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This is Round Thirty Six of the Neverending Movie Chain. Feel free to jump in anywhere you want, post once or post as often as you want just don't reply to yourself.

For any new folks joining in <and new folks are definitely encouraged to do so>...

We start by naming a movie, the next player to jump in has to name an actor in that film and the next to follow him/her has to name a different movie that actor was in.

EX:

Player one: Star Wars, Player Two: Mark Hamil, Player Three: Corvette Summer, Player Four: Annie Potts, Player Five: Ghostbusters, etc., etc.

Repeats are allowed but discouraged and there has to be a distance of at least five steps before you use a movie or an an actor a second time. No IMDb please <expect to look up dates of movies with identical titles or spellings of names>. grin

You need to follow the chain as it is drawn, no jumping. If we have Stephen Moyer on the table and someone plays Prince Valiant then the Prince Valiant you have to go out of is the one that had Stephen Moyer in it, no matter how many other movies out there are named Prince Valiant.

A clarification on play. We want to avoid using archival footage. For purposes of our game Dick Clark, Bob Hope, President Kennedy etc. Did not appear in Forrest Gump.

I won't make this a rule but rather a recommendation. Please avoid films that have not been released/aired in the U.S.

And just for the sake of putting it into the written rules mostly for sake of newcomers voice work (animated films) and made-for-TV movies are allowed but not mini-series.

Oh, and the idea is not to stump everyone but to keep the chain going for as long as possible. We play this one on road trips and I don't know why I didn't think to start this up here years ago. It is perfect for the online community because you can jump in whenever and wherever or as often as you want.

Kicking this off with one of the best movies of 2019:

1917

Agree to disagree with you on this one, but it did have Richard Madden in it!

I did say "one of"!

He was also the Prince in the recent Disney live-action Cinderella.

Cate Blanchett was in it too. She's not a very good baddie though. Eeyuck! Remember her in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

She made a much better heroine in The Monuments Men

We Bought a Zoo!

Scarlett Johansson

I loved her in JOJO RABBIT (now that was one of the best movies of 2019!)

Taika Waititi played imaginary Hitler, I know that much.

Well I know he wrote the screenplay for Moana and was in a few Avengers movies but not which ones, so unless I'm forced to guess, I'll wait for someone more certain.

<gets out the popcorn>

Angrboða would know this one.

I don't want the game to end so I'll guess tomorrow if nobody answers earlier.

OK, nobody's jumping up so I'm going to gamble. Pretty sure I've seen Taika in one or more of the Thor movies, but not sure which one. So I'll go with the last one that pretty much brought back everyone from every Avengers movie ever, and is therefore highly likely to be correct:

Avengers: Endgame

Gwyneth Paltrow

Se7en

Morgan Freeman

Now You See Me

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games!

Donald Sutherland

Fool's Gold

Matthew McConaughey

Interstellar

Michael Caine

The obvious Michael Cain continuation is, of course... DEATHTRAP

Somewhere in Time!

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Jane Seymour

Huh, I was sure someone would say Christopher Plummer... but Jane... Hmmm AUSTENLAND

Wasn't Jane Seymour Henry VIII's third wife? I didn't know she was in a movie. But she was in SIX.

But seriously, waiting for this to get back to Disney films.

I haven't seen Austenland. Don't even know what it's about; haven't seen a trailer. So I'm drawing a blank, I'm afraid.

I presume it's about Jane Austen.

In any case, I'm out.

not gonna let you off that easy.... Kerri Russell was in Austenland

Star Wars : The Rise of Skywalker

Waay! Oscar Isaac

C'mon, what film hasn't Oscar Isaac been in, in recent years?

Well, obviously Star Wars : The Force Awakens.

Daniel Craig

I just watched him last week in Casino Royale

(which I would have started the next game with if we hadn't gotten a rescue from Austenland!)

Austenland was a lovely movie! (still upholding my choice!) But Eva Green was in Casino...

Can I just say this, Eva Green is smoking hot. OK, now I got that out of the way I need to think of a film she's in, with someone else in who's equally recognisable...

Kingdom of Heaven anyone?

Would you be referring to Orlando Bloom?

I would!

Orlando was in The Three Musketeers (2011)

So was Luke Evans, among my favorite Broadway actors making their rounds the Disney movie scene.

Fast & Furious 6

Dwayne Johnson!

Tooth Fairy

Julie Andrews

Enchanted

It is acceptable as a man to say I love that movie?

James Marsden's been in a fair bit of stuff.

Yes Neil. Yes it is... For I love it too. Princess Giselle is awesome. And, since Mina knows of my Enchanted love already (and it was her devious choice of Julie Andrews that triggered Aqua's Disney love), I will carry us forward with X-Men where he played Cyclops. He was in all those original movies but we will go with the first one

So many to choose from but Hugh Jackman stands out!

hmmmm, so many to choose from....no, no that's technically a TV show and that's a DVD of a stage production....

Real Steel there that'll work

Well, there was a robot, a kid and an estranged wife but beyond that I can't tell ya.

would it help if I mention that 3 of the people in it are in the Marvel MCU, one of which has also been in Wolverine Origins?

Evangeline Lily

Ant-Man!

(To clarify: the original, not the one with the Wasp, aka Evangeline Lily, although if she was in the original was she the Wasp?)

Michael Douglas

Fatal Attraction

Glenn Close

101 Dalmations

Jeff Daniels. He's been around, hasn't he. Really enjoyed his character in The Newsroom series.

Pleasantville

William H. Macy

Fargo

Steve Buscemi

Armageddon

To go obvious or not? Ah, heck with it.

Bruce Willis.

Even more obvious:

Die Hard

Less obvious from Die Hard, but acting immortality in my book:

Alan Rickman

Kevin Costner

Sean Connery

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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OK, don't blame me but I only know two other actors in that film. One is Stuart Townsend, who I only know because he was originally cast as Aragorn in The LOTR Trilogy then when the film-makers saw him in costume thought "Nah-uh!" and Viggo was brought in at short notice. So not him.

The other is the well-known Australian actor, Richard Roxburgh. He was fine as Moriarty in LXG but it was his portrayal of other iconic, Victorian-era villain, in a blockbuster movie around the same time that raised a lot of eyebrows (because it was pretty terrible!).

I think I know of which movie you speak -- the character I'm more sure of, the title not so much. So I'll hope someone else can step up.

Van Helsing- Roxburgh played Dracula- I think this was the very next movie he made after League of Extraordinary Gentlemen early to mid 2000s

this choice will provide two really easy outs for whoever is next up

Hugh Jackman!

Les Miserables

Eddie Redmayne

Jupiter Ascending. His most dodgy performance, up there with Roxburgh's Dracula.

Eye candy Channing Tatum was in that one!

He was also in The Lego Movie as the voice of Superman.

I remember Nick Offerman in that one!

Parks and Rec! Er.... uh, we should be allowed to do TV shows!

But I know he was a DEA agent in We're the Millers

Will Poulter. He's been in a ton of big budget stuff.

He played Eustace in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was my favorite of the books, but the movie fell far short of my expectations.

Simon Pegg was a voice in that movie!

And no Simon Pegg movie is better than "Shaun of the Dead"!

Zombie Bill Nighy

I loved his performance in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (and the original, but the second offers more directions to go)

Maggie Smith!