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Post by mhynson27 on May 25, 2023 15:24:12 GMT
Plemons, Teller and Driver are the first to come to mind.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 25, 2023 15:30:15 GMT
I'm thinking Austin Butler is most likely. They've already worked together in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood....just with Butler in a supporting role, not as a leading man (so he'd still fit Tarantino's "new leading man" brief). Butler has a direct "in" with Tarantino, and as far as the industry is concerned after Elvis, he's the guy they are hoping follows in the footsteps of the Pitts and DiCaprios as a superstar box office draw for the next few decades. I'd be shocked if Butler didn't directly campaign Tarantino for the role
Butler is the obvious route. Tarantino could also go completely leftfield and cast someone like Kieran Culkin.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 25, 2023 15:51:39 GMT
The real life inspiration allegedly William Margold - though whoever it is wouldn't be playing him exactly if it is based on him anyway:
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Post by theycallmemrfish on May 25, 2023 16:05:13 GMT
A perfect role for Movieweb's 24th greatest actor of our times... Natalie Portman.
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Post by quetee on May 25, 2023 16:22:45 GMT
Aesthetic wise. ... Bradley Cooper.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 25, 2023 16:26:35 GMT
I think if he wasn't dead, maybe Tarantino could have cast Cinema Archive's 13th Greatest Actor Of All Time, John Wayne. I know Wayne wasn't a particularly good actor, but at least he'd have another great director on the resume, y'know...for the archive. Tarantino's name alone really could have bumped him into the TOP 10 on the All-Time Greatest Actor List, in spite of unimportant stuff like acting skill or talent! What a missed opportunity! (some people really got in their feelings about that thread, eh )
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on May 25, 2023 18:10:50 GMT
I'm thinking Austin Butler is most likely . They've already worked together in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood....just with Butler in a supporting role, not as a leading man (so he'd still fit Tarantino's "new leading man" brief). Butler has a direct "in" with Tarantino, and as far as the industry is concerned after Elvis, he's the guy they are hoping follows in the footsteps of the Pitts and DiCaprios as a superstar box office draw for the next few decades. I'd be shocked if Butler didn't directly campaign Tarantino for the role Butler is the obvious route. Tarantino could also go completely leftfield and cast someone like Kieran Culkin.Tarantino stated he was going to give the lead to an actor he’s never worked with before
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Post by theycallmemrfish on May 25, 2023 18:22:54 GMT
I think if he wasn't dead, maybe Tarantino could have cast Cinema Archive's 13th Greatest Actor Of All Time, John Wayne. I know Wayne wasn't a particularly good actor, but at least he'd have another great director on the resume, y'know...for the archive. Tarantino's name alone really could have bumped him into the TOP 10 on the All-Time Greatest Actor List, in spite of unimportant stuff like acting skill or talent! What a missed opportunity! (some people really got in their feelings about that thread, eh ) You jest, but Tarantino would absolutely cast Wayne if he could.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 25, 2023 18:41:55 GMT
I'm thinking Austin Butler is most likely . They've already worked together in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood....just with Butler in a supporting role, not as a leading man (so he'd still fit Tarantino's "new leading man" brief). Butler has a direct "in" with Tarantino, and as far as the industry is concerned after Elvis, he's the guy they are hoping follows in the footsteps of the Pitts and DiCaprios as a superstar box office draw for the next few decades. I'd be shocked if Butler didn't directly campaign Tarantino for the role Butler is the obvious route. Tarantino could also go completely leftfield and cast someone like Kieran Culkin.Tarantino stated he was going to give the lead to an actor he’s never worked with before This is what Tarantino said in the quotes from those tweets: It’ll definitely be a new leading man for me.To me, that suggests it'll be the first time whatever actor he casts plays a leading man for him. Not that he won't use an actor he hasn't worked with. Which is why I think Butler is strongly in the frame, as Butler has never been a lead for Tarantino.
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Post by JangoB on May 25, 2023 19:09:28 GMT
Forget the age thing and cast Chris Pine, ya coward!
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Post by Billy_Costigan on May 25, 2023 19:10:52 GMT
I'm thinking Austin Butler is most likely . They've already worked together in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood....just with Butler in a supporting role, not as a leading man (so he'd still fit Tarantino's "new leading man" brief). Butler has a direct "in" with Tarantino, and as far as the industry is concerned after Elvis, he's the guy they are hoping follows in the footsteps of the Pitts and DiCaprios as a superstar box office draw for the next few decades. I'd be shocked if Butler didn't directly campaign Tarantino for the role Butler is the obvious route. Tarantino could also go completely leftfield and cast someone like Kieran Culkin.Butler was the first person to come to mind. Tarantino likes working with the same actors and they already have a connection.
I like the Culkin suggestion but he keeps talking about he doesn't want to act as much. Culkin going from Succession to Tarantino would be a lot of fun though.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 25, 2023 19:18:48 GMT
Look........I know I'm a real good looking guy - and your girlfriend knows it too buddy.........but just because I'm a good looking critic ..........doesn't mean QT is going to cast a good looking dude as his critic........
