Alternative casting?

POSTED BY: GweiLo
UPDATED: Monday, February 9, 2004 05:24
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GWEILO

Monday, February 2, 2004 4:36 PM

Do we know anything about which other actors were considered for the 9 lead roles in FF?

Rebecca Gayheart was considered for the role of Inara. That much I know. She could have been good. I loved her in “Earth 2”... which, like FF, met an all too early cancellation in spite of a very vocal fanbase.

Sub question: I know it’s hard to consider anyone else playing these roles… but if I may be so bold: who would have been your runners up for the roles?

RAVENWHYTEWING

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:28 PM

Well, I have to say Nathan Fillion could not possibly be replaced, in any way shape or form. Other than that, I don't think I'd mind Eowlyn MacGregor as Wash

Everyone Dies. Someone's carrying a bullet for you, doesn't even know it. The trick is, to die of old age before he finds you.

BROOKIE

Monday, February 2, 2004 9:46 PM

All the actors in the show were born to play those parts. Nobody could ever replace them. And no ship could ever replace Serenity while we are at it.

GWEILO

Wednesday, February 4, 2004 12:14 PM

I'm not suggesting that one of the cast should have been replaced. I'm just saying "what if?".

Maybe Angelina Joine as Zoe? Naaaaah....

SUCCATASH

Wednesday, February 4, 2004 12:29 PM

Here's a related thread:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=2011

GWEILO

Wednesday, February 4, 2004 5:16 PM

Viel dank!

FOFFILMS

Wednesday, February 4, 2004 5:37 PM

My wife and I play this game with TV shows all the time where we cast a "big feature" version of the show with a "big name" all star multi million dollar money is no object type cast.

You end up with stuff like:

Firefly

Mal - Tim Roth
Zoe - Jada Pinkett Smith
Wash - Owen Wilson
Jayne - Vin Diesel
Book - Morgan Freeman
Simon - Billy Crudup
Kaylee - Kirsten Dunst
River - Neve Campbell
Inara - Monica Bellucci

NOW - NOW - All I'm saying is this is a list of who could play the roles in a big budget feature if all the actors who already played the roles were somehow locked in a box and never existed. This is a purely whimsical fantasy cast in a world were the PERFECT TV cast does not exist.

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GEORDIESTEVE2003

Thursday, February 5, 2004 10:57 PM

Erm, actually I had another idea.

Summer Glau as Tara in Buffy. She could have pulled it off easy.

Happy with current cast on Firefly but wouldnt have minded seeing Joss as Badger.

SPIKESPIEGEL

Thursday, February 5, 2004 11:14 PM

Foffilms,

Hmm. Like us all, I would NEVER want to replace any of the cast. But your list is interesting.

(Mal: Tim Roth / Zoe: Jada Pinkett Smith / Wash: Owen Wilson / Jayne: Vin Diesel / Book: Morgan Freeman / Simon: Billy Crudup / Kaylee: Kirsten Dunst / River: Neve Campbell / Inara: Monica Bellucci)

I think Wilson, Freeman and Belluci are great calls. Dunst is pretty good, too, but she'd bring such a different, less subtle vibe, I think. Well, no, she toned it down in "Virgin Suicides." Hmm. But I can't keep straight who Billy Crudup is, and I LOVE Tim Roth, but don't see him as Mal. I'd rather change Zoe's race than cast Pinkett. Neve Campbell and Vin Diesel ... .

Harrison Ford could've done Mal once ... picture the Ford from Witness and Mosquito Coast, not Indy and Star Wars.

Oh, oh! Kiefer Sutherland as Mal! He can do haunted, he can do merciless ... he'd rock (not as well as Nathan, but still ...).

Brad Pitt as Jayne ... remember the menace he brings to "Fight Club" coupled with the dumb con boy from "Thelma & Louise." Scuff him up a little and you get a different, but potentially interesting, take on Jayne.

"Bang."

GWEILO

Friday, February 6, 2004 1:37 PM

Ooo! Owen Wilson as Wash! I wouldn´t have thought of it but now that you mention it... ~chuckle~

Don´t know if I agree with Pitt as Jayne though. Pitt is very talented, to be sure, but he´s more fast-talking-insane-guy than big-stupid-and-proud-of-it-guy. Pitt would have given Jayne an entierly different edge. (Man! I miss Jayne. ~sniff~)

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