10 Upcoming Movie Roles That Are Completely Miscast
James Corden as an annoying talking rabbit? No thanks.
Before a movie comes out, it’s generally easy to gauge whether you’ll like it or not. You might prefer sci-fi, horror, superheroes, or drama, so anything within those boundaries will speak to your tastes.
What’s not so easy to gauge, however, is whether or not you’ll respond to the way a particular actor or actress plays a certain role.
Images, trailers, and TV spots are all fine displays of the bigger picture, but you can’t fully appreciate - or not appreciate - the full, fleshed out, undiluted performance until you actually see the finished movie.
This can result in a lot of actors feeling out of place in their roles - on the surface. The internet’s been wrong many, many times before - Heath Ledger’s Joker, Ben Affleck’s Batman, and Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss among the most prolific cases - but regardless, it’s hard to shake the feeling that someone just isn’t right for the part they’ve been given.
We’ll happily be proven wrong when these ten movies eventually surface, but for now, it looks like they each have a big issue in the casting department.
10. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly) - Holmes And Watson
Both Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have plenty of comedic hits and misses between them, so it’s normal to feel mildly apprehensive when approaching a funny movie featuring either one of them.
Their comedy typically revolves around taking everyday situations and heightening them to a ridiculous degree - Daddy’s Home’s stepfather/stepchild relationship, Step Brothers’ arrested development - but Holmes and Watson isn’t an everyday scenario.
The two title characters are brilliant men with bucketloads of intuition and intellect, and to turn them into a pair of idiots just so Ferrell and Reilly can fill their shoes just feels wrong.
Holmes and Watson could easily be a drama with strong comedic elements - the BBC show does that superbly - but a silly Will Ferrell comedy with fart jokes and other crude gags? Ferrell’s movies can be funny, but here, he and Reilly are going to forcefully turn the title characters into a pair of bumbling idiots, and that’s just not what they should be.