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

Casting a woman to play Lord Vetinari in the series inspired by Terry Pratchet's Night Watch books, seemingly for no reason other than to score some brony points. Because it worked so well in that abortion of a movie that was the Ghostbusters reboot. It's so bad that even Pratchet's daughter walked out on the project.
 
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Korpon said:
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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Since you brought up Godfather III. Did you notice that it's been rebranded as Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone? Are there any other movies that got renamed after 25 years?
 
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PeriodicTrouble said:
I thought it was a director's cut of sorts not a renaming.
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Its a reedit of the movie and they cut portions of the movie to make it "better". Francis failed the orignal cut is better because it doesn't start in the middle of the film and then change scenes around. This feels like a attemt to please film buffs but the original is not bad its just disapointing. Not helping that his daughter is giving a bad performance. I don't know why Francis would do this Godfather 3 isn't bad but its mostly forgotten save for some great scenes telling a good story with Sofia giving a bad performance that made me go thank god shes dead. Don't watch this trainwreck reedit watch the original should you ever want to rewatch the original trilogy.
 
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Mila Kunis as Mona Sax. It's even worse when prime Olga Kurylenko was in the same movie. They even shared scenes!

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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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He's not Dalton, but I thought Casino Royale and QOS were both solid movies and he was good in the role. The death of Bond is almost entirely on the shoulders of Barbara Broccoli and her quest for woke peace.
 
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Sex Cannon Lupa said:
Mila Kunis as Mona Sax. It's even worse when prime Olga Kurylenko was in the same movie. They even shared scenes!
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Virtually every performance of Mila Kunis is terrible. I can understand why the family guy writers want to torture and mock Meg when dealing with her. The exception I can think of is Jupiter Ascending, that movie is one of the greatest unintentional comedies ever and her performance in that compliments the film.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
Virtually every performance of Mila Kunis is terrible. I can understand why the family guy writers want to torture and mock Meg when dealing with her. The exception I can think of is Jupiter Ascending, that movie is one of the greatest unintentional comedies ever and her performance in that compliments the film.
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Mila Kunis only knows how to play a shrew due to That 70s Show. Every time she doesn't play Jackie Burkhart, she's terrible.
 
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Korpon said:
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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yeah she definitely inherited her dad's talent for directing as opposed to acting, and yeah Keanu Reeves was hilariously bad in Dracula but he was the wrong choice to play Harker.
 
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WhatNemesisMeans said:
Casting a woman to play Lord Vetinari in the series inspired by Terry Pratchet's Night Watch books, seemingly for no reason other than to score some brony points. Because it worked so well in that abortion of a movie that was the Ghostbusters reboot. It's so bad that even Pratchet's daughter walked out on the project.
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Really with that show you had your pick of terrible casting choices. A paraplegic dwarf as CMOT Dibbler? A trans-whatever as Cheery? Meth head Angua? The whole thing was the Book-to-TV version of Buffalo Bill wearing a skin suit and asking "Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me."
 
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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.
 
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Obligatory Jake Lloyd

I feel bad for the dude. He got so much shit for that role, how much of it can be attributed to Lucas’ shitty directing or the fact he just wasn’t a very good actor overall. He wasn’t right for the role, it fucked him up mentally over the years because manchild faggots kept harassing him, shitty situation all around
 
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horrorfan89 said:
yeah she definitely inherited her dad's talent for directing as opposed to acting, and yeah Keanu Reeves was hilariously bad in Dracula but he was the wrong choice to play Harker.
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I think it was a case of "Winona Ryder is huge. Keanu Reeves is huge. How can we lose?"

The whole movie was a goth girl's wet dream. I don't think anyone paid too much attention to the Keanu parts other than to admire his pretty face. But I kind of wish Mina had chopped his head off instead. Anything to shut him up. Please.
 
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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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Dane Dehaan was way worse casting that Cara. He tanked the film

You could have replaced Cara with any actress, one much better and it could not overcome how miscast Dane Dehaan was. Yet if his role was cast with a manly and charismatic actor. The entire film would have been much better. Regardless of her short comings.
 
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