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post #101 of 106
12/20/05 at 12:44am
Stormin, as much as I'd like to take credit for that superlative piece of recasting, you've got RathBandu to thank for that one. And I think he's got a couple more new casts on the way.
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post #102 of 106
12/20/05 at 7:34am
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Damn, my mistake, sorry. Congrats, Rath! To hell with you, Five-Tone!
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post #103 of 106
12/20/05 at 1:15pm

The Usual Suspects 1950's edition

Hi everyone

longtime lurker, first time poster.

Fred Zinneman's The Usual Suspects(1955)

Humphrey Bogart as Dean Keaton

Fred MacMurray as Dave Kujan

Steve McQueen as Michael McManus

Martin Landau as Fred Fenster (Ideally I'd send Benicio back in time to play the role since the character he created is one of a kind.)

?????? as Todd Hockney (I'm open to suggestions.)

Jerry Lewis as Verbal Kint

Claude Rains as Kobayashi
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post #104 of 106
12/20/05 at 2:29pm
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Originally Posted by Nine
Fred Zinneman's The Usual Suspects(1955)

Humphrey Bogart as Dean Keaton

Fred MacMurray as Dave Kujan

Steve McQueen as Michael McManus

Martin Landau as Fred Fenster (Ideally I'd send Benicio back in time to play the role since the character he created is one of a kind.)

?????? as Todd Hockney (I'm open to suggestions.)

Jerry Lewis as Verbal Kint

Claude Rains as Kobayashi

Fucking badass. That's one helluva debut. Not too sure about Lewis for Kint, but otherwise inspired. I'm having a little trouble imagining someone to replace Pollack myself, though.
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post #105 of 106
12/20/05 at 3:57pm
My reasoning for Lewis was I didn't want a star on the same level as Bogart. I also didn't want an actor who you would expect to be Keyser Soze. He's done drama before in "The King of Comedy" and held his own (although he was playing a version of himself).

1940's Peter Lorre would make a good Verbal, but I'm not sure he'd be right for the part by the mid 1950's. He'd sort of turned into the Looney Tunes version of himself by that point.
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post #106 of 106
12/22/05 at 9:34am
Nine, that '50s USUAL SUSPECTS cast was a sexy beast. Nicely played.

Here's the 2005 version of SPARTACUS, directed by Peter Weir:

Spartacus (Kirk Douglas): MATTHEW MacFADYEN



Crassus (Laurence Olivier): JASON ISAACS



Varinia (Jean Simmons): CLAIRE DANES



Gracchus (Charles Laughton): ALEC BALDWIN



Batiatus (Peter Ustinov): PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN



Julius Caesar (John Gavin): PAUL BETTANY



Draba (Woody Strode): EVAN PARKE



Antoninus (Tony Curtis): ADRIAN GRENIER



Casting notes: I really dug the presence and quiet strength MacFadyen brought to his Mr Darcy portrayal in PRIDE & PREJUDICE, and that won him the title role from the likes of Hugh Jackman and Gerard Butler. Kevin Spacey was in the running for the Crassus role. Baldwin and Hoffman strike me as two American actors who'd really fit in an historical piece like this one. Bettany as Caesar was a toss-up - I was very close to going with Ralph Fiennes.

Coming soon: EXCALIBUR and THE WAGES OF FEAR.
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