Apropos of nothing, probably, but one of the episodes of Lupin the Third has a guy with Christopher Walken’s voice blackmailing Lupin into heisting some papers from Scotland Yard.
It’s true. The sketch was based around the knowledge of that. I don’t think he was seriously considered, as Harrison Ford pretty much owned the role from day one, even if nobody wanted to admit it at first, but nevertheless Walken auditioned.
Another random fact about Christopher Walken:
Jesus timed his second coming to coincide with the filming of Dennis Hopper’s death scene in True Romance just for the sake of upstaging Christopher Walken. Chris didn’t get ruffled. He just laughed, kissed Jesus on the cheek, and then capped him six times with his henchman’s gun. He then managed to insert a little dance number on Jesus’s new grave. This is why you haven’t heard much from Jesus since 1992.
Yes, and that’s the one that made me open the thread. You’re right, he did very well in it.
Ever hear the quote about Stephen King? Something alone the lines of “Christopher Walken is the only person that scares [i[him*!”
One of the Star Wars “extras” DVD’s has footage of some of the screen tests: no Walken, alas, but Kurt Russell is captured auditioning for Han Solo {bloody awfully, I might add}.
All this way and no mention of him as ‘Lt MacDuff’ in Scotland, PA?
A weird film in the first place but he absolutely nailed it as the detective trying to solve the murder of Duncan.
Is there a Christopher Walken random fact generator?
No, but there really oughta be.
Another random fact about Christopher Walken:
Christopher Walken was actually the 27th choice for the role of Han Solo. Choices 2 through 26 sadly met with a tragic boating accident after absent-mindedly stepping in concrete. Harrison Ford was able to save his own life and get the part only after getting emergency training in Jedi mind tricks from his friend Alec Guiness, which Harrison was able to use to confuse Chris long enough to escape. Harrison’s technique improved with practice, and now Christopher Walken spends every Sunday at Harrison Ford’s house mowing his lawn while wearing a dress.
“Anyone else want to… drop out” from A View to A Kill
Speaking of people “doing” his voice, I occasionally make announcements over my primary school PA system in my lame Walken impersonation…
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One thing’s for sure: Walken’s Solo would’ve shot Greedo first (and stabbed him in the eye, second). 
And had Walken been involved, even George Lucas on his revisionist binge might’ve blanched at subverting that bit of celluloid history…
Christopher Walken in The Rundown. It’s a very entertaining movie and he has great lines in it.
“Wait a second, do you understand the CONCEPT of the tooth-fairy?”
You know what I really loved about Walken’s character Max Zorin in this? You know what made him the best Bond supervillan of all time?
He didn’t monologue. He was great like that. He didn’t try to convince James Bond of his brilliance, or capture James Bond and then feed him dinner while giving him the grand tour of his evil lair, or try to bribe James Bond one billion dollars to come over to the dark side. Oh, sure, there was the scene in the office building when he shoots the official dead, but compared to other Bond supervillans, that wasn’t really monologuing. It just seemed like he was thinking out loud.
Of course in the end, he got stuck fighting James Bond in the runaway blimp over the Golden Gate bridge with the dynamite about to explode, and screwed it all up. He should have just shot Bond when he had the chance. I mean, once you get caught up in midair hand-to-hand combat, you’re basically playing Bond’s game.
Still, Max Zorin is my favorite Bond supervillan.
There’s a scene of his in The Rundown (with The Rock and that kid who played Stiffler in American Pie) which was an okay movie, where Walken’s character (an American mine owner in some South American country who’s exploiting the local population) tries to explain how he feels like a kid who has just been robbed of his tooth fairy money. This nets him some blank looks, and then he realizes that they don’t know what the tooth fairy is, so then he tries to explain that, and…
It’s one of the best scenes in that film and classic Walken.
The “tooth fairy” scene in The Rundown is really good. That movie was better than it had any right to be – Walken plays a great semi-comic heel as usual, The Rock is an extremely charismatic leading man/action hero, Stifler gets funnier and less annoying with time, Rosario Dawson is hot, and the Scottish guy who played Spud in Trainspotting was hilarious when he played the bagpipes and caused the cattle stampede.
He was great in Things To Do In Denver When Your Dead. I just love how he says “chugging cock.” Cracks me up every time.
But my favorites are of course his two Tarentino scenes.
I’d say what makes him the best Bond villain is thesmile on his face when he fires an automatic weapon. That’s classic.
