Simpsons Live-action - Ideal Cast ? (1 Viewer)

[PaulP]

How about a Roger Rabbit-style movie? With animated Simpsons in a real world.

 

[Ray H]

For some reason Harrison Ford has always clicked with me for Skinner.

 

[ThomasC]

For some reason Harrison Ford has always clicked with me for Skinner.

Oh man, he would be great.

 

[Eric_E]

Of course you mean Harrison Ford as Armin Tanzarian.

 

[Lenny Truett]

Well, since it hasn't been added, the obvious coice for Sideshow Bob is Kelsey Grammer. That was easy enough.

Did I miss it or did no one nominate Yeardley Smith for Lisa. Again, very obvious.

And just for fun how about Bobcat Goldwaith as Moe. Haggeled looking with a scratchy voice shouldn't be much or a streth for him.

What about the rest of kids? Ralph, Nelson, Flanders Kids, Milhouse, etc?

 

[Scott D S]

I always thought Jack Nicholson could make a half-way decent Moe.

Check this out! It's someone's wish list of a live-action Simpsons cast. Some of the suggestions aren't too bad.

 

[Bobby_K]

How 'bout Jeff Daniels as Homer?

 

[Dan Rudolph]

I think Harry Shearer should play Principal Skinner.

Isn't Yeardley Smith a little old to play Lisa in live action?

 

[Ben Osborne]

I thought of another one. Bob Balaban as Smithers.

 

[Anthony Neilson]

Well spotted, Scott DS! This guy's pretty damn good.
I think his best ones are -
HOWARD STERN as OTTO
JOAN CUSACK as MISS KRABAPPEL
and get this one AL GORE AS REVEREND LOVEJOY !!
That knocks my Garry Shandling out the tree !
Drew Carey for Homer isn't half bad either. I can see him better than Jason Alexander.

BUT - all that good stuff is virtually undone by the idea of
TOM ****** SELLECK PLAYING NED FLANDERS !!

So Ray is my man of the moment for HARRISON FORD as PRINCIPAL SKINNER :star: !!
How great would that be ? It'd be so nice to see him get that poker out his *** for a while.

I'm beginning to want to see this movie and that scares me.

 

[Brenton]

Of course it would be terrible, but that's not the point. This is just for fun.

 

[Scott D S]

JOAN CUSACK as MISS KRABAPPEL

I still like my idea of Joanna Cassidy as Ms. Krabapple. She has the whole droll, deadpan thing down cold.

I thought of the perfect actor for Smithers but he's a character actor and his name isn't well known, although I gaurantee you've all seen him before. His name is Mark L. Taylor and he was in Innerspace (a technician at the lab), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (the owner of the big RV for Matt Frewer's ill-fated fishing trip), and an episode of ST: TNG (The Ensigns of Command).

Richard Herd (Admiral Paris from ST: VOY and Mr. Wilhelm from Seinfeld) could play Superintendant Chalmers.

 

[Chris Moe]

Chris Farley may have been a good Homer, but he would have been the perfect Barney.

Steve Buscemi as Moe?

 

[MarkHastings]

I always figured they modeled Edna Kabappel after Marcia Wallace. So I gotta go with her for Mrs. K.

This might be a long shot, but I can almost see Ben Stiller playing Moe (if they uglied him up a bit)

 

[Felipe S]

Howie Long as Duffman.... "ohh yeahhhhh"

 

[MarkHastings]

Howie Long as Duffman

 

[MickeS]

As far as looking like the character, I can't see anyone but Justin Guarini from "American Idol" play Sideshow Bob.

Drew Carey is a great suggestion for Homer.

 

[chung_sotheby]

And it's still JASON ALEXANDER, imo, as front-runner for Homer and MIRA SORVINO as Marge, though neither one is perfect. Feel free to disagree. We still need SMITHERS, GROUNDSKEEPER WILLIE, SKINNER,
KRUSTY, SIDESHOW BOB, MOE etc

BTW, the Howie Long and Duffman thing is great

But as for the other cast, How about:

Flea as MOE
He would kill in this role! I am thinking Oscar nomination if he ever did this part. Either him or Steve Buscemi.

Ricky Jay as COMIC BOOK GUY
Don't argue it, just accept it as a given.

Robert Carlyle as GROUNDSKEEPER WILLIE
Can you imagine if he could channel some of his Begbie into the character of Willie? It would be incredible!

Paul Giamatti as CHIEF WIGGUM
I just think that he would kill this character. Very similar to his character in Donnie Brasco

Gary Cole as PRINCIPAL SKINNER
You all know who Gary Cole is. Who else could master Bill Lumberg and Mike Brady! He would be perfect, I think.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman as SMITHERS
Even though he looks nothing like him, I could totally see PSH really just GET the gist of Smithers. Watch The Big Lebowski again, and see what I mean. Either PSH or Dylan Baker, his costar from Happiness.

Ralph Fiennes as SIDESHOW BOB
Since Kelsy Grammer is too fat to play bob, I think that Ralph could do an admirable job. If he doesnt bite, then Gary Oldman could be amazing in this role as well.

Jerry Lewis as KRUSTY
I am not sure if he is young enough, or healthy enough, to do any more roles, but he would hit this one out of the park.

Minnie Driver as MARGE SIMPSON
She already has curly hair, a raspy voice, and an air of sadness around her that makes you want to sympathize with her. Just dye it bleu, and voila, Margorie Bouvier Simpson

Bruce Willis as HOMER SIMPSON
He's bald, he's angry, he has permant 5 O'clock shadow, and his profile is an exact match to Homer Simpson's (Take my word on this). I have to give credit to my bro who suggested this, but it is genius.

Alt HOMER: Peter Stormare
Looks almost exactly like Homer, but is a little too Russian to play the part. Maybe he could play Herman, where Herman becomes a Russian General instead of a Detroit Carmaker.

 

[D. Scott MacDonald]

We played this game at work, where we all voted on who would be cast as a Simpson character if a live action movie were cast from only our group. They couldn't agree whether I would be Homer or Moe.

We also voted upon which actor would play us if they ever made a movie about our group at work (hey, there was already a book published about our group) and they agreed that I would best be played by Tom Arnold.

 

[MarkHastings]

What does everyone think about Kevin James (King of Queens) as Homer?