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Post by J-Bird on Nov 23, 2015 21:50:34 GMT -5
I agree, Frindle. This series isn't meant to lighthearted, unless I missed that memo, and Jok Carrey almost exclusively does lighthearted.
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Post by Skelly Craig on Nov 23, 2015 22:33:35 GMT -5
You missed the "Number 23" film memo, but it's supposed to be worth missing. Anyway, even if I had loved Carrey's performance as Olaf, I still wouldn't want him to be in the Netflix series because it should be its own thing. Nothing good can come of the series trying to be like the movie.
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Post by bear on Nov 23, 2015 22:41:04 GMT -5
i agree, getting a director who worked on the movie is pushing it enough, there's no way hiring the same actors would work. merely as an aside, though, Jim Carrey is a perfectly respectable actor who is more than capable of non-goofy roles (The Cable Guy; The Truman Show; Man on the Moon; The Majestic; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). so don't diss, damn
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Post by Teleram on Nov 24, 2015 0:25:18 GMT -5
on 2nd thought, if someone like michel gondry or peter weir was in the director's chair instead of sonnenfeld then i think carrey would do fine. but ya, i see where yall r comin from
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Post by penne on Nov 24, 2015 3:47:15 GMT -5
i agree, getting a director who worked on the movie is pushing it enough, there's no way hiring the same actors would work. merely as an aside, though, Jim Carrey is a perfectly respectable actor who is more than capable of non-goofy roles (The Cable Guy; The Truman Show; Man on the Moon; The Majestic; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). so don't diss, damn nah, i wasn't necessarily dissing or underestimating his talent- i was speaking mainly from a personal point of view, because tbh carrey's image is pretty permanently tainted for me due to his annoying idiosyncracies as a comedic actor, and as much as i could enjoy movies like "the truman show" and "eternal sunshine", i generally don't like seeing his dumb potato in face. i mean, i could even handle him doing a smaller/different part but lemony?? noo that's definitely not for him |
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Post by Hermes on Nov 24, 2015 8:19:30 GMT -5
Jim Carrey is 53. Count Olaf can't be any younger than that i think all the adults who grew up in VFD together are supposed to be in their 30s by ASOUE I agree. He was at school with Lemony, and he knew Beatrice when he was seven. But he comes over as older than that, so we generally think of him as prematurely aged by villainy. In which case Jim ... no , perhaps not. |
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Post by Dante on Nov 24, 2015 10:23:40 GMT -5
It strikes me as unlikely that the adaptation will mention that all the heroes and villains of the series were contemporaries at school, however. I doubt that will influence any casting decisions, though I suspect Olaf will end up a little less bald in this version than the Carrey interpretation was.
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Post by Hermes on Nov 24, 2015 16:18:14 GMT -5
Oh, I have no problem with an older actor for O; I was just responding to the idea that he must be over 53.
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Post by Strangely on Nov 24, 2015 23:48:35 GMT -5
To me it doesn't make much of a difference for age. Olaf is obviously a man who hasn't taken care of himself. So I suppose they could hire someone old to play someone who's not quite middle aged or they could hire someone young and age them with makeup. Either option is fine in my book, so long as the end result resembles the character.
While I have a wide range of emotions on how Carrey played Olaf the one thing I can say for certain is that he looked the part. So I have every confidence that they'll get the look of Olaf right regardless of the actor.
I will say inviting Carrey back would be a mistake. If it were a sequel I'd want him back, but being that this is a completely different take on the source material it would feel wrong to use him again in that part.
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Post by Charlie on Nov 27, 2015 10:43:05 GMT -5
dream cast: eric wareheim as mr. remora john c. reilly as hector michael keaton as jacques tom hardy as the denouements either max von sydow or brian cox as hal all i could come up with legit thought you were talking about physics brian cox lol Apparently I look exactly like him which sucks bc he is ugly and stupid (no offense to him ofc) and I am hot and smart |
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Post by bear on Nov 27, 2015 14:06:31 GMT -5
huh, you do look like him
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Post by Liam R. Findlay on Dec 3, 2015 11:24:42 GMT -5
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Post by bear on Dec 3, 2015 11:39:05 GMT -5
what the dad salsa is up with THOSE WACKY LETTERS?!
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Post by Dante on Dec 3, 2015 15:26:27 GMT -5
A little concerning, but not necessarily representative, when they're attempting to communicate to potential actors rather than advertising to the general public. Nonetheless, I am intrigued by the suggestion that the Baudelaires are now also investigating their parents' death rather than that simply being cut-and-dried; I would regard that as a positive new addition.
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Post by lorelai on Dec 10, 2015 4:31:21 GMT -5
My slight fear is how they're going to handle Beatrice. A reason the film was able to ignore her character was partly because it didn't tackle the whole series, but I can't imagine her being cut from this adaptation. Although a friend made the point that they may cut the "mystery" of her, because it's no longer a mystery with the series completed--I'm not entirely convinced.
Interestingly, if the implication that the Baudelaires are investigating their parents' death holds, the show could pose the theory that Beatrice started the fire, just to shake things up.
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