What is the worse case of movie miscasting that you have come across?

This is too hard.

Sean Connery as a spaniard in The Highlander
Sean Connery as a russian in The Hunt for Red October

Michael Jackson as Edgar Allen Poe (hopefully this movie shambles will be crap-canned in pre-production).

I have to disagree. I thought he was wonderful in BOTH of those moives (now the SEQUEL to Highlander on the other hand, that sucked ass).

I absolutely agree. Sean Connery is not to be anything else than what he already is - a Scot.

The woman (I don't know her name) that played the part of Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean. There are so many that can act as well and look alot more like Marilyn.

I'd say the whole cast of "Scooby Doo" was miscast.

Or how about Anthony Hopkins attempting Spanish flair in "Zorro". That REALLY sucked.

Tom Cruise as Lestat?

John Wayne portraying Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. You just want to go up and slap a cowboy hat on the man's head. He makes no effort whatsoever to affect an appropriate accent and looks as about as much as Genghis Khan as Michael Jackson does!

Oh, you just ofended me . Tom was much better Lestat than the guy in 'Queen of the Damned' (I am not saying that he wasn't as hot as Tom).

Nick Castle as The Shape. I woulda done better.

One potential movie miscast that never came to be, but was seriously considered for awhile was Sandra Bullock playing Wonder Woman/Diana Prince. As of now, they are still looking for the right actress, but thankfully Sandra Bullock is no longer in the running. She was so wrong for the role in so many ways. BTW-What did MJ play Poe in? I must have missed that gem...lucky me!

Your example is hard to top.

Clint Eastwood in "Paint Your Wagon" (a musical filmed in Oregon). I cringe everytime I even think of Clint "SINGING"!!!

I haven't seen the movie, but I thought Matthew Lilliard looked and sounded a lot like Shaggy. But what was with Fred's shirt. Fred always wears a cravat in the cartoons and his character certainly doesn't in the movie. I also thought Freddie Prinze, Jr. looked awful as a blonde!

Mariah Carey or Britney Spears in ANY MOVIE! Mariah can at least sing, but neither she nor Britney have a speck of acting skills and would be miscast in any future movies. The only tolerable thing I've seen Britney in was the 3rd Austin Powers movie, but she wasn't acting, but playing herself.

I never knew it was actually a movie! I was sure they'd just made it up in "The Simpsons"! Hmmmm, I'm going to start my search for it

Anyone other than Michael Keaton as Batman.

"Batman and Robin" and "Batman Forever" were like some kind of horrible actor soup that got spilled under the stove and left there too long. Not having a script or plot didn't help either.

I only watched about 15 minutes of them.

Kevin Cosner in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thevies"

It's still in pre-production, meaning they have a script and an actor, but no studio, no budget adn (maybe) no director. To try and explain this better, both X-Men and Spider-Man had been languishing in pre-pro hell since 1982!

Recently- Sandra Bullock in "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood." It just seemed so contrived.

If we're lucky it'll never be made. I know Rob Zombie's "House of a 1,000 Corpses" is languishing on a shelf somewhere, but with a title like that I hope it never gets released! Another couple of movies that have been sitting around in pre-production Hell are "Jason vs Freddy" (which I understand made be made in the very near future) and the long-languishing "Alien vs Predator".

If you're referring to "Paint Your Wagon", then don't say I didn't warn you!

Timothy Dalton in James Bond. Wrong, so wrong. And didn't Robbie Coltraine appear in one Bond movie as some bad guy? I didn't get it. Oh and John Cleese in James Bond too. Terrible. And Rowan Atkinson in anything EVER!

Keanu Reeves in that Dracula movie

What was it called again?

Madonna in all her movies.

He looked SCARY.

I -like- Sean Connery. But I'll be damned if anybody could ever mistake him for a spaniard.

*thinks*

*doesn't dare say*

Timothy Dalton was the *best* Bond!!! But Robbie Coltrane was *awful* - actually that reminds me, Robert Carlyle playing a Russian in that Bond movie. Now *that* was terrible casting!!!

Rowan Atkinson is good as Blackadder.

um, I don't particularly look for these things, so I cant give any specific examples, but I DO THINK that Steven Segal plays too many "good guys"


THIS DUDE NEEDS TO PLAY SOME VILLIANS, I'VE NEVER SEEN HIM PLAY A VILIAN YET. COME ON, WOULDN'T HE MAKE AN EXALLENT VILLAN???

Yep!

