Worst Cases of Miscasting

[Sawyer]

Had he been Superman, like Burton was planning, definitely Nic Cage. WTF Burton?! There's nothing Superman about him.

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

Had he been Superman, like Burton was planning, definitely Nic Cage. WTF Burton?! There's nothing Superman about him.

Having Tim Burton create a Superman feels oxymoronic in an occupational sense. I could vaguely see Cage as Zod in a nearsighted way, but that's it. If that film had happened, I'm sure there would've been a lot of headscratchers in the casting department.

Hmm, it probably would've gone like this:

Superman/Clark Kent - Nicolas Cage
Lois Lane - Linda Florentino
Lex Luthor - Danny Devito
Jimmy Olson - Hank Azaria
Perry White - Clint Eastwood<not a bad choice; just miscast>

and the others choices would be debatable. I'm just hoping someone like Cyndi Lauper wouldn't end up as Lana Lang.

 

[Episode29]

Had he been Superman, like Burton was planning, definitely Nic Cage. WTF Burton?! There's nothing Superman about him.

People said the same thing about Michael Keaton prior to Batman.

Just sayin'.

 

[Sawyer]

People said the same thing about Michael Keaton prior to Batman.

Just sayin'.

Dont pull that **** with me. Cage WOULD have been a terrible Superman. There's really no question about it. Not to mention that Burton is completely the wrong person to have done Superman. He has dark sensibilities and would've thrown everything he didnt like about the character, good or not, out the window. And then, of course, there is Jon Peters rambling on about his Superman with "the eyes of a killer", which Cage actually fits quite well.

Plus, 95 percent of Batman's body is covered with armor. Not that hard to make a skinny guy like Keaton be Bats. Superman is tights and face. Nic Cage would fit neither.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Having Tim Burton create a Superman feels oxymoronic in an occupational sense. I could vaguely see Cage as Zod in a nearsighted way, but that's it. If that film had happened, I'm sure there would've been a lot of headscratchers in the casting department.

Hmm, it probably would've gone like this:

Superman/Clark Kent - Nicolas Cage
Lois Lane - Linda Florentino
Lex Luthor - Danny Devito
Jimmy Olson - Hank Azaria
Perry White - Clint Eastwood<not a bad choice; just miscast>

and the others choices would be debatable. I'm just hoping someone like Cyndi Lauper wouldn't end up as Lana Lang.

Chris Rock would have played Jimmy Olsen in Burton's Superman. Burton also wanted Kevin Spacey to play Lex as well.

Cage's casting actually predated Tim Burton coming aboard to direct. That was Jon Peters' brilliant decision to cast Cage as Superman. Rumor had it Burton wanted Ralph Fiennes to play Superman but agreed to make the film with Cage as the lead.

 

[Sawyer]

I thought Burton wanted Jack Nicholson for Lex...

 

[Nivek]

Kevin Costner as Robin Hood is pretty bad. About equal to John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

I thought Burton wanted Jack Nicholson for Lex...

Straight from the horse's mouth:

HW: Is it true that Bryan mentioned Superman to you as his dream project as early as on the set of The Usual Suspects?

KS: He might have, but if he did I don't recall it. What I do know is that we had some kind of conversation when I went in to meet Tim Burton 10 or 11 years ago, when Tim was going to do Superman. Apparently Tim wanted me to play the Lex Luthor part. I never read a script, but it was apparently an entirely different scenario and I think that it was Nic Cage[as Superman]. Anyway, that didn't get made. I remember that we had a conversation then about it and I think that it was then I remember Bryan saying, &#8220;Ah, what an incredible thing that would be.&#8221; He was always such a huge fan of the genre and the comic book and had such respect for it. I think that in a way it's great, because I think that they all approached it with a certain reverence for the [Richard] Donner films, a complete respect for the fan base and I think that it probably has a feeling of enormous homage to that style.

http://www.hollywood.com/feature/Inside_Superman_Returns_The_Bald_and_the_Beautiful_Kevin_Spacey_/3506831

 

[Eddie Dean]

To be fair, Nicolas Cage is a better choice for Superman than Sean Penn.

 

[dude stannis]

Do not. Die Hard is my favorite action movie of all time. The 3 films you mentioned are the ones that fail in the action genre.

Uhm, Die Hard is heaps of peoples favourite action movie. Even people that hate action movies.

 

[zeptron]

If he been Robin, Marlon Wayans. What was Burton on when he came up with this idea?

 

[Doctor Jones]

I don't know. Same reason he wanted Christ Rock to play him.

But I loved Billy Dee as Dent.

 

[thejon93]

I don't know. Same reason he wanted Christ Rock to play him.

But I loved Billy Dee as Dent.

"Christ... Rock?..."

Spoiler

Praise the Lord!

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

To be fair, Nicolas Cage is a better choice for Superman than Sean Penn.

''Hey, Superman, why is your nose so big?''

 

[cryptic name]

I'll take note to widen my Nicolas Cage horizons. Any suggestions? Because the only one I've seen that isn't recent is Con Air (his accent and hair were so hilarious I couldn't focus on his actual acting skill).

put the bunny down

 

[dark_b]

Ben Affleck in Daredevil. He didn't even lose any weight for the film!

Ben was in shape for daredevil.

 

[Max J Power]

I'll take note to widen my Nicolas Cage horizons. Any suggestions? Because the only one I've seen that isn't recent is Con Air (his accent and hair were so hilarious I couldn't focus on his actual acting skill).

Raising Arizona. It shows the kind of role Cage is great for.

Gerard Butler in Phantom of The Opera - So for the part of an ugly guy who can sing like an angel, you cast a handsome man who can't sing at all?

I didn't like the other actors either. Or the direction. And I don't like Andrew Lloyd Weber. That movie was just full of fail.

 

[thejon93]

put the bunny down

"How'd it get burned?... How'd it get burned?!...How'd it get burned?! How'd it get burned?!"

 

[[A]]

there's no big enough wig in the world to help Cage look like Superman

 

[hammerhedd11]

^
Um... I was talking about "menace", Mr. Genius

He...wasn't menacing...either...

 

[Sawyer]

''Hey, Superman, why is your nose so big?''

As if Cage's is any smaller...

 

[thejon93]

He...wasn't menacing...either...

...Throughout the entire movie, he had a building rage to his character. That's what I was talking about. Excuse me if "menace" wasn't quite the right word for it.

 

[WeaponXProject]

I know that he can play serious roles. 'Eternal Sunshine', 'The Truman Show', 'The Majestic' and 'Man on the Moon' were my favourite movies of his. But he's never really captured me with his villainous roles, in such films as: 'The Cable Guy', 'The Number 23' and (of course) 'Batman Forever'.

I completely disagree with you on the Cable Guy...but I agree with you on his villainous roles. Perhaps those two are just plain bad movies and not particularly his fault.

He did in She's All That. Unless you mean an actual physical bag *****e, like some Eugene Inoesco adaptation. Then no.

 

[dude stannis]

As if Cage's is any smaller...

Especially when highlighted by his incredibly huge forehead.

 

[That-Guy]

Whoever played Jesus in "The Messenger." Whatever your religious beliefs, I don't think God should look like a guy who will give you nightmares.

Jeremy Irons in Appalooza. I know people already mentioned Zellweger, but I thought she fit the part she played. But Irons couldn't drop his accent (though he tried) and the result came out as a botched mess. He should have just kept it and played an Englishman; it would have fit the character.