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Perfect part...perfect actor

  • 17-12-2008 11:29pm
    #1
    Acehicks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Stallone as Judge Dredd? Even if the movie stayed faithful to the spirit of the comic I believe him to be a bad choice. Clint Eastwood in his day would have done the business.
    If a movie version of Strontium Dog got the green light who would you choose to direct, script and act in it?


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  • #2
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,107 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Heh, the very fact that they had him unmask so that Stallone's face would be visible shot the whole thing down for me, and I was never a big follower of the comic.

    That said, it's interesting to see that about a decade later, V For Vendetta was made without its central character having the obligatory "unmasking so that we can conveniently see the face of the big-name actor who's playing the hero" scene. (Whatever other complaints there may be about the film, I was impressed that they kept that aspect of the story intact).

    In general it seems to be a relatively recent development to have comics adaptations use casts that are actually suited to the role rather than just useful names to attract attention. (Well, that and the notion of using the comics as actual source material rather than just a name to catch attention and sell a shonky mediocre film with....)

    I think Robert Downey Jr has probably been the best example of an established actor taking on a comics-adaptation role and making it his own. Edward Norton was reasonably good as Bruce Banner in the Hulk sequel/remake but, well, he was playing a guy who turns into a big green CGI monster when he gets ticked off, it was never going to be amazing. I haven't read any Hellboy so I can't comment on Ron Perlmann's performances, but I do know that Tobey Maguire's turn as Spider-man was a horrible horrible thing to behold....(then again, I don't follow the Spider-man comics and formed most of my opinions based on the cartoon series from the early nineties, so maybe I'm wrong). Stephen Dorff as the Punisher was more consistent than Thomas Jane IMO, but that was because the Dorff version at least understood that it was going to have to be an 18 rather than the Thomas Jane version that couldn't decide whether it was a full-on vigilante action flick or a PG action-comedy in the vein of Last Action Hero. Christian Bale has IMO been a pretty good Bruce Wayne/Batman (although the issue of Bruce Wayne being essentially a placeholder for Batman with no particularly interesting characteristics that don't feed into his Batman persona means that there's limits to what he can do with the character).


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