what 2 famous actors right now do you think would be good for the role of felix and oscar?
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pilarinhavana — 11 years ago(May 20, 2014 11:45 AM)
With the scene reset in Austin, TX: Jack Black as Felix; Woody Harrelson as Oscar; Conan O'Brien and Tilda Swinton as the Pigeon brother and sister (in my version, Felix is gay); Will Ferrell as Murray the Cop; Zack Galifanakis as Vinnie; Harvey Keitel and Robert DeNiro as Roy and Speed (they're New York transplants); and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the poker table.
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lostsok0523-654-279444 — 11 years ago(September 12, 2014 05:30 AM)
Felix is easy: Jim Parsons. He might be the only person on the planet that could pull that role off right now.
Oscar would be interesting, because he was a "man's man." In that day and age that largely meant a slob. A true remake would reimagine Oscar as today's man's man. With that in mind, I'd go away from the Matthau type toRyan Gosling.
A traditional "Oscar" type would be Seth Rogan. He could do the annoying slob part well. -
ryderdvs — 11 years ago(January 18, 2015 05:37 PM)
Paul Giamatti for Felix, and Thomas Haden Church for Oscar. See the film
Sideways
for reference.
Or perhaps, Steve Carell as Felix, and Louis C.K. as Oscar.
Fun Fact - James L. Brooks stated that Jack Nicholson is the only actor who could successfully play both Felix
and
Oscar.
Which, in my opinion, he has - Garrett Breedlove in
Terms of Endearment
is essentially Oscar Madison, while Melvin Udall in
As Good As It Gets
, is basically Felix Ungar.