- Clive Owen
Fredo- Michael Imperioli
Luca- Robbie Coltrane
Kay- Amy Adams
Mo Green- Richard Jenkins
Tom Hagen- Cillian Murphy
Clemenza- Joe Gannascoli (Vito from the Sopranos)
Tessio- Stanley Tucci
Connie- Vanessa Hudgens
Carlo Rizzo- Bobby Canavale
Johnny Fontaine- Jeremy Renner
Jack Woltz- Kevin Spacey
I surprised myself by how many Brits I would cast.
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Johnny Fontaine- Jeremy Renner
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Good choice. (For anyone who doesn’t know, Renner has a great [del]butt[/del] singing voice.)
Oddly the only one of these I have trouble picturing passing as Italian is the one with the blatantly Italian last name.
Don Corleone: Louis CK
Sonny: Justin Timberlake
Tom: Johnny Depp
Michael: Armie Hammer
Well, his character is Irish German anyway.
Barzini is Tony Shalhoub.
Literally the first one I thought of when I saw the thread title. I think he could really do this well.
He can be Captain McCluskey.
Just use the cast from Arrested Development.
Jessica Walter as Mama Corleone is secretly the head of The Family.
Dennis Quaid.
Very interesting choice. I think you could be right.