I think Orson Welles is the right person to play Gaetz in the movie.

[PurgedVoter]

Some might think that Orson Welles current status might preclude him from the role, but I think it makes him the perfect choice.

[Ocelot II]

1. His current status is dead, which might make it difficult for him to attend rehearsals.

[PurgedVoter]

2. Yes, but it gives him the best possible insight into the character.

[Best_man23]

5. I want him portrayed by Drunk Orson Welles

[PurgedVoter]

6. As an interesting bit of trivia,

Orson Welles last Movie performance was with the cast of Monty Python and set to the Music of Weird Al.

"Dare to Be Stupid" was the music used for the big fight scene in the movie and Orson Welles portrayed the main character.

[marble falls]

8. What a sad slide he suffered. This is more cringworthy than laughable. Sad, sad, sad.

[LiberatedUSA]

3. That doesn't apply anymore.

They have the technology to CGI dead actors onto actors and make entire new movies.

I remember back when they did it for the actress who played Tony Soprano’s mother. The technology is way better now.

They could do it, if they tossed ethics out the window.

[PurgedVoter]

4. Perfect!

To understand Gaetz you would have to throw ethics out the window and be as close to dead inside as you could get!

[marble falls]

7. Why drag Orson Welles into it? What'd he do to you?

[PurgedVoter]

9. Orson Welles did a brilliant job of playing villains.

His performances, from Citizen Cain to Shakespeare's Scottish play, often brought well nuanced evil characters to life. Truth is, if he were living, this would be right in the range of evil he was brilliant at portraying. Gaetz is a treasonous figure who plays a patriot to his followers while trying to get other people to sleep with the women he has had. Gaetz is a bundle of false hoods and shallow evils that has managed to stumble into the limelight by playing on peoples hatreds.

I suspect that if Orson Welles were living, he would be writing the script.

[marble falls]

10. Some people belive he was in Citizen Kane, too. I think Jack Nicholson is a better choice ...

... and he's still alive.



Or maybe better the guy who played a young Joker ...

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[MustLoveBeagles]

18. They did a good job finding an actor that looked like Nicolson

He looked like his son.

[Disaffected]

14. Just happened to hear him this morning

playing Edward Rochester in Cecil B De Mill's Jane Eyre LUX radio production. Excellent as always.

https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=soap&p=10&item=R88:0145

[alphafemale]

11. Orson Welles was actually a breathtakingly handsome man at one point.

Gaetz looks like Richard Nixon had a lost weekend with The Swamp Thing.

[Tom Kitten]

12. Touch of Evil

Orson does a good job of being a sleaze in that one.

[Towlie]

13. Actually, after his death in 1985, Orson Welles' career resumed in 2005...

... when he wrote, directed, narrated, and starred in An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon

[Mr. Ected]

15. Paging Max Baer, Jr.

Not that Gaetz measures up to Jethro's intellectual prowess or his suavity, not even close.

[UTUSN]

16. I'm enrolled in The University of YouTube, where OW is a significant segment

in the curriculum, along with Julius, Alex, Cleo, and a handful of others.

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. I think Jeff Bridges should play Joel Greenberg's attorney in the movie

I get strong "The Dude" vibes from him.