So why give it to Michael Bay, Mr. Spielberg? Why?
He wanted to make sure it didn't outshine Minority Report?
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So why give it to Michael Bay, Mr. Spielberg? Why?
He wanted to make sure it didn't outshine Minority Report?
I think Louis Jordan absolutely nailed the role in the BBC Dracula,
Matt beat me to it. And it was a miniseries, so they had more time to be faithful to the text and to develop the characters. Jack Shepherd's Renfield was memorable, too.
Daughters of Darkness
This movie goes down in history as the first vampire movie I turned off and left halfway through. Bo.Ring.
Well, okay, I did try to walk out of the theater during Coppola's Dracula, but couldn't get around the sleeping fat man.
Coppola himself was at the screening and you still tried to walk out?
And Anne Parillaud in "Innocent Blood." sexay.
Oh yes.
From way back, I know Ben Foster from his Flash Forward days, but they'd have to clean him up a lot to make him look like a Warren Worthington III.
I can't see Ben Foster playing Warren the way he ought to be played: capable and intelligent, but also very full of himself. I get the feeling that's not what they're going to go for anyway, though. After all, look what they did to Bobby Drake.
The guy I know who read for the role was told that he was too old (at 28) to play Angel. Ben's not much younger, but he does look more boyish.
I know it's not main-universe Angel, but when I think of him now I think of Ultimate Angel who freaks out and leaves Westchester, and Storm goes after him to talk him down (literally as well as figuratively). He's just so heartachingly beautiful -- it's a combination of magnificent strength and a graceful sculptor's touch.
Andy Serkis is going to be in a spy-flick.
I am amused that both "Bertie" and "Jeeves" will have played MI-6 agents/operatives/whatever after this movie.