Ignoring time and aging, who would you pick to play lupin and his pals if a live action movie existed?
Mine:
Lupin: Freddie Prince Jr.
Jigen: young Clint Eastwood
Goemon: Sung Kang
Anybody else?
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Freddie Prince Jr... you got to be kidding. No offense.
shareJim Carrey as Lupin
Bruce Campbell as Zenegata
Jigen: a bearded, gruffed up Timothy Dalton?
Goemon: Hayato Tani? Or better, Izumi Motoya! Open to suggestion.
Fujiko: Asia Carrera! No one else but!
shia leboeuf as lupin.
If you watch the anime and then watch Shia's performance in transformers, I would say that he could pull it off. He can pull off action and humor, plus some of the physical movements, he could pull off as well.
Shia *beep* needs to stay away from Lupin.
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Toshiro Mifune wouldve been the best Zenigata ever...dont argue...
his acting is even like zenigatas mannerisms...(young eastwood would be a perfect jigen)...
mjgordon,
You hit the nail right on the head. Mifune-san would have been the best Zenigata ever.
The idea of Lupin III with an american cast is something I dare not even think about, the actors have to be souly Japanese & the director would have to get Monkey Punch as the adiviser to the film.
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Lupin: Shia LaBeouf (Transformers rules, and Shia's performance rocked)
Fujiko: Sienna Miller (so hot in GI Joe) or Scarlett Johansen (excellent in Lost in Translation, and could pull off the action adventure genre)
Daisuke: Can only imagine (like what a previous poster said), a young Clint Eastwood. Most of the casting is hard for me.
Goemon: Jet Li? (I have no clue for this one)
Zenigata: Dennis Quaid or John Turturro? (still, both undecided. these are tough castings)
Clarisse: Scout Taylor Compton (beatiful actress, great actor, amazing in the Halloween films)
The Count: Jason Statham? (undecided again)
Alright, here's a hypothetical Japanese cast for a live-action Lupin III movie. If you don't know who the actors are, just copy and paste their names into the IMDB search engine.
Lupin - Masashi Endo
Jigen - Tandonobu Asano
Goemon - Hiroyuki Sanada
Zenigata - Takeshi "Beat" Kitano
Fujiko - Yoko Matsugane
HEY! You stole my idea pal!!???
Ha ha, no offense taken: there was already a post on this subject on the anime series board:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159192/board/nest/37307529?d=156525344&am p;p=1#156525344
It’d be difficult to make a live-action LUPIN III film at this time. The series is clearly rooted in 1960s-era intrigue (mystery, adventure, espionage, crime), so it’d be hard to update that flavor for current times... or just ignore realism and set the film in its own universe altogether, like X-MEN FIRST CLASS or WATCHMEN, or SPEED RACER.
Arsene Lupin III – this guy is part goofball, part mastermind and all (slightly) unbalanced; he plays a grinning fool and at the same time thinks two-three steps ahead of everybody else. I’d say someone lean, quick and fast-thinking should play Lupin; therefore, I’d recommend Tom Hiddleston (THOR) or Joseph Gordon-Levitt. If they weren’t too old, I’d have suggested Johnny Depp (Jack Sparrow, a Lupin-esque role), Willem Dafoe or Jim Carrey for the role.
Fujiko Mine – She is Lupin’s equal, only with big honkers and a little more untrustworthy and lethal, a proper femme fatale. I’d recommend Rachel McAdams (SHERLOCK HOLMES), Catarina Murino (CASINO ROYALE), or Alexa Davalos (ANGEL – Gwen Meighen) for the role.
Inspector Zenigata – Another parallel to Lupin, only he’s a stubborn policeman whose life’s purpose is to chase and catch Lupin. Somebody tough but funny: I’d recommend Mads Mikkelsen (CASINO ROYALE), Jon Hamm (MAD MEN), or John Turturro. Had he not been too old, Tom Hanks (CATCH ME IF YOU CAN) would be my top choice for the role.
Daisuke Jigen – I mean who has/could wear a grizzly goatee like Jigen? Okay, on a long shot, I’d say perhaps Michael Fassbender or Daniel Craig could do the job. Someone who's stoic and silent and sensible amid all the chaos that surrounds Lupin's escapade.
Goemon Ishikawa XIII – unfortunately the same as above goes for Goemon. Some generic Japanese guy who’s good with a sword would do, but on reflection I think perhaps Louis Ozawa Changchien (PREDATORS) would do.
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