Actors in movies/TV that you would have recast?

[mars]

Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell with Rinko Kikuchi (from Pacific Rim).

[Davelfc]

4 hours ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. 

 

Reacher is described as being 6 feet 5 inches tall, and weighing over 17 stone.

 

"He was one of the largest men she had ever seen outside the NFL. He was extremely tall, and extremely broad, and long-armed, and long-legged. The lawn chair was regular size, but it looked tiny under him. It was bent and crushed out of shape. His knuckles were nearly touching the ground. His neck was thick and his hands were the size of dinner plates...A wild man. But not really. Underneath everything else seemed strangely civilized....His gaze was both wise and appealing, both friendly and bleak, both frank and utterly cynical."

 

A few years ago, in his Jane (Firefly) days, I would have said Adam Baldwin. Now, maybe Dave Bautista.

 

Reacher doesn't have a great emotional range, so no problem there. He is also never smug (Tom Cruise's default), and never had to stand on a box to get to the biscuit tin.

 

 

I came to this thread to post this. I hadn't read the books, just saw the film but I was chatting with my mate and saying I just didn't buy him as a military cop. He had read the books and said basically a summary of what you posted. 

[Kevin D]

Would swap Corrado Soprano and Bobby Bacala with Larry David and Jeff Greene.

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. 

 

Reacher is described as being 6 feet 5 inches tall, and weighing over 17 stone.

 

"He was one of the largest men she had ever seen outside the NFL. He was extremely tall, and extremely broad, and long-armed, and long-legged. The lawn chair was regular size, but it looked tiny under him. It was bent and crushed out of shape. His knuckles were nearly touching the ground. His neck was thick and his hands were the size of dinner plates...A wild man. But not really. Underneath everything else seemed strangely civilized....His gaze was both wise and appealing, both friendly and bleak, both frank and utterly cynical."

 

A few years ago, in his Jane (Firefly) days, I would have said Adam Baldwin. Now, maybe Dave Bautista.

 

Reacher doesn't have a great emotional range, so no problem there. He is also never smug (Tom Cruise's default), and never had to stand on a box to get to the biscuit tin.

 

 

I've said the same about Cruise as Reacher as I've read a book or two(it may have been the same book as they are all the same anyway.) Also,just for consistency,Johnny Depp(again) in Donnie Brasco. Somebody like Michael Madsen,who was in the film as a gangster,would have fit the bill,and build much better.

[Dr Nowt]

9 hours ago, Elite said:

Patrick Swayze being a nonce in Donnie Darko. I'm not critical of his performance but come one, you don't cast one of the coolest blokes that's ever lived as a paedo.

Agreed. Should have been played by Glenn Hoddle.