Doing a dream casting list for a JLA movie in the Bradley Cooper as the Flash thread got me to thinking -- Who hasn't played a comic book hero or villain onscreen that really should have? This could be someone who ended being cast in the wrong part, someone who'd never do a comic book movie, or someone who WOULD have been great, but has now aged out the role.
Here's my list:
Catherine Zeta Jones or Rachel Weisz as Wonder Woman - Both great actresses who are drop-dead gorgeous and have a bit of that regal quality that Princess Diana should have. Sadly, they're both in their 40s now, so I don't see it ever happening.
Kenneth Branagh as Aquaman - He was pretty buff around the time he did Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and again, he had the neccessary regal quality to play the King of Atlantis.
Mandy Patinkin as Captain Marvel - I thought of this about 10 years ago when trying to cast a hypothetical Kingdom Come movie with my buddy and was immediately saddened that it would never come to pass. The guy who played Inigo Montoya would have just the right sort of light touch to say "Shazam!"
Dennis Quaid as Green Lantern - Look at Quaid in The Right Stuff and tell me he wouldn't have made a perfect Hal Jordan.
Basil Rathbone as The Shadow - Dead. Ringer. And it would've been a nice halfway point between his early villain roles and his heroic Sherlock Holmes days.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doc Savage - If this had happened when Arnold was somewhere in his 30s, I think it could have worked. He's one of the few actors I can think of who had the right bronze skin tone.
Robert Walker Jr. as Spider-Man - Look at him in Charlie X. He's the spitting image of the Steve Ditko-era Peter Parker!
Paul D'Amato as Wolverine - This is fellow who John Byrne used as his hypothetical model when he was drawing Uncanny X-Men, and if you look at pictures of him from Slap Shot, he's pretty much a dead ringer for Logan: http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=30709
And if you look at him today, he looks eerily like the "Days of Future Past" era Logan:
http://www.myspace.com/pauldrhookdamato
I'm sure I can come up with more, but that's all I've got for now.
Here's my list:
Catherine Zeta Jones or Rachel Weisz as Wonder Woman - Both great actresses who are drop-dead gorgeous and have a bit of that regal quality that Princess Diana should have. Sadly, they're both in their 40s now, so I don't see it ever happening.
Kenneth Branagh as Aquaman - He was pretty buff around the time he did Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and again, he had the neccessary regal quality to play the King of Atlantis.
Mandy Patinkin as Captain Marvel - I thought of this about 10 years ago when trying to cast a hypothetical Kingdom Come movie with my buddy and was immediately saddened that it would never come to pass. The guy who played Inigo Montoya would have just the right sort of light touch to say "Shazam!"
Dennis Quaid as Green Lantern - Look at Quaid in The Right Stuff and tell me he wouldn't have made a perfect Hal Jordan.
Basil Rathbone as The Shadow - Dead. Ringer. And it would've been a nice halfway point between his early villain roles and his heroic Sherlock Holmes days.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doc Savage - If this had happened when Arnold was somewhere in his 30s, I think it could have worked. He's one of the few actors I can think of who had the right bronze skin tone.
Robert Walker Jr. as Spider-Man - Look at him in Charlie X. He's the spitting image of the Steve Ditko-era Peter Parker!
Paul D'Amato as Wolverine - This is fellow who John Byrne used as his hypothetical model when he was drawing Uncanny X-Men, and if you look at pictures of him from Slap Shot, he's pretty much a dead ringer for Logan: http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=30709
And if you look at him today, he looks eerily like the "Days of Future Past" era Logan:
http://www.myspace.com/pauldrhookdamato
I'm sure I can come up with more, but that's all I've got for now.
