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

[DapperShark]

Jim from The Office in Jack Ryan
Fucking Kevin James as a hardened neo nazi criminal in Becky

10. Steve Martin in both Pink Panther movies

Fite me IRL faggot

 

[RumblyTumbly]

One that stands out to me is Mila Kunis as the Wicked Witch in that Sam Raimi Oz film.

It was so bad, it felt like somebody lost a bet to make it happen.

How did Jackie from That 70s Show get cast as one of the OG's of cinematic vlllainy? I'll never understand it.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Mila Kunis as the Wicked Witch in that Oz film.

All I was thinking was "shut up, Meg!"

Also I hate it when James Franco plays James Franco. It's like he's constantly nudging the audience and saying: "We both know I'm a hipster douchebag with an STD."

 

[DenseDeerFather]

All I was thinking was "shut up, Meg!"

Also I hate it when James Franco plays James Franco. It's like he's constantly nudging the audience and saying: "We both know I'm a hipster douchebag with an STD."

I was never huge on Franco. I also blame him for the cringe that flodded the DC Fandom after Suicide Squad.

"I'm an idea!"
No, fuck off.

Funny enough, the douchebag hipster with the library of STDs worked perfectly in Spring Breakers.

On the topic of Franco, his brother (Dave Franco I think) was in this movie called Nerve and he was playing a teenage heartthrob. He looks at least 10 years older than that and it's weird to watch him get all romantic with the main character who could pass as a teenager. Feels like I'm watching a Stanger Danger PSA. Adding to that feeling is that he can't act to save his life.

Dude has one of the most insincere smiles in acting history.

I guess it's just a given that siblings of more famous people can't act. Like the Baldwins not named Alec for example.

Edit: phrasing

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

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Probably shouldn't have been cast if she couldn't deliver the lines. Every time she's opened her mouth on-camera, it's failed miserably. 'Smirking' and 'has tattoos' is not acting.

Going with Ruby Rose showed they didn't GAF about the character's mythology. It was clear from the starting pistol that they were going for a 70's afternoon soap opera.

All of those injuries, and it results in a below-average show with laughable production values, just like every other CW show. A bunch of crew members were rejoicing on Twitter when she got fired.

Tbh, everything after her MTV VJ career raises the question why does that bull dyke even has a career to begin with?
Go watch her latest movies SAS: Red Notice, Vanquish and 1UP, they're all horrible and all of them would have been decent movies with different actress.
It's really apparent in SAS: Red Notice, her inability to act her way out of a wet paper bag ruined basically the whole movie.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I guess it's just a given that siblings of more famous people can't act.

Eric Roberts being the exception to the rule.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

This fucking atrocity. If a fictional character's ethnicity is not a vital part of that character's story and motivations then idgaf what race plays them. However, when you are portraying an actual real historic character, this shit does not fly. Cast a white dude as MLK and see how far you get with that. Cunts.

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BBC has racial casting quotas now so they have to do this shit. Racial stunt-casting happens a lot in live theater, too. I remember many years ago a local theatre was doing King Lear. There was a review criticizing the actress playing Cordelia not just for being black, but for being too heavy to carry. The actor playing King Lear had to fireman-carry her in her death scene.

I'm not sure what you can do about blackwashing, since actors are the biggest faggots in the world and will be gung ho for it wherever it occurs.

 

[A-Stump]

I doubt anyone remembers it but, Jim Norton on Lucky Louie was pretty awful. He's not a very good actor.

 

[TinCan Wizard]

Is it too early to say this?

Might as well put the whole cast there. No one looks the part. Morfydd looks like a fisherman's daughter instead of an angel tier elf.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Without question Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns. If they wanted Returns to be a sequel to the Donner movies then why didn't they cast Parker Posey as Lois? She looks more like Margot Kidder than Kate F*cking Bosworth.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Eric Roberts being the exception to the rule.

Of course!

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Without question Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns. If they wanted Returns to be a sequel to the Donner movies then why didn't they cast Parker Posey as Lois? She looks more like Margot Kidder than Kate F*cking Bosworth.

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I read somewhere Rose Byrne was going to be Lois but they went with Kate at the last minute.

