Casting actors to play real life people

[Heretic]

If we're going to make a movie about all of these politicians, can Amy Adams play Erin Burnett to interview them?

 

[Frodo]

I'd pic Marc Maron to play Stan Lee in a Stan Lee biopic.

 

[kaypain]

Lebron James - Tyler James William's

 

[Manasrepublic]

John Barrowman must play Elon Musk.

There is no other choice. There is no other truth.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Kevin Durand as Musk

 

[Sawyer]

Young Stan Lee? No idea.

Old Stan Lee? Alan Alda. No question.

 

[Schlosser85]

Hell, Tom Holland looks a little like a really young Stan Lee.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Resurrecting this thread because I've been reading Sarah Vowell's "Assassination Vacation" and realizing how it would be a perfect anthology series for a streamer or HBO to take on.

SEASON 1: LINCOLN

Jimmi Simpson as Abraham Lincoln

Dacre Montgomery as John Wilkes Booth


SEASON 2: GARFIELD

Jeremy Strong as James Garfield

Andrew Garfield as Charles Guiteau


SEASON 3: MCKINLEY

Vince Vaughn as William McKinley

Nikita Bogolyubov as Leon Czolgosz

 

[Sawyer]

Young Stan Lee? No idea.

Old Stan Lee? Alan Alda. No question.

This is still correct.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I honor of the late, great Sir Sidney Poitier's passing, I need a movie about the time he and Harry Belafonte outran the KKK to hand deliver funds to activists in the Deep South during the civil rights movement. Starring Leslie Odom Jr. and Andre Holland as Sidney and Harry, respectively.

 

[Frodo]

Here are some random ones from the 1960s

Hugo Weaving as Richard Nixon

Matt Long as John F Kennedy

Eddie Redmayne as Robert F Kennedy

Damon Gupton (Black Lightning) as Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[Frodo]

Katie McGrath as Madonna

 

[Silvermoth]

Oh I completely forgot about this thread haha

 

[Drizzle]

I honor of the late, great Sir Sidney Poitier's passing, I need a movie about the time he and Harry Belafonte outran the KKK to hand deliver funds to activists in the Deep South during the civil rights movement. Starring Leslie Odom Jr. and Andre Holland as Sidney and Harry, respectively.

Get Regina King to direct this ASAP.

 

[Frodo]

BORN TO RUN

Cameron Gellman(Stargirl) as a young Bruce Springsteen

 

[Drizzle]

Dusting this thread off because I'd totally watch a movie about an unhinged Alan Moore starring Rhys Ifans.

 

[Sebastos]

Jeremy Allen White as Harry Houdini

 

[Deck Rickard]

Dusting this thread off because I'd totally watch a movie about an unhinged Alan Moore starring Rhys Ifans.

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Now I want this to happen just so we can get a bunch of insane quotes from Alan Moore denouncing the movie and saying how true life stories should never be adapted to film or some other bull****.

 

[Silvermoth]

An Alan Moore film would be super trippy. Wonder if grant morrison and mark millar would cameo and who would play them

 

[Da-Scribe]

Booboo Stewart as Brandon Lee

 

[Herofan]

I've long thought Cuba Gooding Jr. looked a lot like Barack Obama and would make sense to play him, and also really likewise for Robert Duvall as Rudy Giuliani, really surprised that hasn't happened.