Who would you cast in a Bowie biopic?

josephryan1989

As the very young Bowie perhaps Eddie Redmayne. Guy Pearce as Bowie in middle age.
Finally Gary Oldman or Pierce Brosnan as Bowie as an old man.

warpdrive

Jared Leto

Richard Hillman

Kanye (Pronounced Kohn-yay)

kneemos

Johnny Depp,the spit out of him.

Barry from Eastenders.

gramar

Write the name properly in the title OP...call me a grammar nazi all you like but ffs...

josephryan1989

gramar wrote: »

Write the name properly in the title OP...call me a grammar nazi all you like but ffs...

I wrote it on my mobile and the spell check screwed up the spelling.

Bulbous Salutation

Rob Schneider.

MonkeyTennis

Cumberbatch

One eyed Jack

Macaulay Culkin?


http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02134/Macaulay_2134207b.jpg

ceadaoin.

Obviously Tilda Swinton. She's already done it. And bowie played her.

speedboatchase

Idris Elba.

We need to suggest Idris Elba for every role or else we'll all look like racists.

murpho999

josephryan1989 wrote: »

As the very young Bowie perhaps Eddie Redmayne. Guy Pearce as Bowie in middle age.
Finally Gary Oldman or Pierce Brosnan as Bowie as an old man.

I would think he never really became an old man. Not by today's standards.

seamus

Shia LeBeouf

c_man

Just CGI him. And actually we can then use the digital Bowie to hawk Galaxy bars.

Playboy

Colin Farrell

Jawgap

Domhnall Gleeson......and his Da (if he shifted a bit of weight) could play older Bowie.

Halloween Jack

josephryan1989 wrote: »

As the very young Bowie perhaps Eddie Redmayne. Guy Pearce as Bowie in middle age.
Finally Gary Oldman or Pierce Brosnan as Bowie as an old man.

Biopics work best when focused on a single, shortish period.

A Bowie film should either take place as ziggy is getting going or in Berlin with iggy etc...

biko

josephryan1989 wrote: »

I wrote it on my mobile and the spell check screwed up the spelling.

Bowoe is turning in his grave.

riclad

A bowie film would need the rights to use his songs,
some thin actor under 30 ,
eddy redmayne maybe .
colin farrell is too macho to play bowie .
Tilda swinton could maybe sing some songs ,not act through the whole film.
Cumberbatch looks nothing like bowie .
Maybe an actor who is not that famous ,would need to be from the uk.
Maybe just cover the 70s, and the 80s .
As he changed his image so much,
it would be hard to make a film that covers his whole career.

kev1.3s

Ah come on! It could only be Jude law.

SEPT 23 1989

Gabriel and Daniel Day Lewis

Pat Mustard

riclad wrote: »

colin farrell is too macho to play bowie .

Ray Winstone

Saipanne

Caitlyn Jenner

Breaston Plants

Pat Shortt.

AndyBoBandy

Warwick Davis

Badly Drunk Boy

gramar wrote: »

Write the name properly in the title OP...call me a grammar nazi all you like but ffs...

I think we should call you a 'gramar Nazi'.

josephryan1989 wrote: »

I wrote it on my mobile and the spell check screwed up the spelling.

Why would 'Bowoe' replace 'Bowie'? Apart from the more common name, you can also have a bowie knife.

gramar

biko wrote: »

Bowoe is turning in his grave.

He will be when he gets there.

Fratton Fred

Matt Smith

The_Valeyard

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Matt Smith

Could work and use Bill Nighy as the older version.

Larbre34

Matt Smith is a good shout, then David Tennant and Peter Capaldi could be him as he ages!

Red King

Fassbender as Bowie and Leto as Iggy Pop. Berlin period. Would be nuts.

Summer wind

Kevin Bacon.

Mesrine65

Jake Abel as a young Bowie

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1831976/?ref_=nmmd_md_nm

Stella11

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

The_Valeyard

Larbre34 wrote: »

Matt Smith is a good shout, then David Tennant and Peter Capaldi could be him as he ages!

I see what you did there. :pac:

force eleven

Paul Bettany

LordSutch

kneemos wrote: »

Johnny Depp,the spit out of him.

I presume you mean 'the spit of him'?

He does a great London accent alright.

mynameis905

No one - I'm absolutely sick of seeing biopics of every dead celebrity. FFS Steve Jobs is only dead a few years and they've already made three movies about him.

deadybai

Michael Fassbender for me

warpdrive

Stella11 wrote: »

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Isn't he downing bottles of straight vodka and pissing himself on the streets?

Sprog 4

Vin Diesel

JupiterKid

Stella11 wrote: »

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Rhys Meyers already practically played Bowie in Velvet Goldmine.

bigroad

Sean Bean.

Canadel

I'd probably cast myself.

Eddie Redmayne is another good suggestion. Perhaps Nicholas Hoult.

Clampdown

Bowie's unique looks would be quite a challenge.

Robert Patrick, who played T-1000 in Terminator 2, and the degenerate gambler that loses his business/son's SUV to Tony Soprano over a card game, used to look a bit like him, but not in recent pictures. He has similar features but looks more like a high school principal than a creative genius.

Scott Weiland had a bit of a resemblance but he's rocking out the great gig in the sky as well.

Brian Molko of Placebo, while not an actor, has a lot of similarities in his persona, changes his look quite often, maybe could pul it off with a ginger wig/makeup etc.

Taco Chips

Adam Lambert would do a good job, although Bowie is so unique looking. At least Adam would be able to do a good job covering his songs.

DuMorph

This Harpy Eagle-

Lemsiper

David Gest

ceannair06

Taco Chips wrote: »

Adam Lambert would do a good job, although Bowie is so unique looking. At least Adam would be able to do a good job covering his songs.

No thanks, he's already f****d up Queen, he can leave Bowie alone.