Star Wars fancasting
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lonemagpieStar Wars Classic Hollywood fancasting
Yeah, so in a Tumblr post I got on to thinking Basil Rathbone’d be an Imperial officer if SW had been made back in the day, and then one thing led to another and there were suggestions of who’d play who, and…
I’m going to have to think about this and do it properly. So…
Let’s imagine the Prequels were made in the late 30s (say. 1938), the Holy Trilogy around 1942, and The Force Awakens maybe around 47 or in the 50s… (For bonus points, you just know if it was silent era you’d have Werner Krause and Baby Connie as Palpy and Anakin, with Fairbanks Jr as Obi Wan.)
Palpatine- Claude Rains
Qui-Gon Jinn: Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Obi Wan Kenobi: David Niven
Yoda (voice, since he’s a puppet): Um… Nah, OK I’m stuck with this one.
Padme: Olivia de Havilland
Darth Maul: Fred Cavens (what the hell, let’s give him an actual role)
Anakin Skywalker: I’m tempted to say Sebastian Shaw who’d be the right age for adult Ani… But for swashbuckling purposes, Tyrone Power.
Jabba the Hutt: Sidney Greenstreet
Nute Gunray: Peter Lorre
Zam Wessell: Bonita Granville
Count Dooku: Basil Rathbone
Jar Jar Binks: Stan Laurel
Threepio: Cary Grant (need him in somewhere, but the voice is what would be useful)
Jango Fett: Humphrey Bogart, unless he’s Han, in which case John Wayne.
Luke Skywalker: Richard Attenborough (he’d be 19 or so in ‘41/42 - he’s 24 in Brighton Rock), or John Justin.
Leia: Katharine Hepburn
Han Solo: Either Errol Flynn, with Alan Hale as Chewie, or Humphrey Bogart (who’d pull off The Force Awakens’s Han better)
Darth Vader: Woody Strode, if we want to stick with a black actor of the right age
Grand Moff Tarkin: Conrad Veidt
Rey: Maureen O’Hara
Finn: Ossie Davis
Kylo Ren: Christopher Lee
General Hux: Vincent Price
Snoke: Orson Welles
Yeah, so in a Tumblr post I got on to thinking Basil Rathbone’d be an Imperial officer if SW had been made back in the day, and then one thing led to another and there were suggestions of who’d play who, and…
I’m going to have to think about this and do it properly. So…
Let’s imagine the Prequels were made in the late 30s (say. 1938), the Holy Trilogy around 1942, and The Force Awakens maybe around 47 or in the 50s… (For bonus points, you just know if it was silent era you’d have Werner Krause and Baby Connie as Palpy and Anakin, with Fairbanks Jr as Obi Wan.)
Palpatine- Claude Rains
Qui-Gon Jinn: Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Obi Wan Kenobi: David Niven
Yoda (voice, since he’s a puppet): Um… Nah, OK I’m stuck with this one.
Padme: Olivia de Havilland
Darth Maul: Fred Cavens (what the hell, let’s give him an actual role)
Anakin Skywalker: I’m tempted to say Sebastian Shaw who’d be the right age for adult Ani… But for swashbuckling purposes, Tyrone Power.
Jabba the Hutt: Sidney Greenstreet
Nute Gunray: Peter Lorre
Zam Wessell: Bonita Granville
Count Dooku: Basil Rathbone
Jar Jar Binks: Stan Laurel
Threepio: Cary Grant (need him in somewhere, but the voice is what would be useful)
Jango Fett: Humphrey Bogart, unless he’s Han, in which case John Wayne.
Luke Skywalker: Richard Attenborough (he’d be 19 or so in ‘41/42 - he’s 24 in Brighton Rock), or John Justin.
Leia: Katharine Hepburn
Han Solo: Either Errol Flynn, with Alan Hale as Chewie, or Humphrey Bogart (who’d pull off The Force Awakens’s Han better)
Darth Vader: Woody Strode, if we want to stick with a black actor of the right age
Grand Moff Tarkin: Conrad Veidt
Rey: Maureen O’Hara
Finn: Ossie Davis
Kylo Ren: Christopher Lee
General Hux: Vincent Price
Snoke: Orson Welles