That’s the name I was thinking of. He would be brilliant in that role.
If you don’t like Cheadle, how about Dulé Hill?
You have to have Chris Rock playing Bart. Otherwise don’t even start.
I like the idea of Robert Downey Jr as Jim.
There should be cameos by Brooks, Wilder, Gilliam, Hillerman, and Huddleston.
Unrelated sidenote: I never realized that Jack Starrett (aka Gabby Johnson) also played the deputy who harassed Rambo in First Blood.
She’d love that role, but I don’t see her in it. Leachman is more of a make you some ovaltine (wink wink nudge nudge) old woman, not an apple pie. You need more than an old lady, you need a sweet old grandmotherly lady. Maybe Betty White?
I can’t see Salma Heyak as Lili Von Schtupp either. She’s not Aryan enough. Maybe Charlize Theron, but they’d have to make her up to look like she’d been with thousands of men and like everything below her waist was kaput!
What about Kristen Wiig as Lily? I don’t know if she can sing though.
I just wanted to glare at this thread in advance, since I can already feel it ruining CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER for me. I mean, there’s inevitably going to be a scene where Anthony Mackie takes in that this here white guy really is the inhumanly fast kid from [del]Waco[/del] Brooklyn, and now this is all I’ll be able to think of…
I was going to suggest **Mos Def **(or whatever he’s calling himself these days) for Bart and **Matthew McConaughey **for Jim, but I rather like the idea of Andy Samberg for Jim instead. Mr Def is 40, if anyone cares.
If no other role on your list makes it, this one has to be included.
I was picturing Dwayne as a perfect fit for Mongo! He’s definitely big enough for the role and has enough presence. “Mongo only pawn in great chess game of life.”
Agree with Cheadle for Bart. How about Ron Livingston for Jim?
Alec Baldwin would be great as Hedley Lamarr, Ben Stiller as Gabby Johnson, and this is a little bizarre, but I’m calling Donald Trump for Governor William J. LePetomane.
Gotta be Diane Kruger as Lili von Shtupp.
Donald Trump would be a great Governor.
Mayor Rob Ford as Mongo?
I’m sticking with the guy upthread who said George Clooney.
Better idea: Lady Gaga
OMG! I just feel terribly, terribly inadequate to try to cast this film using today’s actors.
Let me just try one or two?
Pick the biggest asshole in the film. I would cast maybe … Quentin or maybe Billy Bob Thorton?
Robin Williams as the Governor. And probably anyone else he wanted to be.
Ralphie May as Mongo.
Johnny Knoxville IS the Waco Kid.
I like Billy Bob as Taggert.
Whoever suggested Lithgow as Headley is a freakin’ genius.
How about Jane Kazmerack (however it’s spelled – the mom on “Malcolm in the Middle”) as Lili? She’s got that “pooped” look, and can do hot-to-trot as well.
Eddie Murphy
Clint Eastwood
Madonna
Donald Glover … Bart
Joel McHale … Jim
Matthew Perry… Hedley Lamarr
Kristin Wiig … Lili Von Shtupp
Will Ferrell … Governor William J. Lepetomane / Indian Chief
Dwayne Johnson… Mongo
What is this, 1991?
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Now. I have more faith in senior actors and actresses.