Who would you cast in a Bowie biopic?

josephryan1989 · 13-01-2016 08:37AM #1

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 · 13-01-2016 08:42AM

Jared Leto

Richard Hillman · 13-01-2016 08:45AM

Kanye (Pronounced Kohn-yay)

kneemos · 13-01-2016 08:51AM

Johnny Depp,the spit out of him.

13-01-2016 08:52AM

Barry from Eastenders.

gramar · 13-01-2016 09:04AM

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

josephryan1989 · 13-01-2016 09:22AM

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 · 13-01-2016 09:24AM

Rob Schneider.

MonkeyTennis · 13-01-2016 09:25AM

Cumberbatch

One eyed Jack · 13-01-2016 09:40AM

Macaulay Culkin?

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

ceadaoin. · 13-01-2016 09:45AM

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

speedboatchase · 13-01-2016 09:46AM

Idris Elba.

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

murpho999 · 13-01-2016 09:48AM

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 · 13-01-2016 10:01AM

Shia LeBeouf

c_man · 13-01-2016 10:05AM

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

Playboy · 13-01-2016 10:06AM

Colin Farrell

Jawgap · 13-01-2016 10:09AM

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

Halloween Jack · 13-01-2016 10:09AM

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 · 13-01-2016 10:25AM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

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

Bowoe is turning in his grave.

riclad · 13-01-2016 11:08AM

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.