Chris Evans Replacing James Franco In ‘The Iceman’

COMMENTS (19)

• Is this bizarro world casting? Franco/Evans as Shannon’s mentor?

  Comment by whatup — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 12:29pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yes. Chris Evans in Captain America was a revelation; subtle, earnest, charming; not one whiff of the douchebagery he oozed in Fantastic 4. The kid is actually quite good, glad to see him getting cooler parts.

  Comment by HappyDance — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 1:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yes! I can officially scratch this from my can’t wait to see list.

  Comment by Lonnie "Pink Toes" Santucci — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 1:43pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Yea I have deffinately been waiting for this movie for about 20 years now. If I had’nt seen the test scene for this movie I would probably agree with most of you who believe that the roles were miscast. I mean the should have gotten John Carroll Lynch to play Kuklinski throw a beard and stache on him and he is Kuklinski. But the scene was so good you could actualy feel the fear and paranoia in it. I believe the actors chosen will do just fine,except they should have kept Michael Wincott as Robert “Mr. Softee” Pronge

    Comment by Dana Druff — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 7:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Shannon is currently my favorite actor. Just keep him away from small children and expectant mothers.

  Comment by ONEandDONE — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 2:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• Shennon – two fingers up. amazing actor.

  Comment by yu-ma — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 7:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• @whatup, I’m glad you were the first post. I haven’t read the script but had the exact same reaction.

  Comment by c — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 8:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• This all sounds good until you get to the Millennium Films/Nu Image part. They manage to attract great actors with hefty sums of money for loser films.

  Comment by Mike D — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 9:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• Franco is the same in any role, and despite his James Dean’ish looks, he has all the charisma and acting talent of pocket lint… so I’m glad to see Evans who (as HappyDance put it) is “subtle, earnest, charming” take over his role.

  I’m calling it right now… Oz: The Great and Powerful will be a monster flop with (and because of) Franco in the lead role.

  Comment by FrancoSpaghettiO — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 9:59pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I’m calling it right now…Oz: The Great and Powerful will be a MONSTER MONSTER HIT, because of James Franco in this epic lead plus the rest of the excellent cast.

    We shall see who is right??? Remember, some people were wishing Rise of the Planet of the Apes would fail. I wonder what happened there…..mmmmmmmm!!!!

    Comment by mjrules — Tuesday November 22, 2011 @ 6:50am PST  Reply to this post

• Franco is extremely pretentious and talks about himself in the third person too much for my tastes. Also, not very talented.

  Comment by ls — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 11:06pm PST  Reply to this post

  • MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm Not very talented… You are right, anyone who can play James Dean and win a Golden Globe, star in Pineapple Express, Howl deserved an Oscar nod, Milk deserved an Oscar nod, receive an Oscar nod for 127 Hours and in my opinion should have won, steal the scenes in Date Night and Green Hornet, star in a movie with Robert De Niro in City By the Sea and be the only star in the movie to receive an award nod for Best Supporting Actor, give a great performance in Rise of the Planet of the Apes has no talent and that’s just a few movies noted.

    What planet do you live in??? We just have to disagree…

    Fantastic news for Chris Evans, I’m sure he will be a great replacement, I wished it was James Franco playing the part but hopefully, James doesn’t pull out of The Night Stalker.

    Comment by mjrules — Tuesday November 22, 2011 @ 7:12am PST  Reply to this post

• Glad you keep such an eye on James francs career spaghetti, little too close. You sound like a stalker instead of someone who’s opinion holds weight. Though really none posted here do

  Comment by Cheap pasta — Tuesday November 22, 2011 @ 1:00am PST  Reply to this post

• There should be more headlines like this concerning Franco. In fact, they should just create a generic headline like ‘Fill-in-any-actor replaces James Franco in fill-in-any-movie’. I’d be the first person in line to see those movies. I agree with FrancoSpaghettiO that the Oz movie will FAIL solely because Franco stars. Go back to one of your schools, James, and learn a different trade.

  Comment by Bob — Tuesday November 22, 2011 @ 6:15am PST  Reply to this post

• “Millennium Films/Nu Image is starting production on the picture next month.”

  It’ll be interesting to see if this actually happens now that Maggie Gyllenhal’s rep just confirmed she’s pregnant. Depends on the actual shooting schedule I guess, and how pregnant she actually is.

  Comment by bethylated — Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 1:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• Ooh, can’t wait to see it ! Another movie with C.Evans, I’m so glad ! I loved him so much in “Puncture”, before this movie, I didn’t realise how talented he is.
  Shannon/Evans = Jackpot

  Comment by Maxiie — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 5:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Everytime I see a picture of C.Evans, I got in my head the song of Two harbors “Free Now”… Don’t ask me why ! http://www.deezer.com/fr/music/two-harbors/make-it-alright-1192294

  Comment by x — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 6:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• i actually dont get it if chris have replaced franco for the respective role then franco’s out or he’s just bagged some other character in the movie or he’s just lost the role. I saw a lot of sites james franco is very much in the movie he is playing Marty. Is it true ?? do u guys have any info?? coz i’m dying to see both this hotties together in a film.

  Comment by ss — Monday July 9, 2012 @ 4:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• Yea I have deffinately been waiting for this movie for about 20 years now. If I had’nt seen the test scene for this movie I would probably agree with most of you who believe that the roles were miscast. I mean the should have gotten John Carroll Lynch to play Kuklinski throw a beard and stache on him and he is Kuklinski. But the scene was so good you could actualy feel the fear and paranoia in it. I believe the actors chosen will do just fine,except they should have kept Michael Wincott as Robert “Mr. Softee” Pronge

  Comment by Dana Druff — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 7:01pm PDT  Reply to this post