Confused? See, it’s like this: This week we learned that Rachel Weisz will play Jackie Kennedy in an upcoming movie by Darren Aronofsky about the first lady’s life just after her husband’s assassination. And we learned that Robert Pattinson will play Kurt Cobain with Scarlett Johansson as Courtney Love in an upcoming movie from David Fincher.
John Lennon will be played by two wildly different actors in two very different projects. We recently saw the first clips from Christopher Eccleston as the post-Beatles Lennon in Lennon Naked, which will air on BBC Four later this year -- enjoy this clip via Blogtor Who:
And Aaron “Kick-Ass” Johnson stars as the very young Lennon in Nowhere Boy [official U.K. site/IMDB], which played theatrically in the U.K. this past winter, and is available for preorder on Region 2 DVD; it’ll open in North America in October.
Oh, and Logan Lerman may (or may not) be playing Spider-Man... except Peter Parker’s not a real person, I’m told.
Anyway, that’s the scoop: Famous dead person needs to be played by an actor in a movie. Who do you pair up? Who is your dream celebrity casting of a celebrity?
(If you have a suggestion for a QOTD, feel free to email me. Responses to this QOTD sent by email will be ignored; please post your responses here.)
pre-Disqus comments
posted by Brian (Wed Apr 14 10, 10:33AM)
Daniel Craig must play Steve McQueen.
posted by bitchen frizzy (Wed Apr 14 10, 10:36AM)
Owen Wilson could be John Wayne in a biopic.
posted by Ralph (Wed Apr 14 10, 11:12AM)
Phil Collins should play Napoleon
posted by LaSargenta (Wed Apr 14 10, 11:23AM)
posted by Brian (Wed Apr 14 10, 11:49AM)
Yes.
posted by Kathy A (Wed Apr 14 10, 2:36PM)
Considering that Sam Shepard was terrific as Chuck Yeager, I'd go for him playing Peckinpah!
posted by Der Bruno Stroszek (Wed Apr 14 10, 3:17PM)
If Tobey Maguire can pull off a British accent, he'd be a dream Alan Turing.
posted by LaSargenta (Wed Apr 14 10, 3:24PM)
Right, we need a script of the struggle and angst of making of both Junior Bonner (a Peckinpah movie with no violence at all, except rodeo riding, that good old Sam had very high hopes for and then NO ONE went to see) and The Getaway (pretty damn bloody and made out pretty good at the box office).
Who's up for this project?
posted by AW (Wed Apr 14 10, 4:43PM)
If they ever did a biopic on Jimmy Stewart then D.B. Sweeney could possibly pull it off visually, whether he could recreate the Stewart mannerisms is another matter.
posted by Remy Michael (Thu Apr 15 10, 12:07PM)
Will Smith as Barack Obama in the practically inevitable Oliver Stone movie Barack.
posted by Bluejay (Thu Apr 15 10, 2:17PM)
When Michael Jackson died, I thought a biopic would be inevitable. But then I thought: who the hell could play him? Still don't have an answer. Maybe he'll be a CGI effect.
Robert Downey Jr. as Al Pacino.
Ian McDiarmid (in Emperor makeup) as Pope Benedict XVI.