So which current footballers (or soccer players for all you yanks/aussies) would you like to see if they remade this film tomorrow?
As Vinnie jones is now an "actor" i'm gonna set the ball rolling with him.
As there are so few English footballers in the Premiership nowadays it would be hard to pick any.
Howabout
Cantona as a Free French soldier
Dennis Wise as chirpy cockerney corporal
Stuart Pearce as "The Tunnel King"
Sven Joran Ericsson as the evil Nazi major
Gazza as soldier who will "lose it" if he doesn't escape soon
Matt Damon in Sly Stone role
Ronaldo in Pele role
Jude Law in Michael Caine role
Put Beckham in it (sans shirt)and it will gross millions. Look at how well "Bend it Like Beckham" did - I'm sure a lot of it was down to the fact that his name was in the title.
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I'd have Ray Winstone in the John Colby role - a proper Hammer to boot!
shareyou need players past their prime, like pele, bobby morre etc were.
marco van basten as a dutch raf pilot.
les ferdinand as a royal navy sailor from the caribbean
david ginola as the pretty free french soldier who gets his face kicked in
marc wilmots as a..belgian guy
ally mccoist as the poorly dressed scot nobody understands a word of
igor stimac as the croatian
diegomaradona in the michael caine role (he does have the belly after all)
tony adams as the hard living working class guy
romario playing the pele role (poor imitation, but brilliant player anyway)!
brayan robson in the bobby moore role
paolo maldini playing something, (obviously he can't be an italian in this)!
russel crowe in the stallone role
hey this has to go over in america for tit to make money also given a " Modern Twist" so how about Putting Mia Hamm in it?,lol that probably the only footballer that every american knows, shame huh?
Having watched Didier Drogba dive all over the place all season I'd say his acting abilities are more than suited to this movie.
shareI'd suggest putting Tim Howard in the Sly Stallone role, but then the film would have way too much swearing in it.
And in the Nazi captain role, how about Malcolm Glaser?
its true...to sell it to the americans there needs to be a yank with a fake tattoo in it. I suggest Bruce Willis.
Theres any number of Germans to play on the dastardly Nazi team. Lothar Matthaus definitely has to be the captain. Janker always looked like a storm trooper to me, so he has to be in there, along with Hammann, Brehme, Hassler and Schuster.
Do an all female version with a prison theme similar to Brokedown Palace and highlight stars like Mia Hamm and others. Jodie Foster could have the lead role.
shareWeell if you're going to take former players in, I wouldn't take them in too old (like Pele or Mardonna, the just don't have the conditioning they used to).
I would aslo play players in their proper roles on the pitch..
So here is it goes:
NOTE: I have also decided not to have Brazilians in the team, as they never fought in world war 2. (Although some Portgueese and Irish did help in the war).
GK: Peter Schmeichel *
RB:
CB: Tony Adams
CB: Alan Hansen
LB: Dennis Irwin
RW: David Beckham *2
CM: Roy Keane
LW: Marc Overmars
AM: Zinedine Zidane
RS: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
LS: Eric Cantona
* (I would have picked Oliver Kahn, but I'd rather put him in the German team)
*2 (His career is near over anyway)
Gordon Strachan would make a fine cheeky wee Scots soldier.
shareI would cast an actor who is TALLER THAN FIVE FOOT THREE as the American Goalkeeper who was useless in every field position. Sylvester Stallone is so short, it amuses me that anyone would consider casting him as a goalkeeper. How hard could it be to put a penalty kick over his short little head and stubby little arms? He's practically a midget, er, "little person." So, I'd cast some big tall fellow. Sure, there are lots of good American goalies these days, but all of them are over six feet tall. Tim Howard can't act, he can't even control his facial expressions or outbursts (he has Tourette's Syndrome) so I'd go with Kasey Keller. He doesn't look like he'd be a great goalkeeper until you see him in action, and he speaks three languages, including German.
Plus he looks like a harmless old man, bald as can be, but plays like a champ.
Eric Cantona can ACT, by the way! He has good experience so I'd cast him as the striker.
I'd cast George Weah in the Pele role.
"Enough of that technical talk, Foo!"
"I would cast an actor who is TALLER THAN FIVE FOOT THREE as the American Goalkeeper who was useless in every field position. Sylvester Stallone is so short, it amuses me that anyone would consider casting him as a goalkeeper. How hard could it be to put a penalty kick over his short little head and stubby little arms? He's practically a midget, er, "little person.""
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Sylvester Stallone is about five foot nine, which is the average height for an (US)American male. "Stubby little arms"? Stallone has huge arms and I'm sure they could still snap you in two!