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I thought this sounded like fun:

Hollywood has not always been kind to the comic, sci-fi, and/or superhero communities. Sometimes, in trying to make great stories and characters "more main stream", they end up making movies that are total cheese...

Just for giggles, imagine Hollywood wanted to make "The Big O" into a movie or a movie series (live action or animated), but they were going about it the wrong way. What would make it cheesy in your eyes? (Examples: bad lines, odd endorsements, wrong actors or actresses, etc...)

Feel free to play the role of a movie big-wig trying to "sell" your cheesy "Big O" movie... Everyone's on the honor system here - please no idea-bashing...

If you want, feel free to comment on what would make you see a "Big O" movie. OK, go!


I'll start things off:

• Add "Generation X" elements to Roger, Dorothy or Beck...
• Dorothy's black dress isn't good enough - she either wears a "French Maid"-type outfit, or she's plastic-looking and wearing a plastic dress...
• Ditch "The Griffon" - Roger drives a Lincoln now...
• Roger calls Big O...on his modified RAZR...

A custom Griffon would help to make a good movie...

Big O is a truck.

Silvester Stalone as Norman.

The Final Negotiator wrote

Ditch "The Lincoln"  - Roger drives a Prius now...

A couple more...

Bad ideas...

Jim Carrey as Alan Gabriel
Al Pacino as Alex Rosewater
Robin Williams as Gordon Rosewater


Good ideas?
Crispin Glover (George McFly, Back to the Future) as Alan Gabriel (not because his name is Crispin either...)
Mena Suvari as Angel
Christina Ricci as R Dorothy
James Franco (Harry Osborn from the Spider-Man movies) as Roger Smith
John Lithgow as Norman Burg
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) as Colonel Dan Dastun
Seth Green as Alex Rosewater
Get McDonalds to start selling "The Big O" Happy Meals...

Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker in Episodes I-II) as anything would ruin the whole movie no matter how good everyone and everything else was.. No actor deserved to have his career ruined through typecasting more than this guy after Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. I would especially have to go nuclear if they made him Roger Smith. Only Christian Bale can be Roger Smith (played Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins). I also don't believe Sean Connery should play as Norman Burg; but it needs to be some old British actor.

I've toyed with the idea of Kirsten Dunst at Dorothy, but she might be getting too old. Dorothy is 18. Dunst is already 25.

Most any blond can pull off Angel, so I don't really have an opinion about that.

Jim Carrey as Alan garbiel = winrar

Googling....
No Jim Carrey, please!

Gordon Rosewater: Anthony Hopkins
Alex Rosewater: Jack Nicholson or Kevin Spacey
Alan Gabriel: Crispin Glover
Schwarzwald: John Malkovich or Christopher Walken
Roger Smith: John Cusack or Clive Owens
R. Dorothy: Kirsten Dunst
Norman Berg: Michael Cane or Patrick Stewart
Angel: Reese Witherspoon or Uma Thurman
Dan Dastun: Harvey Keitel

Heck Yes
Yes, please no, and yeS!!!
I'm sorry, bash is all i can do, since i remain braindead...

An ending that is well-written and thought provoking, while wrapping up and answering every single question raised.

This would, naturally, be in a bad Big O film.

Yes, I concur.
 

OK, John would make an OK Roger, but then you would have to put his buddy Jeremy Piven in as Dan Dastun. 8) If only Bruce Campbell was younger, his Roger Smith would have been dead on. Yes, please, no Kirsten. I would even take Winona Ryder in bad "youthful" movie makeup over Ms. Dunst. Even Alyssa Milano would be better... I still think John Cleese would be a great Norman, but Anthony sounds like a good choice, too.

It's only mostly dead. Give it a jolt of caffeine to rescusitate it... ;D


Finale, I dig the new avatar and sig. :) Indeed, descent Sci-fi films that deal with scenarios like Paradigm City and it's inhabitants shouldn't answer all the questions they raise...

A bad I could definitely see would be poor "time compression" of alot of Big O footage. Sort of like what was done with the first Batman and Spiderman movies, although, they weren't too bad. (However, I still disagree with creating and killing a villain in the same movie. Except for the Frankenstein monster...) With Big O, it would be much more drastic...

.The Final Negotiator.

its really sad how true this is.

I'm diggin' this, yeah.

i cannot see alyssa milano NOT exagerating her reactions... and is wynona rider even still working?

Reviving this topic because I really like it and have something to contribute!

In my mind, all I can think of is classic Hollywood actors to play these parts. I seriously cannot think of anyone in modern times(even though I do make references to the people from Mad Men to the Big O characters...) that would match everyone so perfect. This has been ever since I fully saw Season 2.

