Battle Royale - Hollywood Edition

[Neko Bazu]

So, with a Hollywood remake of Battle Royale inevitably set to ruin the film, I choose to perk myself up by wondering who I'd cast in the various roles. Naturally, there are five major roles to consider:

Kitano (the teacher)
Nanahara (the main male character)
Nakagawa (the main female character)
Kiriyama (the psychotic non-class member)
Kawada (the other non-class member)

plus a whole list of victims (major fans, if you wanna be detailed, we also have the jogging girl, the crazy girl, poisoned girls, computer geek and co, fat kid with crossbow etc). So who would you go for?

I reckon Jack Nicholson would be great in Kitano's role, and I'd love to see Paris Hilton, the Olsen twins, Britney Spears etc cast in roles that require very little talking or screentime, but a lot of death

[roundhaywhite]

Full character list here
www.battleroyalefilm.net/movie/students/index.html
Nicholson would make a great Kitano good call

[Neko Bazu]

It's actually quite hard picking the other characters, isn't it? There aren't too many notable child actors around at present, though I could see Daniel Radcliffe playing the computer geek (Mimura) well (he's just not got the look to play many of the other roles!)

[roundhaywhite]

NOOOO! not Daniel Radcliffe, he will be forever known as Harry Potter and i shudder to think about him trying an American accent. I don't know who would play Kiriyama though he had an aura of coolnes about him which made him instantly likeable despite the fact that he entered it for fun.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1225842003597524246 the link to the film for people who may want to watch it.

[Neko Bazu]

I think there's more to Radcliffe than Potter - just look at that horse stage show thing - and I think he deserves the chance to prove it. He's young and talented; rather than getting typecast, he deserves to be given the opportunity to branch out a bit.

Besides, he doesn't have to do a US accent - he could've moved to the country a year or two earlier! Let's face it, they're gonna maul a million other aspects of the film, so that'd be a relatively minor tamper! (And I know there's lots of ex-pat Brits in the US - hell, Tiffie on this board is related to one, and I've personally met several others - so it's not so unrealistic~)

[The Lucky C]

I could see the teenage guy from Little Miss Sunshine beinggood in the kiriyama role. Not sure who else, I'm trying not to think about it.

We could go with Will Ferrell as Kitano... it'd be an acknowledgement that it's going to be bollocks, but at least try to make it funny...