What are the Worst Casting Decisions that have ever been made?

[Doctor of Autism]

Everyone in the live action death note movie

except the guy who played Ryuk. Wasn't great, but he was the only bearable thing in that movie by this much .

Willem Dafoe usually kills it in all his roles, the only issue with Ryuk in that movie was how he was written since Dafoe could pull the voice well and could be a pretty great Ryuk if there was more competent screenwriting.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Benedict Cumberbatch as Grinch. Why isn’t he doing a mean British voice? God, that version sucks.
Oh, and Pharrell Williams as the narrator. What a boring voice!

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Benedict Cumberbatch as Grinch. Why isn’t he doing a mean British voice? God, that version sucks.

Because Illumination wanted to make him more softer for the babies in the audience

 

[Oats12345]

Benedict Cumberbatch as Grinch. Why isn’t he doing a mean British voice? God, that version sucks.
Oh, and Pharrell Williams as the narrator. What a boring voice!

Also why does his fake American accent in that sound so different to the one who does for Dr. Strange?

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Also why does his fake American accent in that sound so different to the one who does for Dr. Strange?

Dr. Strange still sounds a bit British. He also sounds angrier than soft Grinch at points. That should’ve been his Grinch voice!

 

[Oats12345]

Dr. Strange still sounds a bit British. He also sounds angrier than soft Grinch at points. That should’ve been his Grinch voice!

I guess you got a point there. I wouldn't mind a Grinch who sounds British

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

The guy they got to play the guy in Fifty Shades of Grey. It's an abysmal film all around, yeah, but the dude's sooo hard to take seriously. He has these cute, big, round eyes that make him look downright adorable. He also looks like a weird fusion of John Krasinski and Chris Pratt.
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I thought that maybe the appeal of the film, the BARE minimum, would be that you get to gawk at a sexy, manipulative, and diabolical man, but this isn't it at all. The actor himself admitted to being camera-shy when it came to the nude scenes and you can absolutely feel that during them.

Meanwhile, there were rumors way back that Matt Bomer would be the playing the role and I thought that'd be a perfect choice, given the audience is supposed to be lusting over a deviant, badboy billionaire type (the man's also a degenerate homosexual IRL).
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For the record, this casting change would not have fixed the film by a longshot, it just would've made more sense. I personally think the lead actress was awful too.

Apparently Felicity Jones was going to do it but passed because she didn't want to show bush. Imagine being the producer who chose Don Johnson's nobody daughter over Jyn Erso.

I'm suprised Jean Claude Van Damme as Guile hasn't made it. If Raul Julia carried Street Fighter, JCVD dragged it down.

Van Damme really looked the part, though. I can't imagine anyone else at the time who would have played that role better. The guys who played Ryu and Ken now--talk about miscasting!

Bonus Cammy Minogue pic:

 

[Buttigieg2020]

John Wayne played a Mongol once.

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Literally gave him cancer.

Spoiler: E

the filming site was covered in radioactive dust from nuclear tests

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Harrison Ford in Ender's Game. Graff is a sad fatass stressed out over trying to break a child mentally. Harrison Ford has been sleep-acting for ten years at this point.

 

[Pissmaster]

I can't believe they got this guy to play Pee Wee Herman

 

[Linger Longer]

The guy they got to play the guy in Fifty Shades of Grey. It's an abysmal film all around, yeah, but the dude's sooo hard to take seriously. He has these cute, big, round eyes that make him look downright adorable. He also looks like a weird fusion of John Krasinski and Chris Pratt.
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I thought that maybe the appeal of the film, the BARE minimum, would be that you get to gawk at a sexy, manipulative, and diabolical man, but this isn't it at all. The actor himself admitted to being camera-shy when it came to the nude scenes and you can absolutely feel that during them.

Meanwhile, there were rumors way back that Matt Bomer would be the playing the role and I thought that'd be a perfect choice, given the audience is supposed to be lusting over a deviant, badboy billionaire type (the man's also a degenerate homosexual IRL).
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For the record, this casting change would not have fixed the film by a longshot, it just would've made more sense. I personally think the lead actress was awful too.

Johnson was incredible in the remake of Suspiria though

 

[I.B. Niggin]

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I can't believe they got this guy to play Pee Wee Herman

This is SPOT-ON casting.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Heather Graham's attempts at an accent.

It does delve into the supernatural a bit, with the lead detective being a smack addict who may or may not be experiencing otherworldly knowledge. But it could never encapsulate everything in the book and Moore hates it, as he hates all adaptations of his work.

 

[Asdfgunman81]

A majority of the casting of the Dreamworks animated films(you know the ones) just feel forced. The only exception where everything worked was the Kung Fu Panda trilogy.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I'm surprised (and yet not) to see no one talking about The Mummy 2017 and how weird it is that 50-something Tom Cruise was cast as the generic young action hero with a generic young blonde as his love interest. To this day, the whole thing still weirds me out. Why Cruise of all people?

I get actors playing people who are significantly younger (and I have my own gripes with that one regarding shit like 13RW) but the movie came across as poor old Cruise having bit of a midlife crisis.

Also Tom Cruise speaking Egyptian was hilarious.

Oh and since I mentioned 13RW....

This guy is supposed to be in high school. WTF

 

[neverendingmidi]

I'm surprised (and yet not) to see no one talking about The Mummy 2017 and how weird it is that 50-something Tom Cruise was cast as the generic young action hero with a generic young blonde as his love interest. To this day, the whole thing still weirds me out. Why Cruise of all people?

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I get actors playing people who are significantly younger (and I have my own gripes with that one regarding shit like 13RW) but the movie came across as poor old Cruise having bit of a midlife crisis.

Also Tom Cruise speaking Egyptian was hilarious.

Oh and since I mentioned 13RW....
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This guy is supposed to be in high school. WTF

Honestly I think everybody just tried to forget that movie was ever made.

 

[do you like my hat]

I don't think it's terrible casting, but the actors in part 2 of "It" (the modern one) had a very noticeable lack of chemistry compared to their kid counterparts. That whole movie was underwhelming in general though.

 

[Oats12345]

I'm surprised (and yet not) to see no one talking about The Mummy 2017 and how weird it is that 50-something Tom Cruise was cast as the generic young action hero with a generic young blonde as his love interest. To this day, the whole thing still weirds me out. Why Cruise of all people?

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I get actors playing people who are significantly younger (and I have my own gripes with that one regarding shit like 13RW) but the movie came across as poor old Cruise having bit of a midlife crisis.

Also Tom Cruise speaking Egyptian was hilarious.

Oh and since I mentioned 13RW....
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This guy is supposed to be in high school. WTF

Yeah it was weird. Since the actress who played his live intrest 20 something years younger than him.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I'm surprised (and yet not) to see no one talking about The Mummy 2017. Why Cruise of all people?

The ship is taking on water. A lot of the A-list talents are huddled together, shooting commercials and VOD films.

The life of an actor is no longer sustainable.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Honestly I think everybody just tried to forget that movie was ever made.

Lol true. It was no secret that Universal tried super hard to make their own MCU and it crashed and burned to such hilariously bad degrees. And I say this as someone who doesn't care about the MCU.

Yeah it was weird. Since the actress who played his live intrest 20 something years younger than him.

I wonder if Cruise and by extension the directors were in continuous denial over the fact that Cruise is turning 60 this year.

If they had to cast someone age-appropriate, they should have switched the roles between Cruise and Jake Johnson. Or boot Russel Crowe and put Cruise there if they really needed him.

Then again it wouldn't have saved the movie.