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Casting Calls

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:38:48 PM

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Recently thanks to my mate DaveI was informed of a new A Team movie in the works.

I tried to come up with a good cast for this movie and failed - who I wanted to see most likely wouldn't be commerically viable and some parts cannot reasonably be recast

James Brolin as Hannibal, James Spader as Face, BA who could you cast that wouldn't be either a bad Mr T impersonation or a totally different character?, Murdock the danger is that the actor in this role would be too wacky - I've seen Jim Carrey suggested for the role but his antics would then overpower the others. This is an ensemble cast.

So I decided to look at a few other movies from Aggressor Novels

The Pentrator


How about George Eads from CSI?

Okay your turn if they were to turn your favourite series into a movie who would you cast?




MR T: The Mystery of the Disappearing Oasis (1984)Andy Warhol's Dracula Anno Dracula 1978-79 by Kim Newman (1999) in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRES 2004 edition

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Unregistered user Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:07:00 PM

Matthew writes: There is a discussion about who should be cast at Warren Murphy's site: http://www.warrenmurphy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=105 I found when people want to cast their favorite characters they always go for actors who look like the characters. I'm not sure that is such a good thing. I mean Humphrey Bogart looked nothing like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe.

Cleanclean Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:51:49 AM

That's a bloody good point. There's been a few movies where the person cast looked nothing like the character, but achieved success nevertheless simply by their portrayal and faithfulness to the character.

Cleanclean Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:53:46 AM

There I am ... marked as bloody spam again! A pox on the server monkeys!

Brad MengelAggressorBrad Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:23:52 AM

I've unspammed you.

I generally speaking try for a mix of being able to play the character and appearance.

But look at Daniel Craig as the blond Bond and Michael Clark Duncan as Kingpin. Both portrayals were very well done.

Brad

Unregistered user Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:37:14 PM

Glen Davis writes: Max Allan Collins' Nolan is supposed to look exactly like Lee Van Cleef.

Brad MengelAggressorBrad Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:40:45 PM

That's pretty cool.

Brad

Unregistered user Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:50:09 AM

docsavage80@yahoo.com writes: Zoetrope Virtual Studio: Screenwriting Contest From 2400 entries, Judge Terry Zwigoff and the American Zoetrope staff honored the following ... The Penetrator: Deep Cover Blast Off, Dylan Paschke ... www.zoetrope.com/contests/2005finalists.htm - 25k - Farmhouse Films is actually trying to put together a Penetrator film, and even had a trailer online.

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