South Pacific Movie Dream Casting

[suttonfoster]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#1

Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:10pm

Dream Casting for New South Pacific Movie:

[Michael Bennett]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#2

Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:44pm

Reese Witherspoon as Nellie Forbush

[somethingwicked]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#2

Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:46pm

I second that notion, Michael Bennett.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[madbrian]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#3

Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:49pm

I think Scarlett Johanssen would also make a good Nellie.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[Jon]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#4

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:02pm

I think you need "names" for Nellie and Luther. You need a real opera singer for Emile, and "unknowns" for Bloody Mary and Liat.

Might as well use Matthew Morrison as Cable.

[givesmevoice]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#5

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:04pm

I would seriously love for Loretta Ables Sayre to play Bloody Mary in the movie. I know I've said it several times here, but she was my absolute favorite person in this production.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Brick]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#6

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:05pm

Both Scarlett and Reese were up for the revival, but LCT decided the revival shouldn't be star-driven.

(I'd rather have seen either, actually.)

[onedaymore]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#7

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:08pm

I agree with givesmevoice on that one. She has been the BEST bloody mary I have ever seen in that role. I've always thought that role was annoying, but I actually enjoy watching her in it.

Anyway, I would love Brian Stokes Mitchell to come into it again, but unfortunately it wouldn't make a lot of sense for Nellie to fall in love with an African American but falls out of love for discriminating against his children for being the same thing.

Luther Billis...hmm...maybe Sean Penn?

Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek

[iluvtheatertrash]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#8

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:16pm

Might as well go with Baldwin for Billis.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[Q]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#9

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:40pm

In the medium of film, I think Mr. Morrison is a little long-in-the-tooth to pull off Cable. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to make him Emile.

[Eris0303]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#10

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:43pm

Someone mentioned Jack Black as Billis in the other thread as a joke. But, I could actually see that working.

"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

[Jordan Catalano]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#11

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:46pm

I refuse to see anything jack Black does so I hope he keeps his untalented ass away from this.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#12

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:05pm

Definitely Scarlett Johansson as Nellie, I'd love to see what she can do with the role.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Princeton2]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#13

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:10pm

Either Reese or I quite like the thought of Amy Adams as Nelly.

Chris Evans for Cable (I think I read somewhere he can sing)

[byebyebaby12]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#14

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:13pm

Wouldn't be shocked if Anne Hathaway tried to get involved. I know she wants to do a musical and she is a soprano so she could pull Nellie off voice wise.

Baldwin as Billis would be hilarious to see on screen. Then again, I doubt anyone could be as good as Matthew Salvidar was.

[bryan2]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#15

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:19pm

Why Bother...make something that has not been made 2x and with a concert also..Hollywood has no imagination
And the Glenn Close version was AWFUL..Harry Connick destroyed
the music ...so sad..
not as bad as Mathew Broderick Music Man
but pretty bad!

[MrMidwest]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#16

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:24pm

How important do people feel that having Emile sing in an operatic or opera-esque style is? Is it something that could be changed and not hurt the piece?

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

Updated On: 7/8/10 at 04:24 PM

[iamchanging9]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#17

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:25pm

Anne Hathaway is NOT Nellie. She always has a quirky side in whatever she does and that wouldn't work for Nellie. Oh and I don't think she has the voice for Nellie.

Reese or Scarlett would be great

...everyone was doing the mambo and drinking golden cadillacs...

[MrMidwest]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#18

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:29pm

I think Reese is probably the best choice as far as box office, being right for the role, and talent goes. I don't really see Anne in the role, either, but I think you'd be reaching to say that Reese Or Scarlett's voice is as good, or better than hers.

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

[byebyebaby12]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#19

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:45pm

Anne claims she is a operatic soprano so I am not sure seeing as I have never heard her use her higher register. Everytime she sings, she sings mid range. But she talks about singing arias in interviews or whatever.

And she was apparently offered Christine in Phantom but had to turn it down for Princess Diaries 2. Or that is her story. I am not a huge fan of her myself since she always puts me off in interviews. But she always talks about wanting to do a musical.

I think Reese is very much the country girl Nellie is but I do not know if she has a good higher register. I also thought she said after Walk The Line she did not want to sing again.

[MrMidwest]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#20

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:53pm

Not saying you're wrong, but where did she claim that she was an operatic soprano? I've never heard that before.

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

[Michael Bennett]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#21

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:58pm

Witherspoon has definitely been approached and expressed interest in musical roles since WALK THE LINE -- .

[itsboq]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#22

Posted: 7/8/10 at 7:45pm

I like the idea of Reese W. or Amy Adams being cast. But what about Jayma Mayes?? I have always enjoyed her even before glee!!

[rjm516]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#23

Posted: 7/8/10 at 9:05pm

Amy Adams is definitely the best suggestion so far. She absolutely owns the sweet naive ingenue character, and her voice is really great. Scarlett's voice is definitely not right for this; it's very gravelly and breathy.

[tinysinger87]

South Pacific Movie Dream Casting#24

Posted: 7/9/10 at 1:41am

Is kelli o hara too old? I haven't seen her these days. But I'd love that.