Paul Dano - and I don't even like him ......
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on May 25, 2023 19:59:50 GMT
Tarantino stated he was going to give the lead to an actor he’s never worked with before This is what Tarantino said in the quotes from those tweets: It’ll definitely be a new leading man for me.To me, that suggests it'll be the first time whatever actor he casts plays a leading man for him. Not that he won't use an actor he hasn't worked with. Which is why I think Butler is strongly in the frame, as Butler has never been a lead for Tarantino. I thought I read a separate quote outside of that going even further but I’ll have to go back and see if I can find it.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on May 25, 2023 20:00:54 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on May 25, 2023 20:01:11 GMT
Also in today’s news cycle- Benny Safdie won’t be directing that Sandler-Baseball movie with his brother. I wonder if there’s a scheduling crisscross this Fall…… He’d seem to fit the role and the age-range….
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Post by pacinoyes on May 25, 2023 20:15:22 GMT
That's the best and most interesting about this movie - he almost always makes salient critical points on other movies - like a movie critic would (or should) and not really like a director usually does......yeah, I love everything he said there and how he said it - thanx ^ .........
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Post by quetee on May 25, 2023 20:21:31 GMT
Haha QT called him out on Bond. He knows all there is to know about movies. Did anyone ever see Brolin 's screen test? What did u think?
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on May 25, 2023 21:18:44 GMT
Christopher Abbott please and thank you
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Post by PromNightCarrie on May 25, 2023 21:42:08 GMT
I read that he said he wants to cast someone around 35. I was going to throw out possibilities until I realized... I no longer know the names of any actors under 40.
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Post by mhynson27 on May 25, 2023 23:14:10 GMT
Oooooh, I like the Culkin suggestion.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on May 26, 2023 0:19:50 GMT
I think Plemons and Dano are interesting possibilities. And it’s important to remember that QT chose to cast Travolta over DDL and Forster over DeNiro so if he’s convinced an actor is best for a role he stay gung-ho for that actor.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 26, 2023 22:06:22 GMT
I very much doubt Paul Dano is in the frame for this. When Tarantino gave his thoughts about There Will Be Blood, he said that if he had to identify any weakness with the film (which he loved), it was Dano's performance, which he thought wasn't good enough to keep up with Day-Lewis ( he compared DDL in the movie to Muhammad Ali and Dano to Jerry Quarry, a journeyman boxer that Ali fought). Now maybe Tarantino has since reconsidered his opinion on Dano as a performer in the years since, but it doesn't seem too likely that'd he'd let Dano carry his final film when he's been so openly scathing about his performance in PTA's most seminal work.
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Post by franklin on May 26, 2023 22:08:50 GMT
Austin Butler Jesse Plemons Chris Pine Christopher Abbott
Anyway i'm interested in learning if this is going to be another starry ensemble cast of supporting characters like OUATIH or The Hateful Eight.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 27, 2023 6:19:02 GMT
There is some fun stuff to be found in the World of Reel comments - yeah I know, just take it as fun speculation people ffs - so a different guy than what has been guessed a lot and assumed and that I posted above ^.......QT said: He wrote like he was 55 but he was only in his early to mid-30s. He died in his late thirties. It wasn’t clear for a while but now I’ve done some more research and I think it was it was complications due to alcoholism.* disqus_5YSCKcmFz2 2 days ago edited "It's not Margold. Sheldon was a real guy. I'm the dude who posted the Margold thing on Reddit before it showed up here. The movie is going to be loosely based on Jim Sheldon. This is based on evidence I've been shown and cannot disclose. Jim and Bill (Margold) went to school together and were buddies who wrote for The Hollywood Press together." * Here's some reviews QT "uses" in his Beverly Theater website - If you believe this guy existed and is not fictitious or a psuedonym / and a photo (?) too.......so if true - um Plemons right (?) - who is thin now btw......just sayin thenewbev.com/tarantinos-reviews/grindhouse-mini-reviews/
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 20, 2023 10:28:50 GMT
Tarantino described The Movie Critic as “Travis Bickle if he were a film critic.”In the IMDB days I used to talk about how Taxi Driver and Nashville could be argued as "the best" American movie(s) of the 70s because they were unquestionably "great"........and current in period movies - not revisionist like The Godfather, McCabe & Mrs. Miller or Chinatown - that captured a mood not something simple - filtered through a historical perspective (in both films Kennedy assassination through the cynicism of Vietnam or Watergate) - now they aren't my favorite movies of the 70s - although Taxi Driver is close.......... but they were really difficult movies to pull off.....in concept and audience effect ........if you've never seen this, here is QT reviewing Taxi Driver - just like a movie critic! - which has his usual mostly on target assessment / POV..... clutchpoints.com/quentin-tarantino-taxi-driver-comparison-for-his-final-film
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