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Mar11
Cast ‘UK Basketball – The Movie’
Filed under: Film, Sports, UK, Uncategorized; Tagged as: Ashley Judd, Billy Gillespie, DeMarcus Cousins, Dick Vitale, Ellen Calipari, John Calipari, John Wall, Lee Todd, Mitch Barnhart, Rick Pitino, Tom Leach, University of Kentucky men's basketball13 Comments
Big Cuz and Coach Cal: who should play them in a movie. Photo by Ron Garrison | Herald-Leader staff.
The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team has had a great season, dare we say cinematic?
Seriously, think of the storylines that could play out on the big screen:
- John Calipari in Memphis, deciding whether to take the job.
- The comeback story of the Cats, after having to settle for an NIT bid in 2009-2010.
- Recruiting John Wall and Demarcus Cousins to join the team.
- Wall’s meteoric rise to superstar.
- Calipari struggling to tame Cousins’ temper, and combating the refs who’ve made up their minds about him.
- All the high points: The visits by LeBron, Magic and, of course, Ashley. ESPN Gameday and a march to the … the … Well, we don’t know where the story ends yet. But, at Weekender Central, we’ve been kicking around some ideas of how to cast a movie about UK’s magnificent season.
Alec Baldwin as Calipari? We’re kind of liking it, but there have to be other ideas. How about Wall and Cousins – who could step into their Nikes? And Ms. Judd – does she play herself? We’re thinking maybe newly ordained best actress Sandra Bullock. After all, sports movies have been very, very good to her, lately.
Well we want your ideas for the UK movie cast. Here are the roles we want to fill:
John Calipari
Ellen Calipari
Mitch Barnhart
John Wall
DeMarcus Cousins
Ashley Judd
Dick Vitale
Lee Todd
Tom Leach
A scalper
Mascot
Rick Pitino
Billy Gillispie
Are there other characters we should include? Either comment here or send me an e-mail at rcopley@herald-leader.com, and have fun with it.
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13 Responses to “Cast ‘UK Basketball – The Movie’”
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John Calipari – Tom Hanks
Ellen Calipari – Julia Roberts
Mitch Barnhart – Andy Buckley (David Wallace from “The Office”)
John Wall – Usher
DeMarcus Cousins – Lebron James
Ashley Judd – Ashley Judd
Dick Vitale – Fred Willard
Lee Todd – Kevin Pollak
Tom Leach – Kevin James
A scalper – Liev Schreiber
Mascot – Jack Black
Rick Pitino – Al Pacino
Billy Gillespie – Kevin James
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John Calipari – Joe Pesci
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Billy Gillespie – Gary Sinise
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Nick Nolte has to play Gillespie…
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Wesley Snipes should play someone.
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I think Gary Busey should play Gillispie. Also, every hero needs a foil. I think our hero-team needs one in the form of an out-of-touch, crazy and curmudgenly sportswriter who is constantly trying to create scandal where there is none. For that role, the perfect casting would be Jerry Tipton.
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john s. March 11th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
josh harrelson could play mitch barnhart, vice versca
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Ann E. March 11th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
John Calipari – guy on Bones show on TNT – David Boreanaz
Billy Gillespie – Gary Sinese, as Roger said above
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Joe Pesci!
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Billy Gilespie-Charlie Sheen
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a scalper-Ducksey playing himself
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Connie hajash March 11th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Cameo appearance – Gomer Pyle as Matt Mitchell.
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John Calipari – Alec Baldwin or Juan Eloy Carrera
Ellen Calipari – Maggie Gyllenhaal or Lea Michele
Mitch Barnhart – Andy Buckley
John Wall – Anthony Mackie ( see The Hurt Locker)
DeMarcus Cousins – Lebron James
Ashley Judd – Ashley Judd
Dick Vitale – Dick Vitale
Lee Todd – David Morse
Tom Leach – John Carroll Lynch
A scalper
Mascot
Rick Pitino – Justin Theroux or Tony Shalhoub
Billy Gillispie – Justin Chambers or Rufus Sewell
