If you could cast any 8 actors in your own movie, who would they be?

If you could hand-pick four actors and four actresses to cast the ultimate movie, who’s getting the call? I want to know who’s playing the leads, who’s the villain, what genre we're looking at, and who's sitting in the director's chair.

Edit: My dream lineup—Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, and Christian Bale (with Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman on standby)
- Michelle Pfeiffer, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, and Charlize Theron (keeping Meg Ryan and Jennifer Connelly in the mix)
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Genre: Crime thriller/drama

director: John Carpenter
cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, and Steve Buscemi
actresses: Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Hurley, and Monica Bellucci
genre: Horror
plot: Eight friends head out for a wild night in the woods, but once the fog rolls in, they find themselves hunted by strange creatures (and no, I don't mean the 13th Warrior or anything else)...

Carpenter would have turned this into a legitimate horror masterpiece... and honestly, even if the movie is total garbage, you still get that cast of actresses...😁

Old guys and young, attractive women. It’s certainly a weird vibe for an "8 friends heading into the woods" setup. 😁

Gregorio would be the lead—this gritty cowboy riding in from Eastern Europe. Dangerous, bad attitude. He’d meet some high-class madam played by Elizabeth Taylor, and they'd become fast friends. He'd be seeing some young socialite type like Paris Hilton. The local sheriff would be a good guy played by Alec Baldwin. Haircut? Prematurely balding. Then, the showdown happens. That’s a 4, not an 8. An 8 is way too much..

Nicholas Sullivan49 said:director: John Carpenter
cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, and Steve Buscemi
actresses: Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Hurley, and Monica Bellucci
genre: Horror
plot: Eight friends head out for a wild night in the woods, but once the fog rolls in, they find themselves hunted by strange creatures (and no, I don't mean the 13th Warrior or anything else)...

Carpenter would have turned this into a legitimate horror masterpiece... and honestly, even if the movie is total garbage, you still get that cast of actresses...😁

A great movie is defined by its quality, not just how much it turns you on.😁 (I suspect you're only picking a genre as an excuse 😛 )

blueranger12 said:Gregorio would be the lead—this gritty cowboy riding in from Eastern Europe. Dangerous, bad attitude. He’d meet some high-class madam played by Elizabeth Taylor, and they'd become fast friends. He'd be seeing some young socialite type like Paris Hilton. The local sheriff would be a good guy played by Alec Baldwin. Haircut? Prematurely balding. Then, the showdown happens. That’s a 4, not an 8. An 8 is way too much..

Honestly, I don't know if anyone can top that...🙏 🙏 🙏 . I'm half tempted to just kill this thread right now 😬 .

blueranger12 said:Gregorio would be the lead—this gritty cowboy riding in from Eastern Europe. Dangerous, bad attitude. He’d meet some high-class madam played by Elizabeth Taylor, and they'd become fast friends. He'd be seeing some young socialite type like Paris Hilton. The local sheriff would be a good guy played by Alec Baldwin. Haircut? Prematurely balding. Then, the showdown happens. That’s a 4, not an 8. An 8 is way too much..

Add a cameo by a big celebrity like Oprah and you've got a blockbuster!

My lineup:
Genre: "Ask God, because you won't understand anything until you see who's directing."
Director: David Lynch 😍
Men: Jesse Eisenberg, Robert De Niro, Gerard Butler, Adrien Brody
Women: Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Shirley Henderson, Hillary Swank

electricstag2 said:Add a cameo by a big celebrity like Oprah and you've got a blockbuster!

My lineup:
Genre: "Ask God, because you won't understand anything until you see who's directing."
Director: David Lynch 😍
Men: Jesse Eisenberg, Robert De Niro, Gerard Butler, Adrien Brody
Women: Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Shirley Henderson, Hillary Swank

Maybe Taylor would just be some quiet girl that Alec Baldwin refuses to touch because she looks too innocent. That’s his only redeeming quality. He won't touch anything pure. But Alec Baldwin? He'd definitely go after Taylor, and that's exactly why he secretly hates her. And Taylor? She’d probably want him to marry her.

Genre: action/thriller

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Male Cast: Hayden Christensen, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Bruce Willis

Female Cast: Natalie Portman, Sandra Bullock, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon

blueranger12 said:Maybe Taylor would just be some quiet girl that Alec Baldwin refuses to touch because she looks too innocent. That’s his only redeeming quality. He won't touch anything pure. But Alec Baldwin? He'd definitely go after Taylor, and that's exactly why he secretly hates her. And Taylor? She’d probably want him to marry her.

