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[BloodOfKingu]

goofing around with a few friends over who not to cast and came up with:

stannis: john cleese as basil faulty, playing stannis

strong belwas: tony robinson in his baldric warrior-slave role from the blackadder christmas special, or danny devito

renly and loras: eminem and 50 cent

littlefinger: terry nutkins (this really only works if you are from the Uk)

gregor clegane: stephen fry

there were many others, but i'll stop here.

[Which Tyler]

Tyrion - Tom Cruise

[Joe Reed]

Varys: Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Robert Baratheon: John Candy

Roose Bolton: Alan Rickman

Alliser Thorne: Ben Stiller from Heavy Weights or Dodgeball

Theon Greyjoy: James Franco from Spider-Man 3

Ned Stark: Jason Bateman

LF: Jeremy Piven

Arya Stark: Chloe Moretz

Sansa Stark: Saoirse Ronan

Ygritte: Christina Hendricks

Tormund Giantsbane: Horatio Sanz

Oberyn Martell: Antonio Banderas

Jalabhar Xho: David Allan Grier

Beric Dondarrion: Steve Buscemi (around the 4th death of Beric, that is)

Stannis Baratheon: David Cross

Tywin Lannister: John Lithgow

Jaime Lannister: Aaron Eckhart

The Hound: Nicholas Cage

Tyrion Lannister: Patton Oswalt

All the actors can be aged any way in order to fit their assigned characters. I'll add more probably.

[Which Tyler]

What's inappropriate about any of those? a lot of them have been suggested as genuine dream castings.


OP - just how drunk were you when putting this list together?

Edited by Which Tyler, 18 September 2011 - 05:01 AM.

[sennahoj]

Just a couple (since they could be aged or reanimated at will to match the part)

Robert Baratheon: Brian Blessed

Cersei Lannister: Michelle Pfeiffer

Joffrey Baratheon: Macaulay Culkin

Eddard Stark: John Wayne

Catelyn Tully: Maureen O'Hara

Jon Snow: Hayden Christensen

Loras Tyrrell: Orlando Bloom

Littlefinger: Rowan Atkinson (in his Blackadder rather than Bean capacity)

Ghost and/or Nymeria: (the dog/s who played) Lassie

[TheEvilKing]

Ken Jeong for Varys

[Which Tyler]

sennahoj What's inappropriate about any of those? a lot of them have been suggested as genuine dream castings.

[BloodOfKingu]

Which Tyler, on 18 September 2011 - 05:00 AM, said:

OP - just how drunk were you when putting this list together?

enough to do the whole "i'm never drinking again..." routine when i woke up.

[Chris77]

Ramsay Snow = Shia LeBeauf

[sennahoj]

more inappropriate choices that might (not) have been suggested as actual dream castings


Arya Stark - Emma Watson

Asha Greyjoy - Keira Knightley

Aeron Damphair - Johnny Depp

Daenerys Targaryen - Uma Thurman

Barristan Selmy - Harrison Ford

Brienne of Tarth - Sigourney Weaver

Jaime Lannister - Brad Pitt

Aerys the Mad - Klaus Kinski

[Chronicler]

You do know John Candy is dead right? >_>

[Elenya Westerling]

The Kardashians as the Sand Snakes...

[TheEvilKing]

Michael Cera as Jon Snow

Charlie Day as Ned Stark

Ricky Gervais as King Robert

Stone Cold Steve Austin as Tywin Lannister

Larry David as Walder Frey

[Gurney Halleck]

*I have dead people in my list!

Craster - Ron Jeremy

Jaime - Lena Headley

Cersei - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

King Robert - Hedonism Bot from Futurama

Gregor - Andre the Giant (I know, I had to)

Littlefinger - PeeWee Herman

Sansa - Brienne of Tarth (I know, wtf?)

Bran - Frankie Muniz

Theon - River Phoenix

Tyrion - Danny DeVito (I'm channeling Frank a la It's Always Sunny)

[The Oncoming Storm]

André the Giant is too nice for Gregor More of a Hodor.

Ned: Gregory Peck. He's basically a medieval Atticus Finch.

Thou who sayeth John Wayne, consider thyself Clintshooted.

Edited by Alcanis Ivennil, 22 September 2011 - 02:42 PM.

[sennahoj]

Bran - Justin Bieber

[Which Tyler]

Arya - any pampered LA rich-kid, Alicia Silverstone, Reese Witherspoon, Paris Hilton etc etc
Brienne - Cameron Diaz

[BrosBeforeSnows]

Jaime Lannister - John C. Reilly

Brienne - Snooki

[BrosBeforeSnows]

Dany Targaryen - Casey Anthony

Arya Stark - Kim Kardashian

Ned Stark - Pauly Shore

Robb Stark - Levi Johnston

Catelyn Stark - Kate Gosselin

Stannis Baratheon - Howard Stern

Patchface - Donald Trump

Cersei Lannister - Ellen DeGeneres

Roose Bolton - Tom Hanks

Ramsay Bolton - Harry Connick Jr.

Varys - Slash  

Littlefinger - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Barristan Selmy - Bill Murray

Jojen Reed - The Situation

The Hound - Andy Dick

Samwell Tarly - Vin Diesel

Davos Seaworth - William Shatner

Victarion Greyjoy - Drew Carey

Euron Greyjoy - Jason Alexander  

Khal Drogo - Louis CK

[littlespider]

Somehow we've got to get David Bowie into the Game of Thrones show. What are your thoughts for his role?

Here is my idea: cast him as himself to fulfill the Pimp that was Promised prophecy.