Tom Cruise in The Mummy. Dude was twenty years too old to be playing a wiseass womanizer.

 

[Product Placement]

Gal Gadot in anything, I get why she is a model but as an actress she is way out of her depth.

Amber Heard as Mera in Aquaman, no idea how she got past the chemistry test with Momoa and in the Synder cut she has one of the worst English accents I've heard which thankfully was not used in the solo Aquaman movie.

Ana de Armas in Blonde, great actress but going off the trailer she can not get rid of her cuba accent which is pretty important thing not to have when playing Marilyn Monroe

Brat Pitt in 12 Years a Slave, he just seems off in the role and the fact he was cast in the role he was really removes any tension from his character

Colin Firth in Devil's Knot, great actor but he can not do a southern accent at all.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Finn Jones as Danny Rand. Who okayed that, Helen Keller?

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Without question Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns. If they wanted Returns to be a sequel to the Donner movies then why didn't they cast Parker Posey as Lois? She looks more like Margot Kidder than Kate F*cking Bosworth.

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They should've just hired Robin Tunney (probably best known for the Mentalist):
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[Kramer on the phone]

Without question Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns. If they wanted Returns to be a sequel to the Donner movies then why didn't they cast Parker Posey as Lois? She looks more like Margot Kidder than Kate F*cking Bosworth.

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IIRC that was the plan and either the studio or the director put a stop to it because she "wasn't hot enough" and Bosworth was shoved in the role. like you said she clearly would be a better match for the role. especially when critics trashed the film specifically because bosworth barely looked out of school and not like a 30+ accomplished journalist.

The actress who played the sister in the movie Boyhood. She doesn’t look like the biological sister of protagonist. But she was still casted due to nepotism because she is the daughter of the director.

to be fair because of how the project was made it was basically more of a fan film than a real life, it was almost impossible to cast just the boy for such a long production movie. Having said that i think she hated acting in it so much she tried convincing her dad just to kill her character off.

Michael Cera in Scott Pilgrim vs the World. I've read the graphic novels but haven't seen the movie for basically this reason alone. Sorry man, but you don't get to make your nut off playing the most innocent naive wholesome characters ever then go right into playing someone as scummy as Scott Pilgrim was in the novels. Plus he was absolutely saturated by that time, to the point I remember just about everybody I knew at the time was groaning at seeing his dopey-ass mug yet again.

considering the tales from the internet, its almost always the naive wholesome looking guys that are the absolute scummiest. i remember people saying Cera looked like a game journalist, meanwhile a decade later we know his character acted like a game journalist.

 

[Captain Syrup]

They should've just hired Robin Tunney

Knowing DC at that point, they probably wanted Zooey Deschanel.

 

[CaseyTatumm]

Everyone cast in Queen of the Damned. Seriously, what the fuck.

 

[Kerr Avon]

TV lately has to be James Frain as Sarek in the Kurtzman era Star Trek stuff , he makes my skin crawl and that's not Sarek.

Audio has to be the sound alikes Big Finish Productions uses , especially for their Doctor Who ranges.

Jon Culshaw was great in the Dead Ringers skits on telly but his Brigadier & other stuff lately is awful, especially combined with Tim Treloar trying to ape Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor.

Steven Noonan trying to do Hartnell is a joke as well.

I could go on but what worries is that now that David Warner has died , they'll try to recast him

@JamesFargo

Eric Roberts being the exception to the rule.

He always dresses for the occasion.

 

[Zaryiu2]

Wow, you call out pretty much all of the live action batmen, including a few good ones (Batflek actually did a better job than I would have expected. He was just knecapped by playing the character in incredibly shit movies.) and yet you left out Christian "Cancer voice" Bale. The Dark Knight Rises was significantly *worse* than even the mediocre Batman Forever if you ask me, and it was even *almost* as bad as Batman and Robin. Even the *good* Bale films barely deserve to be talked about in the same conversation as the Keaton films.

Bane in Dark Night Rises was water on that movie, also bad Casting is whoever played Talia Al' Ghul in that

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Are you sure about that?

Frank Miller got better mentally with age, Jeep Swenson as Bane was not a good choice but then he had no chance in that turd