Recast 'The Wire'

i kinda wish they had picked kadeem to play carcetti in retrospect
― what a horribly formed "joke"! (forksclovetofu)

Dean Winters would have made an awesome Carcetti.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel)

i would support a "recast the wire" thread.
― what a horribly formed "joke"! (forksclovetofu)

if you started it, I would contribute.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel)

Original Cast List (10 episode minimum):

Dominic West ... Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty / ... (60 episodes, 2002-2008)

John Doman ... Dep. Comm. for Operations William A. Rawls / ... (60 episodes, 2002-2008)
Wendell Pierce ... Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland (60 episodes, 2002-2008)
Lance Reddick ... Lt. Cedric Daniels / ... (60 episodes, 2002-2008)

Deirdre Lovejoy ... Asst. State's Atty. Rhonda Pearlman (60 episodes, 2002-2008)
Sonja Sohn ... Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs (60 episodes, 2002-2008)
Seth Gilliam ... Sgt. Ellis Carver / ... (60 episodes, 2002-2008)
Domenick Lombardozzi ... Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk / ... (60 episodes, 2002-2008)
Clarke Peters ... Det. Lester Freamon (59 episodes, 2002-2008)

Andre Royo ... Bubbles / ... (52 episodes, 2002-2008)
Michael K. Williams ... Omar Little (51 episodes, 2002-2008)

Jim True-Frost ... Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski / ... (50 episodes, 2002-2008)
Frankie Faison ... Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell / ... (47 episodes, 2002-2008)
Corey Parker Robinson ... Det. Leander Sydnor (45 episodes, 2002-2008)

Delaney Williams ... Sgt. Jay Landsman (45 episodes, 2002-2008)
J.D. Williams ... Preston Broadus (42 episodes, 2002-2006)
Wood Harris ... Avon Barksdale (38 episodes, 2002-2008)

Idris Elba ... Russell 'Stringer' Bell (37 episodes, 2002-2004)
Aidan Gillen ... Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti / ... (35 episodes, 2004-2008)

Jamie Hector ... Marlo Stanfield (32 episodes, 2004-2008)

Gbenga Akinnagbe ... Chris Partlow / ... (30 episodes, 2002-2008)

Robert Wisdom ... Howard 'Bunny' Colvin / ... (27 episodes, 2003-2008)
Chad Coleman ... Dennis 'Cutty' Wise (26 episodes, 2004-2008)
Anwan Glover ... Slim Charles (26 episodes, 2004-2008)

Michael Kostroff ... Maurice 'Maury' Levy (25 episodes, 2002-2008)
Michael Salconi ... Off. Michael Santangelo / ... (25 episodes, 2002-2008)
Tray Chaney ... Malik 'Poot' Carr (25 episodes, 2002-2008)

Isiah Whitlock Jr. ... State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis (25 episodes, 2002-2008)
Felicia Pearson ... Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson (25 episodes, 2004-2008)
Robert F. Chew ... Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart (24 episodes, 2002-2008)

Michael Ahl ... Detective / ... (24 episodes, 2003-2008)

Reg E. Cathey ... Norman Wilson (23 episodes, 2006-2008)

Jermaine Crawford ... Duquan 'Dukie' Weems (23 episodes, 2006-2008)
Tristan Wilds ... Michael Lee (23 episodes, 2006-2008)

Glynn Turman ... Mayor Clarence V. Royce / ... (22 episodes, 2004-2008)
Edward T. Norris ... Det. Edward Norris / ... (22 episodes, 2002-2008)
Amy Ryan ... Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell (20 episodes, 2003-2008)

Hassan Johnson ... Roland 'Wee-Bey' Brice (19 episodes, 2002-2008)
Gregory L. Williams ... Det. Michael Crutchfield (19 episodes, 2004-2008)

Al Brown ... Major Valchek / ... (19 episodes, 2002-2008)

Larry Gilliard Jr. ... D'Angelo Barksdale (18 episodes, 2002-2003)

Brian Anthony Wilson ... Det. Vernon Holley (18 episodes, 2002-2008)
Benjamin Busch ... Off. Anthony Colicchio / ... (18 episodes, 2004-2008)
Jay Landsman ... Lt. Dennis Mello / ... (18 episodes, 2003-2008)

Paul Ben-Victor ... Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos (17 episodes, 2003-2008)
Maria Broom ... Marla Daniels / ... (16 episodes, 2002-2008)

