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re: race/gender swap casting that worked

Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:10 pm to
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:10 pm to
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Jaime Foxx was a damn good Django


Original screenplay by QT fwiw. Not a swap.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:10 pm to
Posted by VoxDawg
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 1:51 pm to
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John Clark

quote:

willem dafoe



Willem Dafoe as John Clark could be one of the worst cases of miscasting in cinematic history. Nobody won in that scenario. The character, the scenes, the audience. All losing positions.
Posted by mindbreaker
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 2:11 pm to
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Sam Jackson as Nick Fury.


That wasn't a swap really. He was based off an established character in the marvel ultimate universe that was actually based on him. The fact they got him to play a character that they created to look like him was just cool all around
Posted by Indefatigable
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 2:25 pm to
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Its crazy to think about how if this movie was coming out in 6 months, many posters here wouldn't even have given Morgan Freeman's Red a chance. Woulda bitched about how it "couldnt possibly be a faithful adaptation" of Red if the actor was black.


False. Everyone would have been ok with it----because it is Morgan Freeman.
Posted by cgrand
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 3:02 pm to
and 90% of the people who saw that movie, over decades of showings, had no idea it was based on a king book/story to begin with, and even if they did they hadn’t read it

Myself included
Posted by AUFANATL
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 3:19 pm to

Beverly Hills Cop was originally written as a grizzled white veteran detective with less humor. It was being developed with Sylvester Stallone as the lead. Then Eddie Murphy blew up and they switched gears.

Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 3:20 pm to
And the leftovers of that movie became Cobra
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