The Casting Lounge

[emmdoubleew]

If they made a movie based on your favorite composer/pianist, who would you cast in it purely based on looks/charisma? 

[rimv2]

Catherine Zeta Jones as Myra Hess. Makes no sense, but it would be perfect.


Lenard Nemoy as Rachmaninov


Paul Rubins as Horowitz


Adam West as Glenn Gould


Julian Mcmahon or George Reeves as Georges/Gÿorgy Cziffra


Glenn Shadix as Volodos


Jerry Ryan as Valentina Lisitsa


Leo D as Kissin


Girard DePardieu as Berezovsky


Baby Huey as Hamelin


Penelope Cruz as Argerich


Richter as Richter


Al Pacino as rubinstein


Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Koji Attwood


Shu Qi as Elizabeth Schumann


Zhang Ziyi as Jie Chen


Finally


Dolph Lundgren as Inglof Wunder

[rimv2]

OverKill But...

Whatever


Gregory Smith as Brahms


Jude Law as Liszt


Kelsey Grammer as Michelangeli (sure he'd love it)


Clive Owen as Chopin


Keanu Reeves as Paderewski


Lee Evans also as Glenn Gould


Tom Amandes as Pollini

[Siberian Husky]

John Candy as Nils Johan

[rimv2]

John Candy as Nils Johan

Try John Goodman


Maybe even Chris Farley (if Nils is a good boy)


Dan Akroyd as Barenboim


Bill Murry as LangLang :dong:

[thalbergmad]

Bruce Lee as Lang Lang

Mr T as Duke Ellington

[Tash]

actually i know a guy who looks seriously like glenn gould- he used to have gollywog hair but then chopped it off and i was like wow- he thought it was cool but had no idea who i was talking about!

[emmdoubleew]

  these are all great.

One of my favorites is Jude Law as Liszt ^_^, Liszt must have been a player.

I think they should make a movie about Liszt, not just because he's intersting, but the sheer amount of historical figures he knew! It would be so cool to have thousands of little references to all these really famous composers/writers/artists.

I know how to professionally screenwrite and I'm thinking of writing a screenplay as soon as I can find a couple good biographies I can read first.

[g_s_223]

Er, they did. It's called Lisztomania by Ken Russell and starred Roger Daltrey of The Who. Well sexy IIRC.

[pianistimo]

peter sellers as victor borge

helene grimaud as helene grimaud (just for zheer)
*i think she could pull it off.

[emmdoubleew]

Er, they did. It's called Lisztomania by Ken Russell and starred Roger Daltrey of The Who. Well sexy IIRC.

 , that movie is a joke.

[pianistimo]

claudio arrau's life (and autobiography) is quite interesting.  don't know who would play it.