Sorry. I thought he looked too fakey, too much like a caricature.

Bite your tongue, young lady! I'm living for the Rob Zombie movie...I neeeeeeeeeed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bite your own tongue! I'm not into pain!

**shrugs**

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

But he was hot
How did you like the new Lestat (from Queen of the Damned)?

John Wayne as anything. Jeff Goldblum as hero #2 in Independence Day. Jeff Goldblum as the main character in Jurasic Park. Actually Jeff Goldblum as anything too. Just like John Wayne, Jeff Goldblum plays himself in every movie.

I didn't see the movie.

HEY! You got something agaisnt the Zombie? Rob is the shiz-nit, and I've been waiting for House of 1,000 Corpses since I first saw the trailer, back in 2000! As for Freddy vs. jason, I'm sad to say it's in production now, with Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child set to co-star.

Playing villains certainly didn't hurt Anthony Hopkins or Denzel Washington or Joan Allen (she got an Emmy nod for her first ever non-good guy role. I hesitiate to say bad since the character was more misguided and selfish than evil and meglamonaical). Did you know that Morgan Freeman actually auditioned for the part of Hannibal lecter in Silence of the Lambs? He thinks it was a case of unintentional racism. The studio loved his audition but was so uptight about being accused of racism by the Militants (the people that ruin it for the rest of us liberals, fudging jerks) that for the longest no studio would let ANY blakc actor play a lead villain. Wesley Snipes helped break that in Demolition Man, and Michael Clarke Duncan is going to play Kingpin (in the comics he's a fat white guy) in the upcoming Daredevil movie.

You should. It was kind of crappy, but vampires are far too sexy to be missed. And music was good. I got the soundtrack.

I love Rob Zombie!

I don't normally keep up with the media and whose who in acting, so I cant say. I did find that to be interesing for a while though, the villian in Demolition Man being black chased around by Sylverer Stalone. Also, escape from LA, another black villain, and some episode of Sea Quest, where in the end a black villian was crusing around the bottom of the ocean floor. Hey, I've seen thousands movies where the hero's black and the villan white, and good many when they're both of the same race, so why the fudge not. We gotta even things up a bit.

Its only a matter of time before we hear on the news, a bunch of black CEO's arrested for a coorporate scandal. Now thats sounds more like geninue equality to me, to see more black bussinessmen succeding and getting in the news. When Martha Stewart got indided, it felt kindda good watching a woman doing a "man's scandal" In my sociology book, it even points out that crime among women is going up with near proportion to the increasing success by women in all fields.

I think we had a survey on that issue a while back.

I love Rob Zombie's music, but I have serious doubts about the movie. If Destiny's Child keeps this up then eventually all the group will end up in movies. I doubt Kelly will top Beyonce's role as Foxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers 3.

Speaking of Destiny's Child, am I the only one who wants to see all those jilted former members get together and cut an album of their own? I'd buy that in a heartbeat!

They aren't my favorite female group, but each to their own!

I don't care for them either, which is why I wanna see what the girls who got kicked out (one girl was booted after ctaching the cold!) can do.

OIC

If you read the book the Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver you would notice that Lincoln Rhyme is white, but the studios weren't afraid to let Denzel Washington portray him. The same goes for The Shawshank Redemption. In the novella it's obvious that the character Red is white (he has red hair and freckles hence the nickname Red), yet Morgan Freeman portrayed him. I can't frankly see Morgan Freeman playing Hannibal. If you've read the Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs or Hannibal you would see that he doesn't fit the part, and not because of anything to do with skin color. He doesn't have the type of creepy, quiet intensity that Anthony Hopkins has that was so very necessary for the role of Hannibal and I don't think I would have been frightened in the least by Morgan Freeman, especially after all the other roles I've seen. He would be as believable as Hannibal as Danny Glover was as the serial killer in Switchback and that was not at all! Some people just are not meant to play villians. I also felt that Julianne Moore was woefully miscast as Clarice Starling in Hannibal. She played the character as frightened and far too jumpy, not with the bravado and spirit that Jodie Foster gave the role. I was also disappointed in Ridley Scott's direction of Hannibal. Instead of creating a suspenseful drama as was done in Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme, he turned it into a gore fest! Paul Verhoven might as well directed it! >

Keanu Reeves should not play the part of any thing except a very good looking mute.

I find he's alright when he's playing a idiot as he did in the Bill & Ted movies, but anything more serious beyond that he should hang it up.

