Here's one. Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko, made a film called Southland Tales. The cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Mitchell Gellar, Sean William Scott, Justin Timberlake, Nora Dunn, Janeane Garofolo, Christopher Lambert, John Larroquette, John Lovitz, Mandy Moore, Cheri Oteri, Amy Koehler, Miranda Richardson , Wallace Shawn, Kevin Smith, and many, many more.
The suspense/reveal of the director for #1 had me laughing out loud. (In part because I already knew the answer, having recently discovered the existence of the movie, though I haven't yet watched it.) Well done.
I couldn't sleep If I didn't mention the Cannonball Run series. Pèle Mèle : Roger Moore, Burt Reynolds, Farah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Sammy David Jr, jack Elam, Adrienne Barbeau, Football player Terry Bradshaw, Jackie Chan, Peter Fonda, Bianca Jagger, with the second one adding Telly Savalas, Shirley MacLaine, Tony Danza, Richard Kiel, Ricardo Montalban, Henry Silva, Frank Sinatra, Abe Vigoda, Fred Dryer, I can't name them all. It's not Casino Royale or Candy Level, but it's up there.
Mars attacks! has a weird all-star cast: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Paul Winfield, Pam Grierm, Jack Black
One of my favorite films stars Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Orson Welles, Richard Benjamin, Anthony Perkins, Bob Newhart, Art Garfunkel, Martin Balsam, Alan Arkin, Norman Fell, Bob Balaban, Charles Grodin, and Buck Henry. That's some great wacky casting.
I'm going to nominate Kelly's Heroes. Consider what that cast's reputations were when it was made in 1969... Clint Eastwood...famous for spaghetti westerns and just completing Where Eagles Dare and Coogan's Bluff. Telly Savalas...at that point he was an established TV guest star actor who was playing villain roles in OHMSS and The Dirty Dozen. Here he plays the cynical but wisecracking sergeant who cares for his troops and playing it broadly. Don Rickles...TV comedian famous for put downs and celebrity roasts. Donald Sutherland...From British TV to a scene stealing role in The Dirty Dozen, where he was only a supporting actor. The acting opposite of Eastwood and yet he creates this truly iconic role. And then you throw in Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin McLeod, Jeff Morris and Stuart Margolin because, hey, you can...this is a wisecracking war film with great set pieces and zinger dialogue.
I don't know how you can list off all the bizarrely random cast members of Candy and not even mention the original Gomez Addams himself, John Astin. Not only did he have a very meaty dual role of Candy's father and his twin brother, he somehow he somehow managed to shine with a really terrific performance in a movie that you wouldn't think wouldn't even give any of it's cast members any opportunity to show off whatever actual talent they might have.
How about 'The Magic Christian'? Perhaps its casting is equally as whimsical as 'Casino Royale' (1967) and 'Candy', but surely a film featuring Peter Sellers (again), Ringo Starr (again!), Laurence Harvey, Spike Milligan, John Cleese, Isabel Jeans, Dennis Price, Raquel Welch, Roman Polanski, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Hattie Jacques, Yul Brynner and Christopher Lee is worth consideration.
Catch-22. Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Alan Arkin, John Voight, Mr Roper... so many weird and wonderful castings. ...Sorry I'm late to the comments section as I just discovered your fantastic channel, why did it take so long to pop in in my recommendations?
You could include Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Just putting The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton in a movie with George Burns and Steve Martin and Aerosmith is bizarre enough - but at the ending there's a whole cornucopia of random performers all together singing the title song: Keith Carradine, Carol Channing (!), Tina Turner, Yvonne Elliman, Leif Garrett, Dame Edna, Heart, Chita Rivera, Connie Stevens, and on and on and on....
The first one I thought of was Myra Breckinridge starring Raquel Welch, Mae West and bitchy film critic Rex Reed... it also features Farrah Fawcett, Tom Selleck, John Carradine, Jim Backus and of course, JOHN HUSTON!
@@Moviewise Watching your video, when all the John Hustons started showing up, I thought for sure it was going to be there. He's like the icing on the cake... it's Rex Reed and Mae West that really places it in bizarroland for me.
Ohh. Ohh. Betty and I think "Virus" 1980, Japanese movie with Glen Ford, Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussy, Most Surprisingly its a very good ( the best ? ) End of the world movie.
The Boys from Brazil has an astonishing cast, but perhaps not quite varied enough to be called "random", given the consistently high calibre of most of its stars. The credits read like a Who's Who of all-time legends of stage and/or screen from across America, Britain and Europe... but also Steve Guttenberg.
Transformers. . .the 1986 cartoon. Er. . .Eric Idle, Judd Hirsh, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack. . . among others. AND Orson Welles, in his last movie Ever.
I witnessed one of these 'sorry wrong class' movies recently. The Devil's Rain from 1975. William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, Ernest Bornine and the mark (smear) of quality John Travolta! About satan worshipping in the desert. Also briefly features the self appointed head of the first ever church of satan Anton LaVey. ...Of course it's rubbish.
@@ingvarhallstrom2306 what is to debate? Do you really believe that the cast isn't random? I was only making a statement of provable demonstrative fact.
Mr. Moviewise, by the way you pronounced the stage name of Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé), I would venture to say that you are of Brazilian extraction...or have been hanging around folks of this nationality for some time....tô certo ou tô errado?
Tony Curtis and Timothy Dalton as men keen to sleep with 84 year old Mae West. Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, George Raft, Ringo Starr, Dom de Luise. No John Huston. You'll have to see him with West in Myra Breckenridge where there's also Raquel Welch and Farrah Fawcett.
