bigger actors/bigger movie

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UPDATED: Sunday, February 12, 2006 01:24
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ASARIAN

Saturday, February 11, 2006 3:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:

If we're just looking for hot names to fill in the blanks, why not get TRULY offensive?

Lindsay Lohan as River

Sounds horrible, doesn't it?

Yeah, it is TRULY offensive. :) I see she played in "A Prairie Home Companion", so maybe we could cast her as Inara? :)

Now, nobody walk away, feeling hurt, because I'll quickly add: this is not anger; this is irony. :)

Okay, things still solid between us?

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

GIXXER

Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:02 PM

Whoa!

Let's not be giving Linsey Lohan a hard time. Some food, maybe, but...

The Parent Trap. Should have been an Olsen-sized monstrosity, but wasn't. (And excellent Cary Grant impersonation from Dennis Quaid.)

Mean Girls. Lighter than Heathers, but without tipping into vacuous pap (see Wikipedia / Pap/ Olsen).

Freaky Friday. Damn good to hold her own against an on-form Jamie-Lee.

I could go on. But maybe I can't.

ASARIAN

Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gixxer:

Whoa!

Let's not be giving Linsey Lohan a hard time. Some food, maybe, but...

Sorry. :) I've actually never seen her. And now that we have Summer Glau, who needs to? :)

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

COPILOTLEONARD

Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:33 PM

I would never have even bothered watching it if those people were in it. It wouldn't be the same, my BDH are a select few brilliant actors/ actresses and they always will be

"Oh no what could it be? We're all going to die. Who's flying this thing? Oh right, that would be me, back to work"

SYNCHRO

Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:28 PM

How about Quentin Tarantino as Badger?

In the future, there are always these big slow moving fan blades.

JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:51 PM

I agree with Copilotleonard, the show and movie would not have been the same, or as good. I like most of the actors you mentioned to replace our BDH's but then I realized the BDH's are irreplacable(sp). also, I would have put Halle Berry as Zoe and Jessica Alba as Inara. I also would have replaced hayden with a more expierenced actor.

DANIELFYRE

Saturday, February 11, 2006 10:38 PM

I thought about this for a while who I would pick for these roles and needless to say nothing can top the original cast it was the cast that made the show 'magical' but this is what I came up with:

Zoe: Hallie Berry

Mal: Ben Afflec? Mel Gibson? George Clooney?

Wash: Steve Zahn

Book: Morgan Freeman

Simon: Leonardo DiCaprio? Noah Wyle?

Kaylee: Alyson Hannigan

Inara: Jennifer Love Hewitt? Catherine Zeta
Jones? Selma Hyak?

Jayne: The Rock

River: This one was really really hard 'cause when I was like who can play a crazy person who kicks ass? the person that came into my head was oh the girl from the 4400 ep...then I felt really stupid 'cause that was Summer...so yeah..I guess Rachel McAdams I really don't see it but I mean I had to pick someone.

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

ZOID

Sunday, February 12, 2006 12:13 AM

Apropos of virtually nothing:

I am currently writing a fanfic called "Shadow", intended to be a sequel to Serenity, since I reckon it's highly questionably -- or at least, 'hopefully iffy' -- that Firefly will return to the screen, large or small.

I'm still hoping and praying, like all of y'all. But like Mal said, that might be a long wait for a train that don't come.

So, I'm dabbling, thus:

Dramatis Personae
Malcolm Reynolds – A transport ship's captain; portrayed by Nathan Fillion (adult), ? (8 years old), and ? (18 years old).

Angus Reynolds – Malcolm's paternal grandfather, a cattle rancher; portrayed by Clint Eastwood.

Deborah Stuart-Reynolds – Malcolm's mother; portrayed by Bonnie Hunt.

Shaun Reynolds – Malcolm's father, a cattle rancher; portrayed by Kevin Costner.

Magnus Reynolds – Malcolm's older brother, leader of Stuart's Raiders; portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis (adult), ? (10 years old), and ? (21 years old).

Victor Stuart – Malcolm's maternal grandfather, a widower and elderly single father of 4 girls (no sons); portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins.

[The 'surviving' cast of “Serenity” returns intact]

General Richard 'By The Book' Wilkins – An Alliance field general, a brilliant military tactician and jurist; portrayed by Ron Glass.

Vera Cobb – Jayne's mother, a sharecropper's widow and (strict but loving) single mother of 8 boys and 6 girls; portrayed by Linda Hunt.

“NoMan” – a former Alliance operative; portrayed by Chewitel Ejiofor.

Daisy – a slave from a neighboring ranch, Malcolm's first love (aged 18); portrayed by Kiera Knightley, Laura Marano (7 years old).

Vernon Pettigrew – a neighboring rancher; portrayed by Brad Dourif.

Supernumeraries include: additional Reynolds brothers and sisters (Malcolm aged 8), totaling 6 females and 3 additional males, various ages between 6 and 17; various cutthroat-types to populate the Raiders; assorted ranch hands; church congregation; slaves of various ethnicity; saloon girls and patrons; Alliance citizenry, officers and soldiers.

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If anyone could fill in the question marks above with a list of candidates, I'd appreciate it. My goal is to publish a cast list so that those who read my 'fic can visualize it in their minds, as though it were a BDS...

By the bye: Angela Bassett would've made a good Zoe if she were maybe 10 years younger. Zoe is supposed to be a contemporary of Mal's; but I suppose it could work. And no doubt she's got the physique to pull off the 'warrior woman' role. She was fantastic as 'the muscle' in "Strange Days" (1995).

Couchily,

zoid

P.S.
Might have to rethink D.D. Lewis. He's 14 years older than Nathan; that's a tough sell. Luckily, I haven't written him any lines as an adult yet. He had just the right sort of energy in "Last of the Mohicans" and "Gangs of New York", too...
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Sunday, February 12, 2006 12:43 AM

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit

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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

JAYTEE

Sunday, February 12, 2006 12:57 AM

If the original cast weren't in the BDM I wouldn't have gone to see it nor would I have bought several copies of the DVD. I would have just gone back to watching my Firefly DVDs. I can't picture anyone else playing Malcolm Reynolds especially Brad "Narcissus" Pitt. The whole idea of any other actors being cast as our Big Damn Heroes is both insulting and ludicrous.

Jaytee

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