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re: Most obvious casting decisions ever.

Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:21 am to
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:21 am to
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John Wayne as...John Wayne.


Clint Eastwood as Clint Eastwood

I love him and his movies but he’s always the same character.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:32 am to
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Most obvious casting decisions ever.



I would say that George Clooney was a brilliant casting decision...but not obvious at the time. Prior to O Brother...the closest comedic role he had was in From Dusk Till Dawn or Three Kings. The guy had been freaking Batman 3 years prior. Casting him as Everett in O Brother, is just another sign of how brilliant the Cohen brothers actually are.
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27591 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:50 am to
John Malkovich in “Being John Malkovich”.
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
7586 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:06 am to
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Single Cell producers Michael Stipe and Sandy Stern pitched the film to numerous studios, including New Line Cinema, who dropped the project after chairman Robert Shaye asked: "Why the frick can't it be Being Tom Cruise?". Jonze recalled that Malkovich asked the same question, and that Malkovich had felt that "Either the movie's a bomb and it's got not only my name above the title but my name in the title, so I'm fricked that way; or it does well and I'm just forever associated with this character."Kaufman said that there was never another actor in Malkovich's place in the script: "The screenplay was always "Being John Malkovich", even before I had any expectation that John Malkovich would even read the script. "He chose Malkovich because he believed there to be "an enigmatic quality about him that works", though Malkovich was partly chosen because of the sound of his name in repetition. Kaufman explained that "When we were thinking of alternatives, we found that a lot of them weren't fun to say."
Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
22050 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 1:59 pm to
Audie Murphy playing Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back.
Posted by BilJ
Member since Sep 2003
162130 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 2:34 pm to
Carey was a terrible Riddler, he was just Jim Carey in a green suit.
Posted by PJinAtl
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2007
14050 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 2:53 pm to
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Jenna Ortega as Wednesday

From the same series - Luis Guzmán as Gomez. He looks like a human incarnation of the original New Yorker cartoons.

I would also say Sean Connery as Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Connery was older than Richard, but they were about the same size 6'2" to 6'5"); Richard did have Scottish ancestry through his father's mother's mother.
Posted by LSUMBA91
The Holy City
Member since Nov 2007
251 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 8:20 pm to
Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelet in Dead Man Walking
Posted by bee Rye
New orleans
Member since Jan 2006
34386 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 9:21 pm to
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Morgan Freeman as Red in Shawshank


I’m not sure casting a black man to play a red headed Irishman was the obvious choice
Posted by CaptainsWafer
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:21 pm to
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Joe Pesci in Good Fellas


Pesci as Nicky Santoro in Casino I’d probably what you were thinking of here. Jennifer Lopez as Selena is another good one.


I’ll submit the most blatantly obvious one ever, O’Shea Jackson Jr as O’Shea Jackson in Straight Outta Compton.
Posted by TejasHorn
High Plains Driftin'
Member since Mar 2007
11587 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:31 pm to
Chuck Norris as….

anyone he damn well pleases.
Posted by LanierSpots
Sarasota, Florida
Member since Sep 2010
69745 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:47 am to
Michael Richards


Posted by BigNastyTiger417
Member since Nov 2021
5157 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:05 am to
Robert De Niro - Casino


Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
29817 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:23 am to
Denzel Washington in American Gangster.
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
17549 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:26 am to
+1000

Absolutely, Penn did a great job in that role.

I wish they'd dig up Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie and electrocute them again. They're pond scum.

So is Sister Helen Prejean.
Posted by redfishfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2015
5363 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 9:48 am to
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Posted by nealnan8
Atlanta
Member since Oct 2016
3984 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 8:17 pm to
Andre The Giant as Fezzik.

George C. Scott as Patton

Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
67564 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 8:37 pm to
Marissa Tomei as a naked ‘Ho.
Posted by Saintsisit
Member since Jan 2013
5076 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 9:12 pm to
Posted by Zachary
Member since Jan 2007
1832 posts
Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:41 pm to
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
Sean Penn - Jeff Spicole
Jim Belushi - Bluto of Animal House
Chris Farley - Tommy Callahan of Tommy Boy
This post was edited on 8/17/23 at 9:48 pm
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