(urth) Fantasy Casting Thread

[James Crossley]

On 1/14/09 4:29 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:


> 
> Keanu Reeves isn't sympathetic enough to play a torturer. No, really.
> 
> Silk: A young Robert Redford
> Marble and Mint: CGI with unknowns as voiceovers
> Crane: Geoffrey Rush - don't laugh, look at him as Trotsky in "Frida"
> Blood: Alfred Molina
> 
> Severian: is really hard to cast. Viggo Mortensen might almost work but
>    not quite. Maybe Mandy Patinken ca. "Princess Bride"?
> Jolenta: Selma Hayek
> Dorcas: Anne Hathaway, but a bit older
> Dr. Talos: Jonathan Frid
> Baldanders: another hard one; a body builder of some sort, magicked
>   even larger by the wonders of SFX. But not Ahnold.
> Jonas: Bruce Boxleitner
> 
> Someone else take over here.

Arguing over imaginary casting choices for minor literary characters is
probably as trivial as a conversation can be, but I'm surprised to find how
strongly I feel that your Dorcas choice is hopelessly wrong.  I'm thinking
Samantha Morton.

James