Summer Glau as a Charliie Angel? by KingEICHOLZ

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Summer Glau as a Charliie Angel?

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UPDATED: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:33
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 4:24 PM

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At first, the news that ABC would be remaking Charlie's Angels made me roll my eyes in annoyance at yet another remake, as I'm sure it caused most people to do, but after looking closer at the story, I kind of think it could be fun. Josh Friedman, former showrunner of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is writing and executive producing this remake as well, and he's actually a very smart guy, and a good writer, despite Terminator's storytelling missteps. At the very least, he writes women well, and as long he doesn't fall into the traps of turning Charlie's Angels into a character melodrama, as Fox's Terminator budget cuts forced him to on that show, this could be the kick-ass, female-driven, addictive series that Dollhouse was supposed to be, if they're careful, and if they cast it right. I can't write the scripts for them, but I can tell you who has Angel potential and who is Olivia Wilde (for example). Here are our Charlie's Angels casting hopes and dreams.

Yes:
Summer Glau
She's the best and most obvious casting choice for this by far -- beloved by geeks, has a professional history with Friedman, is beautiful, can actually act, and kicks butt like The Statham. I say smash your piggy bank and do whatever it takes to cast her if you're serious about making a decent Charlie's Angels, ABC.

Katee Sackhoff
The only woman alive who kicks on-screen butt harder than Summer Glau is Starbuck herself. And if they try and go the McG film route with the characters for familiarity reasons, she'd be a much more convincing biker chick than fricking Drew Barrymore ever was.

Grace Park
Battlestar's over and we didn't watch The Cleaner, so we miss her. I don't know how funny she is, but her action chops and acting ability are definitely worth considering.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 4:53 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Olivia Wilde is Thirteen on House. Number 1 on Maxim Hot 100 List in 2009. If you've seen House, you know who she is.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6:08 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

I knew who Olivia Wilde is and I've never seen an episode of House. She's a looker, she is.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6:45 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Yup. Loved her in The Black Donnellys.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:32 AM

ZEEK

The show runner of TSCC can write women well? That just makes me scared to wonder what Sarah Conner was supposed to be then. Cause she certainly wasn't a good character.

I can't really picture a good Charlie's Angels. I wish Summer could get on a show where she's just a dramatic character and doesn't need to be an action hero at the same time.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:30 AM

FARFLY

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Originally posted by Zeek:
The show runner of TSCC can write women well? That just makes me scared to wonder what Sarah Conner was supposed to be then. Cause she certainly wasn't a good character.

I can't really picture a good Charlie's Angels. I wish Summer could get on a show where she's just a dramatic character and doesn't need to be an action hero at the same time.

Sarah Connor in TSCC was pretty much the same character as Sarah in the first Terminator movie, without the muscular build.

Summer Glau in Firefly had very little "action" going on. She had more in Serenity but not much. What little I saw of Dollhouse had her with one arm in a sling most of the time. The best of her "action" was the dancing in Firefly, TSCC and Angel.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:33 PM

KINGEICHOLZ

Not much action? The fight scene she did in Serenity was excellent.

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