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Cast him as Orson Welles!


Anyone thinks he would be a terrific Orson Welles? I think that would be an amazing role!

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That's nice. I guess that goes right at the top of the list of ways to make Orson Welles spin in his grave.

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Yeah, one of cinema's most prolific and respected directors should get played by a guy who does comedies about Mexican wrestling and is in a joke metal band. I mean, he did win a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice award for his prestigious work, after all.

Great call.

$§ "You don't win. You just do a little better each time." ~o~

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well just so you know, peter jackson already cast black as orson welles. in king kong, jackson said that black's character was a young "wonder boy director", in the spirit of none other than welles, so there you have it, black was welles in one of the worst remakes of all time...

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Well, Orson Welles was very intellegent so hell no.

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Sacha Baron Cohen is playing Freddie Mercury, so I don't see why couldn't Jack Black play Orson Welles - if only he had the range to do it. I don't think he has. But I still love him.

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He seems to be a bit too silly to play Welles. Besides, Liev Schriber already played Welles (as did Vincent Donofrio briefly in Ed Wood).

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