10 Horror Movie Casting Choices That Should've Worked (But Didn't)
4. Morgan Freeman - Dreamcatcher
It takes a lot to make an actor of Morgan Freeman’s calibre look undignified, but Lawrence Kasdan’s ultimately doomed adaptation of one of Stephen King’s messiest and most sprawling novels certainly manages it.
Dreamcatchers is the story of four friends with telepathic powers. On a hunting trip, they manage to stumble into a military controlled zone, with the forest on lockdown following an alien appearance.
Into all this confusion stomps Morgan Freeman as Colonel Curtis. The viewer might breathe a sigh of relief - the grown ups have arrived, surely good old Morgan Freeman will make all of this add up. No such luck, unfortunately. Freeman is strangely miscast as a zealous anti-alien wild man, complete with truly bizarre eyebrows.
He tries to cruise through on star power alone, but his heart’s not in it by any means, and it’s hard to blame him. Dreamcatchers slowly transforms from something singularly weird to more run of the mill aliens vs humans fare, and all Freeman can do is watch.