Despite the bad flak that Berke Breathed has gotten in recent times, I still have a soft spot for Bloom County and would show up on opening night to see a “Bloom County” feature film. Obviously it’d have to be animated, but preferably in the Pixar style with lifelike animated characters. Even better, the movie I imagine would be set in the mid-1980s and feature “Forrest Gump” style effects in which Opus, Milo, etc. interact with real news footage of Ron & Nancy, vintage Madonna, Oliver North, etc.
I even thought up some of the voice talent who would provide the characters voices:
Opus the penguin - David Sedaris Bill the cat - Ozzie Osbourne (but, as in the strip, his dialogue would be limited to “oop”, “acks”, “pthth” and other such grunts. Steve Dallas - Vince Vaughn Milo Bloom - Topher Grace Binkley - Nicholas Brendon Oliver Wendell Holmes - the kid who plays Stewie on “Malcolm in the Middle” Rosebud - Hilary Swank Bobbi Harlow - Angie Harmon Cutter John - John Goodman Binkley’s dad - John C. McKinley (Dr. Cox on “Scrubs”) Oliver’s dad - Philip Banks Hodge-Podge - George Wendt* Portnoy - John Ratzenberger*
So, what’s the animated movie you’d like to see?
*(This of course would be an in-joke reference to “Cheers” - the sitcom of the 1980s.)
The Stephen King/Peter Straub collaberation The Talisman and animation has got to be the only way to really do it justice. I always visualized Speedy as Richard Prior, maybe get Gene Wilder as Morgan Sloat. Wolf should be Scott Cohen (who played Wolf in The Tenth Kingdom).
Good suggestions, but Wilder would be a little too Willy Wonka for Sloat. I picture someone a bit gruffier - like Barry Corbin (Northern Exposure, One Tree Hill).
Wilder might actually be pretty good for the flamboyant lieutenant (sorry, can’t remember his name). The one with the Cat O’Nine Tails and the perfume to cover his horrible stench.
I just saw The Incredibles last night, and the one scene where Dash is in the car with his mom, and looking really cross, made me flash on Calvin, (and Hobbes of course). The medium would be great for Calvin and his fantasies, allowing for smooth transition between the real world, and the rampaging dinosaurs, or Spaceman Spiff.
Hobbes-John Goodman
Calvin’s dad-Craig Nelson(hey, he did a good job as Mr. Incredible)
Calvin’s mom-Claudia Christian
Calvin-I haven’t the slightest idea
Miss Wormwood-Ellen Degeneres, doing an old lady voice
Susy-The girl who plays Ginny Weasely, she can probably learn an American accent
I think you’d have to go the “Mary Martin” approach with Calvin’s seiyuu—I don’t think too many child actors would be able to capture Calvin’s personality well enough.
Peter Strauss or Seth McFarlane might make a good Hobbes, too.
As for me…
Kingdom Come
Batman: Michael Keaton (That, or have Kevin Conroy do Batman, and Keaton do Dick Grayson/Red Robin)
Superman: Christopher Reeve’s voice, digitally remixed. (Failing that, maybe Robert Redford?)
Wonder Woman: Lynda Carter
The Flash: John Wesley Shipp
Magog: Dennis Hopper
Lex Luthor: Gene Hackman
The Joker (flashback cameo): Jack Nicholson
Just imagine the opening weekend, if you pulled all together right.
Ralph: Sam Kinison would have been perfect. Since he is no longer with us, my second choice would be Wallace Shawn. Possibly Gilbert Gottfried.
Leslie: James Earl Jones. Or Michael Dorn. Or Avery Brooks.
Dean: Sadly, John Belushi is no longer with us. In his place, I nominate Ken Hudson Campbell (He was the sea-cook in Down Periscope, and the Animal in Herman’s Head.)
Truman: Macaulay Culkin.
Julius: Jason Alexander.
Khan: James Earl Jones. Or Michael Dorn. Or Avery Brooks.
If you’ve ever seen The Flying Car, you’d know that Jeff Anderson is perfect… he’s got a good voice, and can launch into Calvin’s convoluted, rambling, syllable-ridden diatribes naturally.
SCHLOCK: John Goodman
TAGON: Kevin Conroy
KEVYN: David Cross
ENNESBY: Tom Kenny
PETEY: Michael Caine
BUNNI: Beyonce Knowles
THE REVEREND: Bob Odenkirk
ELF: Christina Ricci
XINCHUB: Phil Hendrie
In fact, Phil Hendrie can do about fifty of the character voices…
Why do people use the word seiyuu for American voice actors? Just asking…I think it is odd, because it is rooted in Japanese - American’s are VAs, Japanese are seiyuu.
Well, why not? It’s a perfectly good word, and has a nice “ring” to it. And the beauty of English is that we can adopt new words from wherever we want, if it suits our needs.
Calvin: I’ll defer to SPOOFE’s choice of Jeff Anderson ::looks him up on IMDb:: ah, Randal Graves…I could support that
Hobbes: Harry Shearer or Diedrich Bader (Seth McFarlane was also a good choice, as Ranchoth suggested)
Mom: Katherine O’Hara or Jean Smart
Dad: Tom Hanks
Rosalyn: Joey Lauren Adams?
Miss Wormwood: Bea Arthur
Suzie: Tina Majorino (she played Deb in Napoleon Dynamite)
Luann: Christy Carlson Romano Bernice: Michelle Trachtenberg Delta: Raven Frank (Dad): James Belushi Nancy (Mom): Patricia Richardson Brad: Zachery Ty Bryan Aaron: Andrew Lawrence Gunther: Frankie Muniz Tiffany: Hilary Duff Knute: Shia LaBeouf Miss Phelps: Andrea Martin Mr. Fogarty: Alan Rickman Crystal: Alexa Vega Zane: Elijah Wood Dirk: Michael DeLuise Toni: Christina Applegate
Don’t forget, whoever plays Calvin has to be versatile enough to also play Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, Tracer Bullet, and any other personae that Calvin takes on.
Of course, it’s never going to happen anyway, given the fact that Watterson has always been dead-set against any merchandising or reinterpretation of his work…
