Bad Casting Decisions

Here are my top 3 bad casting decisions:

1. Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher in the new movie “One Shot”. Reacher, the protagonist of Lee Child’s fictional works, is a giant of a man. With Reacher standing at 6’ 5” and weighing over 200lbs, Cruise just doesn’t have the physical attributes to fill his shoes.

2. Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross. Cross is always likened to a young Muhammad Ali in the Patterson novels, so at the time of the movies I thought Denzel Washington was more apt for the part.

3.Clint Eastwood as Terry McCaleb in the film Bloodwork. This, in my opinion, was the case of a good book turned into a bad movie. It seems even the author of Bloodwork, Michael Connelly, makes a reference in a later novel (Angel’s Flight, I think), that Eastwood looks nothing like McCaleb. Was this a way for Connelly to surreptitiously vent his own frustrations about Eastwood taking the leading role? I don't honestly know.

Are there any casting decisions that you don't agree with?
Was there a more suitable actor/actress who should have had the role?

Daniel Craig as James Bond; to be Bond I think you need more wit and charisma in your locker, which he just didn't have (imo).

Josiah,

I wondered whether Daniel Craig's Bond would be mentioned. I always get the impression that he's loved or hated as Bond. I've not really read the books in great detail, so I've no idea how true Craig is to Fleming's idea of Bond. If you, or anyone else, can enlighten me on this topic then that would be appreciated.

I like Craig as Bond mainly because I see him as a believable Bond, how many of the others could you really see getting their hands dirty? The fight scenes you saw in Casino Royale for example and the construction site, couldn't see mamy of the other Bond's looking realistic in those situations. Where Bond also fits into the upper class tux kind of scenes.

Not just one person but half of the cast for clash of the titans, considering that there were early plans for a seuqel/trilogy why would you cast half the people they did when they have recast them for wrath of the titans, the actress for andromeda for example, ditched because they didn't believe she had enough star power when they realised how bigger role andromeda would play in wrath. Surely this would have been considerd when casting for clash of the titans?

MediaCat wrote:

1. Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher in the new movie “One Shot”. Reacher, the protagonist of Lee Child’s fictional works, is a giant of a man. With Reacher standing at 6’ 5” and weighing over 200lbs, Cruise just doesn’t have the physical attributes to fill his shoes.

Could not agree more, love the Jack Reacher novels, This is a shocking decision

anything with keanu reeves in it?

Gary Oldman as Sirius Black in Harry Potter. I think Michael Wincott would have been a FAR better choice. I think Hollywood needed a "name" though. Oldman wasn't bad, but I think Wincott would have been better.

Nick Stahl in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machine. Just utterly limp.

George Clooney as Batman.

It never happened but Ewan McGregor would've made a terrible Neo.

Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2.

Edward Norton in The Incredible Hulk...how can you over act that part its mind boggling, its just a pity Bana never reprised the role as the 2nd was much better than the first.

Leonardo DiCaprio in Gangs of New York.

For a feared gang member it the dangerous five points he was as about as scary as Zippy from Rainbow.

Didn't help that Daniel Day-Lewis was full of menace as Bill the Butcher.

Sir. badgerhands wrote:Leonardo DiCaprio in Gangs of New York.

For a feared gang member it the dangerous five points he was as about as scary as Zippy from Rainbow.

Didn't help that Daniel Day-Lewis was full of menace as Bill the Butcher.

Could have been worse, they could have gotten Colin "F**kin" Farrell

Dicey Reilly wrote:

Sir. badgerhands wrote:Leonardo DiCaprio in Gangs of New York.

For a feared gang member it the dangerous five points he was as about as scary as Zippy from Rainbow.

Didn't help that Daniel Day-Lewis was full of menace as Bill the Butcher.

Could have been worse, they could have gotten Colin "F**kin" Farrell

True.

However I've only ever seen him in "In Brugge" and he was pretty good in that.

Interviews with him are enough to put me off the guy though.
Remember years ago him giving an interview where he talked about what a crazy rebel he was in his school days and the amount of times he got expelled.

This interview was promptly followed by an interview with one of his teachers in one of the red top papers saying what a lovely lad and straight A student he was!!

As for another case of bad casting, Gayle from Corrie playing the lead role in Steven Speilberg's E.T was neither convincing or enjoyable to watch!!

As for another case of bad casting, Gayle from Corrie playing the lead role in Steven Speilberg's E.T was neither convincing or enjoyable to watch!!

I always thought Toby Maguire wasnt the right choice to play Peter Parker/Spiderman.

Will be interesting to see how Andrew Garfield(that his name?) does in the new one.

I had my doubts about Tobey Maguire, but i thought he was immense.

