Christoph Waltz replaces Nic Cage

[Chewy]

EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that ICM's actor Christoph Waltz who won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for playing a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds (and is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination) has now been cast as villain Chudnofsky in Sony's The Green Hornet opposite Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz. Since Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds came out -- and crossed the $100M mark this weekend -- Waltz has been offered a lot of big movies by a lot of big directors. And he's getting big bucks now. How great he's found success at age 52. Big breaks like this keep actors in Hollywood still hopeful...

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[Octoberist]

what a huge upgrade.

 

[DocHoliday]

Massive upgrade. Nicholas cage is a fine actor with a bad streak of films right now. Christoph Waltz has a ton of potential...I just wish his 2nd big role would have been a non-villainous one. Oh well, he's a great actor so he'll do well.

 

[Octoberist]

funny enough, Waltz was my choice for Sinestro in Green Lantern

 

[nightwing06]

If you've seen Waltz in Inglourious Basterds you know he will be a great vllain

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

great choice. my ex-neighbor is a comic book villain ^^
(I always knew it)

 

[Keyser Soze]

funny enough, Waltz was my choice for Sinestro in Green Lantern

My choice for Red Skull.

 

[Party Crasher]

Since i have not seen Basterds yet, not even the trailer, i have NO idea how good this actor is. He sounds great though!

 

[Party Crasher]

And i was one of the (few?) people who was looking forward to Cage...But...his comments...Cage says he "wasn't interested in just being straight-up bad guy who was killing people willy-nilly."

"willy-nilly"?

Really?

"I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was but I don't think there was enough time to develop it."

I dont really need to see the badguys reasons or motivations for being a badguy.(actors)

Especially with the Green Hornets badguys.

Just establish them as the straight upmafioso bad-guys who kills people.


Once again:

"willy-nilly"? Who talks like that?!

 

[vanson]

i really dont know how this will work out...

but he´s very carefull with choosing roles.... so i hope for the best!

 

[HugoStiglitz]

Only seen him in Basterds so far, but can't wait to see him in more stuff. Great actor!