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Templeton and Charlotte can talk! Live action CHARLOTTE'S WEB gets some famous voices!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here... Now, the original animated CHARLOTTE'S WEB holds a very special place in my heart. I grew up watching that film and I recently revisited it when it played on some cable channel and it STILL got some tears out of me when Charlotte bids farewell to Wilbur. I'm not too incredibly hot on remaking the movie, especially since the live-action version will have to do something radically different to distance itself visually from the BABE films, but I like most of the voice talent they've gotten for the CG main characters. Also note, I read EB White's book in elementary school and I don't remember one word of it, so I'm approaching the casting from the point of view of a fan of the original animated film.
Paramount announced today that Julia Roberts is going to voice Charlotte, the spider.
I like this casting, but I'm coming off of recently seeing CLOSER which has, in my humble opinion, her best performance and most refreshingly different character in recent memory. I was thinking it'd be nifty if they got Carrie Fisher for the voice. Debbie Reynolds did an amazing job in the animated film, but she might sound a little too old for the character now and Carrie's voice doesn't exactly have the sweetness in her voice that her mother did.
(My favorite voice casting) Steve Buscemi as Templeton, the rat!
Paul Lynde did this role to perfection... the smart-ass, sarcastic and greedy tone was great. Casting Buscemi is a stroke of genius and the only working actor who I can accept in this role, personally.
Oprah Winfrey as Gussy, the goose & Cedric The Entertainer as Golly, the goose...
Winfrey's certainly got the maternal part down and I like her as an actress, but she lacks the insanity of the goose in the original as voiced by Agnes Moorehead. "T double E double R double I double F F F..." I don't know what to think about Cedric the Entertainer. I just hope they keep the story timeless and not try to modernize it with some recent and dating pop-culture references. I don't want this movie to turn into RACING STRIPES...
John Cleese as Samuel the Sheep.
I love John Cleese and I'm looking forward to hearing him talk down to Wilbur, but the sheep isn't much of a role as I remember it.
Reba McEntire and Kathy Bates as the two cows, Betsy and Bitsy
That's fine. I really don't have an opinion on this one. I loved Reba in TREMORS and dig her attitude, even if I could care less about her music. Kathy Bates is cool, too.
Thomas Hayden Church and Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) will voice Brooks and Elwyn the crows...
I don't have much of an opinion on this. Church was cool in SIDEWAYS and has a distincitve voice... Anyway, that's all I got... The remake will be out in 2006 with Dakota Fanning in the human lead as Fern. Now who's going going to play Zuckerman? I'm pulling for John Goodman! What do you folks think?
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Sounds decent, though if Cedric would act in a more subtle manner the way he did in Ice Age as the gay rhino, it'd be cooler. Oprah acting again? Who'd a thunk it?
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I admit I don't like what Cedric implies (the tough-talkin' contemporary stuff that'll be old after four syllables). And the man's right when he says they're going to have to do something really different to distinguish this film from the masterpiece (cuz it is) that is BABE. Nonetheless, Andre 3000 in the voice cast... I have a hard time not smiling. Anyone else notice he's only got one line in the BE COOL trailer and it's the funniest thing in there? So I say awesome. Wicked awesome.
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Or is that gonna be the big surprise reveal? Wilbur's the pig right, I'm not screwing that up? Its been awhile since I've seen this, I remember just about none of the characters mentioned above.
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That's the worst casting decision I've heard in months!!!! WTF!?!?!
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i can't imagine a role she's suited for. except a movie where the main character gets hit with a pillowcase full of bricks. over and over.
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...unless of course, she were cast in that upcoming Vincent Gallo piece, "Bukkake Across America." Even then, it wouldn't be that cool -- I wouldn't even Netflix it unless I was compelled by purely sociological curiosity (and then only if it had an Tomatometer of 70% or higher).
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His line is the coolest on in that trailer.
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i do believe that was completely out of left field...i think...or did i miss something. Chin Up Bitches!
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I certainly hope they decide to keep the original songs, from "Zuckerman's Famous Pig" to Templeton's ode to the Fair, and especially Charlotte's goodbye to Wilbur. "How very special are we/ For just a moment to be/ Part of Life's eternal rhyme." I have to side with Quint here, I can't waych that scene without choking up...
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That'll do.
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Has anyone been clamoring for this turd of a fucking movie?
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Give the sheep pig a break. He's been out of work since Pig in the city failed to meet expectations.
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"magnificant pig, brother"
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There are two ways you could do a CGI Charlotte. 1. A photorealistic spider that talks. 2. A real spider/cartoon hybrid, sort of in the style of Garfield or Scooby Doo. They will not do approach 1 because it will scare the kids and be creepy, and approach 2 will not work because it is asinine. So this is a movie that should not be made. Fortunately, Stuart Little was already made so E.B. White's corpse is already too worn out to do any further rolling in its grave.
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loves the animated movie. Except me. The book is better. The book is better. Lordy, lordy the book is better. Please, please, please get this right.
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Jan 19, 2005 2:20:44 AM CST
That's all well and good, but Disney has greenlighted Toy Story
by mynamedoesn'tfit
Yes, folks, that's right. Without Pixar.
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Thank goodness they got big name movie stars to do the voices on this film. They can do a better job than any other professional voice talent out there....A movie with Julia AND Oprah...be still my heart!
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Julia Roberst is a lovely woman, I'm sure, but couldn't they have found some-one with a more melodious voice? Can't think who off the top of my head.
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of the Ralph Bakshi animated film. And we all know that remakes suck.
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