Comments | papajoemambo: I think about this stuff too much...

papajoemambo

I think about this stuff too much...

Mar 02, 2006 15:06

"Things That Keep A Geek Up At Night" Dept.:

Adrian Brody should have been Reed Richards and Charlize Theron should have been Sue Storm...

With George Clooney as Doom?

No, Clooney is Tony Stark... Gotta find the right Doom...

the casting game, geeksprecht, fantastic four

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modpixie March 2 2006, 20:17:55 UTC

have you seen the script for the 1960s/hard day's night-inspired fantastic 4 movie? good stuff, that.

papajoemambo March 2 2006, 20:27:20 UTC

No I haven't and I've wanted to since I heard about it - is it online?

modpixie March 2 2006, 20:28:31 UTC

for some reason i thought it was...i remember reading part of it and being really disappointed at the direction in which the big film version of the film went.

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papajoemambo March 2 2006, 20:34:10 UTC

No no - s'gotta be more noble *and* menacing, like Jeremy Irons (but not as gay-seeming as Jeremy Irons) to be Doom. Bigger ticket than Giamatti too, but talent wise, you're in the right area.

I'd say Ben Kingsley, but I need him as The Vulture, in my head at least...

thebitterguy March 2 2006, 20:39:35 UTC

Hmmm... You should probably get an Eastern European guy to play him. Isn't Mira Furlan's husband supposed to be a good performer?

papajoemambo March 2 2006, 20:40:34 UTC

You know who would have been IDEAL is Andreas Catsulas...

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thebitterguy March 2 2006, 20:34:56 UTC

I hear Clooney had a hankerin' to play Nick Fury, but ended up passing on the project after he saw the Max Fury book.

theophile March 2 2006, 20:50:40 UTC

Jean Reno would be a perfect Doom, as long as we can live with a Latveria that's slightly more French than German. no one does the hyperintellectual, traumatized, and morally conflicted archetype like him.

AS much as I love Jean Reno... papajoemambo March 2 2006, 20:53:12 UTC

This is true, but I'm thinking someone way more Shakespearian for Doom - the heavy has to be a real heavyweight.

I love Reno, but I'd say Tchcky Karo before Reno as Doom.

Re: AS much as I love Jean Reno... theophile March 2 2006, 21:14:59 UTC

okay, I just realized who I'd cast as Doom: Crispin Hellion Glover. I'm biased, I suppose, in that, if I were a director, I'd cast him somewhere in every movie I made, but just imagine any of Doom's apocalyptic speeches delivered in Glover's meticulous halfway-whine of a voice. I'm thinking the sort of voice that surfaces late in Willard; there's something about that mix of delicacy and strained madness that perfectly suits an unbalanced yet brilliant savant.

plus we have the added bonus that Glover's angular face should lend itself easily to a vaguely Turkish look with the right makeup.

I realize that it'd be an uphill battle to convince anyone outside of my head of the genius of this casting decision.

Re: AS much as I love Jean Reno... papajoemambo March 2 2006, 21:28:44 UTC

I see your reasoning but my Doom is way more Shakespearian and way less David Lynch.

Yours is not neccessarily a "wrong" Doom, tho...

shadowkitty March 3 2006, 00:17:08 UTC

Clooney as Tony Stark... now that you've said it I can see it.

Doom? I could kinda see William Hurt. He did well in the Frankenstein TV movie

'ooh science!' 'No, science bad' 'Science pretty - aaarrrghh!'

Thats actually quite a good summary for Frankenstein in it's entirety