Here is my cast if Camelot was remade:
Nicholas Cage: King Arthur
Keira Knightley: Guenievere
Orlando Bloom: Lancelot
Gary Oldman: Mordred
David Kelly: King Pellinore
Jack Nicholson: Merlin
There is my cast, any others?
Can any of those people even sing? Jack Nicholson as Merlin? Now that is quite interesting... :) I think that singers would have to be chosen, though. I wish they had made a movie with the original cast... the original cast is so delightful! So full of talent...
-Elizabeth
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I think this was an incredible musical and did an amazing business in it's run during the 1960s on Broadway with Andrews. When this film was finally released, it was totally miscast. The same actors in a movie about King Arthur would have been fine, but this was a musical, and musical stars, or at least actors who can actually sing, have so few parts, that this film should have been made with them. Julie Andrews, Marni Nixon (yes, she CAN act), Sally Ann Howes, and several other musical stars could have done Redgraves part to much better advantage. Secondly, the sets in this film were very poor and most of the sets looked like they were filmed on sound stages, and lacked the beauty of seeing the countryside in England in wide screen. This film is absolutely ready for a remake ... and hopefully, someone will make it properly. I am willing to even see this film with popular actors who can be dubbed successfully.
shareKing Arthur: Kelsey Grammer
Guenevere: Emmy Rossum/Audra McDonald
Lancelot: Josh Grobin
Mordred: Rufus Wainwright
Merlin: John Lithgow
Pellinore: Gene Wilder
Morgan LeFay: Bette Midler
Nimue: Celine Dion
oooooooh...Gene Wilder would be PERFECT as Pellinore!
"Hard as lightning, soft as candle light...dare you trust the music of the night?"
Yes, yes, yes! Josh Grobin for Lancelot! I have a question though, do Morgan LeFay and Lady Nimue actually sing?
shareIn the stage play, Nimue does- Nimue has a big solo luring Merlyn. Morgan LeFay never actually sings, but speaks in rhythm in a waltz with Mordred. Incidentally, Mordred has quite the solo too (The Seven Deadly Virtues). He's also featured on "Fie on Goodness," which wasn't in the movie and totally should have been. I was Mordred in my high school play this year, and I fell in love with the music :-D I wish more of it was in the movie- if there is a remake, I hope they include those songs! (maybe not "The Persuasion")
shareI saw a production of the play once where they used the script from the Broadway revival from the eraly 80s. It was funny---they got rid of the scene with Mordred and Morgan LeFey (which I think gave some needed comic relief to the second act). They just had Arthur and Mordred waxing philisophical in the woods like in the movie. Where Mordred convinces Arthur to stay in the woods to prove to him that goodness can triumph when the King is not in the castle to monitor the behavior of Lancelot and Guenevere.
There were a whole bunch of songs cut from the film:
The Jousts - COMPANY
Before I Gaze At You Again - GUNENEVERE
Madrigal - LANCELOT
The Seven Deadly Virtues - MORDRED
Fie On Goodness - KNIGHTS
King Arthur: Hugh Jackman
Guenevere: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Lancelot: Ewen McGregor
Mordred: Johnny Depp
Pellinore: Peter Boyle or the dad from Frazier
Merlin: Gene Hackman or Anthony Hopkins
3 knights: Orlando Bloom, Luke Wilson and Hayden Christianson