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August 22 2007

Director Seth Gordon suggests Nathan Fillion for A Fistful of Quarters. Gordon thinks Nathan would be good for a role in the forthcoming dramatization of the recently released documentary, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

They've also begun thinking about a dramatization of the documentary. The outline is approved and the film is eight weeks out from a first draft. "My first idea for Billy was Johnny Depp," Gordon said of the famously mullet-ed arcade legend. "Ed Norton I thought would be good. It's really not about the hair, it's about the eyes. It's got to be a real actor." For Wiebe, Cunningham said he's "partial to Greg Kinnear." Gordon suggested Nathan Fillion from the movie "Waitress."

UnpluggedCrazy | 00:09 CET | 8 comments total | tags: king of kong: a fistful of quarters, nathan fillion

This documentary [IMDB] is most excellent, IMO, and shouldn't be forgotten were a dramatized version be realized. A precedent is the likewise excellent Dogtown and Z-Boys [IMDB], the historic surf/skateboard documentary narrated by Sean Penn and re-visioned as the dramatized Lords of Dogtown [IMDB]. Btw, Nathan would be sporting a mullet. While this would be very amusing to see, I'd be horrified were he to be typecast... (perish the thought!)

napua | August 22, 00:40 CET

Make it Halo instead of Donkey Kong and Nathan would be in like Flynn...

zengrrl | August 22, 02:33 CET

Nathan would only do it if the film was updated to be about Halo.

The Dark Shape | August 22, 02:42 CET

I really want to see the documentary.

UnpluggedCrazy | August 22, 08:39 CET

I hate to be the one to tell you kids, but the Halo movie won't be happening, at least not anytime soon [Cinematical]. And besides, Nathan-as-Master-Chief would be shrouded in a helmet and full body armor most of the film, which IMO would be less preferable than the aforementioned mullet.

napua | August 22, 08:56 CET

napua; the article states they've thought of Fillion in conjunction with Steve Wiebe, the non-mulleted "good guy" of the film, not Billy Mitchell (the dude with the mullet). I was present at a Q&A Cunningham and Gordon did this weekend after the film, and Fillion's name was brought up for Steve there too, amongst others.

The documentary by the way is excellent.

Eric G | August 22, 09:27 CET

Oh, mea culpa. I read the article and glossed over that. I don't know, I instantly saw Nathan as Billy, in my minds eye. Next I suppose you're going to tell me that Nathan would play the A.I. Cortana in the aforementioned Halo movie.

napua | August 22, 18:09 CET

I dunno, napua...Peter Weller did some awesome work in Robocop, and he was in the armour for most of the film. Add in a few gratuitous scenes with the Master Chief's helmet being off and Nathan would certain get face time. Though from the descriptions I gleaned from the Halo novels, Adam Baldwin is physically built closer to SPARTAN-117 (aka John aka Master Chief) than Nathan is;)

BlueEyedBrigadier | August 23, 03:54 CET

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