January 24 2008
Remember the "Recast Buffy" challenge from Buzz Sugar?
The results are in, and the choices for Willow, Spike and Giles are very interesting. Angel, though, not so much.
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gossi | January 24, 14:48 CET
I'm now crossing my fingers that the answer isn't glaringly obvious.
[ edited by karosurly on 2008-01-24 20:57 ]
karosurly | January 24, 14:56 CET
[ edited by Love's Bitch on 2008-01-25 00:57 ]
Love's Bitch | January 24, 14:59 CET
Who's Leighton Meester?
[ edited by redeem147 on 2008-01-24 21:07 ]
redeem147 | January 24, 15:06 CET
IrrationaliTV | January 24, 15:16 CET
Which character? I went back and looked at everyone's choices and I thought I saw every major character represented.
[ edited by menomegirl on 2008-01-24 21:27 ]
menomegirl | January 24, 15:18 CET
redeem147, Leighton Meester is on Gossip Girl. (All due respect, she wouldn't stand a chance with the Buffy role, unlike the voiceover actress for the title character of her show, Kristen Bell. =)
jam2 | January 24, 15:34 CET
Also, anyone think Jason Dohring could have made a better Angel than Josh Duhamel?
[ edited by impalergeneral on 2008-01-24 21:54 ]
impalergeneral | January 24, 15:52 CET
I like the Jason Dohring idea. In fact, let's have a Veronica Mars reunion, and have Kristen Bell as Buffy, Jason Dohring as Angel, and Tina Majorino as Faith. With car
salesman* rental clerk Joss as the big bad!Amber Tamblyn would be a great choice for Willow.
Tonks from Harry Potter would make a good Drusilla.
And I'd love to see Franka Potente as someone...not sure who as she's just a bit too old to play Buffy.
I can't imagine anybody other than James Marsters playing Spike, no matter how hard I try.
*d'oh!
[ edited by ladygrey on 2008-01-24 22:43 ]
ladygrey | January 24, 16:15 CET
impalergeneral | January 24, 16:23 CET
HAhahahHahaha...
I needed a good laugh today.
kerfuffle | January 24, 16:34 CET
Yes, exactly! He'd be a combination of Car-Rental-Clerk Joss and River-Tam-Interrogating-Doctor Joss, with Mayor-like qualities and occasional Dances of Shame for good measure. Give him an apple peeler and a very fine hat, and you have one scary villian.
ladygrey | January 24, 16:36 CET
spidermansays | January 24, 16:43 CET
Simon | January 24, 16:49 CET
marpocky | January 24, 16:54 CET
Samantha | January 24, 17:05 CET
Sunfire | January 24, 17:12 CET
Don't know a lot of those names but of the ones I do know they wouldn't be my choice (which is super-cool, as usual, it's all just opinion anyway).
Saje | January 24, 17:23 CET
Um. No.
And James Marsden as Spike is just LAZY. C'mon, at least Johnathan Rhys Meyers or someone like that.
CloudyVisions | January 24, 17:23 CET
ruthless1 | January 24, 17:44 CET
MySerenity | January 24, 17:53 CET
Rowan Hawthorn | January 24, 18:28 CET
deepgirl187 | January 24, 18:31 CET
Kristen Bell seems like an obvious choice, to me, for Buffy.
Honestly, the hardest recast? Anya.
Knuckleball | January 24, 18:45 CET
[ edited by Love's Bitch on 2008-01-25 01:02 ]
Love's Bitch | January 24, 19:01 CET
gossi | January 24, 19:08 CET
America as a Jewish, skin-flaying, lesbian witch? Ummmkay.
Angelina as a crazy, night dwelling creature who gets off on blood? Well, that one's not such a stretch, actually.
Combined with the incredibly woeful photoshop job (aaahhh- my eyes!) I have a teensy feeling that someone is peeing on my leg and blithely insisting that it's not raining.
Still, am somewhat glad that Kristen 'Come on a million people picked me at least take the time to spell my name right' Bell and Hayden 'Let's just cast the blonde cheerleader OMG LOL' Panty-Tear didn't get picked for this fake casting thing.
missb | January 24, 19:28 CET
Caroline | January 24, 20:39 CET
DaddyCatALSO | January 24, 20:45 CET
jjay | January 24, 21:00 CET
rebaroz | January 24, 21:16 CET
I can see John Lithgow as Giles very easily.
menomegirl | January 24, 21:28 CET
Tonya J | January 24, 21:56 CET
Also love Justin Long, so that would work for me too.
Hayden Panatierre could be Buffy, Ellen Page, Willow.
But Spike?
Cillian Murphy is pretty, and can do evil psycho, but can he do snarky bad ass?
