Which modern days actors would you like to see cast? My list:
Regina: Nicole Kidman
Horace: Dennis Quaid
Alexandra: Kirsten Dunst
David: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Leo: Tobey Maguire
Birdie: Angelica Huston
Ben: Val Kilmer
Oscar: Johnny Depp
Any other suggestions?
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I am not sure they should do a new version...but this film is soooo good!Everyone should see what it is about!
Regina: ??Nic could do it...but isn't she too sofsticated???
Horace: Harrison Ford
Alexandra: Keira Knightley(she is also not pretty enough to be Nic's daughter...but!)
David: Ryan Gosling
Leo: Bug Hall(he is very talented I wouldn't like to see a talent like that being wasted in nothing)
Birdie: Meryl Streep
Ben: Warren Beatty
Oscar: Jack Nicholson(coz they are older than Regina...right?)
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Modern day just in terms of actors or setting?
shareBoth. I was thinking it would be interesting to see the story set in the present day.
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and they should also arrange the script!Sometimes the character of Alexandra sounded so dumb!Davis saved this film!
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Well, if they remade this one it would probably end up as an A&E movie and be as awful as The Magnificent Ambersons, but...
I think Nicole is not quite right for Regina, otherwise a good cast. Regina needs to be a bit older. Maybe Stockard Channing or Jody Foster. I think the 1900 setting should be kept. The story is so much about the societal changes then, it would be hard to translate into today.
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Stockard Channing would be good. I was thinking Catherine Zeta Jones.
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Meryl Streep would be a perfect evil woman as Regina or a perfect poor woman as Birdie... In fact, it would be perfect if she played both parts! hehehe Ok, I'm exagerating a little bit....
shareDefinitely should be kept in 1900, otherwise part of the story would be lost. I think either Nicole Kidman (older than Davis when she did the role) or Jodie Foster would be good as Regina.
shareIf Hollywood decided to produce a new version of The Little Foxes actresses would be killing each other to get the part. I think Julianne Moore would be a wonderful Regina.
shareAre you kidding? Could that little voice play the FEROCIOUS Regina Giddens? I just don't think so...
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I would like to see Catherine Zeta Jones as Regena. That would be interesting!
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Elizabeth Taylor did the Regina role on the Broadway stage. She received a Tony nomination for her performance.
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I know she did and I looked forward to seeing her Regina, when she performed in La. I had tickets, but sadly she cancelled and I never had the chance to see her performance. However I did see her in "Private Lives" with Richard Burton a few years later.
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Love Nicole. Too breathy. Love Jodie. Too many obvious facial tics. Meryl would bring the quiet steely reserve necessary for Regina.
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Well, they could do it like ANGELS IN AMERICA and Meryl could play all of the parts!
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In a world where carpenters get ressurected anything's possible. LOL But wouldn't you rather see her play opposite Robert Duvall as Ben,Chris Cooper as Oscar and Beverly D'Angelo as Birdie?
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Stockard Channing & Robert Duvall are too old. Meryl Streep as well (for Regina anyway.) Nicole Kidman I can't stand. When I first saw this film in the 80's I thought about who could play this part...and I thought Susan Sarandon. Nowadays I like Jodie Foster or Holly Hunter or maybe Emma Thompson. Meryl would be a great Birdie, but I sooooooooooooooooooo seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Diane Keaton in that role. So just to pass some trivial info out, Tallulah Bankhead originated Regina on stage and most of the broadway cast was in the Bette Davis film. The first major stage revival was in 1967 and was directed by Mike Nichols, it had Anne Bancroft as Regina (this just after Nichols & Bancroft did THE GRADUATE) and George C. Scott as Ben. Then in the early 80's it was done again on Broadway with none other than Elizabeth Taylor as Regina (can you imagine!) and Maureen Stapleton as Birdie.
shareDiane as Birdie. I'll pass.
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The problem with casting the roles in this film, especially Birdie, is that most of them are supposed to have been born in the antebellum South, and so have a certain aristocratic aura that still clings to them. Birdie's family were old money, while the Hubbards(Regina, Oscar and Ben)were nouveau riche. While Birdie was born into the upper crust, Regina aspires to it, and the actresses cast in these roles must be able to convey that quality of elite entitlement. Too bad Faye Dunaway is too old; thirty years ago she would have been the perfect Regina. Sigourney Weaver would also have been good, but again she's just a few years too old; in the play Hellman stipulates that Regina is forty, Birdie slightly older. Of present-day actresses, I can see Cate Blanchett as Regina and Cherry Jones as Birdie.
shareBullseye on the Dunaway comment. Sigourney Weaver has that patrician air to her that would in my opinion lend itself to Birdie more so than Regina. Cate would play the hell out of Regina but Cherry Jones doesn't physically have what it takes to play the faded beauty Birdie was.
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I was thinking how much Jennifer love Hewitt resembles Alexandra in the film.
What do you guys reckon?
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watching this on TCM right now--I can never resist it, have to see it through to the staircase scene at least. Lot's of interesting cast choices. I actually SAW the revival with Elizabeth Taylor. It pretty much goes without saying that Regina is such a well-written character it's hard to screw up. The interesting thing about the Elizabeth Taylor production was that her performance was so slow and mannered the play ran at least 20 minutes late! The thing I remember most is that her dress was exactly the same color as the wallpaper in the drawing room. It made her seem larger than life . . . .
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omg LOVE Chris Cooper as Oscar. Chris Cooper is so brilliant that he could play Horace as well.
shareNicole Kidman in Bette Davis' part?
Maybe if she put on about 20 pounds. Now, she looks like a stick!
OK, Hellman stipulated that Regina was forty. Well guess what, the way that Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver and other actresses of that general age look today is YOUNGER than a forty year old woman of Regina's era looked.
You take Meryl, Sigourney, Glenn Close and Julianne Moore and any of the first three could play Regina to a "T" and any of the four could have a hell of a time playing Birdie.
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I saw the movie today and when I saw Regina, Meryl Streep came to mind. As for Horace, I thought about Liam Neeson for some reason. Also, not sure about the rest of the cast but for Leo I saw Eric Christian Olsen.
Either way, it was a great movie. :)
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Jessica Lange or Glenn Close for Regina, I think Streep would be way to subtle for that part and Lange & Close can play bad or domineering to perfection (Lange in Hush & Grey Gardens & Close in Dangerous Liaisons)...
I think Meryl Streep would be great as Birdie!!!
Regina: Cate Blanchett
Horace: Kevin Costner
Alexandra: Rachel McAdams (a few years ago)
David: Joseph Gordon-levitt
I don't really know about the others.
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Regina: Cate Blanchett
Horace: Kevin Spacey
Alexandra: Saoirse Ronan
David: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Leo: Ryan Gosling
Ben: Gary Oldman
Oscar: Viggo Mortensen
Birdie: Tilda Swinton
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Regina played by Nicole Kidman!!!
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