Hypothetical: who would make good reboot actors?
Posted by RawrNurse@reddit | xena | View on Reddit | 50 comments
Ok, so .... IF a reboot were to happen, HYPOTHETICALLY,
Who would you cast to play your favs?
(Bonus question: who should write/direct?)
Seed0fDiscord@reddit
Xena- Claudia Doumit
Gabrielle- Ella Purnell
Joxer- Cameron Coperthwaite
Callisto- Erin Moriarty
Ephinany- Sophie Thatcher
Ares- Joe Manganiello
Aphrodite- Diane Guerro
Loa Ma- Constance Wu
Alti- Natasha Lyonne
Minya- Danielle Macdonald
JennaTheMaker@reddit
I think that Cameron Cowperthwaite suited as Ares, Joe Manganiello is too old to acting with casts 2 decades his age. I think Nick Hargrove as Joxer the Mighty.
Erin Moriarty and Sophie Thatcher should switch roles, because Erin is more suited as Aphrodite than Callisto. While Sophie is more suited as Callisto than Aphrodite.
RedwoodFox71@reddit
If there any casts of actresses and actors to be in a reboot, I want it to be an unknown actresses and actors to play the characters.
Just like how Lucy and Renee was, who was an unknown actresses, were not was not recognised anywhere else. Before they were us on a popular show.
ChippieChamp@reddit
I like the idea of unknown actors & actresses to plays the roles of characters in the show, rather than very knowing or well knowing actors & actresses to play in the Warrior Princess.
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
Me as Xena
EBJ1990@reddit
Can I be a villager that Xena saves?
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
Of course!
EBJ1990@reddit
Yay! Thanks! I try to aim small but it would be great to be involved.
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
I have been getting in shape so that someone will call on me to play Xena 😂 I sort of have her body…. about an inch shorter but I stretch every day!
EBJ1990@reddit
That's great! I've actually been doing the same thing even though I would never get cast as Xena (I'm a 4'10" woman lol). I got back into kickboxing and I picked up the bo staff and sai again. So if they need me to help with Gabby's weapons I am READY
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
Perfect! I need to step up my game. I’d rather have a 4’10 woman play Xena or Gabs if they can chuck fists and sais around than a 5’10 woman who can’t move
EBJ1990@reddit
Yeah that makes sense. But if you can keep it up you can be Xena and I can be Gabby (or an Amazon)!
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
Deal!
EBJ1990@reddit
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
I sure hope so 😂 I need a Xena friend
EBJ1990@reddit
Me too! lol We should start a weekly episode discussion thread on this sub.
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
Let’s do it!
EBJ1990@reddit
Yes please!
Latte-Catte@reddit
Not a bad idea 💡
EBJ1990@reddit
I would love it! I need a reason to break out my dvds again.
kittensbabette@reddit
Me as Xena's mom
Agent8699@reddit
I’d hope for mostly unknowns. I think any known actors / stars (whether A-listers or A-listers in the making) would potentially bring too much baggage with them to truly inhabit the roles of Xena and Gabrielle.
Sure, unknowns might be a bit … green, but I think that can work for both roles. Xena is uncertain about her new path of redemption and Gabrielle and naive and inexperienced away from home.
If I had to cast a big screen blockbuster that was being made tomorrow with the intent for it to appeal to the masses and fit the neat box they’d want to market it in, then … let’s go with Charlize Theron as Xena and … Joey King as Gabrielle and Anna Taylor Joy as Callisto : )
RedwoodFox71@reddit
That exactly what I commented on this post, having unknown actresses and actors to plays typically characters. Just like how Lucy and Renee were who unknown actresses, before they were cast in show.
Instead of having knowing or Hollywood actors and actresses to play them.
AssociationTiny5395@reddit
As much as id love to see a reboot that is a fully epic Sapphic fantasy. With all the sex and violence of greek mythology. I don't think there's anyone that can fill Lucy's shoes.
RedwoodFox71@reddit
Yes, with today movies and shows is nothing. But s3x, violence and abused now. Nothing is ever good now.
Definitely no one could fill Lucy, Renee & other casts shoe.
gaykidkeyblader@reddit
Let's see...I'd pick...Lucy Lawless for Xena and Renee O'Connor for Gabrielle. Actually just bring back everyone who we can bring back tbh.
Evilbuffy14@reddit
My thoughts exactly. If they chose other actors for Xena and Gabrielle, I think I'd actively boycott it. There can only ever be one Xena and Gabrielle.
DependentNebula5611@reddit
I agree with that, I could see them. Playing their older version of their characters in flush forward, while a younger actresses can play their typical young character’s version in the past.
KaidaStorm@reddit
I had this idea awhile back that they could just accidentally get new bodies but start in there current ones and be like.... well I guess these are us now, as a literal and metaphorical handing off the torch.
