The Casting Game: B.F.

Ok, so you're directing a new film about Bobby Fischer.

*You have a large budget, meaning you can afford to hire just about any actor to play the lead role.
*You want to get someone who is at least relatively well-known.
*You are allowed to choose any actor, dead or alive, at any point in his life.
*The ability to play off chess genius/lunatic is important, but it also has to be someone who looks believable.

Who would you choose, and why?

Originally posted by rbmorris
Ok, so you're directing a new film about Bobby Fischer.

*You have a large budget, meaning you can afford to hire just about any actor to play the lead role.
*You want to get someone who is at least relatively well-known.
*You are allowed to choose any actor, dead or alive, at any point in his life.
*The ability to play off chess genius/lunatic is ...[text shortened]... tant, but it also has to be someone who looks believable too.

Who would you choose, and why?

James Woods gets my vote.

Comes across as smart, a little evil, nervous, intense and crazy.

Mel Gibson.. .because i wanna.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Mel Gibson.. .because i wanna.

Originally posted by rbmorris
Well, he already hates Jews.

Originally posted by rbmorris
Ok, so you're directing a new film about Bobby Fischer.

*You have a large budget, meaning you can afford to hire just about any actor to play the lead role.
*You want to get someone who is at least relatively well-known.
*You are allowed to choose any actor, dead or alive, at any point in his life.
*The ability to play off chess genius/lunatic is ...[text shortened]... tant, but it also has to be someone who looks believable too.

Who would you choose, and why?

ah...Ashton Kutcher..but I will think longer and come up with a better one.

woody allen

tom green

kaidanov is spassky..

and rob schnider is... a stapler 😉

Originally posted by rbmorris
Ok, so you're directing a new film about Bobby Fischer.

*You have a large budget, meaning you can afford to hire just about any actor to play the lead role.
*You want to get someone who is at least relatively well-known.
*You are allowed to choose any actor, dead or alive, at any point in his life.
*The ability to play off chess genius/lunatic is ...[text shortened]... mportant, but it also has to be someone who looks believable.

Who would you choose, and why?

Also, Donald Sutherland in 1971 when he was in Klute.

http://imdb.com/media/rm190420992/tt0067309

Also, Ralph Fiennes.

i could see John Malkovich as the older BF. maybe a dramatic cut from BF (played by someone else) winning in 1972, to Malkovich getting arrested trying to leave Japan with an invalid passport, or whatever it was.

Even though I despise Jim Carry, he might work.