Who Would You Want in a Film Version of Jersey Boys?

This is a thread that's meant to be fun and no negative comments. It's a thread where you get to say who you would want to be apart of a film version of Jersey Boys. To me, there are of course two options with the cast, one could be the have JLY, Daniel, Christian, and Bobby play The Four Seasons, the other would be to have bigger names in those roles. Me personally I would like to see JLY, Daniel, Christian, and Bobby preserve their roles by doing the film and then in the other roles have some big names in it and also some cameos from Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy Devito, Bob Crewe, and Joe Pesci. They could do one of the roles that are done by Donnie Kehr and Mark Lotito.

For some of the other roles I see maybe Zach Braff(JD on Scrubs) as Joe Pesci(which I think would be cool seeing that Braff is a Jersey Boy), Reese Witherspoon as Mary,and Robert Patrick as Norm Waxman, and maybe Jack Nicholson for Gyp DeCarlo(again another guy from Jersey).

I can't think of anything else right now, but if I do I'll post them.

So who would you pick to be in the movie?

Everyone from the Original Broadway Cast,I think it would be cool to even see the girls(Erica,Jen and Sara)and I can't see anyone else play Joe Pesci like Micheal Longoria.

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Original cast, with cameos by the living Four Seasons.

I would love the guys and the Seasons to be in it. I would love for Marisa to play Mary. Even though she is a little bit older than John. I think my sisters friend should play Joey because he looks like Joe, acts like him ,and talks like him! But if they can't get the girls to be in it, I was thinking Emmy Rossum or Anne Hathaway to play Francine. They both have the Valli look, brown eyes, blackish brown hair. But, I can't think of someone to play Lorraine.

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If you wanna get technical ... haha.

That's very true. But besides him, there really isn't anyone. Get outta here, celebrities. JLY territory.

It has to be the original cast, at least for the 4 leads.

It doesn't HAVE to be anything. If this is a feature film...a director will probably audition the original cast but has no commitment to cast them. They'll lean towards big names in order to sell the flick. And there's nothing saying the actor chosen has to sing the songs. There's such thing as lip-synching (ie: Jamie Foxx in "Ray").

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It' just too bad that Jack Palance isn't alive cause he would probably would've made a great Gyp DeCarlo.

I think honestly like I said before, it should be the original 4- John, Daniel, Christan, and Bobby- with big names in the other roles.

"I can't see anyone else play Joe Pesci like Micheal Longoria."

True, but I think Zach Braff could do a great job playing him in a film version.

Well being a Jersey Boy fan
I just had to give my 2 cents
here. I think they should defintely
stick the four John,Christian,Daniel,Bobby.
Origninal cast for 4 Seasons.

Michael Longoria would be
fabulous as Joey.
As for the females, I would
love Marissa to play Francine.
But how great it would be if
they stuck to the original cast
and gave it to Jennifer Naimo
to play Francine.


Time will tell.

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Updated On: 12/2/06 at 03:08 PM

I like the idea of Rachel
playing Lorraine.

I can see it.

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THANK YOU, mpw!

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ok, I didnt have a suggestion but im kinda bored so I took a picture of Frankie Valli and put it through the face recognition software of myheritage.com and these were some of the top results:

Gerard Butler
Jim Carrey
Johnny Depp
Jake Gyllenhaal

I could actually see Jake Gyllenhaal doing it, if he can pull off Jersey Italian.

Updated On: 12/3/06 at 04:17 AM

And besides, movies suck. Let the show be the show and leave it be.

Hate to tell ya, Foster. But directors are already seeking the rights to the movie adaptation.

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FOAnatic, I have no doubt that the rights are about to be snatched up by Chris Columbus and the gang. I was just making a statement that movies suck and that the show should be the show and it should be let be.

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