# Future Showbiz Giants -- Updated
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987 "2009-03-27T13:26:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987/1 "2009-03-27T13:26:36Z")
I’ve been looking at some of my old threads for some ideas to rekindle and since we have the various zombie rules in play, please refer to [Future Showbiz Giants](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=193709) which ran from 06-26-2003, 07:15 PM to 07-01-2003 01:30 AM and generated 23 Replies with 232 Views.
Some of the comments/predictions seem to be holding up pretty well, while others seem to have been a bit aggressive.
How would you modify things from that six-year-old thread? Whose names would you add? Whose would you remove as examples of might-have-beens?
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987/2 "2009-03-27T13:37:00Z")
[Michael Sheen.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790688/)
At this point, most folks are saying “who”? But he is one of the finest actors working today, and the man has range. Recently, he had two wildly different roles in the theater at the same time - David Frost in [“Frost/Nixon”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/) and Lucian (a werewolf) in [“Underworld: Rise of the Lycans”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0834001/). In six years time he’s going to have more than one Oscar on his mantle.
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### Author:  [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987/3 "2009-03-27T13:55:23Z")
I was surprised to not see Leo DiCaprio in that thread. He has become reliably good.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987/4 "2009-03-27T14:30:38Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#):
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> I was surprised to not see Leo DiCaprio in that thread. He has become reliably good.
It is perplexing when you look at [his credits](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000138/) to see that
Catch Me If You Can (2002) … Frank Abagnale Jr.
Gangs of New York (2002) … Amsterdam Vallon
Don’s Plum (2001) … Derek
The Beach (2000/I) … Richard
Celebrity (1998) … Brandon Darrow
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998/I) … King Louis XIV / Philippe
Titanic (1997) … Jack Dawson
Marvin’s Room (1996) … Hank
Romeo + Juliet (1996) … Romeo
… aka Romeo and Juliet
… aka William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (USA: complete title)
Total Eclipse (1995) … Arthur Rimbaud
… aka Eclipse totale (France: DVD title)
… aka Rimbaud Verlaine (France)
The Basketball Diaries (1995) … Jim Carroll
The Quick and the Dead (1995) … Fee Herod “The Kid”
The Foot Shooting Party (1994) … Bud
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) … Arnie Grape
This Boy’s Life (1993) … Tobias ‘Toby’ Wolff
were already in the cans by 2003.
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### Author:  [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987/5 "2009-03-27T15:23:05Z")
I nominate James Franco. If he does Allen Ginsburg right in _Howl,_ I think he could get an Oscar out of it.
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-showbiz-giants-updated/490987/6 "2009-03-27T16:09:23Z")
> [@mariposalabrown](#):
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> I nominate James Franco. If he does Allen Ginsburg right in _Howl,_ I think he could get an Oscar out of it.
I’d only ever seen him in the Spider-Man movies, and I thought he was forgettable, but Pineapple Express showed me that he’s hilarious and Milk showcased great acting skill.