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⌈ Secret Post #2601 ⌋

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Comments

Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I was going through the tumblr tag for a character I like when suddenly A WILD CUMBERBATCH APPEARS.

More specifically, a pic of Cumberbatch photoshopped to look like the Corinthian from Sandman.

I almost cried.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I see a lot of people casting Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch in Good Omens and I honestly don't see it at all. I don't even dislike the actors, it just doesn't make sense to me. But tumblr casts them in EVERYTHING

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

They are what Johnny Depp was a few years ago. People cast him as everyone and their dog as well. And right now, they always cast Idris Elba as the "token black guy" in everything.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, thank you. I saw that fake movie poster that was going around for a while, and it infuriated me.

Look, when you have brilliant fancasting options for Newton, Anathema, and Adam, you can come to me and say you're fancasting Good Omens. If all you have is Crowley and Aziraphale, then you're fancasting your own slashfic and it's dishonest to pretend otherwise.

Also, way to forget that Aziraphale in the book is chubby. God forbid anyone wank to a guy who's not a skinny bishie boy.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I follow the tumblr of an author whose books I love but she recently posted some "these actors would be my fancast for those characters" pictures and all I could think was "But that's not how you described them at all!". I am already tired of seeing Johnny Depp cast as just about everyone but it really didn't fit what she wrote in her own book...

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

It does annoy me that fancasts tend to be so limited. Like, there's a few actors who seem to get used in fancasts all the time (Benedict Cumberbatch! Idris Elba! Johnny Depp!) and, I don't know, it's hard to get interested when it's the same actors over and over.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't got a worst, but here is one of the bests I have seen.

http://imgur.com/a/5BNsS

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I kept waffling back and forth between really loving their picks (Michael Jai White as John Stewart, Chris Pine as Barry Allen, Yvonne Strahovski as Black Canary) and absolutely despising them (Fassy as Bats, Alice Eve as Peeg, fucking Jensen Ackles as Jason Todd), but they lost me completely at Jessica Biel as Hawkgirl. ICK.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's mostly good. I don't agree with a few (Ackles... nah) but I would kill to see Paul Bettany as Constantine.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

Eh...this is one of those fancasts where people are only capable of imagining actors in a role if they've been in a kinda similar one. Most of these are just somewhat-similar looking fandom darlings.

I feel like you can always spot that sort of fancast if Benedict Cumberbatch is in it.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[dreemyweird]

All the fancasting of the Discworld novels. Did you miss this part where most Discworld characters are not supposed to be conventionally attractive and are often described as downright ugly? Hugh Laurie as Sam Vimes? Srsly? Hiddleston as Vetinari?

(on a related note, I feel like the only Holmesian who is really not thrilled about seeing Sir Ian McKellen as Holmes. Just... no.)

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't mind seeing Ian McKellen if it was a movie or series or whatever that was explicitly set late in Holmes' life after the main period of the canon when he's effectively retired.

Just playing Holmes in general? Then yeah, I definitely agree with you.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[othellia]

I've never been able to pin down a head image of Vimes. Vetinari's been easy ever since Charles Dance played him (blond or not, he was perfect), but Vimes is always just almost there but not quite.

I think the closest I can get to my mental image is some godforsaken love child between Clint Eastwood and Richard Dean Anderson.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I would pay any amount of money to see Sir Ian as Holmes in The Final Solution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Solution_%28novel%29). Other than that, not particularly interested.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[caecilia]

"omg guys Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch should totally play Aziraphale and Crowley because they are the only British guys that exist."

eta: or maybe it was Hiddleston idek they're all everywhere and I'm sick of them

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

Holy crap NO. No. Nononononononononononononono. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[inevitableentresol]

I've seen that one.

And also no. Expecially Aziraphale.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[skippydelicious]

Nathan Fillion as Han Solo for the new Star Wars films, although he'd be fine for Jabba the Hutt if he slimmed down just a little.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, number one, that's unkind, and number two, actors lose or gain weight for roles all the time. If you don't like him for the role, more power to you, but at least give us a better reason than "He's too fat, har har!"

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I am tired of seeing Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch and Idris Elba being cast for EVERYTHING. And now Chiwetel Ejiofor is coming onto the scene and being cast in the same thing.

Stop. Just stop. I like all of those actors but some of the choices for fancasting is simply the worst.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[fingalsanteater]

As much I like her, I'm tired of seeing Gina Torres cast for every character that is a poc. Other black and poc actresses exist.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

More specifically, a pic of Cumberbatch photoshopped to look like the Corinthian from Sandman.

O.O

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Well. That's certainly something you don't see everyday.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

I once saw a Supernatural racebend fancast where John Winchester was Javier Bardem (Spanish), Dean was Jesse Williams (a black guy) and Sam was Sendhil Ramamurthy (Indian).

Like. What are genetics anyway?

(I wonder who they'd have cast for Adam? A Native American, maybe? Or Polynesian?)

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[(Anonymous)]

Somebody on another board I'm on keeps insisting in his fancasting for his fantasy of Disney's Gargoyles on white washing all the characters but especially casting Elisa Maza with 40 something Jennifer Connelly.

I mean, the white washing on a whole was bad, but especially with Elisa since her mixed race heritage was a centerpoint to her character in the series.

Re: Worst fancasting you've seen?

[ryttu3k]

There was once a fake press release for a live-action Legend of Zelda film floating around. They had Zelda played by Miley Cyrus. I almost cried in sheer horror.