Who should play the James Dean role in Ron Howard's East of Eden remake?

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Jake Gyllenhaal!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Is "Ron Howard should stop making movies" an option?

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack Black

― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Parenthood was good.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Bea Arthur; he's always good.

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― aFan, Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I really love Willow, too, no matter what anyone says.
I'm feeling a bit charitable towards RH for the whole executive producing Arrested Development thing.
Remakes are generally pointless, though. Who would he have to get to play Cal Trask to make you want to see it?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(answers like Jack Black and Bea Arthur are definitely encouraged)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ving Rhames

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Roberto Begnini in a strange career revival attempt or William Shatner.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Were Cocoon and Splash any good? I can't remember. Cocoon seemed all right when I was 10, I think. Don't think I've seen anything since Parenthood besides A Beautiful Mind, which sucked. WTF was The Paper? I don't even remember hearing about that one. Nor The Missing.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Ron Howard

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT HATH OPRAH WROUGHT???

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Henry Winkler

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Henry Winkler

(x-post: damn!)

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

James Franco has probably already been ruled out.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

michael cera!

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Angela Jolie

― andy --, Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hilary Swank!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Shia LaBeouf

― Craig Gilchrist, Friday, 25 March 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Who should play Sal Mineo in Tarantino's update of "Rebel"?

― andy --, Friday, 25 March 2005 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Roseanna Arquette

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That dude who played the brother in Slums of Beverly Hills and on Freaks and Greeks.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 25 March 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, nah, listen, listen, listen...

It should be a CGI character.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 25 March 2005 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nightmarefactory.com/82302.jpg

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I figure, if you're gonna fuck something up, go as far as possible.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 25 March 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Jar Jar Trask

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sort of annoyed that someone said Franco before me. I have no function, now.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww, shit. I was just going to nominate you for the thread - that's why I clicked it open.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Franco is one of the rumored actors RH is considering:

1) Tom Welling (Cheaper by the Dozen, TV's "Smallville")
2) Ben McKenzie (TV's "The O.C.")
3) James Franco (Spider-Man, TV's "Freaks & Geeks" and "James Dean")
4) Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious, Timeline)
5) Oliver Hudson (The Out-of-Towners, TV's "The Mountain")
6) Jimmy Fallon (Taxi, Almost Famous, TV's "SNL")
7) Jason Bateman (Starsky & Hutch, TV's "Little House on the Prarie" & "Arrested Development"

Bateman and Fallon are way too fucking old.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, "you"!? Remy that is bizzarre and a flattering awesome typo. I should go blonde again, really, maybe.

(xpost: Franco has played JD in a made-for-TV already, incidentally. Who is Ron Howard?)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck a Ron Howard

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Who is Ron Howard?"

Opie, Richie Cunningham, and a stunningly ham-handed director of pandering schmaltz.

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Frankie Munoz

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Malcolm in the middle kid? Haha.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Howard Dean in Ron James's remake?

― Matt Chesnut, Friday, 25 March 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ron Jeremy as Aron Trask.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

3) James Franco (Spider-Man, TV's "Freaks & Geeks" and "James Dean")
xpost: Franco has played JD in a made-for-TV already, incidentally.
That's why he's an obvious choice but also a weird choice. The guy's already done it once- why would he want to do it again, and if he did wouldn't it create some kind of typecasting? Will he have to keep it real and crash his car?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 25 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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