Daniel Radcliffe to play Sebastian Coe in movie "Gold"

I think it's good fit, as long as he can get the stride down.

Now I'm hoping for a Peter Snell biopic starring Neville Longbottom.

He was crap in Green Street

Once and Future wrote:

Good choice in terms of looks, terrible choice in terms of the fact he can't act and will therefore ruin the movie.

I posted a response earlier, but for some reason my name come up as dea ohm or something!

Anyway, Radcliffe was good in The Woman in Black, if you've seen it, and he has had v. good reviews for work on the London stage and for his performance in an up- coming film about the beat poets; can't remember it's name, something like "....... Darlings !"

From what I remember from Butcher's book and his interviews around the time of the film first being announced in the UK press, the film finishes at the climax of the Moscow Olympics. Of course they may have changed the original screen play.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

He was crap in Green Street

I'm pretty sure Daniel Radcliffe wasn't in Green Street!?

I think Bill Nighy would be excellent as Peter Coe and Luke Treadaway looks similar to Ovett IMO.

Balian wrote:

I am thinking Willem Defoe as Ovett.

Or Ralph Fiennes...

;-)

Needs to be the actor who played Malfoy.

I would like to see a movie about his Dad. His escaping from being led to a POW camp during the war and walking back home seemed like a good movie.

Paulson wrote: shots of him running:http://cdn01.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy-imgx/2/9/4/8/6/8/1/orig-2948681.jpg

Radcliffe is a heel-striker.

maybe too old now, but Jonny Lee Miller would have made a great Ovett. He is an athlete too.

http://l.yimg.com/os/251/2012/03/22/132621139-jpg_191208.jpg

Fred Gwynne wrote:

I would like to see a movie about his Dad. His escaping from being led to a POW camp during the war and walking back home seemed like a good movie.

No it wouldn’t.

Stories of PoWs escaping on the way to prison camps are ten a penny.

More interesting are those actually escaping from PoW camps, although that has been done to death in movies.

Coe senior wasn’t in that much peril anyway, had he not escaped, as only 2% of allied prisoners died in German prison camps during WW2 compared to the 34% who died in Japanese PoW camps.

Joe Binks wrote:One of the least popular athletes in Britain, (amongst athletes, not the press) I still think he should have been given a place in the British team for the 1500 at the 88 Olympics.

He missed out in the trials having picked up a chest infection training at altitude.

A half fit Coe would have won that year in one of the most mediocre 1500s in recent Olympic history.

Hell, our Peter Eliot got the silver running with cortisone injections for an injury in the final.

So that would have made 3 gold medals - sounds a bit better

hold your horses

rono's run was far better than given credit

solo last 2 laps & still finished with something in the tank in a 3'35 even with a

52.9 !!!

pretty damn sure he was in at worst 3'31 shape that day & perhaps even 3'30 if that had been on the circuit

i highly doubt coe was in anwhere like 3'30/3'31 shape even when fit that year

rono was a worthy champ that day as no one in that field had shown 3'30/3'31 ability that year

Bill Nighy is excellent in whatever he does. Great call for him as Peter Coe. That would indeed be a great fit.

Deanouk wrote:

I think Bill Nighy would be excellent as Peter Coe

Looks like Steve Ovett's old club Phoenix have an idea of who should play him, classic!

https://twitter.com/brightonphoenix/status/395694039648837632/photo/1

Rono barely held off an injured Elliott and a sub par Cram. It was nowhere near as impressive a performance as Moscow, LA or Barcelona. Coe wouldn't have considered going if he wasn't in at least 3:31 form. Just because he hadn't run that fast in 88 didn't mean he wasn't capable of it. If he hadn't run in Rieti right at the end of the season in 86, then there was little evidence from all his other races that year that he was in 3:29 form.

It's evident that Draco Malfoy's actor should be Steve Ovett.

Deanouk wrote:

I'm pretty sure Daniel Radcliffe wasn't in Green Street!?

I think Bill Nighy would be excellent as Peter Coe and Luke Treadaway looks similar to Ovett IMO.

Luke is 1.75 high....

As for Radcliffes new movie:

You can just type in radcliffe + darling in the adress bar and the full name of the movie will magically appear as a suggestion below.

“pretty damn sure he was in at worst 3'31 shape that day & perhaps even 3'30 if that had been on the circuit.” (quote)

Odd then that his all-time pb is 3.34.54 and he never won a major race either before or after that fluky Olympic win, despite him being only 21 at the time.

Scandinavian Fellow wrote:

Deanouk wrote:

I'm pretty sure Daniel Radcliffe wasn't in Green Street!?

I think Bill Nighy would be excellent as Peter Coe and Luke Treadaway looks similar to Ovett IMO.

Luke is 1.75 high....

As for Radcliffes new movie:

You can just type in radcliffe + darling in the adress bar and the full name of the movie will magically appear as a suggestion below.

Oh, that's a shame! 1.75 is a bit small to play Ovett, who was 1.83m. Still think Nighy is a good choice to play Peter Coe.