JACO- The Movie

[coolet5]

Killing some time at work waiting for some files and was thinking hey, why not?
Here is my casting:
Jaco- Johnny Depp
Evil Bouncer- the rock
Wayne Shorter- Denzel washington
Joni Mitchell- Gwyneth Paltrow
Joe Zawinul- Dani De Vito
Pat Metheny-?

Directed by Scorsese for extra drama and we good go.

[TN WOODMAN]

And Harvey Keitel as his coke dealer.

[coolet5]

Ok so for Pat Metheny role- the fat guy from" Lost", he got the hair just need to lose some weight.

[BigOldHarry]

Originally Posted by coolet5

Ok so for Pat Metheny role- the fat guy from" Lost", he got the hair just need to lose some weight.

HARSH!

[Rickett Customs]

Jaco: James Franco......put a headband and some hair, there you have it......


Or

Jaco: Chris Kattan (closer than James)

[line6man]

Originally Posted by Rickett Customs

Jaco: James Franco......put a headband and some hair, there you have it......

Bingo.

I was reading the Jaco biography about two years ago, and a guy asked me what I was reading about. I explained it, and then he commented that Jaco looked just like James Franco.

[BigOldHarry]

The thing about a movie like this is that the principle characters would have to be filmed playing music and NOT looking foolish. Much as it is with baseball movies, an actor who can't "Do" will look stupid faking it...

So you cast Johnny Depp or James Franco or whomever... they best get some bass lessons...

then gain, Keaneau Reeves already plays bass in his fine band "DogStar"...

Can you imagine - Neo as Jaco?

[colcifer]

Depp plays bass already IIRC and can look a lot like Jaco IMO.

Edit:

Have johnk make some '62 Js for him to hold and let his hair grow out and he'd do fine. I'm thinking Bobby Vega should do the bass parts: YouTube - Bobby Vega.

[coolet5]

Originally Posted by BigOldHarry

The thing about a movie like this is that the principle characters would have to be filmed playing music and NOT looking foolish. Much as it is with baseball movies, an actor who can't "Do" will look stupid faking it...

So you cast Johnny Depp or James Franco or whomever... they best get some bass lessons...

then gain, Keaneau Reeves already plays bass in his fine band "DogStar"...

Can you imagine - Neo as Jaco?

Mmm not sure about it... Keaneau can't act and Jaco was a great showman :-)

[joe vegas]

coolet5, this is exactly what work is FOR! good casting.

for the downtown coke-addled nyc "7th ave south" gig days, how 'bout
rainn wilson as mike stern
don cheadle as hiram bullock
ricky gervais as mike brecker (not accurate i know, but i can't think of anyone else with mike's look at the moment)

johnny depp might be getting juuuust a hair too old to pull off the "florida flash" days, but maybe not. he and franco would make excellent choices, however.

[cnltb]

doesn't one of his sons play bass?
Why not use him to play his dad?

[BigOldHarry]

so would you do this like "Bird" - him at the end, reflecting on his life... or just a section of his life?

[Tampabass]

Felix

[colcifer]

Originally Posted by cnltb

doesn't one of his sons play bass?
Why not use him to play his dad?

Felix, one of the twins, does play bass (and quite well: YouTube - Victor Wooten & Felix Pastorius) but you'd need to have some serious acting skills to play Jaco which is why I'd pick Depp.

[Tampabass]

and please, not Keanu, unless the role calls for just a blank stare.
plus, his DogStar band sounds like DogPoop. Or they did when I heard them years ago.

[groooooove]

Originally Posted by cnltb

doesn't one of his sons play bass?
Why not use him to play his dad?

i doubt anyone would want to play their father as a coke head maniac.

and besides, johnny depp would get more people to see it and love jaco afterwards

[coolet5]

Originally Posted by BigOldHarry

so would you do this like "Bird" - him at the end, reflecting on his life... or just a section of his life?

I would put the Evil bouncer in jail and go back to why is he there...

[PazzoBasso]

Please don't make it a musical!

[SallyGrowler]

I'm surprised there hasn't been a documentary about him.

No pompous H-wood types telling us why Jaco was great (which has somehow become the MTV/VH1 documentary format), but the people in his life with photo and vid.

Ken Burns type of docu, or as Clint Eastwood did with "Straight, No Chaser" about Monk.

[Tampabass]

my guess is that, if Hollywood can't get a Miles Davis movie off the ground (there have been numerous efforts), then a Jaco movie is never going to fly.