OT tipping point. Cast your BLL Movie

Submitted by jabberwock on

OK, OT is almost officially over, and maybe this can shove it off the cliff.

You're turning John U. Bacon's book "Endzone" into a riviting Michigan Football themed thriller titled "Brandon's Lasting Lessons".
Your budget is unlimited, everyone in Hollywood is dying to be in it.

Whom do you cast?

Without much thought (obviously), here are my picks:

Brady Hoke - Jeff Garlin.  honoraable mention . . John Goodman

Jim Harbaugh  -  Brad Pitt. honoraable mention . . George Clooney,

Dave Brandon -  Andrew Divoff  honoraable mention . . Hugo Weaving,  Jason Sudeikis

Jim Hackett  - Anthony Hopkins,  honoraable mention . . Robert Duvall

Mark Schissell -Kevin Kline. honoraable mention . . Stanley Tucci

 

Brian Cook - Aaron Johnson, honoraable mention . . Shia Labeouf

 

John U Bacon - Timothy Busfield. honoraable mention . .David Caruso

Shane Morris   Tyler Posey

WD -  Justin Long

Ace - Dany Trejo  BECAUSEIT”SMYFUCKINGMOVIETHATSWHY!

LSAClassOf2000

August 26th, 2015 at 9:54 PM ^

I would have maybe gone with Richard Dreyfuss as Schlissel - a dye job and a beard away from being able to do it, I would think, even at 67 years old, but it is a minor quibble, of course.

As someone mentioned above, Rowan Atkinson as Dave Brandon would be....strangely appropriate actually. I did like that suggestion. 

MDwolverine

August 26th, 2015 at 9:54 PM ^

Jim Harbaugh - Daniel Day Lewis

Hoke - John C. Reily

Brandon - Hugo Weaving (Bad guy from original Matrix)

Hackett - Paul Giamatti

Schlissel - Mandy Patinken

Brian Cook - Jorge Garcia

John U. Bacon - Aaron Eckhart

Shane Morris - Andrew Garfield (latest Spider Man)

Dawkins

August 26th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^

Harbaugh - Danny McBride

Hacket - George the Animal Steele

Brandon - Jon Hamm

Hoke - John Goodman

MSC - Julia Louis Dreyfus

Shane Morris - Freddie Prince Junior

Cameo : John U. Bacon (as himself)

 

 

 

Broken Brilliance

August 26th, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^

Bacon- Neal Patrick Harris

Dave Brandon-Dustin Diamond

Schlissel- Rip Torn

Brian Cook- Blake from Workaholics

Shane Morris- Zack Morris

Jim Harbaugh-Allen Covert

Brady Hoke-Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) 

Jim Hackett-BILL MURRAY

 

chatster

August 26th, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^

Dave Brandon - Tim Robbins

  

Brady Hoke - Jeff Garlin

 

Jim Hackett - Rob Corddry

 

Mark Schlissel - Mandy Patinkin

Jim Harbaugh - Josh Brolin

or Bill Paxton

John U. Bacon - Thomas Jane

Shane Morris - Nicholas Hoult

Devin Gardner - Morris Chestnut

Russell Bellomy - Garrett Hedlund

Brian Cook - Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

Wolverine Devotee - Josh Hutcherson

 

 

mchicagoblue

August 26th, 2015 at 11:48 PM ^

Brian Cook - Jeff Bridges

Ace Anbender - Paul Rudd

WD - Adam DeVine

Brady Hoke - John Goodman

Dave Brandon - Christopher McDonald

Shane Morris - Nicholas Hoult

Mark Schlissel - Mandy Patinkin

Jim Hackett - Robert Duvall

Jim Harbaugh - Mark Harmon

John U. Bacon - Jeff Daniels

saveferris

August 27th, 2015 at 7:25 AM ^

Brady Hoke - John Candy

Dave Brandon - Christopher Lee

Jim Harbaugh - Steve McQueen

Jim Hackett - Gregory Peck

Mark Schlissel - Pete Postlethwaite

John U. Bacon - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Brian Cook - James Dean

Ace - Heath Ledger

WD - River Phoenix

 

Wolverine In Exile

August 27th, 2015 at 8:10 AM ^

"and as evil corporate mastermind Dave Brandon, Christoph Waltz"

 

just so long as we get Danny Glover as Fred Jackson, I'm on board. I basically imagine the Jim Harbaugh assembling his coaching staff montage as being like Jake & Elwood getting the band back together.....

SCENE

Josh Brolin (Harbaugh) "Listen Tyrone, we want you back to coach running backs at Michigan."

Ice Cube (Wheatley) "You can't bring that stuff in here! My old lady is going to kill me!"

Brolin (Harbaugh) "Would it help you ma'am if you knew that what we're asking Tyrone to do is a holy thing? You see, we're on a mission from Bo."

Taraji Henson from Empire (Wheatley's wife) <runs out from behind counter of Tyrone's Chicken and Waffle Emporium in Buffalo NY> "Don't you blaspheme in here! You ain't taking my man, and you Tyrone are not running off with your ol' two bit Sincerely in Football friends.."

Cube (Wheatley) "Aw, check your self woman!"

<Entire cast breaks out into new hip-hop version of "Think">

 

Where's the kickstarter?