Everybody wants to play opposite Angelina Jolie in Maleficent. Jim “Pillow Weeper” Sturgess and Gael Garcia Bernal are circling. The “Diaval” character is supposed to be Irish, though, so… um… FASSBENDER? [Life & Style]
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Irish actor? Black hair? Slight lilt? CILLIAN MURPHY!!! <3
Besides, el Fasso will shoot The Counselor in June.
Yes, definitely! He has that slightly otherworldly look that would translate so well in a fairytale movie.
Absolutely agreed! And his talents are so criminally underlooked. C’mon Hollywood, give this fella a chance to jump on the fairy tale bandwagon, he would do a stellar job!
you really need someone who can hold his own and won’t be overwhelmed by la jolie. she could eat jim sturgess for breakfast. on the other hand, cillian murphy is a great choice, though i really really want fass + jolie. they’d be so interesting together.
Hey Emma Bee — long time no talk! (sadly, Aaron Eckhart’s career still is not making media waves). Co-sign on the fact that Jolie needs a male acting partner who can hold his own. There’s not many out there…Deffo Fassbender on a later project.
For Maleficent, it would be interesting to pair her up with a character actor who’s got gravitas or screen presence in bucketloads!
@EmmaBee: +1
Much better idea.
podzol 🙂 yes, long time no talk! it’s so good to see the other half of the CB Aaron Eckhart fan club lol! we need to stir up some buzz for Mr. Eckhart. Wasn’t he to be in a modernized Peter Pan film with Sean Bean?
for maleficent i agree definitely someone with acting chops and gravitas. cillian murphy is really talented (i even watched that timberlake movie for him). and i saw someone suggested james mcavoy – yeah, you wouldn’t think it, but he did really hold his own against aj in wanted. i liked them together a lot.
I watched In Time for Murphy as well, sometimes I can’t believe I actually endured Timberacts hamming it up for almost two hours. I guess that was just because I knew that if I waited patiently, I’d be rewarded with Murphy’s strangely beautiful face on the screen.
The funny thing is: I love Jesse Eisenberg too, but I’ve never been able to sit through the second half of The Social Network, and that’s precisely because of Timberacts’s douche face.
You ladies are good to brave the Timberdouche for Cillian :).
I think the same about Social Network, Eve! It could have attained perfection, if not for this smarmy addition (and people who say he’s a good actor and proceed to use SN as an example must be the same people who try to convince others that Blake Lively can act, courtesy of The Town).
I thought Timberlame was great in TSN…because he wasn’t really acting. Sean Parker is an arrogant douche and he was type cast!
@ Normades:
I understand that he was basically playing a well-known douchebag (or himself for that matter). But I couldn’t stand it anyway.
@ Podzol:
Yes, it was a challenge but I did it, baby! But seriously, you might consider watching it too if you take a look at these gifs:
http://ohfuckyeahcillianmurphy.tumblr.com/tagged/in_time
My favourite are at the bottom (the two — before the last four gifs — where he’s staring deeply into the other time keeper’s eyes). If he looked into my eyes like that, I’m not sure what would be my reaction…I guess I could either pee (or crap) my pants OR invite him to my place (and have lots of sex). In any case, I think I’d be petrified for about a minute.
this is a cillian murphy friendly zone lol
NO! Nnnnnooooo!! I don’t want him anywhere near Angie. He’s mine.
Heehee — Janie, sharing is caring 😉
How could have I missed this? Someone (Podzol) mentions one of my immaginary boyfriends and I overlook that?
Cillian Murphy would be f*cking perfect! Just like Almond mentioned, he has an otherworldly beauty, surreal look that translates well in a fairy tale (just like Jolie, in my opinion). Great pairing indeed.
I also agree with Emma bee’s first comment — Sturgess would probably look too fragile next to her.
Who is Jim Sturgess? Never heard of him before so I won’t judge.
I’m not familiar with the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale but doesn’t Maleficent fight with Aurora (for the prince’s love, I mean)? In that case Fassbender would be too old for the character (Aurora is rumored to be played by Elle Fanning).
I know you love the idea of Fassbender and The Jolie together, Kaiser, but that’s pushing it.
Elle Fanning? Really? I like her but she’s all of 2. (I know she’s 13)I just don’t see her going up against Le Jolie. Even EF with Sturgess would pushing it to me.
That’s what IMDb says:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587310/
Really, ELLE Fanning?! Way too young. Even Dakota would be too young looking for that. What’s with all this too-young-girls that Hollywood keeps putting in romantic/attraction situations?! Creepy. Ew.
That said, I LOVE Jim Sturgess! But don’t see much of a chemistry with La Jolie. Maybe this is all casting misinformation, you know, to kind of see and weight in the reactions.
In that case:
Yes Jolie.
No Sturgess.
NO EFFING WAY Elle Fanning.
Lol at the Fassbender picture…I think he gives off a very “manly” appeal, but I don’t think he’s attractive at all, but to each her own!
and yes to Jim Sturgess! His facial structure seems like the type someone like Maleficent would be attracted to.
Also, to all the complainers….Kaiser chose a very candid photo of Angelina, so quit your complaining about how Kaiser actually wastes time choosing “bad” pictures of certain other celebrities.
Jim Sturgess. I don’t think I can ever look at him the same after that God awful movie he made with Anne Hathaway. One Day, I believe it’s called. I demand my 2hrs and 18mins back!
