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23 February 2007

How would YOU cast MetaFilter The Movie? Or MetaChat The Movie? Or the TV Series? (one of my favorite 'what if' games)

post by: wendell at: 17:14 | 38 comments

For some reason, I thought jonmnc = an older Skeet Ulrich.

posted by muddgirl 23 February | 17:20

I would cast Veronica Lake as mudpuppie, which may not make sense, but she reminds me of a friend of mine who reminds me (relentlessly) of Veronica Lake, so it works for me.

I wish to be played by Selma Blair. And I don't care who disagrees.

posted by crush-onastick 23 February | 17:35

Anjelica Huston is a bit mature to play occhiblu, but we'll hire a makeup department. And Lipstick Thespian should play himself because there is no one in the world anything like him.

I wish to be played by Queen Latifah in a triumph of race-blind casting.

posted by matildaben 23 February | 17:45

As long Ben Kingsley plays me, I'll watch it.

posted by dabitch 23 February | 17:45

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Specklet.

posted by matildaben 23 February | 17:54

Why can't we just play ourselves in "MetaPlanet: Blogs of Life," narrated by David Attenborough (A BBC / Discovery Channel Co-Production)?

posted by dersins 23 February | 17:58

and if we can't, I know who's playing cmonkey...

posted by dersins 23 February | 18:09

I want to be played by Morgan Freeman. His voice will give the proper weight to my wise pronouncements.

posted by dodgygeezer 23 February | 18:16

also who's playing cortex.

posted by dersins 23 February | 18:19

cortex is such a big star now, he would play himself

posted by dodgygeezer 23 February | 18:20

i would like to be played by both Eddie Izzard and Alan Cumming (they have to tag each other out in relay) and change my name to smoo for the tv version, to be played by Dame Judi Dench.
i'd watch her in anything.
The bonding we did in the research phase would keep us dear of the rest of our lives.

i wanted to play cmonkey but cmonkey is cute!
Now i wanna play with cmonkey.
As long as he is played by Betty White.

posted by ethylene 23 February | 18:21

I would be played by David Hyde Pierce.

damn airlines, mrs. tr33 is still stuck in Chicago, going on a three-hour delay now because they can't find the freakin pilot!

posted by tr33hggr 23 February | 18:25

This is getting confusing.

All I know is whoever plays ikkyu2 will need a body double.

posted by wendell 23 February | 18:26

But it'd be a minor, supporting role.

posted by tr33hggr 23 February | 18:27

would be played by David Hyde Pierce.

That is so not how I picture you. That man has never hgged a tr33 in his life.

posted by jrossi4r 23 February | 18:29

I know it, but we do share a physical resemblance.

posted by tr33hggr 23 February | 18:33

My only immediate notion is Jane Alexander playing jrossi4r, although I don't know what jrossi looks like. But it's how I picture her.

I got nothin' else.

posted by danf 23 February | 18:40

I know it, but we do share a physical resemblance.
Damn it to hell! Now I read all your posts in a Niles voice!

My only immediate notion is Jane Alexander playing jrossi4r
That is an awesome compliment. Thanks!

posted by jrossi4r 23 February | 18:43

Heh. Jennifer Saunders, please.

posted by gaspode 23 February | 18:49

When my hair was shorter, the person that people said I looked like was Spalding Grey.

So maybe I was found in the East River and I am part of the backstory.

Maybe the opening scene could be my funeral. Closed casket of course. Months in the water does not augur well for an open viewing.

posted by danf 23 February | 19:02

Sounds too much like "The Meta Chill".

posted by wendell 23 February | 19:05

Heh. Jennifer Saunders, please.
Then I want to be Joanna Lumley!

posted by jrossi4r 23 February | 19:16

The dining table in Remains of the Day.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 23 February | 19:20

*hands jrossi bottle of champers*

(Bolly, darling)

posted by gaspode 23 February | 19:27

Nipply things for ikkyu2, nibbly things for everyone else!

(Garrison Keillor or Kevin Smith, for me, or so I've been told)

posted by WolfDaddy 23 February | 20:21

The role of SisterHavana will be played by Janeane Garofalo.

posted by sisterhavana 23 February | 20:45

Alas, due to similar looks and attitudes, I'm guessing eriko would be played by Kevin Smith. Nipply things for ikkyu2, nibbly things for everyone else!

posted by eriko 23 February | 21:04

Okay, that whole thing about the middle button being paste, and X using whatever is highlighted as the cut buffer, that's not so cool right now.

posted by eriko 23 February | 21:05

Hmm, Dakota Fanning could probably play me with no major difficulty.

posted by mischief 23 February | 21:23

I hope to be played by the illustrious Otm Shank.

posted by arse_hat 23 February | 22:55

Camryn Manheim can play me, but she'll have to cut off her feet to be closer to my height.

posted by deborah 24 February | 00:46

I want my actor to be a CGI-made exact copy of me, digitally added in scenes and with Andy Serkis acting as me in real life filming.
And I want to throw fireballs.

posted by darkripper 24 February | 07:01

I could possibly see Janeane Garofalo playing Mats, but then again not (don't hit me!)

posted by Lipstick Thespian 24 February | 10:45

You'd have to feed Sally Field about a thousand sausage biscuits with a cheesecake chaser, but then she could play me. (I'm not THAT fat but she's a walking toothpick.)

posted by bunnyfire 24 February | 14:02

Janeane Garofalo is a great compliment! Just don't make it be Parker Posey with 100 extra pounds.

posted by matildaben 24 February | 14:44

Ben Stiller should play me similar to his character in Zero Effect.

posted by kmellis 24 February | 16:36

I will play myself in the stage production of MetaFilter! MetaFilter!. It will be a one-man show, and it will consist of me sitting on stage with my back to the audience, typing away and browsing various Meta* sites, chuckling aloud to myself occasionally, and not much else. For three hours, every night.

posted by Eideteker 25 February | 00:09

I have no idea who should play me. I just dropped in to say "Nipply things for ikkyu2, nibbly things for everyone else".

posted by taz 25 February | 00:40

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