Miscast Movies

[Ash]

There are movies that have the occasional character or two that are miscast.
Then there are movies where almost everyone is miscast.

For example:

I was watching The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer the other day on cable and realized that darn near every single actor in that movie was horribly miscast.
It's the casting director's job to make sure that each actor is perfectly cast for each role.  The CS on this movie got it all wrong, wrong wrong!

Ioan Gruffudd looks and acts nothing like Reed Richards.
Jessica Alba as Sue Storm was a total joke.  She didn't look or act like Sue Storm at all.
Michael Chiklis was just ok as The Thing.  The costume he wore in those films also was too small.  The Thing is freakin' huge!  The Thing in these movies was the same size as the average man.
The guy who played Doom was also miscast.  There was just something "off" about him.

Heck, even the supporting actors were all miscast.
Not one person looked like they should be in this movie.

The only actor they got right in both of these films was Chris Evans as the Human Torch.  He absolutely nailed the role and was totally believable as Johnny Storm.

The casting director for those films needs to find a new profession..fast!

Are there any other movies you can think of that were horribly miscast?

[JaseSF]

Val Kilmer as Batman and as The Saint. Val Kilmer in most things truth be told.
Dolph Lundgren as The Punisher

[Flick James]

I know this was brought up in a recent thread, but what about Jon Voight in Anaconda. That casting was so bad I had absolutely no idea what the ethnicity of the character was. A complete mystery.

[InformationGeek]

Space Mutiny: The woman they hired for the leading female role wasn't right.  It seemed like the role was for a MUCH younger woman than what they had.

[Trevor]

Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling in Hannibal. 

[Joe the Destroyer]

Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling in Hannibal. 

You aren't kidding there.

Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance in The Shining.

[paula]

ben affleck in Daredevil

Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula

the kid in phantom menace (had to look him up, jake lloyd) WOW he sucked...he must be related to lucas.  he makes keanu reeves look like daniel day lewis.

[RCMerchant]

Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula

Yeah!
"Back off,vampire dude!"

 

[Jack]

Everybody in Scooby Doo.  Freddie Prinze Jt. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and Linda Cardellini as Velma.  Horrible - all of them.  Not within a country mile of acting like the characters from the animated show.

[Cthulhu]

Will Smith in I am Legend.
You know what, scratch that. The whole movie sucked.

[InformationGeek]

Everybody in Scooby Doo.  Freddie Prinze Jt. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and Linda Cardellini as Velma.  Horrible - all of them.  Not within a country mile of acting like the characters from the animated show.

Oh come on!  Matthew Lillard was a good choice for Shaggy.  I thought he looked and protrayed character quite well.

[the ghoul]

Everyone who has played Batman since Adam West

Will Smith as James West

Nicholas Cage in anything

[WingedSerpent]

I agree with InformationGeek.  Scooby Doo was perfectly cast.  The movie was still terrible-but their pretty much who I would have chosen.  All except Velma, because I had never heard of that actress before.

Batman Forever.  That was the worst cast Batman movie.

Bloodrayne was another.  Ben Kingsley as Kagen?  Slthough, I've said I thought Kristen Lokien at least looked like she made a pretty decent Rayne.

[zombie no.one]

Nicholas Cage in anything

he's perfectly cast in Wild At Heart imo


for me Denzel Washington in AMERICAN GANGSTER

he's way too clean-cut looking and acting to be convincing as a murderous drug dealer. He has the aura of a cop or a minister or something similar to that kind of thing in that film.

[Nightowl]

I've always wondered why in the hell Roseanne Barr & Tom Arnold were in Freddy's Dead.