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

Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I love Johnny as much as the next huntress, but the script and as Nostalgia Critic said, "Every actor is entitled to one bad performance."

Also Jason Lee as Dave for the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks films can't quite do the angry moments that cartoon Dave has.
 
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I wouldn't say the following were the worse casting choices ever made, but they were certainly terrible decisions :

1) Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor,
2) Sophie Turner as Jean Grey (or as pretty much anybody...)
3) Dolph Lundgren as He-man in Master of the Universe,
4) Scarlet Johansen as Motoko Kusanagi, and
5) Daniel Craig as James Bond (excluding his performance in Casino Royale) ought to be on the list especially if the next movie makes Quantum of Solace look like Citizen Kane.
 
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MrTroll said:
Any time some retard American actor tries and fails to do a foreign accent. My favorite example is Keanu Reeves in that Dracula movie from the early 90's.
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He's a Leaf not an American, but yes I agree, I like the guy but that was a pretty bad call for the movie. As for what I think was a bad casting decision, I'm gonna go with Sofia Coppola in The Godfather III. While she was hot, it was just Francis Ford wanting to shove his daughter into a big role and man did it fail, she couldn't act worth a shit in it.
 
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Recently, the 2 leads in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
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The movie has such a cool world, the action is nice, the side characters are neat as well... but the 2 leads are so bad that, when they're on screen, just the 2 of them interacting with each other, you just want to go to sleep.
That's not something you want from the leads of your $200 million blockbuster.
 
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This is the dumbest casting that is somehow a horseshoe theory because it was to paint a message of political correctness bad in the most unrealistic way ever. Which is of casting the Heathers as a fat woman, transman, and a black lesbian to paint how political correctness and SJWs are taking over despite the fact most of these SJW types are keyboard warriors who genuinely don't get involved with highschool society.

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It doesn't help that all of them look like people in their 30s, and I get these can be good actors since any actor can be good with the right role and/or director. But none of these actors fit the characters.

It gets even worse when this bizarre casting is something no one liked where people who love diversity and stuff hated it for pandering to conservative fears of "SJWs taking over" while those who hated diversity casting hated it for turning a bunch of attractive women into rather ugly people to pander to SJWs.

This casting is absolute dogshit for the message it's portraying that give an out of touch portrayal of how political correctness has control over society (despite the fact most of it is done on the Internet which is new big place everyone is or from corporations, not a high school setting), making characters meant to portray the ideal beautiful woman in society into people the original Heathers would've actually bullied or manipulate, and worst of all show a sign that this dogshit show would take a political stance when the original Heathers while it had a lot of social commentary, it never really pandered to one side and just was about how all of society was stupid.
 
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Mulva69 said:
I'll see that and raise you a Kevin Costner from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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I'll ha;lf-heartedly nominate Matthew Broderick from Ladyhawke, only because I think he could have done a fine job if they hadn't had him attempt a bad English accent. Speaking of bad accents, I'm surprised no one's mentioned Jaden Smith from After Earth yet.
 
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Steve Mcqueen in 1978s An Enemy Of The People.

A big dumb action star, completely unrecognizable in period makeup and costumes, in a wordy Ibsen play.

A casting choice so puzzling that Warner Brothers cancelled the national release.

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Nearly forgot about Geneviève Bujold as Captain Janeway. Thankfully she quit after the first day.

 
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Idiotron said:
Recently, the 2 leads in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
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The movie has such a cool world, the action is nice, the side characters are neat as well... but the 2 leads are so bad that, when they're on screen, just the 2 of them interacting with each other, you just want to go to sleep.
That's not something you want from the leads of your $200 million blockbuster.
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Something about Cara Delevingne is deeply annoying to me. It's not that she's not attractive, but apparently someone decided she's amazing and is going to become "a thing" in entertainment beyond being a model. and I don't get it.

Why do people fixate on her? Is it because she's bisexual?
 
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