brad pitt

obviously they'll need a few (baby playing w/ froebel blocks, young playing w/ louis's tools, old playing w/ client's wives) so i'd say

keanu as young frank
Geoff Pierson as old frank

who's going to play the axe-toting,pyromaiac Butler?

ff33 - Kate Blanchette, who will receive a 'best supporting actress' for her exquisite 12 minutes worth of screen time. Why is she always the bridesmaid?

FLW - Queen Latifah. Obviously I don't need to explain.

bucku,
You beat me to it...
Seems obvious given his archi-ness

ed harris.

for some reason I can picture George C Scott as an old flw.

i don't think he's available ..

Yeah I guess I'm about 10 years too late on that, I just saw a Christmas Carrol last night so he was on my mind. whoops.

peridot, I adore you. Recasting the FLW story with gender roles switched is actually a movie I would go see!

The regular biopic, even with Brad Pitt as FLW, doesn't interest me all that much.

That said, what about Daniel Day Lewis?

cate did the gender switch playin bob d in i'm not there. i nominate a non actor, me!

But vado, she was a woman playing a man. I'm talking about making FLW a woman, a woman of power and passion, with a male mistress.

But leaving aside that idea, I agree: you would be excellent as FLW.

Kevin Spacey, Gene Hackman, Langella (Frost/Nixon), Hopkins, Russell Crowe, Christian Bale.

They'll probably botch it though and get Costner or Hanks.

hanks!

that would suck.

the movie will likely suck anyways such as it were.

i agree with mightylittle that the movie will suck. I couldn't get through much of the book. ken burns couldn't get it right (sorry), nor has anyone else.

that said, i vote for ed norton. he's got the smarts and the charm. but russell crowe is cool too. he's not a conventional choice and for my money has more charisma than all the rest. whoever it is has to have charm and that famous twinkle in the eye.

and coming from a welsh heritage, how about sean connery for the older flw?

Huh, I'm surprised they haven't yet made this movie, actually.

sean connery might make it watchable. probably not though.

on an unrelated note, i still love cate blanchett.

so far none of the choices above remotely interest me. so, i'll step up, and nominate me, i can play a misogynist, self-aggrandizing prick. hell, i'll even do it on per diem, but i'll need back end points and my name above the title, and green almond dark chocolate m&m's, a hummer converted into a trailer - run on bio-diesel, and Ms. Jolie to call me semi-daily.

greenspace, Ed Norton is a good choice. He's not a big person but has a huge presence.

Similarly, what about Peter Dinklage?

Or, what about a living architect? Thom Mayne?

I reiterate: who's going to play the axe-toting,pyromaiac Butler?

a living architect would be a terrible idea.

they would attempt to assume responsibility for all creative decisions, they would try to star in, produce and direct the feature, and then when it flops...they'd blame the contractor.

ml is correct, they should use a dead architect, a fairly recent one at that - save on the make-up.

I think Jude Law will look great as FLW

Jude Law played an architect in some movie I saw, I don't remember much of it but there was some kind of affair involved - so he does have that experience. But he's too pretty to be FLW, in my opinion.

Russell Crowe strikes me as a belligerent ignorant ass, so maybe HE should be the axe-wielding butler? (sorry greenspace)

i think the axe-wielding butler was from Barbados, so please plan accordingly.

liberty bell, thanks re: norton, but you have to admit crowe is a great actor. did you see "the insider"? and "master and commander"? and that roman flick? he is powerful on screen. can't you separate the art from the artist?

i think billy bob thornton could let his hair grow out and don a cape and pull off just the right amount of weirdness and intensity.

don't get lb started on gladiator.

actually i would nominate campbell scott. son of george c. star of roger dodger and has the gravitas to play a egomaniacal ubermensch.

i thought of ed norton before reading that others here picked him...he's got the acting chops and looks enough like him




all he needs is the widow's peak...

(but yea, the movie probably will suck)

i got it:

wait for it...





Harry Shearer!

IF he can do Gandi he can do Wright:

Like vado said, don't get me started on Gladiator. Crowe's Insider role was good, as was LA Confidential, but Gladiator, ugh.

What about Stacey Keach? he scares the crap out of me.

Emilio: Many, many, many thanks for that picture of Ed Norton. My oh my.

Now he would make a great FLW in Drag:

then again: Christian Slader might do the trick

john malkovich

Mrs B's Pick: Peter Coyote

will ferrell in his first dramatic role

He has the Wright Attitude:

It is rumored that FLW was extremely self-conscious about what he considered to be an effeminate tone in his voice. If I was casting the film, I'd go for Michael Jackson. This could also be a great boon to MJ's waning career.

On the rumor front, FLW's relationship with Edgar Kaufmann could be played up in a post-modern, cross-media tongue-in-cheek fashion by casting Michael C. Hall as FLW and Mathew St. Patrick as EK.

I should have said, "Also on the rumor front . . . "

alright snook, hugh laurie......love that guy, and he does a good american accent.

minnick, in the few clips i've seen of flw he had a soft, sing-songy voice, the kind little kids fall asleep to...don't know about effeminate, but a nice voice.

i agree, Emilio, and i think most people (including you and me) were really enamored with his personality, voice included . . . this "effeminate" thing was a perception he had of himself (i forget where I heard it, though.)

Most folks, myself included, experience a little disbelief when they hear their own voice, "oh my god, is that really what I sound like?" I imagine that's what he went through.

My real choice for the role is John Malkovich, who might be able to take his brilliantly nuanced and gentle voice and really get inside FLW's head with it.

My suggestion for Frank...

Matthew Broderick

he is short in stature
he is a versatile actor and could pull off the voice
already has a lot of Chicago experience having been Ferris Buehler.

Obviously, the axe wielding butler (and requiring release from prison)...

OJ Simpson

(his motivation - just tell him that Frank is screwing his ex-wife or that Frank has some of his stuff!)

I am working on Mamah Cheney...maybe Kate Winslett