Neilson's Shank Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Day off today so I had a look on Sky movies for something that I had fancied but never got round to watching. Settled on Gangs of New York, pretty good, and was surprised by seeing Alex Happy Howden and Bill Barclay appear. This is the most unusual piece of casting since Ricky Fulton appeared as a KGB Major in Gorky Park. Any other unusual bits of casting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siphiwe Tshabalala Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I was an extra in Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gershwin Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Ford Kiernan is in Gangs Of New York too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maroon Sailor Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Day off today so I had a look on Sky movies for something that I had fancied but never got round to watching. Settled on Gangs of New York, pretty good, and was surprised by seeing Alex Happy Howden and Bill Barclay appear. This is the most unusual piece of casting since Ricky Fulton appeared as a KGB Major in Gorky Park. Any other unusual bits of casting. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullen13 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Christian Bale as batman and Tom Cruise as jack reacher are two recent ones off the top of my head but I am sure there are stranger ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Cockade Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 John Barrowman in Zero Dark Thirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ortarkod Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Leigh Griffiths in the Hobbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 The bloke that played Pingu in Nathan Barley appearing as one of the lead roles in Cloud Atlas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychocAndy Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Glen Michael's bit was cut in Kick Ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi must stay Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 John Barrowman in Zero Dark Thirty. was going to say that too. The worst casting choice i've ever seen in a movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Jarman Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Worst casting ever award goes to Elijah Wood in Green Street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currahee! Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Sean Bean in Ronin. I like to think he got bombed out from Robert De Niro for being a terrible actor rather than a terrible character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Bill Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 John Wark in Escape to Victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EreWeG0.. Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 George Clooney. Batman with nipples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dee Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 James Garner as P.I. Phillip Marlowe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 The bloke that played Pingu in Nathan Barley appearing as one of the lead roles in Cloud Atlas. He's done well himself and is very well thought of. I can't take him seriously in anything though as I can only see him as Pingu. Sean Connery as a Russian sailor from Fountainbridge, Sean Connery as an Irish cop from...Fountainbridge etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubby1973 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Gerard butler was in tomorrow never dies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubby1973 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 John Wark in Escape to Victory. he got one line & it was dubbed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Chae Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Ian brown in harry potter. Whit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swavkav Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 He's done well himself and is very well thought of. I can't take him seriously in anything though as I can only see him as Pingu. Sean Connery as a Russian sailor from Fountainbridge, Sean Connery as an Irish cop from...Fountainbridge etc etc. he was also an Italian taxi driver, (sophie lauren movie, some thing princess?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Jarman Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Ian brown in harry potter. Whit. Phil Selway, Jonny Greenwood and Jarvis Cocker too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton Peck Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Golfers Brad Faxon and Billy Andrade are in the first scene of Kingpin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWM Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shapes Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Thought Gerard Butler was an odd casting for his role in Olympus has fallen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo89 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 A shot at glory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboinglasgow Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 with hindsight Lance Armstrong in dodgeball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costanza Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Tim Booth in Batman Begins. I still remember saying aloud in the cinema "****s sake, that's Tim Booth from James!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Sean Connery as a Russian sailor from Fountainbridge, Sean Connery as an Irish cop from...Fountainbridge etc etc. Hang on. Didn't his Irish cop play a 15th century Portuguese nobleman? From Fountainbridge? Always thought that Ewan McGregor came over in Trainspotting as a public schooler trying (poorly) to pull off a Leef Jakie accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy McNulty Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. Knowing nothing about the movie when I went to see it, my original thought was WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalamazoo Jambo Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I think some people have moved from unexpected casting to shite casting, which isn't necessarily the same thing. Unexpected (at the time) but ultimately great casting would for me include Jim Carrey in The Truman Show and Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! One moving from comedic to straight roles, and the other going in the opposite direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboj Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Slightly off topic cause its not a movie thing, but Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air did the voice for Shredder, the bad guy in the teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullen13 Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Highlander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EreWeG0.. Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Mr Bronson of grange hill popping up as darth vaders right hand man in empire strikes back and hitler in indiana jones and the last crusade. He did well in both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice Moss Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Not a film but Stephen Graham as Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent B.A Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Slightly off topic cause its not a movie thing, but Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air did the voice for Shredder, the bad guy in the teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon. Weird. Ringo Starr done the voice over in Thomas The Tank Engine. In terms of poor castings, Russell Crow in the film Robin Hood was a bit of a strange one. His accent was all over the place. If i remember right, I'm sure Sean Connery played a Spainard in Highlander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forza Cuore Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 A shot at glory? It is. My Mrs and Me are sitting just to the right of Duvalls left eye in the stand there. Most boring day of my life... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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