I wasn't overly keen on Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight.

Going back to Daniel Craig as Bond...

Am I right in thinking at the start of Casino Royale he earned his 007 status? If so, then I think he is the right kind of guy to play Bond. If that was Bond's first real step up to that level then he would be a little rough around the edges and not the polished articles that you see in the other movies.

My problem with casting was more The A-Team. They shouldn't have had Bradley Cooper as Face. Face was always a bit reluctant to get involved with the fighting and was always just the ladies man schemer. Bradley Cooper is not that believable in that role (Mainly because they changed it so that he happily got involved with the fighting).
On a side note - In general they changed too much about the TV show to make the movie. One of the features of the show was that the A-Team did not kill people. You would see a car spin/roll 20 times and land on it's roof. But you would always see the people in that car stumbling out after the wreckage. They would build a tank out of an old barrell and some corrugated steel, but they would never kill anyone. Whereas the movie has BA having a moral dilemma where he can no longer kill people and Hannibal convinces him that he should.

christian bale as batman- plays a good bruce wayne mind- rate the guy highly in other films like the fighter, the maschinist,american phsco.

But i just hate the batman accent(although i rate the new films)

mystiroakey wrote:christian bale as batman- plays a good bruce wayne mind- rate the guy highly in other films like the fighter, the maschinist,american phsco.

But i just hate the batman accent(although i rate the new films)

ive heard many people complain about the accent but i didnt mind it, the new batman films are more darker and more realistic than the earlier ones and for wayne to run around with exactly the same voice as batman without anybody realising it was him would have been stupid. whats the points on the jokers twist and turns if the people who know wayne cant figure out who's batman. it always annoyed me when i was a kid and all superman had to do was take off his glasses and no would recoginise him!

i love the new films,

however i dont like bales batman accent- I agree it should be diferent to his normal accent

Bad casting decisions.

Tom Jane - The Punisher. Lundgren was epic in the 1990 version and if had a better script I would've put up there with Reeve as Superman. Truly awful film.

Vinnie Jones - Gone In 60 Seconds. Ruined a film that had an amazing cast. I felt the script was altered to compensate for the casting of Jones.

Any non Scottish role involving Sean Connery!!

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Collateral Damage. A fireman taking down a terrorist group? Needed someone who does getting beat up and epically saving the day.

compelling and rich wrote:anything with keanu reeves in it?

I don't know. Bill and Ted suited him pretty well.

He shouldn't have been anywhere near the role of Jonathan Harker in Dracula though.

I love the new Batman films, but I think Nolan's casting of Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes was awful. Her acting in it was terrible. Maggie replacing her in the Dark knight was a marginal improvement, but still not right.

Il Gialloblu wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:anything with keanu reeves in it?

I don't know. Bill and Ted suited him pretty well.

He shouldn't have been anywhere near the role of Jonathan Harker in Dracula though.

He was also ok in River's Edge although he did play a stoned halfwit.

Galted wrote:

Il Gialloblu wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:anything with keanu reeves in it?

I don't know. Bill and Ted suited him pretty well.

He shouldn't have been anywhere near the role of Jonathan Harker in Dracula though.

He was also ok in River's Edge although he did play a stoned halfwit.

Whooooahhh Dracula duuuuude!

lionardo decarpio in everyting

jennifer anniston in everything

luckily aniston is type cast alot, so she probally fits her chick flick films well.

di caprio is quality..

however if you just dont like em- then you dont like em

Mickey Rourke as Gareth Thomas

Bale having the voice is realistic think about it peter parker sounds the same whens his spidey but Mary Jane must be thick as a stone if she does not figure out its him. this is the bit before she finds out etc.

you get my point.

compelling and rich wrote:anything with keanu reeves in it?

disagree,

apparently Will Smith was originally approached about playing Neo in the Matrix and he turned it down - I am so glad about that because Will Smith just doesn't fit the character - Keanu played Neo perfectly, his fight scenes were believable, his awkwardness at being the 'one' and his insecurity in the search for his path and destiny, Keanu made the character very real to me. I also loved the chemistry between him and Hugo Weaving - Reeves had the perfect look and demeanor for Mr Smith to condescendingly and belittlingly refer to Neo as 'Mr Anderson' - just a run of the mill, average joe who was nothing special.

legendkillarV2 wrote:Bad casting decisions.
Any non Scottish role involving Sean Connery!!

Oh, I dunno. I like him as a Chicago cop in The Untouchables, although I thought he was a bit comical in his first scene on the bridge where he put on a bad American accent.

Bad casting decisions - John c Reilly in the vampire's assistant
Any thing with Anna Faris in, I had to switich off the dictator online because of her.