A Walk in the Woods, Nolte seems perfect, but Robert Redford as Bill Bryson???

[Muse]

I haven't seen it (I read the book over the summer, have read another Bryson book, A Short History of Nearly Everything). I saw a photo in the paper of Redford and Nolte from the movie and I have to say that Nick Nolte looks like the perfect Stephen Katz, but Robert Redford strikes me as a totally miscast Bill Bryson. There's just no way in the world he could pull that off. He has the alliterative name, but the personality? Nope.

 

[pyonir]

It's Nolte, I think.

But, I wasn't pleased with the casting choices. I haven't seen it yet either, but reading the book I kept picturing Simon Pegg (as Bryson) and Nick Frost.

I'll still see it at some point (probably not in the theater though).

 

[JamesV]

Robert Redford is miscast as anything except maybe an alcoholic lecher imo.

Saw him in that flick where he's on a boat and it was terrible; Pee Wee Herman would have made that a better movie.