Well actually, those 8 people aren't the only ones protesting and raising hell with Rob Zombie. He has taken a bit of heat on the following sites:

Bloody-disgusting
Rob's own MySpace page
The Official Rob Zombie Halloween Myspace
Halloween/H2 Myspace fan pages
Daeg's official MySpace
Fangoria
Dread Central
Daeg's IMDB page
H2 IMDB page

There's a lot of heat from this controversial casting decision right now.

Batman has been recast 3 times now (including one reboot) since the 1980's.

Spider-Man is probably going to be re-cast after the next movie.

Iron Man will be the exception here, although there's only been one movie, and yes Downey Jr. did an awesome job, but it's still possible to recast him.

I mean within a series. Batman 1989-1997 is one series. Batman Begins 2005-Present is a different series. BF and B&R didn't work as well because of the replacements of Keaton, Burton, and Elfman. BF was good, but nowhere near Batman Returns, let alone Batman (1989). The less said about B&R, the better. :-) Val Kilmer was a good Batman in BF, but only second-best in that series to Keaton.

What if in TDK, Bale had been replaced? There may have been uproar over it. You can recast Rachel Dawes with Maggie Gyllenhall just fine, but recasting within the same series is hit-and-miss; you do not want to recast too many pivotal roles if the original performance was outstanding. There might be exceptions, such as having the Joker appear in a later installment within Nolan's universe; Heath Ledger can't help that he's deceased. It's sad and unfortunate, and it was one hell of a performance that deserved its Oscar. If the previous actor can still play such and such a role – and you're not doing a remake or reboot – why recast?

Young Michael Myers is one such key role whose actor and performance are very crucial to Zombie's series. 1978-2002 is one Halloween series, while 2007-Present is a separate series. If H2 were a reboot rather than a sequel, Daeg's exit might be taken better… or not.

Also about Polar Express, yes it's CGI/motion capture. What I mean is, if they can de-age Tom Hanks like that, why can't they de-age Daeg for H2? Technology can shrink him down in size. And more technology (or even helium! :-)) could help raise the pitch of his voice to a prepubescent level. I mean, why can't Rob take advantage of technology?

Because technology also costs money. Shrinking him down is similar to how they did the Hobbits and Gimli in Lord of the Rings, they'd have to shoot the people around him and the actor separately if they didn't just employ camera trickery. And if they went for the CGI route that'd be a lot of man hours to bill.


I imagine that despite the protesting, the recasting will go ahead as they planned and that Faerch won't be back for the sequel. And I'm still not quite sure how the example of Polar Express works here, because the CGI they'd need to de-age him if they made a 3D model would be incredibly complex, and would run the risk of looking pretty fake.

PF4Eva;136590
Also about Polar Express, yes it's CGI/motion capture. What I mean is, if they can de-age Tom Hanks like that, why can't they de-age Daeg for H2? Technology can shrink him down in size. And more technology (or even helium! :-)) could help raise the pitch of his voice to a prepubescent level. I mean, why can't Rob take advantage of technology?

I don't follow the comparison. How is that deaging when all they're doing capturing his motion movement? They didn't physically de-age his face for the film, since it was all CGI, so I really don't see the comparison here. The thing here seems that if the problem takes so much to overcome, they just don't want to do it. I mean, digitally change his size? Sounds lame.

Doctor Venkman;136521
The best part might be this (from the “petition”):



Batman has been recast 3 times now (including one reboot) since the 1980's.

Spider-Man is probably going to be re-cast after the next movie.

Iron Man will be the exception here, although there's only been one movie, and yes Downey Jr. did an awesome job, but it's still possible to recast him.

Oh, the “outrage” has been raised to 7 people now.

Don't forget, ‘Back To The Future’, when Robert Zemeckis replaced the original Jennifer with Elizabeth Shue (BIG mistake, IMHO). That one was REALLY obvious! And as far as remakes/reboots go, Hollywood can do us all a HUGE favor, and SHUV'EM!…except for GBs, of course!

rockstar232007;136593
Don't forget, ‘Back To The Future’, when Robert Zemeckis replaced the original Jennifer with Elizabeth Shue (BIG mistake, IMHO). That one was REALLY obvious! And as far as remakes/reboots go, Hollywood can do us all a HUGE favor, and SHUV'EM!…except for GBs, of course!

He didn't replace Elizabeth Shue. She had some personal issues that prevented her from reprising the role, so he had no choice but to recast her.

Peter Venkmen;136609
He didn't replace Elizabeth Shue. She had some personal issues that prevented her from reprising the role, so he had no choice but to recast her.

Not Elizabeth Shue, the original Jennifer, from BTTF 1.

Claudia Wells I think it was? The name escapes me. Either way it's the same case, she had personal issues, so he had no choice but to recast. It wasn't his first choice to replace her. It was kind of like the same case with Crispin Glover, only he wanted more money.