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Blackadder Cast Challenge

Started by Rev+, August 25, 2021, 02:37:41 AM

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Rev+

Alright, fan yourself and have a bit of a sit down, this isn't something that's actually happening.  Just a bit of fun, this.

Every couple of years there's talk of a new series, with Tim McInnerny being the only one with the self-awareness to say they're all too old to bring it back again.  Nothing ever happens because it never will, but with an entirely fresh cast who would you pick?  Let's just go Edmund, Baldrick and Percy for starters.  Elizabeth I from Blackadder II is out of bounds as it would so obviously be Tilda Swinton.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Edmund Blackadder - Carl Fogarty
Baldrick - Goldust
Percy - Davis Love III

frajer

Blackadder - Toby Jones
Baldrick - Mackenzie Crook
Percy - Simon Farnaby

All supporting and guest roles played by other Detectorist cast members.

Pink Gregory

I see Toby Jones in more of a Melchett role, but less mad and more of a snivelling brown noser.


Lisa Jesusandmarychain

Can I shock you? I think it's time for an all- female "Blackadder" cast.
Blackadder- That actress who appears with Stephen Graham in the forthcoming " Help" drama thingy ( excellent face-pulling abilities).
Baldrick- Sarah Hadland.
Percietta- That tall comedienne what was in the first " Inbetweeners" film, the thick one got off with her.
Lady Melchett- Rebecca Front.

That'd work, wouldn't it?



Brundle-Fly

Fifteen years ago?

Blackadder - Reece Shearsmith
Baldrick - Steve Pemberton
Percy - Mark Gatiss
Melchett - David Warner
Queenie - Michelle Gomez
Nursie - Debbie Chazen
George - Miles Jupp
Flashheart - Kevin Eldon

KennyMonster


Why does it have to be a re-boot?

I find re-boots a bit of a cop out, its admitting that the previous 'boot' was sub-par isn't it?

Can't they just wire-up the corpse of Rowan Atkinson to the mains so its limbs jerk and flail randomly and everyone else just improvs around the randomly generated gyrations in order to form a plot?[nb]also it'll make the set smell of hot dogs which is something that has been lacking from TV programmes of late (save for a few choice repeats occasionally on ITV3).
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Icehaven

#7
Blackadder - David Mitchell (basically already done it in Upstart Crow)
Baldrick - Jamie Demetriou
Percy - Robert Webb
George - Jack Whitehall (No I can't generally stand him either but he gave good posh and stupid in Fresh Meat.)
Melchett - Peter Capaldi
Flasheart - Matt Berry
Queen Elizabeth - Diane Morgan. Well if she was a bit more versatile.

Icehaven

Quote from: KennyMonster on August 25, 2021, 09:49:25 AM

Can't they just wire-up the corpse of Rowan Atkinson to the mains so its limbs jerk and flail randomly and everyone else just improvs around the randomly generated gyrations in order to form a plot?

Well for a start he'd have to die first.

frajer

Quote from: Pink Gregory on August 25, 2021, 07:59:47 AM
I see Toby Jones in more of a Melchett role, but less mad and more of a snivelling brown noser.

True he'd make a great Melchett. But pop a sexy little beard on him and I think he'd be a cracking Edmund.

Pink Gregory

Katy Wix as Nursie

Judging entitely from her character in Ghosts

Norton Canes

Blackadder - Lawrence Fox
Baldrick - Neil Oliver
Percy - John Cleese
Melchett - Ian Botham

idunnosomename

A bunch of 1M+ subscriber Youtubers none of us have ever heard of

Cuellar

Blackadder - James Blunt
Baldrick - Ralph Fiennes
Percy - Ranulph Fiennes
Melchett - Steve McLaren

Jittlebags

Quote from: Cuellar on August 25, 2021, 10:41:34 AM
Blackadder - James Blunt
Baldrick - Ralph Fiennes
Percy - Ranulph Fiennes
Melchett - Steve McLaren

Serpent in closing credits - Casper

bgmnts

Blackadder - Robert Downey Jr
Baldrick - Mark Ruffalo
Percy - Tom Hiddlestone
Melchett - Jeremy Renner
Queenie - Scarlets Johansson

Blackadder - Matt Berry
Baldrick - Mackenzie Crook
Percy - Stephen Merchant
Melchett - Geoff Capes

Video Game Fan 2000

Blackadder - Limmy
Baldrick - Limmy
Percy - Limmy
Melchett - Mr Blobby

Video Game Fan 2000

Blackadder - Ashens
Baldrick - Taylor Swift
Percy - Paul Joseph Watson
Melchett - A C Grayling

lipsink

Blackadder - Sylvester Stallone
Baldrick - Dolph Lundgren
Percy - Terry Crews
Melchett - Steve Austin
Queenie - Vin Diesel

KennyMonster

Quote from: icehaven on August 25, 2021, 09:55:44 AM
Well for a start he'd have to die first.

Yeah I know, but its not impossible.

Video Game Fan 2000

Blackadder - Klaus Kinski
Baldrick - Peter Falk
Percy - Limmy
Melchett - Takeshi Kitano

Leo2112

Blackadder - Matt Forde
Baldrick - Matt Forde
Melchett - Sir Ian McKellan

No other cast are in my version.

Icehaven

Quote from: icehaven on August 25, 2021, 09:54:47 AM
Melchett - Peter Capaldi

Dunno about this now. Melchett's difficult as (if we're not really counting the first series) he's got the most different personalities. He's all toadying and a bit wet in II but boorish and brash in Goes Forth. Weirdly of all of them he's the one I find it hardest to imagine anyone else playing.

Fambo Number Mive

Blackadder - Julia Davies  (Juliette Kaplan would have also been good in this role but she died in 2019)
Baldrick - Kathy Burke
Percy - Miranda Hart
Melchett - Sandi Totsvig
Queen - Roisin Conaty
Nursie - Izzy Suttie

Video Game Fan 2000

Blackadder - Sir Lawrence Olivier
Baldrick - Rod Steiger
Percy - Jean-Paul Belmondo
Limmy - Rowan Atkinson
Elizabeth - Setsuko Hara
Melchitt - Marlon Brando