12 Most Ridiculous Biopic Castings Of All Time
4. John Travolta - John Gotti (Gotti)
Gotti may be one of 2018's worst films (so far) for many reasons, but at the heart of the Scorsese-aping crime biopic is a wildly miscast John Travolta as the New York mobster himself.
Like Nicolas Cage, Travolta's late-period career has seen him don an increasingly suspicious - not to mention hilarious - array of hairdos, and Gotti gives the actor a stiff, bouffant silver pompadour to place atop his crown.
The performance itself is nothing but pure, hysterical caricature, and beyond Travolta being age-appropriate for the part, there are probably dozens if not hundreds of character actors better qualified to play the Telfon Don.
At least Travolta's involvement made an otherwise generic biopic a spectacular laugh riot, but in serious filmmaking terms, he was all kinds of wrong for the role.