I loveeee that picture. He’s beautiful. *sigh*
I would want Jim or Michael Fassbender opposite Angie. I totally love her. I can’t wait to see this movie . Regardless of who’s the male lead . Fingers are crossed for Fassy though. But Jim Sturgess is lovely too . 😀
That first dude looks young enough to be her son.
I was going to say the same thing.
If that’s the case, then Adam Sandler should have gotten elle fanning to play his fake wife in Just Go with It, cause the actress they used looked old enough to be his grandmother.
Oh FFS, what does the former Mrs. Pitt have to do with anything on this thread?
And really… You think Sandler should have portrayed himself as a pedophile divorced from a 12 year old (at the time) to “win” the schoolteacher he was after? You are a sick person if you think that’s in any way appropriate.
What does Jolie’s age or physical appearance of age have to do with anything on this thread? This thread is about the MALE actor cast opposite her.
Hate to break it to you, but not everyone is as sick minded as some people around here. According to you, some of the casting people must be crazy right, to think of casting a man “young enough to be her son” for her lover’s part.
That’s not what they thought. They thought, “he seems like maybe a good fit, we’ll see.”
Plus why are you bringing up specific names, like “Mrs Pitt”?
Oh Emma, nice try, but I’m not the person who dragged “the fake wife in Just Go With It” into this thread, who we all know was played by the former Mrs. Pitt.
As for casting someone who looks about 23 from that pic (and you’ll note I said “looks young enough” not “is young enough” in both comments as opposed to suggesting that a 46 year old man should have had a 12 year old play his fake wife) well if you really think it will do any good for Jolie to be looking old next to her co-star (coughWitherspoon/Pattinsoncough), then by all means go for it. As a non-fan, I’m all for her making herself look like a desperate cougar onscreen. Yay!
I disagree, but coming from you, I’m not surprised.
That’s a beautiful picture of Jolie!
Urgh, stop with the Snow White pics. What’s next, Chicken Cutlets and Liho?
This isn’t snow white it’s sleeping beauty.
Sorry I wasn’t paying attention. lol
But seriously, these fairy tale retellings are getting old.
*Clicks on the Candace Swanepoel link*
OhforChristsake why do people keep hiring Terry Goddamn Richardson?! He’s a hack, all his pictures look the same (and it’s a BORING same), and HE’S A SKEEVY OLD SEX-PEST to put it VERY mildly.
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I vote Angie and Fassbender. Against the wall humping each other like….oh what’s that? It’s a kiddie movie with no sex? O.K. forget about it. Go with the bland Disney looking guy. Zac Efron?
It’s bad of me, but I always react to Jim S. “Arrested Development”-style: “Him?”
He’s cute enough in pictures but just about totally weightless on screen. “Egg?”
They both look fine it is hard to say without seeing the script.
Oh Gawd NEITHER please. Gael is a dufoos especially since I saw the Gillette Razor or what not commercial. And the other guy Sturgess?! Seriously!? He’s my kids Math tutor.
Bring back James McAvoy; he “fits” with Angelina. I liked them together in Wanted.
If they really want to go balls out, bring in Brad Pitt. It should be an option.
I don’t think Sturgess looks like he cries when he has an orgasm. *Smirk*
Umm….Fassbender, obviously.
Cillian Murphy was a nice suggestion, tho.
Cillian Murphy! I adored him since ” 28 Days Later” came to the US. my mom thinks he has “scary doll eyes” tho’. She’s just hating’ tho’ lol. 😉
(Blinks) Don’t you guys know the story of “Sleeping Beauty?”
Maleficent does ‘not’ try to kill Aurora because they’re in love with the same man. They are ‘not’ romantic rivals. Maleficent wants to kill Princess Aurora because the girl’s parents invited everyone ‘but’ Maleficent to the party celebrating their daughter’s birth. She shows up anyway and puts a curse on Aurora, that she will prick her finger and die on her 16th birthday. Then she cackles and disappears. One of the three good fairies (who didn’t get a chance to bestow a gift on the Princess before Maleficent showed up) modifies the curse, so that if Aurora does prick her finger, she (and her father’s kingdom) will fall into a deep sleep instead of death.
Maleficent spends as much time trying to kill Prince Phillip (because he can rescue Aurora) as she does trying to kill Princess Aurora (who is indeed just 16 years old), and that’s her only interest in him.
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Maleficent
It’s a “retelling”, click on the link,not the same story at all.
The Original Fairy tales are not the cuddlefest that Disney would have you believe. They are scary morality tales. What disney has done to fairy tales is what Twilight and other more recent story tellers including Anne Rice have done to Vampires.
Please, please go read the original fairy tales.
A break until you get into the comments, I guess.
I like Jim Sturgess, just can’t picture him next to Angelina Jolie.
I saw here in NYC the director for “Bully” on Fox5 mention that he was getting an R rating b/c of cursing yet the film “Hunger Games” obtain a PG-13 rating even tho’ kids are killing each other. Never read those books but if it’s anything like the familiar sounding “Battle Royal” from Japan – whew! I just didnt understand how or why they want to R rate something that are affecting our kids to a point that suicides are happening? But it’s ok to watch a fantasy of kids killing kids? B/c it’s a book? With an Unrated sticker can 14 yr olds go in without an adult?
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