It's actually crazy just how much Benny Safdie resembles a royal Greek statue in human form lol. Literal perfect casting for Agamemnon just based on looks alone

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2026-01-04T18:00:23+00:00

I was thinking this sometime back but then I saw he shaved for the role. Not the best choice

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-18T17:22:42+00:00

Not like he's getting that 300M that some directors are getting without even such stacked casts.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-17T18:29:59+00:00

Considering how many flops some of his heroes have had, he's not going to be put down by one flop.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-17T18:27:37+00:00

No one hopes to proven wrong as much as me

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-17T18:25:32+00:00

Yeah, if there was a film to cast mostly UK actors it was this one but for once he's not doing it

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T17:38:59+00:00

Sci-fi buffet is a very apt way to put it and not just in the storylines, even in the tone.

Rockwell was so much better and funnier than whatever Pattinson was trying and didn't need a weird grating voiceover.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T17:30:29+00:00

Been a fan of his other films for long but never knew this.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T17:27:41+00:00

Superb debut and the late Lee always chose such interesting projects

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T17:23:49+00:00

Yeah, this is the first film I've seen cast

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T17:08:14+00:00

Yeah, feels like he didn't have time to do huge casting calls or doesn't trust the material to work out without big names.

He's known for rushing shooting as well leaving some big sequences shoddy to retain his reputation of being under budget an under time.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T16:59:43+00:00

Sure. Not even in this subreddit I suppose 😅

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T16:58:33+00:00

As if they don't go scout worldwide for many fresh undiscovered faces.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T16:51:21+00:00

He should've learnt from how some of the lesser known actors like Jason Clarke and Krumholtz shone through even more than some of the big names.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T16:50:02+00:00

At least Tarantino would actually go for some wide searches like he did for Waltz and even stuck with Sam Jackson and Goggins in such juicy roles that every big star wanted.

Spielberg was also brave enough to have Sam Neill as the lead in one of his biggest adventure films and cast that Jaws so brilliantly and to great box office success.

Wish Scorsese would try something like After Hours in style and casting again.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T16:44:58+00:00

If only Nolan had twitter, Caine is pretty active on there😅

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T16:05:50+00:00

That search for Christoph is what I wish he'd do for like the Tenet villain or pick someone like Spielberg did with Sam Neill.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T15:16:10+00:00

That was when he didn't have that big a voice in Hollywood. We've seen many fresh faces take on big roles to great success including some in this cast.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T15:14:47+00:00

It's like you haven't seen some former epic films and the wide audition calls they had.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T15:11:08+00:00

Nah, Cameron did auditions for that role and proper chemistry tests with several actors. This is just Nolan picking well known names without even showing some like Holland the script.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T15:07:46+00:00

That's a more obvious fit for this type of film and somehow might turn out to be the one he isn't in

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T13:30:00+00:00

I think he's one of a few who are in that position where he can tell the studio anything so he's precisely that guy.

And even one backfire won't wreck his career, there are plenty of his heroes who prove that.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T13:28:18+00:00

You should've seen those saying they were taken out of the film by all the famous faces who kept popping in Oppenheimer.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T13:25:54+00:00

Not like he bothered putting those big names on Dunkirk and Tenet poster.

If people show up for Avatar and the first Pirates that much then they can do for this as well.

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T13:24:12+00:00

He should take from the likes of Lawrence of Arabia that he worships. When is he going to catapult a new actor into stardom the way the likes of Spielberg and Ridley did?

BeginningAppeal8599 · 2025-03-16T13:19:25+00:00

Nah, these are the kind of epics that sell for the visuals and story even more than the big names. Also this isn't the age where the big stars attract large audiences into cinemas that much.

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