{"id":612,"date":"2019-11-06T05:50:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/?p=612"},"modified":"2019-11-06T05:50:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:50:29","slug":"gender-swap-casting-road-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/2019\/11\/06\/gender-swap-casting-road-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Swap Casting: Road Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AKA Mad Max 2 in certain locales!)<\/p>\n<p>What is gender swap casting you say?<\/p>\n<p>Recently on Facebook, in the Wake of the recent and controversial Joker movie, I was inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/everywhereist\/status\/1134645039076823040\" target=\"_blank\">a tweet by blogger Geraldine DeRuiter who said the Joker should be a woman<\/a>. I asked my Facebook friends about a theoretical Joker movie with a woman playing the Joker and asked who they thought would be a really good female Joker. Some of the answers I got were Lili Taylor, Jane Lynch, Cate Blanchett, and Famke Janssen.<\/p>\n<p>Here I&#8217;m proposing a reboot of the Road Warrior movie, the classic early 80&#8217;s version starring Mel Gibson. If they were to reboot this flick, but swapped genders so it would be about Mad Maxine and a lot of homicidal survivalist women in the wasteland, who do you think would be a really good Road Warrior?  Who would play the Gyro Captain? Or Wez? Or Pappagallo?<\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t remember who those characters were. Pics below!)<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rw_rw.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Who would you cast to play Mad Maxine?<br \/>\nWhat woman could play a shotgun toting<br \/>\nbad ass in the post-apocalyptic world?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rw_gyro.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>How about the Gyro Captain? What wiry<br \/>\nand dangerous woman could be the pilot<br \/>\nof the unwieldy heli-whatever?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rw_wez.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Truly someone tough and scary would take the<br \/>\nWez role. Which woman would you choose to be the<br \/>\nhead psycho of the Humongous gang?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rw_pg.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this character&#8217;s name is Pappagallo, the<br \/>\nleader of the tribe fighting off the bad guys.<br \/>\nWhat woman could play Mammagallo, the leader of the desert<br \/>\ndwelling band of good guys?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rw_humungous.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The role of Humongous would probably be the hardest<br \/>\nto cast. Nevertheless, I bring up this character<br \/>\nto make it more challenging!<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AKA Mad Max 2 in certain locales!) What is gender swap casting you say? 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