All right, some active OTL child actresses from the era who might be able to "pass" for about thirteen c. 1995: Christina Ricci, Michelle Williams, Anna Chlumsky, Claire Danes, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rachael Leigh Cook, Natalie Portman, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Alba, Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik, Kirsten Dunst, Jessica Biel, Anna Paquin, Lacey Chabert, Thora Birch, and Schuyler Fisk. That's all familiar faces, and assuming that you don't use someone considerably older for the part (which has always been par for the course in Hollywood). Or that you don't exercise your creative licence and cast an "unknown", which I might advise if none of these actresses fit the role.Alright guys, update either tomorrow or the next day. Right now, can I ask my readers what they think of my retcon in my last post, and who they think would be a good actress to play Carrie Kelly/Robin in a film based on The Dark Knight Rises in this era?
That "old friend" wouldn't happen to be the only collaborator of his who has an even worse reputation than he does at this point IOTL, would it?vultan said:He’d have a while to redeem himself (especially with the help of an old friend and an… interesting confirmation process).
Zemeckis I might argue suffers more from the George Lucas Effect: He stops making movies that people actually want to watch. Seriously, look at his filmography after Forrest Gump. It's a ghost town. Especially after he insisted on directing only motion-capture movies. That's when his career nosedived straight into the Uncanny Valley.vultan said:Of course, a less successful Forrest Gump might be helpful for Zemeckis in the long term, as it would help him avoid what I have dubbed the James Cameron Effect: the tendency of a movie director to slack off on making movies after creating a huge hit in the prime of their career. In Cameron’s case, that was his decade-long absence from directing after Titanic. In Zemeckis’ case… well, yeah.
(Note to apologists of his latter-day movies: I'm sorry. I'm glad you liked them, but their impact has been negligible at best.)
Here come the Men in Black! The Galaxy Defenders! Here come the Men in Black! They won't let you remember!vultan said:Your wish is my command.
Indeed, but worth noting (assuming that you're butterflying away his tragic accident ITTL, and how could you not?) is that he was finally beginning to move past his typecasting as Superman by the mid-1990s IOTL, and he might not cotton to being lured back to the role, even for material far superior to III and IV, except maybe for loads of money and (ironically) top billing. We're talking a Jack Nicholson-level deal, here. The studios may well balk.vultan said:It would be at least twenty-eight different varieties of cool, including several varieties that man has yet to discover even today.
Of course, with studio heads almost certainly trying to reboot the Superman franchise (presumably with a new leading man), a film featuring Christopher Reeves as Supes released at around the same time would be somewhat awkward.
Those creepy dinosaur puppets/animatronics are one thing I definitely do not miss about the 1990s (Hated the sitcom, too.)vultan said:Hmm, if it was live-action, would it be like a darker, grittier version of Theodore Rex?
Which I went to see in the Cinesphere IOTL, as a child, during its original release (on a class trip, no less!) I wonder if history might repeat itself ITTLvultan said:Toy Story’s still happening, btw.