Humm… Well, I’d need to see quotes, but my impression certainly was that he was a much older guy. Perhaps I had this impression because of the gang of old farts he hung out with at Cap’s gas station? Honestly, I coulda sworn he was much older. I’m not at home, but if I get a chance I’ll check the book later.
Bo Derek as Jane Porter in Tarzan ick!
Thisfrom the Book of Lists:
Worst Mis-cast Actress: Diana Ross as a 12 year old white girl in The Wiz.
Best Acting: Diana Ross as a 12 year old white girl in The Wiz 
I thought Sting made a great villian in Dune
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Damn you, now I’ve got to find them again!! 
Page 5…“The marriage had been the best time, and it had only last 18 months…That had been four years ago”
Page 62…“Four years ago his wife had died of cancer at the age of 27…”
Page 12…“He was Jess Rider, age twenty, one year younger that Our Heroine, Little Fran.”
I can’t find the 10 year age difference quote, but I’m still looking.
Well, that certainly bears you out, at least to a degree. I guess the reason I had him pegged as such an old guy was simply that he was hanging out with old guys. I know, I know, guilt by association. But ya gotta admit, it’s unusual for a relative youngster to hang with fogeys!
Nick is 22 years old. Page 136…Said to Nick, “You’ve been on your own, since you were 16? For 6 years?”
Later, on page 655, Ralph is describing Larry Underwood to Nick, “He’s 6 or 7 years older’n you, I think, and maybe 8 or 9 years younger than Redman.” Which would put Stu at about 37 or 38 years old. Still not what I’d call an “old fart”. And Ralph was just guessing. Maybe that Texas sun weathered Stu a little and made him look a little older.
I’m so glad to see the Keanu Reeves is getting all of the grief that he so rightly deserves. Someone mentioned that he should be cast in anything that requires more of him than to stand there and breathe - I’ll suggest that he would find a way to ruin that as well.
My nomination for the Most Horribly Mis-Cast Actress goes to Shelley Duval in “The Shining.” I stayed up all night with the lights on when I read the book, it was that gripping and that terrifying. Ms. Duval was as wooden as a post and not even Jack Nicholson’s performance could save the film. The scene where he talks to Lyle the Bartender about breaking his son’s arm is chilling. Ms. Duval’s scenes are stupefying. Nearly anyone else would have been better casting.
Yes, John Wayne as Genghis Khan was the worst casting ever.
Others worthy of note, however;
Glen Campbell as a tough Texas Ranger in “True Grit.” Watch the movie and imagine Clint Eastwood in the role. And imagine the thrill of seeing one generation of movie legend passing the torch to the next.
The middle aged Steve McQueen as a teenager in “The Revers.” As I remember he was also the producer. The producer should have known better.
Sean Connery as an American Cowboy in the western “Shalako”. I love to watch the film just to watch him “post” as he rides his Arabian stallion in the film.
Much has been said correctly about the miscast Mrs. Peel in “The Avengers,” but I was not overly impressed with John Steed either.
I think Whoopie Goldberg is a wonderfully talented actress, but she was totaly miscast in “Burgler”. I neither believed her as a bookstore owner nor as burgler-the two different sides of the character.
I think Paulie Shore and Tom Green being cast as anything but murder victims in the first scene of a film would be complete miscasting.
Now a couple mentioned earlier I disagree with; I thought Bill Murry in Razor’s Edge was wonderful and I felt that Leslie Howard was good in Gone With the Wind. He was a good counter point to Gable. His gentleness and refinement fit well.
TV
Yeah, that was just a crappy movie all around.
More miscasting…
Robert Downey Jr. as the Rivers/Grey/Vaughan conglomerate in Richard III.
Frank Finlay as Porthos in The Three Musketeers (the 1970s version with Michael York and Oliver Reed). Also, the entire cast of the '93 Disney version, especially Charlie Sheen as Aramis. (Well, Tim Curry wasn’t a bad choice for Richelieu.)
Claire Danes as Cosette in Les Miserables.
Was his character supposed to be a teen? It’s been a while, but I thought he was supposed to be in his late twenties - okay, he was still too old for that, at age 39. I could be wrong, though. (BTW, it’s The Reivers.)
Sylvester Stallone as Judge Dread.
One day I’ll be able to forgive those involved in that film. But it will be a long time coming.
dantheman:
Sorry about the spelling on “Reivers” but it was pretty late our time when I was posting and…
But as to the character’s age. I too was going by memory but when I read the book I seem to remember the character discribed as “just entering manhood,” so I assumed it was between mid and late teens.
Well, if you’ve read the book, you’d know more than I would. It just never entered my mind that he was all that old.
OK, this is probably suicide…
Christopher Lambert in the Highlander films. All the Highlander films.
Don’t hurt me! Please!
Actually, I agree. A European playing a Scotsman? A scotsman playing a Spaniard? There can be only one, or maybe lots?
My head hurts.
But, they cast too young on Steed. While I think Ralph Fiennes is a good actor, at least from the TV show, I would think that Steed has a good twenty years of Peel.
I think that the role of Steed should have gone to someone a bit more mature. Perhaps Geoffery Rush.
Then… to cast Peel, I would have used someone with a smart ingenue quality… say, someone with the look of Parkey Posey with a British accent.
But…but…I thought he looked repressed and constipated–exactly right for the part. The performance that needs a little “fixing” in that is Kenneth Branagh’s!
After reading the book, Eastwood and Strepe (sp?) were not the ones to play the characters in the movie Bridges of Madison County.
Being an avid reader of James Patterson, the detective from his books would have been played much better by Danzel Washington, Kiss the Girls and Along Came A Spider.
Sometimes I think you are better off not to see a movie if you’ve read the book, or read the book once you’ve seen the movie.
I think you mean Morgan Freeman, who was in both Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider.
Yep, I think Danzel Washington would have been better than Freeman in both movies.
I thought she meant that Freeman was miscast and that Washington should have been cast in those roles instead.