Frederick Strother ... State Delegate Odell Watkins (16 episodes, 2004-2008)

Kwame Patterson ... 'Monk' Metcalf (16 episodes, 2006-2008)
Thuliso Dingwall ... Kenard (16 episodes, 2004-2008)
Richard Burton ... Sean 'Shamrock' McGinty / ... (16 episodes, 2003-2004)

Ryan Sands ... Off. Lloyd 'Truck' Garrick (16 episodes, 2004-2008)
Peter Gerety ... Judge Daniel Phelan (15 episodes, 2002-2008)

Melanie Nicholls-King ... Cheryl (15 episodes, 2002-2008)

Richard DeAngelis ... Col. Raymond Foerster / ... (15 episodes, 2002-2006)

Cleo Reginald Pizana ... Chief of Staff Coleman Parker / ... (15 episodes, 2004-2006)

Brandy Burre ... Theresa D'Agostino (15 episodes, 2004-2006)
Leo Fitzpatrick ... Johnny Weeks / ... (14 episodes, 2002-2004)

Maestro Harrell ... Randy Wagstaff (14 episodes, 2006-2008)

Julito McCullum ... Namond Brice (14 episodes, 2006-2008)

Rick Otto ... Off. Kenneth Dozerman / ... (14 episodes, 2004-2008)

Michael Willis ... Andy Krawczyk / ... (14 episodes, 2003-2008)

Michael B. Jordan ... Wallace (13 episodes, 2002)

Doug Olear ... FBI Spec. Agent Terrance 'Fitz' Fitzhugh (13 episodes, 2002-2008)

Method Man ... Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff / ... (13 episodes, 2003-2008)
Megan Anderson ... Jen Carcetti (13 episodes, 2004-2008)

Pablo Schreiber ... Nickolas 'Nick' Sobotka / ... (13 episodes, 2003-2008)

Chris Bauer ... Frank Sobotka (12 episodes, 2003)
Neal Huff ... Chief of Staff Michael Steintorf (12 episodes, 2006-2008)
Dravon James ... Grace Sampson / ... (12 episodes, 2004-2006)
Shamyl Brown ... Donette (12 episodes, 2002-2004)

Callie Thorne ... Elena McNulty (12 episodes, 2002-2008)
Susan Duvall ... Assistant Principal Marcia Donnelly (12 episodes, 2006-2008)

Christopher Mann ... Councilman Anthony Gray / ... (12 episodes, 2004-2006)

James Ransone ... Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka (12 episodes, 2003)
Michael Hyatt ... Brianna Barksdale (12 episodes, 2002-2006)
Charley Scalies ... Thomas 'Horseface' Pakusa (12 episodes, 2003)

Jeffrey Pratt Gordon ... John 'Johnny Fifty' Spamanto / ... (12 episodes, 2003-2008)

Thomas W. Stewart ... Banquet Attendee / ... (12 episodes, 2004-2008)
Wendy Grantham ... Shardene Innes (11 episodes, 2002-2008)
Edward Green ... Spider (11 episodes, 2004-2008)

Dan DeLuca ... Professor David Parenti (11 episodes, 2006)

Chris Ashworth ... Sergei 'Serge' Malatov (11 episodes, 2003-2008)
Melvin Williams ... Deacon (11 episodes, 2004-2008)

Jeffrey Lorenzo ... Karim Williams (11 episodes, 2006)
Clark Johnson ... City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes (10 episodes, 2008)
Thomas McCarthy ... Scott Templeton (10 episodes, 2008)
Michelle Paress ... Alma Gutierrez (10 episodes, 2008)
David Costabile ... Managing Editor Thomas Klebanow (10 episodes, 2008)
Marlyne Afflack ... Council President Nerese Campbell (10 episodes, 2006-2008)
Bobby J. Brown ... Off. Bobby Brown (10 episodes, 2002-2008)
Keenon Brice ... Bug (10 episodes, 2006-2008)
Bill Raymond ... The Greek (10 episodes, 2003-2008)
S. Robert Morgan ... Butchie (10 episodes, 2003-2008)
Luray Cooper ... Nathaniel 'Nat' Coxson / ... (10 episodes, 2003-2008)
Kelli R. Brown ... Kimmy (10 episodes, 2003-2006)
Robert F. Colesberry ... Det. Ray Cole (10 episodes, 2002-2003)

Jennifer Rouse ... Whiting's Secretary / ... (10 episodes, 2003-2008)

Art Hall ... Reporter (10 episodes, 2008)

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^^^ good Rawls maybe

The Wire, (1977)

Elliot Gould - Det. James McNulty
Sidney Poitier - Avon Barksdale
Richard Pryor - Bubbles

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McNutty

Gene Hackman as Rawls.

