Who should play Ironside in the NBC remake?
I think that real life wheelchair user Mitch Longley (Judging Amy, Las Vegas) should at least be considered for the role.
Thoughts?
Nobody! There is only one Robert T. Ironside: Raymond Burr.
The show was terrific and still is. Remakes often don't work so why even bother trying that with Ironside? It was great in its era but it wouldn't work the same nowadays. I love the show, always have and always will: it is second to none. I truly hope that there will never be a remake.
Its going to be Blair Underwood. If they did want to with someone who sort of looks Like Raymond Burr. I would have picked Jeffery Dean Morgan from The Loosers and The Watchman movies. As he is a dead ringer for a young Raymond Burr or Comic Brad Garret from Everybody Loves Raymond.
shareJust read in indiewire.com that NBC has picked that up!!!
shareNo! Underwood is too athletic to play that guy.
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Athleticism has nothing to do with it. According to the story (the original Ironside, at least), Ironside was an active, ambulatory man. He was paralyzed by a bullet to his spine. That can just as easily happen to an "athletic" man. After all, look at Christopher Reeve.
shareI saw the original pilot.
Yes, he was ambulatory. Burr was also pretty heavy by then.
I'd simply prefer to see Underwood play more 'ambulatory' & dashing roles.
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Charles Dutton would ROCK the part, though!
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I guess being black myself I should be happy to read Blair Underwood has been chosen for the part of Ironside, but the idea of a wheelchair-bound, black chief of detectives sounds a little too far-fetched for me! Guess I'll have to wait and see. Definitely won't be "your father's" Ironside.
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