Not seeing it. I can't really see anyone else who could do all facets of Spike properly.
Xane | January 24, 22:47 CET
As far as Tina Majorino goes, I could see her more as Willow than Faith. Vulnerability+Computer Geek adds up very much to S1-2 Willow. VM had a great cast, really. That actress who played Kendall Casablancas would make a great Cordelia, too, I bet...
jclemens | January 24, 23:15 CET
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner | January 25, 00:11 CET
Also... why America for Willow? Just why? "Why" is the question you'll be asking yourself when reading through the majority of this... scratch that, the entirety of this list.
patxshand | January 25, 00:57 CET
angelbones2 | January 25, 04:21 CET
Blimey, it was a bit of fun, that's all.
moley75 | January 25, 05:16 CET
It's a bit of harmless fun.
Simon | January 25, 05:17 CET
...
I'll get me coat.
Saje | January 25, 05:25 CET
Even David Boreanaz, who is my least favorite actor on either BtS or AtS, simply is Angel. This is the kind of thing that belongs twenty years down the line, not a mere five years since the series ended.
SMG isn't my favorite actress in general (although I think she'd be a lot better if she chose better roles) but the idea of anyone else playing Buffy is simply not acceptable. She owned the role to a degree seldom seen on screen.
And the idea of anyone other than James Marsters as Spike is just ludicrous.
It's not a matter of talent of lack of same (I don't know half the choices, you wont find me watching something called Gossip Girls). But even on this thread, where Alan Rickman, one of my favorite actors on the planet, gets a mention for Giles, it misses the point. No offense to the marvelous Tony Head, but Rickman would clearly have stolen every scene he appeared in. Which was James Marsters' job. ;-)
Shey | January 25, 05:29 CET
I must admit, I know next to nothing about 'The Gossip Girls', but deciding never to watch it based on the title alone is surely like those people who refused to watch a show called 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' because of the title.
alien lanes | January 25, 05:41 CET
We all know that nameless internet fans don't actually have the power to cast any future Buffy movie, right ? It's a pub conversation basically, and should be treated with exactly the same seriousness IMO.
Saje | January 25, 05:55 CET
Bang goes my hopes of Steven Seagal taking on the role of Giles!
alien lanes | January 25, 05:58 CET
Saje | January 25, 05:59 CET
Annoou | January 25, 06:09 CET
Actually I've seen a trailer, enough to justify my comment, IMO. And Steven Seagal as Giles? We are all doomed ;-)
Shey | January 25, 06:16 CET
I'm gonna get some brain bleach now.
okelay | January 25, 08:18 CET
If he could do a decent British accent, Jensen Ackles could easily pull off the menace, humor, pathos, and shirtlessness of Spike.
ShimShamSam | January 25, 09:09 CET
I still stick by my belief that if this show is ever recast for real I hope said future cast is in diapers or younger now.
KS | January 25, 09:52 CET
That being said, all fun aside, I can't really imagine any other actors in these roles.
On the other hand, there's this thing that happens every time I watch the movie Blade. When there's a scene with Deacon Frost in it, my brain does this whole thing where I'm not even seeing Stephen Dorff on the screen. I'm seeing Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald.
How's that for weird?
menomegirl | January 25, 10:16 CET
Buffy: Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (Angelina Jolie x Brad Pitt)
Xander: Kingston Rossdale (Gwen Stefani x Gavin Rossdale)
Willow: Ramona Sarsgaard (Maggie Gyllenhaal x Peter Sarsgaard)
Cordelia: Suri Cruise (Katie Holmes x Xenu)
Giles: Orlando Bloom (cause he'll be about the right age in 18 or so years)
And... Angel: Jayden Boreanaz
I'm stuck on a few... Spike, Faith, etc. I guess it's hard to imagine babies gone bad.
ailiel | January 25, 13:08 CET
kmb99 | January 25, 14:27 CET
Tonya J | January 25, 14:57 CET
Saje | January 25, 15:03 CET
New idea for Giles, since my Joss Whedon pitch didn't take. How about Bruce Campbell, how cool would that make the chainsaw scene from "Fear Itself" look!
| January 25, 15:10 CET
maggiecat | January 25, 17:14 CET
Remember Nicholas Brendon as evil Xander in "The Wish"?
Can you picture Justin Long as evil Xander? Not quite the same effect there.
maggiecat | January 25, 17:17 CET
Simon | January 25, 17:18 CET
[ edited by Tonya J on 2008-01-25 23:54 ]
Tonya J | January 25, 17:54 CET
zohrael | January 25, 18:27 CET
ProphecyGirl16 | January 25, 21:53 CET
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