best cast mentioned so far.

Eww no. Call me shallow, but the whole time I was watching Bourne Identity I was thinking "Ass chin".

thurston-kevin spacey
lee-bill murray
steve-jack black
kim i have no idea...

have you seen anatomie, princess and the warrior, run lola run, blow? but talent does it for me too so maybe you are a little shallow......

Lee Ranaldo


Kim Gordon


Thurston Moore

i was just in marfa with the sonic and the judd and the aliens and i think the sun baked my brain through the car windshield... but i was thinking the cast of basquiat plays sonic youth:

David Bowie as Andy Warhol as Thurston Moore

Gary Oldman as Julian Schnabel as Lee Ranaldo

Dennis Hopper as Whoever He Was as Steve Shelley

Claire Forlani as Gina Cardinale as Kim Gordon

Benicio del Toro as Whoever He Was as Jim O'Rourke


.....the seinfeld version would probably be a lot funnier though.....

Wow, that could actually work... I mean if Michael Pitt can play Kurt Cobain...

... and just for shits and giggles Willem Dafoe plays Mark Ibold...

Pacino as Lee! YES!!
Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in!

Kim would be Gwenyth Paltrow.


Paltrow rules. Sylvia Plath and Margot Tenenbaums are like the best characters ever.

the sonic tenenbaums:

thurston: owen wilson
kim: gwenyth paltrow
lee: ben stiller
steve: luke wilson

only two more weeks till the darjeeling limited comes out!

My thoughts exactly...

thurston: ewan mcgregor
kim: scrlett johansson
lee: bill murray
steve: al pacino

Lets see. For Thurston, someone who is really tall with blond hair...

http://www.waynebesen.com/Big%20Bird.jpg

A young Kim Gordon for some 'early years' scenes? How about Alicia Silverstone or Sarah Ezer?

You know, a younger John Stewart would be perfect for Lee Ranaldo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx55TE93zlk

hahahahahaha pacino as lee!!! that would be badass!

Saskia Reeves for Kim?

Okay, this completely abandons the fun of this thread (matching the noise idols to appropriate or grossly inappropriate casting choices), but consider this for a moment.

What if there was a fiction film that chronicled the early days of Sonic Youth in the 1980's, say from their first gig to the first show with Steve Shelley, but every single person who has ever been in the band was played by THEMSELVES circa 2007.

This is a wild, self-consciously avant-garde, Luis Bunuel/Todd Haynes/Todd Solondz casting strategy, yes. But who else could actually pretend to be these human beings? Although as I hear it the guy playing Ian Curtis in the Joy Division movie is spot-on. As a final note, this very topic was considered in an interview that Mike D. recorded with the band once featured somewhere on this sight. Kim wanted Sarah Polley to play her.

as silly as this thread was spose to be, it seems like its prob going to be a reality with the new cobain film in the works.

so who really will play Sonic Youth?