Patrick Stewart As Spider Jerusalem

He looks a little too calm to be Spider Jerusalem in that pic - (I think he would make a better Henry Bendix anyways) - for Spider you should consider Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall or Rik Mayall from Bottom.

Honestly, Patrick Stewart is getting a little old to play Spider, in my humble estimation.

Now, Edward Norton...that'd be a catch. He has the right energy, the mid30s-ish look I'd envisioned for Spider...and as American History X showed us, he looks good without hair.

Of course, shave my goatee and give me the right pair of shades...hee. Hee. Hee.

(A boy can dream, can't he?)

I don't know if its too terribly relevant, but that picture amused a room full of drunk people.

Then we all watched japanese commercials on japander.com/.

Don't know what everyone's going on about. If they could make Richard Dryfus look in his 20's/30's for Mr. Holland's Opus, they can make Patrick Stewart into the perfect Spider.

Besides, do we really know how old Spider is? No. Never mentioned to my recollection.

Stewart could do it. If he could deliver lines about naughty cakes in the shape of naked women going to the bathroom without cracking up, he can do this.

You guys are all fooling yourselves. Patrick Stewart won't be Spider. Neither will Ed (I'm Over-rated) Norton. Here's what's gonna happen:

Somebody is going to slip a copy of Transmet under Kevin Costner's door. He's going to fall in love with it. He'll produce, direct and star in an 8 hour long movie version with a $100 Million budget that no one will like. That way everybody from you to Warren to the Film Studios to Costner can go home disappointed. Hurray!

He will be great. But the latest Spider in my mind is Ben Kingsley, after I saw him on Sexy beast. Also Ray Winstone in that same movie can be the beast.

Argh.

This reminds me of an ongoing article they were doing in Wizard Magazine some years ago;

They'd take a nude picture of some non-model, and photoshopped it to hell, to make it look like Mystique, or Catwoman, or a hat and a pipe.

Excellent. Heh heh heh.

As for my idea about Spider casting: Wizard had an ongoing article about comic movie castings as well, and I always felt uncomfortable reading them 'cause it felt like I was this enormous geek with too much time to think about these things, but not enough brain cells to actually know it was a waste of time to think Jean-Claude Van Damme was ever going to play Gambit in an X-men movie, and now I completely lost track of what I'm trying to explain here.

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He would be good as Gambit, wouldn't he?

Ever since I saw the Daredevil movie (it was at gunpoint, I swear!) I've been completely convinced that Joe Pantoliano (aka Ralphie from the Sopranos) would be the perfect Spider Jerusalem. He even played a reporter in Daredevil. I actually just think of that movie as one hugely over-budgeted audition for Joe to play Spider.

Patrick Stewart IS Spider Jerusalem. So sad for those who think otherwise, but that's how it is and how it should be.

I'd love to hear him do Spider. He could shave his head and the occasional topless-in-black-boxer-brief scenes would be great. Pity he has the wrong tattoos...

And of course Flea and Tom Waits would have cameos...

My choice would be me.

For some reason I can't see the picture. It's a signal that Patrick cannot play as Spider. He's too old ( I tought of him in his 40`s... 45's at best) and mostly... he's so goddam clean I can't even imagine him doing one of the things that Spider do. At least not sober...

I go for Ben Kingsley. He is the man.

Loris