Lets fix casting mistakes

Yes I started another casting thread so sue me.

So we have all had a time when we have gone WTH, Casting Agency? and wished we could undo it. So lets list off a movie, character and actor who you believed to be miscast and state who you would have cast to replace them and where you would cast the poorly cast actor if you could cast them for anything.

Example: Spider-Man 3's Venom was played by Topher Grace which some people took umbrage with. So to fix it by casting... Arnold Schwarzenegger because lets face it that movie had problems far beyond Venom's casting. As for who Topher Grace would be more suited to play? Carnage of course.

Schwarzenegger? Gah.

I'm thinking Tom Hardy could have made a good Eddie Brock, if we still want to keep him physically impressive enough yet giving the role to a good actor.

The example was more of a joke just to get things moving.

Someone replacing Russel Crowe in Les Miserables. Please. Weakest link of the cast.

edited 3rd Mar '13 2:26:58 PM by Stratofarius

Who would you replace him with and where would you put him afterwards?

Adam Sandler.

While I have other problems with the film, the biggest problem with Avatar was Sam Worthington as Jake Scully. We need to replace him with someone charismatic, likable, and actually capable of acting, so I say we use Keith David.

Howzabout, instead of Russell Crowe as Javert, we have Hugh Jackman in a double role? Thataway, you can make some symbolic arguments that Valjean is running from himself, AND you get someone who can actually sing in the part of Javert.

Just being playful; feel free not to murder me.

Here's a basic one. They shouldn't have been looking for a white actress to be playing Katniss in The Hunger Games. I can't think of an actress who would have done as good of a job and looked more like the character in the book though.

Here's a really easy one. Liam Neeson played the title role in "Rob Roy", and Mel Gibson was William Wallace in "Braveheart". Given the nature of the actual historical personages involved, with Rob Roy Mc Gregor being a short arse and William Wallace being at least six foot six, it would have made better sense for the roles to have been switched so that Neeson played Wallace, and Gibson played Mc Gregor.

There are ten thousand things wrong with The Last Airbender,but one of them even with the actual cast could've fixed and then they could've worked from there

Dev Patel and Summer Bushil should've been cast as Sokka and Katara while Nicola Peltz and Jackson Rathbone should've been cast Zuko and Azula

Because I swear that's exactly the parts they were playing the whole time anyway.

Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven was the casting weak link—I was laughing when his skinny self took down a bunch of armored Templars. Oh, and "I'm a blacksmith." Tom Hardy would have been a better choice — he's physically impressive, and has a lot of gravitas.

Anthony Hopkins in Thor had volume but not emotion. BRIAN BLESSED!!!!! should have been Odin, though I know Branagh tried to get him for the part but he was too busy.

edited 10th Mar '13 2:40:01 PM by Tuckerscreator

Tom Hardy is really really short though so he would have been standing on a soapbox whenever camera angles weren't doing everything in their power to disguise that fact.

edited 10th Mar '13 3:00:01 PM by Canid117

Wasn't Orlando Bloom a blacksmith in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies?

In both actually. A blacksmith with suspiciously good sword skills (Instant Expert in KoH) who fights for freedom.

edited 10th Mar '13 3:49:37 PM by Canid117

Not all blacksmiths look like Odin's uglier brother in law.

Some look like this:

http://www.iofilm.co.uk/feats/interviews/l/laura_fraser.shtml

edited 10th Mar '13 4:04:15 PM by TamH70

I like my blacksmiths to be six five, weigh 280 and not know what the word shaving means. They just seem blacksmithyer that way.

I'm actually ok with Russel Crowe's take on Javert, but I'd definitely want to recast the Thenardiers in Les Misérables (2012), as Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter aren't really right for the parts.

Probably the easiest fix would just be to cast Matt Lucas and Jenny Galloway, who were in the most recent anniversary concert. Not sure if there's any "big name" actors who would also work. Suggestions?

I actually kind of think Cohen might have worked better if instead of that weird French accent he used, he played him (more accurately) as a lower class thug who feigns intelligence, and would switch between a Cockney accent and a fake posh one.

Does that count for the (many) female blacksmiths who were active around the time of the films too?

Yes

That's fine, I thought I had better just check.

Thought of another one- there was recently an adaptation of Maupassant's novel Bel Ami starring Robert Pattinson, which kind of tanked at the box office.

The rest of the cast is good, but Pattinson doesn't seem right for the main role. Although I guess he'd fit the "oddly irresistible to women" aspect of the Villain Protagonist Duroy, Duroy is a somewhat macho/thuggish character. I'd suggest Joe Armstrong from Robin Hood as a better fit for the role.

Liam Hemsworth in Arabian Nights as Ali Baba. Hollywood seems to think we don't have enough white boys in our life.

Sam Elliott should have been Nick Fury.

Specially since I fucking hate Ultimate Fury'.