I loved him in The Matrix. He was perfect as Neo just because he always pretty much looked like a deer caught in headlights. He stumbled through looking totally confused and wide eyed about everything happening to him. He plays dumb, confused, blindsided, slack jawed and vapid very well!
and he's so easy on the eyes.........

That's true! He can play that in his sleep!

That's the one

Julianne Moore instead of Jodie Foster as Clarice in Hannibal

That was such bad miscasting. She was totally wrong for the role. I also felt that the movie would have been better if Jonathan Demme, who directed "Silence of the Lambs," had been at the helm. I don't dislike Ridley Scott as a director, but he does have a tendency to turn movies into gore-fests. "Silence of the Lambs" was a very scary, effective psychological thriller with Hannibal Lecter totally creeping out the audience. In "Hannibal", Hannibal Lecter was not in the least scary and changing the ending and leaving out a key character (Mason Verger's sister-who in the book kills Mason by shoving an electric eel in his mouth) totally ruined the movie. The book's ending is much more effective. I also thought that Julianne Moore played Clarice in a far too timid, emotional manner. Clarice is anything but timid and overly-emotional.

I couldn't think of any of my own, but Wolfchik gave the best example I think. Julianne Moore was not a good Clarice.

What a retarded question.

No one is forcing you to answer this survey.

Did you ever see Keanu in Much Ado About Nothing? It is actually a good film, but he's totally miscast. It was the first time I ever saw him play anything besides a doofy California guy (the Bill & Ted movies, Speed) and I was shocked to realize he actually talks like that. I had thought it was an act, but he sounds the same even in Shakespeare. Can't complain about his looks, though.

I never saw that movie. The only movie I really didn't mind him in was Speed (only the first one). And I have never complained about his looks.

We seem to be forgetting two very solid Keanu performances here. The Warchowski Brothers' The Matrix, and Sam Raimi's The Gift.

Have you seen this story about the new Superman movie? It makes me shudder to EVEN THINK of Keanu Reeves even being considered to play Superman.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=799&e=1&cid=794&u=/eo/20020926/en_movies_eo/10597

How about Vin Diesel in XXX? I mean, Vin Diesel is great, and XXX was great but what the two had to do with each other is just completely beyond me. Worst kissing scene ever, worst curly alpaca-fur coat over nothing more than a pair of DVDs ever and some of the longest lines (up to 12 words) that Diesel has ever voiced. It just didn't work for me.

I think they should get someone bulkier to play Superman. I like some of the newer Supermen I've seen in the comics who are brawnier looking. I guess Reeves could mass up a little but he still comes across as a little too gentle to me. I want an angry Superman.

It would also help if he took some acting lessons.

I shudder at the thought of ANYONE playing Superman. Full grown anyway. I like Smallville. They should scrap this Superman project and put all our efforts into figuring out how to do a GOOD Captain America movie!

Nicholas Cage in "Con Air". He overdid the redneck accent BIG TIME. I like him, but not in that role.

Another bad case of miscasting would be Kevin Costner as Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Hello...Robin Hood is British! Costner didn't even attempt to cultivate an accent for the movie.

Half of the cast of that film were American - Kevin Costner, Christian Slater, and several others. At least it had Alan Rickman and Sean Connery. Oh and the boy is British and there was a woman without a speaking part who had her rings stolen in a carriage, she's British......

Have you ever seen the British version of Robin Hood that was released at the same time? I don't think it ever made it into the pictures here even though a lot of people predicted it would do better.

I don't think I've seen the British version of Robin Hood. Granted some of the other cast was American, but Costner had the lead role and I think a better actor could have been found.

Oh yes! There's one line in that film that I hate more than any other. Costner says something along the lines of "Don't be afraid, come down from that tree" and he just wastes the line, he just says it flatly as though he's really sick of the whole film. How could he be when he was surrounded by that amazing scenery? Hadrian's Wall which dips and dives over a whole host of small hills around there. What a waste!

Barbra Streisand in anything!
The woman is a waste of skin and a strain on humanity.

For the most part I don't care for Barbra Streisand in any movies (I do like her singing), but she was very funny in "What's Up Doc?"

crap, dunno

I'm not familiar with "crap, dunno". Are those the names of the actors or are they movie titles?

I think it was a Japanese foreign film. Ha Ha.

IC!

Katie Holmes playing Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins , Maggie Gyllenhaal playing Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight , Maria Bella playing the wife role in the Mummy 3 , Eric Bana as The Hulk