A Latino Christmas Carol
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kristenspilman — 13 years ago(December 24, 2012 05:06 PM)
As much as I like Jimmy SmitsI really think that Luis Guzman would make a wonderful Ghost of Christmas present. He can do serious and lighthearted at the drop of a hat!
I do like all of your other choices and I do believe it is way past the time for an all Latino Christmas Carol.
I hope you work in the industry because someone needs to grab hold of this idea and run with it!!
But please, I beg you.NO Creepy animated version like the Disney version from 2009!! It's a shame they didn't just use the real people who played/voiced the parts because it would have been so much better.
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DwightFry — 13 years ago(December 24, 2012 06:47 PM)
Danny Trejo as Yet to Come is just perfection. I, however, would like to get Edward James Olmos somewhere in there, either as Scrooge or as Marley.
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herbsuperb — 13 years ago(December 27, 2012 09:11 PM)
A Christmas Carol is one of those stories that I think can be told and retold many many times without one damaging the other. LOTR is not the same way. I'm open to all kinds of different takes on this timeless story. One with an all-Latino cast could be a lot of fun if done well and with care.
There is a lot of talent in the OP's cast, I'll be the end result could be a lot of fun. As long as it wasn't filled with lots of hokey 'hey, we are Latinos so this is ironic' jokes. That would be awful. -
DocCasualty — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 05:27 PM)
Sure, why not. Akin to
The Wiz
I suppose as another telling of
The Wizard of Oz
. Done well it would probably be interesting and good, though
A Christmas Carol
will always be a Victorian England tale for me, and this one with Alistair Sim captures it better than any others to date.
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indy_go_blue44 — 11 years ago(December 07, 2014 07:02 PM)
This sounds like an Americanized Latino version to me. Nothing wrong with your casting, but Latin America is also a Christian culture and I think such a story could be done well set in some South American city that still holds some of its colonial architecture. There're also some fine non-American Latino actors as well.
I guess I should add that I don't care that much for the modern versions of this story, like "Scrooged." It'd be interesting, for example to see the Cratchett family (how would you change the names?) celebrating an impoverished Latino version of Christmas 1840.)
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pantherfan99 — 11 years ago(December 07, 2014 07:15 PM)
for example to see the Cratchett family (how would you change the names?) celebrating an impoverished Latino version of Christmas 1840.)
Scrooge would become Sanchez
Cratchet would become Castillo or Castro ,
Jacob Marley would become Jacob Morales and so on you get the idea ,
Also I am going to update the casting idea I want to switch around some of the actors , but this story would have to take place in the present day in say NYC or Chicago , to be palpable to an American audience.
As far as non-American Latino actors , Salma Hayek and Sofia Vergara are not American
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