Pwaise_Hestia@reddit
Someone once suggested a reboot be them at current age reliving past memories, so it would be like a clip show. And I don’t hate it. Kinda like a coffee talk but in character. And they could just wander around the countryside as they always did, reminiscing. Or maybe it’s kinda film noir PI style where people come to them for advice/help, which reminds them of something they did before, then we watch them coach a younger person through the situation, and the young actors get all the action and wuxia stuff while x and g are free to be cute =]
Plane_Instruction885@reddit
I wouldn’t recast the show at all, it was too perfect, but if they decided to do so, I could see Gina Carano playing xena, in my opinion her character’s personality in the Mandalorian and xena’s personality are damn near the same in a way
beinndobhrain@reddit
Adrienne Palicki for Xena
Winter-Ad6197@reddit
I wouldn’t recast Xena and Gab. Delete the final episode. Have Xena and Gabrielle come back as an older version of their characters. Retired happy couple with a grown up child that they raised well with a great moral compass and with a lot of Gabrielle’s traits. Have that adult child meet and travel with someone else with a tortured dark past. Their kid could be the Gabby to another Xena.
RedwoodFox71@reddit
I would like to have alternate ending of AFIN. Where Xena ashes went into the fountain anyway and is restored, then jump skip into the future where are old now retired and live in Xena grandparent farm house.
With Gabrielle telling their Eve kid’s of their story to end the story.
ice_warrior_princess@reddit
Jason Antoon as Salmoneus.
AuntyEmfromOz@reddit
Never heard of him - Jason Antoon.
KaidaStorm@reddit
He's the NCIS Hawaii's "tech guy"
KaidaStorm@reddit
The main thing is I was sam raimi, Ted rapert, Lucy lawless, and Renee O'Connor to be involved behind the scenes because they truly understand the characters and what caused them to be successful.
Maybe even get Liz friedman and Michael Hurst.
If you have them involved, the actors and everything else will come together.
Overall_Sandwich_671@reddit
Melissanthi Mahut as Xena and Michael Antonakos as Toris
fishilips@reddit
Jessica Green as Xena. Might be too on the nose. :)
Sasuke1996@reddit
Idk but 1000% keep Bruce Campbell as Autolycus lol
OrangeClyde@reddit
I’m still mad that auto was unresolved on Xena, we never got closure after the time jump
Sasuke1996@reddit
Yeah that was upsetting. They could’ve went the Joxer route and gave him a son that followed in his footsteps and just shaved Bruce’s stache lmao. Literally ANYTHING besides just leaving it ambiguous
Jahon_Dony@reddit
Callisto - Anya Taylor Joy
DanieXJ@reddit
I'm not sure that a reboot would be the way to go though. It gets compared to the original, and, it's never as good. Period. Because, those who do get casted get stuck in a no win situation. Either they decide to act exactly like the original actors did, and get crap for that. Or, they do the opposite and decide to go entirely against everything that everyone loved about the original actresses. Not to mention, do you do the same exact stories, or do you do entirely new stories. If you chose to use some of the same storylines, then you get horrible stuff like the 'new gorn' in Star Trek Strange New Worlds, or you get the utter horror that was the 'reimagined' Klingons in Discovery's first season.
I get the feeling that when people are working in Hollywood, they want to make their mark. Doing the same characters, the same stories, that's not making their mark, so, we get the utter horror of the Star Trek Discovery first season Klingons... **shudder**
Now, a new story in the universe (probably set in the future, after the FIN time) with those related somehow to Xena/Gabs, etc. A kid, or a fan, or something along those lines would be interesting. And, then you do bring in the original actresses too. But, they can still keep living their lives and their careers, and, the young'uns can do the hard lifting of a TV series.
But, having another Xena, another Gabrielle, another Ares, but, played by other people. It will never turn out well, just as it usually doesn't turn out well in other IPs.
BlueSonic85@reddit
I don't want a reboot but if one were to happen, we could do a lot worse than Rhea Ripley for Xena
EBJ1990@reddit
It would be fun to see doing the riptide on people
EBJ1990@reddit
I would like to see Gina Torres as Xena, I'm not sure about Gabrielle, Gary Basaraba as Salmoneus, and it would be fun to see Steven Moffat to be showrunner.
FirebirdWriter@reddit
No idea for actors. For me that's something that requires auditions. Heath Ledger as the Joker exists because auditions. I thought it was bad casting at the time. I cried in the theater (my first public cry in my life). I am not sure if knowns is the way to go too.
For directors? It's always plural. So I look at the shows I like the cinematography on for this and... We'll see.
For writers? If I was medically able I want me to do it.
Ds9niners@reddit
Just make it a movie and let Taika Waititi do it I guess.