Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin, 2021)
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Re: New Films in Production, v.2
What a tightrope this one will be to walk. Hopefully it's true to the real story without being too much of a TV movie.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
Would be crazy not to try to get Oscar Isaac to play Desi Arnaz, right?
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
Hadn't thought of it but now I definitely want it
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
Definitely makes the most sense. It probably depends on how old he's supposed to be. We'll probably get John Leguizamo.
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He's 10 years younger than Blanchett, and Arnaz was 6(?) years younger than Ball? It'd make a lot of sense. Just please don't stunt cast Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen as Vivian Vance and William Frawley or something stupid like that, please
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
I didn't know he was that old. I thought he was a good 10 years younger.
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I know you didn't mean it as a positive suggestion, but I bet Leguizamo would be great in a dialog-heavy Sorkin part, though I doubt he's going to be given the keys to a leading role at this point in his career
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
I did mean it as a positive if lesser than Isaacs suggestion. I was just watching an Ecuadorian film he starred in a decade ago and it is a pretty excellent performance.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
Or Wilmer Valderrama, who just immediately came to my sister's minddomino harvey wrote:I know you didn't mean it as a positive suggestion, but I bet Leguizamo would be great in a dialog-heavy Sorkin part, though I doubt he's going to be given the keys to a leading role at this point in his career
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William Frawley: Jim Belushi? David Koechner? JK Simmons?
Vivian Vance: Margo Martindale? ...Kate Winslet + a couple dozen lbs if the audience squints? This one's more difficult.
Anyway, get Bennett Miller or someone like that to direct this and do it right, damnit.
Vivian Vance: Margo Martindale? ...Kate Winslet + a couple dozen lbs if the audience squints? This one's more difficult.
Anyway, get Bennett Miller or someone like that to direct this and do it right, damnit.
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Oh my God, mfunk, you should be casting this movie: Margo Martindale would be perfect as Vivian Vance, and JK Simmons would be inspired! I'm going to be disappointed by whoever we actually get
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
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domino harvey wrote:JK Simmons would be inspired!
I'll let you be the one to tell this guy he's playing William Frawley
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
Please stop making inspired casting decisions because now that I've seen all this I want it all and am going to be inevitably disappointed.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
While Martindale does bear a resemblance to Vivian Vance, in reality Vance was only two years older than Lucille Ball. Martindale and Blanchett are nearly 20 years apart. I wouldn't mind seeing Toby Jones as William Frawley.
A quick Google search turned up this from a couple of years ago.mfunk9786 wrote:Or Wilmer Valderrama, who just immediately came to my sister's mind
Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
I'm sure he's very talented, but I just don't see a TV actor being cast as co-lead with one of the world's most talented and in-demand actresses. Michael Peña would be more plausible but still seems unlikely. I hope it's Oscar Isaac.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
Diego Luna's also seems like he's enough in the zeitgeist to be feasible.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
I've been hoping for Leguizamo since the initial announcement 2 years ago.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
If the film is about their courtship and the production of I Love Lucy, then Arnaz was in his early-to-mid 20s when they were married, and the show began around 10 years after that. Both Bardem and Leguizamo are much too old for the part, particularly the latter. I’d go as far as to say that Blanchett is too old to play Ball, but at least she doesn’t carry her age on her face as much as someone like Bardem does.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
According to the National Enquirer, Amy Schumer is being sought to play Vance, and Bardem for Arnaz
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
Well, fuck.
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Re: Lucy and Desi (???, ???)
The most comforting thought about that piece of news is that it's from the National Enquirer.