There’s a movie coming out next year for the USA 250th that looks like it will focus on his service in the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, but I’ve long thought he deserves a big-budget, full-life (or at the very least the Revolution and his Presidency), well-made biopic.
Rosalind Franklin
supposedly there’s a film in the works specifically about her contribution to the discovery of DNA, starring Natalie Portman, and there was a film called The Double Helix, in which she was played by Nicole Kidman, but I want a film about her whole life.
And she needs to be played by Rachel Dratch, or Mayim Bialik, not Nicole Kidman.
Next topic in a few minutes
OK: next is Inexplicable casting choices
Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: Scarlet Letter, 1995
(not necessary to include the year, unless there are multiple films with the same title)
Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
John Wayne as Genghis Khan, The Conqueror
Johnny Depp as Tonto, The Lone Ranger, 2013
Only “explicable” from the standpoint that Depp was a massive, bankable star at that point; the rest of Hollywood had figured out, by 2013, that casting white people as Native Americans wasn’t cool anymore.
Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
John Wayne as Genghis Khan, The Conqueror
Johnny Depp as Tonto, The Lone Ranger, 2013
Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones, The World is not Enough
Jared Leto as The Joker, Suicide Squad
Alan Arkin as Inspector Clouseau, Inspector Clouseau, 1968
Michael Keaton at Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman, 1989
At the time, Keaton was well-known as a comedic actor (Mr. Mom, Night Shift, among others), and it was known that this Batman film was not going to be a zany comedy. As someone remarked at the time, “Mr. Mom as Batman? They’re kidding, right?”
