REAL people casting thread

[Chris Wallace]

Ordinarily I hate casting threads. Particularly when it comes to comic book movies. Here, I'm essentially asking you to pick a celebrity-living or dead, & name the person you think is best suited to play them if a biopic were to be made.

 

[JackBauer]

Ewan McGregor as Kurt Cobain

 

[Rob Lobo]

Ray Liotta as Morrissey (The Smiths fame)
James McAvoy as Oscar Wilde

 

[Chris Wallace]

Ewan McGregor as Kurt Cobain

Hmmm. That might fly.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Ray Liotta as Morrissey (The Smiths fame)
James McAvoy as Oscar Wilde

Don't have enough information to pass judgment on that one, I'm afraid.

 

[Wolfman]

Uuh.. this seems like a really fun thread!

Ty Burrell for Boris Karloff! Couldn't find a better picture of him on Google, but if you go to IMDB.com and check his profile picture, the resemblence is... shall we say... uncanny.
Ty

Boris

edit: here's the link for his imdb profile picture:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2270007808/nm0123092

 

[bullets]

Ewan McGregor as Kurt Cobain

maybe Jared Leto but I can't see how ewan would pull that off , unless this is a joke .

 

[chamber-music]

Ray Liotta as Morrissey (The Smiths fame)
James McAvoy as Oscar Wilde

stephen fry owned Oscar Wilde. McAvoy would not be able to come close

 

[Untilteld]

Depp = Cobain

 

[cerealkiller182]

Jason Lee as Stan Lee

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella

 

[JackBauer]

maybe Jared Leto but I can't see how ewan would pull that off , unless this is a joke .

Actually it isn't. The physical similarities are there to make it a perfect likeness after makeup, plus he's got the talent and voice. If you can't see it you're blind.

 

[KenK]

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella

You know that one's actually happening, right?

 

[Chris Wallace]

Is it? I did not know that.

 

[Rob Lobo]

Sorry, I just throws in names and roles.

What about this one,

Terry Crews as Mr. T

just for fun

 

[Chris Wallace]

Only problem there is, Crews is too tall.

 

[Alien Anal]

sorry fellas and fellets but the cobain match goes to the one and only Joe Anderson

 

[Chris Wallace]

From a visual standpoint, I'm inclined to agree with you.
I think that we can more realistically match actors to these roles than in comic book movie threads. The tendency there is to base your pick on how a character was drawn during a particular time frame or by a particular artist, & that doesn't prove anything.

 

[ttotheusher]

Marc Warren for Malcolm McDowell.

Here's a comparison picture:

http://bristle.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/mcdowellwarren.jpg

 

[odiin]

Marc Warren for Malcolm McDowell.

Just google-imaged the guy. Jesus... That's uncanny.

 

[fu manchu]

hmm, Travolta as Bill Clinton...oh wait

 

[Chris Wallace]

That was wrong.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Justin Theroux as Jack Kerouac (maybe?)

 

[Sawyer]

Jamie Bamber for JFK

 

[Sawyer]

He played his son on Scrubs, and I thought it was perfect. So...

Zack Braff as John Ritter

 

[cerealkiller182]

You know that one's actually happening, right?

Nope, had no clue.

Justin Long as Keith Moon