A few actor/director combinations that I would have preferred over Christian Bale/Mary Harron, that also worked together at the turn of the millenium:
Tom Cruise/Stanley Kubrick : Bale said he based his performance on Cruise/Kubrick would have nailed the tone
Edward Norton/David Fincher : Norton was offered the role/Fincher would have done better with the psychological POV
Jim Carrey/Milos Forman : Going more comedy than black
Adam Sandler/Paul Thomas Anderson : I have no idea how, or why, but wow
Matt Dillon/John McNaughton : Kevin Dillon was in the works, but this Dillon is better, and McNaughton knows serial killers
Matt Damon/Gus Van Sant : Tom Ripley meets Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn is too tall)
These two were actually "in the works"
Brad Pitt/David Cronenberg (!?!?!!)
Leonardo DiCaprio/Oliver Stone
But this one is not only the most plausible, but also might actually makes the most sense, tonally:
Keanu Reeves/Sam Raimi
Rating: 2 out of 10
Recommended instead: Fellow transgressor A Clockwork Orange
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wow, some of those would have been really interesting, the norton fincher combo is especially interesting. Still the way that bale goes "all in" in his performances, still think he might have been best for this role. every seen the machineist?
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Bale and The Machinist. I can add that to 'recommeded instead'
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