Who would play Sonic Youth in a Film?
 

Laying on my sofa with nothing better to think about, wondering what actors might play the yoof if a film was made about them. It's really difficult because none of them are young enough for the current Hollywood brat pack, so maybe if the fim concentrated on their 80s era.

Thurston: Kiefer Sutherland
Kim: Elisabeth Shue
Lee: Michael Rooker
Steve: Christian Slater

The Dandy Warhols





















or
Kim: Uma Thurman
Steve: Daniel Radcliffe
Lee: Robert De Niro
Thurston: Ben Affleck
http://www.geffen.com/artist/player/...aid=334&bhcp=1
The band actually dicusses who would play who in this awesome and hilarious interview

kevin bacon as thurston? he's not that tall tho, hehe.

I always thought that Clive Owen in Sin City looked a bit like Lee, but if it were sunny then he wouldn't.

Jason Alexander as Steve Shelley
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Kim Gordon
Jerry Seinfeld as Lee Ranaldo
Michael Richards as Thurston Moore

I've figured out who would play Kim Gordon. Totally Jodie Foster... Now for the other 3...

Sam Riley played Mark E. Smith in 24 Hours Party People and Ian Curtis in Control; could play anyone with wide eyes - Lee.
Jim Carrey as Thurston - great stage banter scenes.
Julianne Moore as Kim.
Ringo Starr without the beard as Steve (anyone saw any Ringo's pictures?).
Elijah Wood as Jim O'.
Alan Smithee to direct.

And anonymous to write? :confused:

EDIT: But I agree, Jim Carrey might be able to pull it off...

thurston - john cleese
lee - ernie wise
kim - joanna lumley
steve - ronnie corbett

Thurston - Carrot Top
Kim - Jessica Alba
Lee - Jamie Foxx
Steve - Vin Diesel

Ouh yeah, Carrot Top and Jessica Alba making out as Thurston and Kim... I'd totally pay to see that...

mcauley culkin as t-daddy
that harry potter dude as steve
courtney love as kim (LOL PSYCHE!) maybe winona ryder?
harrison ford as lee

franka potente as kim
i'm liking daniel radcliffe as steve
and i'm lost for lee and thurston (pesci and deniro)
directed by scorcese

Kim could be played by ex-minister of Labour of Slovakia, named Iveta Radicova:



It might not be that obvious from this picture, but the resemblance is unbelievable.

Yes, there's something in her eyes, hair and skin...
Was she kicked out because Sonic Youth ain't too famous in the country, to be replaced by a Celine Dion lookalike?
My bet is there's no connection though...

She was kicked out because she was a member of pro-reformist goverment party, that lost in the past election and then this communist asshole came in to rule in our country:

Sorry to learn that.
He would play a drunken asshole in the film; he'd bark with Sarkozy; then they'd puke and shit themselves.

hehe, good shot. exminister, but her original profession is actress actually. that's true.

franka potente is a good one.

best cast mentioned so far.

Eww no. Call me shallow, but the whole time I was watching Bourne Identity I was thinking "Ass chin".

thurston-kevin spacey
lee-bill murray
steve-jack black
kim i have no idea...

have you seen anatomie, princess and the warrior, run lola run, blow? but talent does it for me too so maybe you are a little shallow......

Lee Ranaldo


Kim Gordon


Thurston Moore

i was just in marfa with the sonic and the judd and the aliens and i think the sun baked my brain through the car windshield... but i was thinking the cast of basquiat plays sonic youth:

David Bowie as Andy Warhol as Thurston Moore

Gary Oldman as Julian Schnabel as Lee Ranaldo

Dennis Hopper as Whoever He Was as Steve Shelley

Claire Forlani as Gina Cardinale as Kim Gordon

Benicio del Toro as Whoever He Was as Jim O'Rourke


.....the seinfeld version would probably be a lot funnier though.....

Wow, that could actually work... I mean if Michael Pitt can play Kurt Cobain...

... and just for shits and giggles Willem Dafoe plays Mark Ibold...

Pacino as Lee! YES!!
Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in!

Kim would be Gwenyth Paltrow.


Paltrow rules. Sylvia Plath and Margot Tenenbaums are like the best characters ever.

the sonic tenenbaums:

thurston: owen wilson
kim: gwenyth paltrow
lee: ben stiller
steve: luke wilson

only two more weeks till the darjeeling limited comes out!

My thoughts exactly...

thurston: ewan mcgregor
kim: scrlett johansson
lee: bill murray
steve: al pacino

Lets see. For Thurston, someone who is really tall with blond hair...

http://www.waynebesen.com/Big%20Bird.jpg

A young Kim Gordon for some 'early years' scenes? How about Alicia Silverstone or Sarah Ezer?

You know, a younger John Stewart would be perfect for Lee Ranaldo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx55TE93zlk

hahahahahaha pacino as lee!!! that would be badass!

Saskia Reeves for Kim?

Okay, this completely abandons the fun of this thread (matching the noise idols to appropriate or grossly inappropriate casting choices), but consider this for a moment.

What if there was a fiction film that chronicled the early days of Sonic Youth in the 1980's, say from their first gig to the first show with Steve Shelley, but every single person who has ever been in the band was played by THEMSELVES circa 2007.

This is a wild, self-consciously avant-garde, Luis Bunuel/Todd Haynes/Todd Solondz casting strategy, yes. But who else could actually pretend to be these human beings? Although as I hear it the guy playing Ian Curtis in the Joy Division movie is spot-on. As a final note, this very topic was considered in an interview that Mike D. recorded with the band once featured somewhere on this sight. Kim wanted Sarah Polley to play her.

as silly as this thread was spose to be, it seems like its prob going to be a reality with the new cobain film in the works.

so who really will play Sonic Youth?