1977 cont.

Wlater Matthau - Rawls
Pam Grier - Kima Griggs

xp - I like Hackman Batter!

Young Denzel as Avon

Ossie Davis as Bunk

Clint Eastwood as Clay Davis

Idris Elba as Lt. Daniels -- that way he makes it through all 5 seasons

Clint could be a white Daniels.

Braugher as Bunk would've been interesting
DJ Qualls as Pryzbo

young denzil as d'angelo

in the Mamet version - Ricky Jay as Lester

I can't come up with whole casts for Mamet/Mann/Tony Scott/Oliver Stone, but if you combined all four...

Finding a black actor to play Omar's gay scenes in 1977 would be...challenging.

I take it back, this man should be McNulty
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s. epatha merkerson as marla daniels

I don't think Denzel ever looked young enough to play D'Angelo. But I don't really remember him from before the early '90s.

Ice Cube takes Method Man's spot.

i see denzel as more of a stringer, probably because i watched american gangster.

xpost dude is just as one-note; don't know if he woulda been much of an improvement. Would've been McHissy!

marcia gay harden as d'agostino

and mary louise parker as jen carcetti

xp - he wouldn't have had the same accent problems, plus I'd rather look at him scantily clad.

Wire 1948

Humphrey Bogart - McNulty
Edward G. Robinson - Avon Barksdale
Ida Lupino - Keema
James Cagney - Marlo
Orson Welles - Prop Joe
Peter Lorre - Bubbles
Groucho Marx - Omar

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Bubbles

xpost I am down with anything that casts Dean Winters in anything

Jerry Seinfeld - McNulty
Michael Richards - Carver
Jason Alexander - Herc
Julia Louise Dreyfus - Kima
Wayne Knight - Stringer Bell

I don't think some of you are taking this seriously!!!

the dude who played Adabisi in Oz could do Omar's gay scenes.

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cast all these guys

Samuel L Jackson as Bunny Colvin

guy in the cap looks like OG McNulty but with a little extra Ioan Gruffudd

yes howie mandel would make a great mcnulty

like a mad max mcnulty

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No, not Howie Mandel ... please, no.

too late

re 1948, I see McNulty as more of a John Garfield type. "Curly top!"

Conrad, could we compromise and pick another actor from a TV medical drama -- George Clooney? Do not want to see that much Howie Mandel -- either in terms of time on screen or his butt.

Maybe Bogie would be a better Freamon xpost

McNulty - Seth Rogen
Bunk - Jonah Hill
Lester - Adam Sandler
Carver - Paul Rudd
Herc - Jason Segel
Prez - Michael Cera
Kima - Leslie Mann
Daniels - Steve Carell

David Morse (right-hand side of St. Elsewhere) could pull off McNulty

Jonah Hill is Herc

Jason Segel = Daniels. He's not averse to getting naked/almost - though presumably not as ripped as the real actor.

wrong color

leslie mann is no kima.

love the cera prez though!

Man, how much of a pussy would you have to be to get your eye pistol whipped out by George Michael Bluth?

McNulty - Seth Rogen
Bunk - Jonah Hill
Lester - Adam Sandler
Carver - Paul Rudd
Herc - Jason Segel
Prez - Michael Cera
Kima - Leslie Mann
Daniels - Steve Carell

would definitely watch

would not watch

but it would be FUNNY

why is omar little banned?

Bunny Colvin - Charles S. Dutton
Sgt. Jay Landsman - George Wendt
Bubbles - Giancarlo Esposito
Marlo Stanfield - Anthony Mackie
Lester Freamon - Tim Reid
Proposition Joe - Prince Be from PM Dawn

Bunk - the fat kid from Goodburger

Sgt. Jay Landsman - George Wendt

so otm! or maybe goodman? but i think wendt's a better choice. and then ratzenberger could be that drunk detective. or the one that switched to the western.

