Sick!

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/03/22/ol-dirty-bastard-movie-casting/

He fucking rules as Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire too!

I'm okay with this.

I smiled once I saw the thread title.

i will bet money at least one scene will be from williamsburg. this reaks of marketing. i love wire and Omars character gave me chills, but could never wrap my head around how people could enjoy listening to ol dirty bastard. pass.

nigga please, you  could never fuck with the dog

It's a lot easier to keep a character believable when they're only around for two seasons (Chris wasn't very present in the third). However Omar's character is based off of a few real people.

On a side note, I read an article Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris Partlow) wrote about surgery he underwent to correct his flat feet. They literally cut off his heel, shifted it to one side, reattached it, and then took six months to heal. It made me cringe more than most Efukt videos I've seen.

"do tell"

ps. just because Omar is the most popular Wire character doesn't mean he's not the best

omar didn't even show up until the third episode and i'm pretty sure michael k. williams was going around saying omar was supposed to die, not david simon

I meant to say the next episode after he robed the pit, not the second episode of the show. My bad.

I'll try to find the interview, but David Simon basically said that Omar was supposed to be a one off character, but screening audiences loved him, so they kept him around for some extra episodes, which pretty quickly snowballed, and that he was torn about that. He felt like the character was a little much, and he didn't really like the glorification of a person who essentially robbed and killed to get by. The show was supposed to be as real as possible, and a lot of the situations with Omar just didn't really fit that mold. On the other side of that confliction, though, he said that he loved working with Michael Williams, and that keeping his character around gave everyone the opportunity to write out situations they couldn't have done otherwise, and that they had a lot of fun with that.

My thing with Omar is that he's a character with almost mythical qualities in a show that was more or less an exaggerated, yet plausible story. The majority of the show is loosely, and sometimes largely, based on true events, and then embellished for the sake of the story. I just feel like Omars was way too much of an embellishment, and that it didn't really flow with the rest of the show. The show was notorious for killing off the best characters for the sake of integrity, but to keep Omar around for almost the entire duration because he was a fan favorite seemed a little weak to me. But again, that's just my opinion.

The Wire is my favorite TV show/movie ever. I've watched the entire series over countless times, and I even named my dog Bodie. Saying I don't like something about it is still holding it in an infinitely higher regard than anything else to have ever been on TV. I guess I just get a little nit-picky about it.

All that said, Michael Williams is a great actor, and as long as he doesn't get type-casted and channel his Omar fame into ODB (not because I didn't like the character, but because they should be portrayed completely differently) then I look forward to seeing the movie.