Haven't seen Star Trek: Into Darkness since before I watched the actual show, so I can't really say if it would fix it, but it would be improved by removing the Cumberbatch of it all
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Yeah.
That was a really, really bad choice, especially considering how race-based casting became a huge issue around that time.
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Babygirl - Replace Nicole Kidman with someone who can still show emotion on their face
Star Wars - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith would both be infinitely better if a better actor than Hayden Christensen had been cast as Anakin Skywalker.
I also think Mads Mikkelsen was a terrible, awful replacement for Johnny Depp as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3. He's such a wooden actor and lacks the subtlety and nuance that Depp brought to the role.
In regards to Star Wars, I remember watching the behind the scenes documentary on the Phantom Menace DVD where you get to see them auditioning child actors for the part of Anakin.
Specifically, you watch them screen test the final three kids, one of which is obviously Jake Lloyd.
In my opinion he was second place of the three, I could never understand why George chose him.
Poor Jake Lloyd had a really tough time in life because of his involvement in Star Wars, sadly.
I think HC was only cast because he was a stereotypically hot guy, TBH. His acting is just atrocious all the way through. (Though he's acquitted himself way better in the new series as Anakin and Vader.)
There's also a very real problem of Lucas not really caring to get the best out of them, and for the younger actors it's disastrous. Natalie Portman is generally a bit better at picking solid projects than elevating them (IMHO), but she's every bit as bad as the Anakins in the prequels. Only the veterans who could draw on prior experience, and especially the British-trained theater actors, could work with the abstractions of the set and chew the scenery convincingly without a lot of helpful guidance.
On ANH, George was still a young Turk in naturalistic New Hollywood, and anyway he had exactly one mainstream success under his belt, so people could push back; there's also the sometimes exaggerated but very real contributions of the editing team picking good takes and splicing them together in a way that feels right, certainly in the moment. On ESB he did his best work by going with scriptwriters and a veteran director who'd done a dozen films. Even on ROTJ, the non-guild director was a guy who'd done a lot of intimate character work on British TV, and if the plot was straining under its weight, you still got solid line readings and some convincing emotion.
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I don't think there's really much of a way to fix the Bayformer films, they're quite stunk up from casting to production. I would just kick Michael Bay off from directing and hand it to someone, anyone, with credible creativity when it comes to sci-fi and robots.
Bayformer
Lol, I like that
Needs a bit more than just a re-cast, but it'd be a good start for Jupiter Ascending.
A re-conceptualisation and re-write would help a bit.
Redo The Adventures of Pluto Nash, but replace Eddie Murphy with Michael Cera from 2010.
Not a movie- but: stranger things