Yiddish Policemen’s Union by the Coen Brother’s

[Time Enough]

So I’m pondering on the potential Coen Brother’s adaptation of Yiddish Policemen’s Union and so far I’ve come up with this;

Yiddish Policeman’s Union (2011)
Directed and Written for Screen by Joel and Ethan Coen

Meyer Landsman: Jason Isaacs
Berko Shemets: ?
Bina Gelbfish: Jennifer Jason Leigh
Mendel Shpilman: ?
Naomi Landsman: ?
Hertz Shemets: Albert Brooks
Verbover rebbe, Heskel Shpilman: Michael Lerner
Batsheva Shpilman: Zoë Wanamaker
Aryeh Baronshteyn: Michael Stuhlbarg
Alter Litvak: Judd Hirsch

Just gauging different casts for now as I ponder where they would film (probably in the Anchorage area, British Columbia and Yukon) and changes to the story they would do etc.

 

[Blackentheborg]

Honestly? Jason Segel might make a decent Berko Shemets.

 

[JesterBL]

Jason Isaacs is far too pretty to be Meyer Landsman.

 

[TheKennedyMachine]

RDJ would make more sense for Landsman IMO.

 

[Time Enough]

Honestly? Jason Segel might make a decent Berko Shemets.

I think even in the year 2011, that casting Jason Segel to play a half aboriginal Alaskan would probably cause some backlash. Now really the perfect casting for around now would probably be Martin Sensmeier, but I shackled myself with a hypothetical Coen Brothers version, so.

Jason Isaacs is far too pretty to be Meyer Landsman.

RDJ would make more sense for Landsman IMO.

I can Robert Downing Junior, I was thinking of Jason Isaacs due to a clip I saw of him in a British Film called Mindset (made by my old Uni tutor amusingly) and I thought Isaacs would work in that ‘faded glory’ manner.

 

[Blackentheborg]

I think even in the year 2011, that casting Jason Segel to play a half aboriginal Alaskan would probably cause some backlash. Now really the perfect casting for around now would probably be Martin Sensmeier, but I shackled myself with a hypothetical Coen Brothers version, so.

Steve Reevis, maybe? He was in Fargo.
Chris Eyre and Jonathan Joss are also options.

 

[JesterBL]

I think even in the year 2011, that casting Jason Segel to play a half aboriginal Alaskan would probably cause some backlash. Now really the perfect casting for around now would probably be Martin Sensmeier, but I shackled myself with a hypothetical Coen Brothers version, so.

Zahn McClarnon is probably closest to my image of Berko Shemets, and has the comedic chops but hadn't had any major roles by 2011.