Fantasy Casting- The Usual Suspects (1950)
This round of retroactive fantasy casting really needs no explanation. Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects smacked of old time film noir, with its male-centric cast and it’s tougher-than-nails characters. So, when transporting the story and its characters to the past, I tried to pick a director and cast that would capture the ensemble nature of the 1995, while bringing an undeniable 1950s style to the proceedings. Many of these choices are fairly obvious, but they were just too good to pass up.
And so, off we go!
Written and Directed by: John Huston
Keaton- Sterling Hayden
McManus- Richard Widmark
Fenster- Robert Walker
Hockney- Edward G. Robinson
Kint- Rod Steiger
Kujan- Lee J. Cobb
Kobayashi- Sam Jaffe
Edie Finneran- Rita Hayworth
Rabin- Jack Warden