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charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
Sun Aug 18, 2013, 08:50 PM Aug 2013

You can make one biographical movie and have your choice of cast, who do you make it about?

I'd choose Ulysses Simpson Grant with Michael Shannon starring as Grant. I'd also pick Timothy Olyphant as General Sherman and William Hurt as Robert E. Lee.

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You can make one biographical movie and have your choice of cast, who do you make it about? (Original Post) charlie and algernon Aug 2013 OP
Bruce Willis as Philip K Dick First Speaker Aug 2013 #1
Honey Boo Boo as... JonBenet Ramsey Demo_Chris Aug 2013 #2
Or... someone awesome as Christopher Hitchens Demo_Chris Aug 2013 #3
The life of Mother Theresa. mysuzuki2 Aug 2013 #4
Matt Damon as Pope John Paul II!!! MiddleFingerMom Aug 2013 #5
Hey, I think were on to something! mysuzuki2 Aug 2013 #12
Emma Goldman -- Kathy Bates n/t Bertha Venation Aug 2013 #6
The Maddona Story olddots Aug 2013 #7
"The Serious Side of PeeWee Herman" -- starring Paul Reubens (in character as PeeWee Herman) MiddleFingerMom Aug 2013 #8
The Assassination of Julius Caesar..... Rowdyboy Aug 2013 #9
Hermain Cain played by OJ Simpson B Calm Aug 2013 #10
Idris Elba as Frederick Douglass sarge43 Aug 2013 #11
I've been trying to write about Bass Reeves Xyzse Aug 2013 #13

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
1. Bruce Willis as Philip K Dick
Sun Aug 18, 2013, 08:51 PM
Aug 2013

...it's probably too late now for this...but it's something I've fantasized about for years...

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)
9. The Assassination of Julius Caesar.....
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 01:59 AM
Aug 2013

Starring:

Julius Caesar.....Daniel Day Lewis
Mark Anthony.....George Clooney
Cleopatra.....Halle Berry
Brutus....Johnny Depp
Calpernia (Caesar's wife)....Gwenneth Paltrow

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
13. I've been trying to write about Bass Reeves
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 11:42 AM
Aug 2013

Bass Reeves = Michael Jai White
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The Native Americans that helped train him = The Wolf Cast of Twilight.(LOL)

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