My cast:
Gregory Peck as Roger Smith
(http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4923/2g03ykrixg3.jpg)

Lauren Bacall as Angel
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/graphics/2007/06/08/nosplit/ftsmoke.jpg)
(I'm pretty sure there is a little bit of Lauren Bacall in Angel)

Judy Garland as R. Dorothy Waynewright
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/SoHardToDefine/judy_garland_01.jpg)
(obvious reference is obvious)

Greta Garbo as Vera
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1117/1278098232_ebc478b113.jpg)
(Garbo has the smoothest most wonderful Swedish accent ever. She also is very "dominant" in a lot of her roles and was how she acted in real life)

Donald O'Conner as Beck
(http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/mepics.nsf/view/donald/$File/donald.jpg)
(He gives off that silly vibe that you just can't not love)

For some reason, even though Yam is only in the manga and not the anime, Tippi Hedren gives me a Yam vibe.
(http://www.legendsofhorror.org/images/birds/bimg6.jpg)

Jimmy Stewart would have a part in it too, but I don't know who he'd really be. Maybe he could sorta be Dausten? Jimmy Stewart's P.I. characters were all really good.
(http://readingeagle.com/REnetImages/2008/05/20/200851921535638/500x500_Jimmy%20Stewart.jpg)

I think I have more but for some reason they do not come to mind.

well played

hmmmm, i think that last guy wasn't really fitting for dastun.... omg *.* beautiful people! Lauren Bacall is perfect! now we just need someone who is alive, in their twenties, and looks like that. she has a bit af an aura, doesn't she?

Why, thank you! He is the only Roger Smith in my mind. Cary Grant could have made a good Roger Smith though, but not as well as Gregory Peck.

Yes but sadly not many actress really have that gorgeous classic look! Lauren Bacall is my favourite actress! Whenever I see her in movies, she just always gets to me. Her and Kim Novak are the most gorgeous women ever.

Gregory Peck would be a terrific Roger.

Spencer Tracy as Dastun?

After seeing Donald O Conner in all of those Hollywood musicals, I couldn't imagine him as Beck. 

Steve Mc Queen as Beck?  Nah, not goofy enough.     
What about Dustin "Screech" Diamond?  With his hair dyed blond?

Neoncoyote, it's great to find another Mad Men fan.
Jon Hamm would make a great Roger Smith.  He's a bit old but he does have the angst (and the body) for the part.   

January Jones as Dorothy?  She has Dorothy's disapproving pout down pat.

Ooh yeah, I could see that!
   
HAHAHA, oh man. Yes, please! He would make the most perfect Beck ever.

I am totally obsessed with it! When I saw Jon Hamm, my first though was "Woah, he could be Roger Smith." Don Draper does have a mysterious past.

Hm, I never though of January Jones as Dorothy but it makes sense! I could see Elisabeth Moss also being Dorothy.

If Christina Hendricks went back to blonde, she would make an amazing Angel. Vincent Kartheiser gives off that Beck vibe. I think if Pete ruffled his hair a bit, he could totally emulate Beck. Of course, he would have to make his hair blonde too. John Slattery as Alex Rosewater! And Robert Morse as Gordon Rosewater!

I have thought this through way too much. :S

How about Bryan Batt (Salvatore Romano) as Alex Rosewater.   There's something remotely evil about him.
Robert Morse as Gordon Rosewater...Yes!

Oh, Bryan Batt, I never thought of that! He would make an excellent Alex!

Also, I was thinking Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove) could also make an excellent Beck. Beck or Alan, either one of them.

Seann William Scott (a.k.a. Stifler from American Pie) could play a very convincing Beck...

I have to agree, Sean William Scott would play a good Beck...

Roger Smith = ????
Schwarzwald = Christian Bale
Angel = Gwyneth Paltrow
R. Dorothy = Winona Ryder
Alex Rosewater = Alan Rickman
Daston = Jeff Bridges
Alan Gabriel = Jim Carrey


Christian Bale is a pretty freaky dude, especially when he played a serial killer in American Psycho.

OK, I did some further brainstorming:

Roger Smith - still James Franco (similar to his Harry Osborn portrayal...)
Reese Witherspoon - Angel
Alan Gabriel - Matthew Lillard (from Hackers and Scream)

and how about Summer Glau (from "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") as R. Dorothy?

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1919195392/nm1132359

The way I see it, she would just have to adjust from a somewhat cold and calculating cyborg to a "slightly warmer" less-human (?) android (granted Dorothy's usually "more human" than a terminator). I don't think it would be much of a stretch for Summer, and she does an impeccable "Dorothy stare". Just my 2 cents...