🤣 😂 Seriously, you're out of your mind. I am actually crying laughing right now. 🤣 😂 😂 🤣

Nicholas Sullivan49 said:director: John Carpenter
cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, and Steve Buscemi
actresses: Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Hurley, and Monica Bellucci
genre: Horror
plot: Eight friends head out for a wild night in the woods, but once the fog rolls in, they find themselves hunted by strange creatures (and no, I don't mean the 13th Warrior or anything else)...

Carpenter would have turned this into a legitimate horror masterpiece... and honestly, even if the movie is total garbage, you still get that cast of actresses...😁

That's the first good one!

blueranger12 said:Maybe Taylor would just be some quiet girl that Alec Baldwin refuses to touch because she looks too innocent. That’s his only redeeming quality. He won't touch anything pure. But Alec Baldwin? He'd definitely go after Taylor, and that's exactly why he secretly hates her. And Taylor? She’d probably want him to marry her.

🤣 🤣 🤣

vividharbor75 said:Genre: action/thriller

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Male Cast: Hayden Christensen, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Bruce Willis

Female Cast: Natalie Portman, Sandra Bullock, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon

Let me guess which Star Wars sequel you're obsessed with... 😛

As far as I'm concerned:

Genre: drama/thriller

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Steve Buscemi

Female Cast: Annette Bening, Audrey Tautou, Meryl Streep

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Alex Sanders13 said:Let me guess which Star Wars sequel you're obsessed with... 😛

As far as I'm concerned:

Genre: drama/thriller

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Steve Buscemi

Female Cast: Annette Bening, Audrey Tautou, Meryl Streep

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Go ahead and try, you aren't going to hit the mark. 😈 😁

ruggedjackal46 said:Old guys and young, attractive women. It’s certainly a weird vibe for an "8 friends heading into the woods" setup. 😁

Look, I get it... You’ve got these four impotent old guys trying everything from Viagra to literal electricity just to get it up enough to take on four young, gorgeous women. But then the girls realize they can't handle it, so they call in some supernatural fog to wipe out those four lecherous old bastards. Their plan? Once the monsters finish off the old men, the girls can finally hook up with the creatures. But here's the kicker: those four washed-up old geezers actually turn out to be way better at warfare than they ever were in the bedroom. They end up screwing over those four girls, and things don't go exactly according to their little plan. Honestly, seeing that horror unfold would be something else. 🤣

Posted by: David Lynch
Cast: Woody Allen, Rowan Atkinson, Jason Alexander
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg (honestly, one woman is plenty given this is supposed to be a war movie)
Plot: Whoopi leads an army through the Congo, while the other three guys launch an assault on her stronghold. But then, right when things hit a breaking point, Woody Allen falls for her, and suddenly the whole war plot just dissolves into some weird romantic drama. UNBELIEVABLE!

Is anyone even mentioning Anthony Hopkins here? What a bunch of losers.

Sarah Wood8 said:Posted by: David Lynch
Cast: Woody Allen, Rowan Atkinson, Jason Alexander
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg (honestly, one woman is plenty given this is supposed to be a war movie)
Plot: Whoopi leads an army through the Congo, while the other three guys launch an assault on her stronghold. But then, right when things hit a breaking point, Woody Allen falls for her, and suddenly the whole war plot just dissolves into some weird romantic drama. UNBELIEVABLE!

man, I don't even know why we end up watching such absolute garbage sometimes... 🤣

It’s an action thriller featuring a queer romance and a love triangle involving Robert Benigni, a depressed IRS agent struggling with suicidal thoughts, Vin Diesel, a strip club waiter addicted to opioids, and an immigrant stripper from Canada living in Chicago, played by Damir Markovina under the direction of Zlatko Vitez.

Driven by jealousy, Roberto would kill Diesel in an unforgettable bedroom fight scene, complete with slow-motion feathers flying from pillows, before heading to court where he'd be prosecuted by a district attorney played by Nada Gacešić-Livaković. Even after being sentenced to death, he’d escape prison with the help of a neurotic gang leader played by Paul Giamatti, and together they’d hunt down Damir Markovina, eventually finding him in a series of high-speed chases, running a pedophilia pay-per-view website with Susan Sarandon, only to use Bruce Willis—playing Giamatti's neighborhood friend—to blow up the server holding all the illicit data...

1. Monica Bellucci
2. Jessica Alba
3. Scarlett Johansson
4. Jennifer Connelly
5. Edward Norton
6. Robert De Niro
7. Dolph Lundgren
8. Steven Seagal

Genre: Action thriller with plenty of everything else

It’s got Dolph and Steven chasing them down while the women dash about in bikinis, all while Robert and Edward sit in some corner shop having a chat—very much in the vein of the first "Shopkeepers" film.