Bryce Dallas Howard would make a great Amy

Okay, so a thought came to me the other day.  I don't know about the rest of the cast.  I know he's a little too old.  But for fuck's sake:

John Cheese, ladies and gentlemen.

I always pictured Dave as Edward Norton, like Edward Norton in Fight Club

Dave: Ron Livingston [OfficeSpace]
Amy: Kirsten Dunst [Spiderman]
Shitload: Jason Mewes [Jay and Silent Bob]
Jennifer Lopez: Rosario Dawson [Clerks II]
John: Tyler Labine [Reaper]
Arnie: Andy Richter! [Various SNL skits, much more.]
Robert Marley: uhh...Roger Cross? [24]
Officer Drake: Bruce Campbell [Evil Dead]
Officer Appleton: Keith David [Barber Shop]

That's all I have.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse as shitload.

I want to see him die.

Oh, shit.  Atlantic is right.

Dave can't be anybody BUT Edward Norton.

He'd need to pack on a few pounds, as well as pack some fudge, to prepare for the role.

And seriously?  Nobody thought of Johnny Knoxville for Cheese?



Just think of how awesome a Norton/Knoxville duo would be.

Hehehe.

Duo.

I've only seen her mentioned once for the role of Amy in this thread and that blows my mind, but.

Guys. Seriously.



Felicia Day.



Also, a lot of people seem to like the idea of Seth Rogen as Dave but...he's way too soft. He's a walking teddy bear. I don't see it at all.

If it weren't a little ridiculous-- the guy's tiny-- I'd support Seth Green in the role instead. He'd be the perfect straight man for John; he's also like, naturally full of cynicism and irony anyway. I think he could still pull off the mid-twenties look, too.


Someone at the start of the thread suggested Shia LeBouf as Shitload and I think that is PERFECT. Maybe just because I want to see Shia LeBouf get shot several times and also explode, but still.

And although I despise Ashton Kutcher, I have to admit he's who I imagine during John's more frantic moments.

Good point.

We'll be sure to turn them down at auditions. 

Also, while he's a good actor, Ed Norton's notorious for insisting on rewriting half of his character's dialogue if the fancy strikes him.  If/when Coscarelli gets this thing made, he's going to have a hard enough time keeping Hollywood from violating the book as it is:

"Can we make Dave Jewish?  We think he'd work better with our demographics if he's Jewish."
"Nobody's going to understand that Korrok replaced Dave with a doppelganger -- the producers think he should instead replace Dave and John with a creature that shapeshifts between the two of them."
"So wait, why is Dave interested in Amy if he's gay and why would she be interested in him if he's fat?"
"Could John and Dave smoke the Soy Sauce, instead?  Because my sister's on anti-depressants and she says she sees them crawling around and if that happens to other people it could just freak them out to see it in the movie."
...and so on.

Sometimes Norton can make that work, sometimes he can't, but most of the time the studio won't let you do anything about it if you don't like it.

And oh, yeah. Matt L. Jones as Justin/Shitload. The guy who plays Badger on Breaking Bad. He was in some deodorant commercial or another too.



If you watch Breaking Bad, just imagine him saying "That's a hella pretty dog, yo," and tell me that he is not Justin. I fucking dare you.