View Poll Results: Who should play Cleo's dad Ptolemy XII Auletes?

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Thread: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    I almost read this as "who should play her" instead of "who should play her dad"...I mean, I'd still watch Zach Galifianakis play Cleopatra.
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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Quote Originally Posted by irontaino View Post
    I almost read this as "who should play her" instead of "who should play her dad"...I mean, I'd still watch Zach Galifianakis play Cleopatra.
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    Quote Originally Posted by irontaino View Post
    I almost read this as "who should play her" instead of "who should play her dad"...I mean, I'd still watch Zach Galifianakis play Cleopatra.
    Hahahaha, same thing happened to me and I thought RV was being sarcastic. After all, how can we be sure Cleopatra was not a homosexual, transgender biological male?
    So why not have Stamos play Cleopatra and Galyfianakis her dad?
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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    We don't need modern sensitive effeminates like Zach or John. We need a real man with real chesthair for the role.

    Let's just use processor power to plaster Aristoteles "Telly" Savalas' face (and chest!) over some noob actors face.

    Who's your daddy,Cleopatra...

    Last edited by LaMuerte; January 19, 2019 at 04:59 PM.

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    I couldn't care lees about this film, but...

    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    The same actress that plays Cleopatra, in male regalia and a touch of make-up and computer graphics of course! After 12 generations of mostly inbreeding (or completely inbreeding) they would be discernable only by beard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LaMuerte View Post
    We don't need modern sensitive effeminates like Zach or John. We need a real man with real chesthair for the role.

    Let's just use processor power to plaster Aristoteles "Telly" Savalas' face (and chest!) over some noob actors face.

    Who's your daddy,Cleopatra...

    An obvious choice! +rep
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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Hank Azaria could make a great Ptolemy, but AJ just needs to be Cleo. Sorry Lady Gaga.

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Tony Sirico should play Caesar
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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Quote Originally Posted by Settra View Post
    Tony Sirico should play Caesar
    Hah! Nice. Maybe he should be Mark Antony instead, though, because he has that sort of meatheaded jock type of attitude (and I could definitely see him being toyed with by a seductive woman like Cleopatra). He doesn't exactly carry the same gravitas and dignitas of Gaius Julius Caesar, who put on a rather stoic and humble face in public despite his clearly rabid and unquenchable ambitions. Given his outstanding role as Nikita Khrushchev in that Death of Stalin movie, I stick with my original choice for Caesar: Steve Buscemi.

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Jesus. I just tried imagining Buscemi pulling out the "Et tu, Brute?" moment the same way Hinds did in Rome​, and ended up laughing for a minute non-stop.

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sar1n View Post
    Jesus. I just tried imagining Buscemi pulling out the "Et tu, Brute?" moment the same way Hinds did in Rome​, and ended up laughing for a minute non-stop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roma_Victrix View Post
    "Am I the only professional here?" - Gaius Julius Caesar, 44 BC
    Well, to be fair, he was.

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    James Purefoy as Marc Antony, don`t dare to use someone else.

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Quote Originally Posted by Morifea View Post
    James Purefoy as Marc Antony, don`t dare to use someone else.


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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Danny Devito

    Nah it should be a British actor. You can't have a movie set in the ancient times without British people larping as Italians.

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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Oda Nobunaga View Post
    Danny Devito

    Nah it should be a British actor. You can't have a movie set in the ancient times without British people larping as Italians.
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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Quote Originally Posted by Roma_Victrix View Post
    GOD/ZEUS SAVE THE QUEEN/BASILEIA (βασιλεία)!!!
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    Why do we need another Cleopatra movie anyway? They are just going to screw it up, either get the story from Shakespeare or some horrible mishmash from various sources, and then have the same conclusion as every other attempt to make this a movie.

    Just watch the Liz Taylor film. If just for the fact that it has expensive set pieces, Rex Harris and Richard Burton.
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    Default Re: Upcoming Cleopatra film, who should play her dad: Zach Galifianakis or John Stamos?

    Galifianakis is a satyr, and while satyroi did often play the aulos, I don't think he would be close to the ptolemies - he seems to be more the phocid type, into melting all the silver at Delphi to pay mercenaries in the war lost to Alexander's father.
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