Spitballing

[moon_custafer]

Dreamcast ideas for an Arsenic and Old Lace remake:

Mortimer Brewster: Chris Hemsworth-- he's the contemporary Cary Grant, in that he's got that "I'm so handsome I have to play it for laughs" thing going on.

Elaine Harper: ? It’s a thankless but crucial role

Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha: ?? (I almost want to go with Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon)

Teddy: ? (Jack Black is way too obvious)

Cousin Jonathan: Michael Shannon

Dr. Einstein: Doug Jones, out of makeup

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Mortimer Brewster: Chris Hemsworth-- he's the contemporary Cary Grant, in that he's got that "I'm so handsome I have to play it for laughs" thing going on.

Oooh yes good.

[moon_custafer]

I went back and reread this, and now I’m going to add Shea Whigham as Officer O’Hara, the cop who keeps trying to tell Mortimer about the (increasingly weird-sounding) script he’s working on for a stage play; and, having seen him as Dr. Frost in Carol’s Second Act, Kyle MacLachlan as the head of the Happydale Sanitorium— he does “affably clueless” rather well, and Christopher Walken, the other actor I thought of, is still a bit too sinister.