George W. Bush as Rawls
Al Gore as prez
Hillary Clinton as Kima
Collin Powell as Daniels
Barack Obama as Omar
Joe Biden as Bubbles
Karl Rove as Herc

William Shatner - McNulty
Leonard Nimoy - Freamon
DeForest Kelley - Bunk
Nichelle Nichols - Griggs
Walter Koenig - Herc
George Takei - Carver
James Doohan - Presbelewski
Majel Barrett - Perlman
Ricardo Montalban - Avon
Roger C Camel - Prop Joe

McNulty - Ted Danson
Prez - Woody Harrelson
Beadie - Shelly Long
Kima - Rhea Perlman
Lester - Kelsey Grammer
Rhonda Pearlman - Kirstie Alley

Leslie Nielsen as McNulty
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as Daniels

Sarah Jessica Parker - Lester
Kim Cattrall - McNulty
Kristin Davis - Carver
Cynthia Nixon - Bunk
Chris Noth - Avon
John Corbett - Marlo

Blanche - McNulty
Sophia - Lester
Dorothy - Carver
Rose - Prez

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was considering Gilligan's Island but couldn't decide what to do with Luvvey.

Ned Raggett as McNutty
Momus as Marlo

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Marlo

aaaaand we're down the rabbit hole.

ERnie - McNulty
Bert - Daniels
Oscar - Landsman
Kermit - Freeman
Grover - Prez
Snuffleupagus - Omar

bill murray - mcnulty
dan aykroyd - the bunk
harold ramis - lester
ernie hudson - herc
rick moranis - landsman
sigourney weaver - rawls

While I don't approve of the direction this has taken, the idea of Grover as Pryz is crackin' me up.

Actually, Ernie Hudson would be good as Burrell.

I think if Grover is Presbo, then Elmo is Dookie.

oops

rick moranis - prezbo
slimer - landsman

Dotcom at McNutty
Grizz as Bunk
Denis Duffy as Landsman
Liz Lemon as Kima
Jack at Daniels
Twofer as Carver
Frank as Herc
Lutz as Frank Sobotka
Pete as Lester
Kenneth as Prez
Jenna as Caroline Massey
Jonathon as Sydnor

an animated penguin as McNulty
a talking car as Bunk
a sad-eyed robot as Rhonda Pearlman
a plant as Landsman
a singing fish as Lt Daniels
a bee as Commissioner Burrell
three slices of provolone as Herc

howie mandel as levy

okay, I'll give you Howie in that role.

: )

sid james as mcnutty
kenneth williams as lester
barbara windsor as kima
charles hawtrey as prez
bernard breslaw as bunk
kenneth connor as carcetti
Leslie Philips as daniels
jim dale as bubbles

working title: carry on a'ight

what is it called in Finland?

Bunk - the fat kid from Goodburger

misread this as "the fat kid from Goonies"

Cyclops - Bunk
Prof X - Carcetti
Magneto - Royce
Wolverine - McNulty
Storm - Kima
Jean Grey - Ronnie
Cable - Daniels
Pryzbo - Iceman
Nightcrawler - Carver
Collosus- Herc
Beast - Lester
Stryker - Avon
Mr Sinister - Stringer
Sabretooth - Chris
Lady Deathstrike - Snoop
Apocalypse - Marlo
Toad - Bodie
X-Man - Namond
Maggott - Bubbles
Gambit - Omar

McNulty - Tracy Morgan
Bunk - Chris Rock
Freamon - Phil Hartman
Herc - Chris Farley
Carver - Tim Meadows
Greggs - Nora Dunn
Prez - Dana Carvey
Pearlman - Victoria Jackson
Bubbles - Adam Sandler
Omar - Eddie Murphy
Carcetti - David Spade
Rawls - Jon Lovitz
Burrell - Kenan Thompson

The Wire - Australian style?

Richard Roxburgh - Rawls
Gary Sweet/Tony Martin - McNulty
Mick Molloy - Bunk
Steve Bingley - Carcetti
Lucky Grills - Landsman

...and then I get stuck.

"Steve Bingley'...grr...I meant Bisley.

Bill Hunter as Freamon
Matthew Newton as Prez

The Entire Cast Of Underbelly as Various Hoppers

make Wayne Hope Carcetti and put Kym Gyngell in as Norman

Kate Fischer as Nicky Sobotka's gf

Bill Hunter as Freamon - hahah nice one

Frankie J Holden as Stan Valchek
Collette Mann as Delonda
Noah Taylor as Ziggy
Aidan Young as Nicky Sobotka
Jon English as Walon

this thread got sooooo much better than it started