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This is a question for anyone out there who read my book, ORPHANS OF CHAOS. If they made it into a movie, whom would you pick for the various roles?
You are allowed to pick actors and actresses from when they are younger than they are, so that "Harrison Ford When He Was Young" is a perfectly legit choice.
I am not very good at this game, since no one seems quite to be what I imagined, but here below are some suggestions.
Hugh Grant as Quentin Nemo.
He would have to be cgi's to be short and young, but he has that earnest look we want in a Quentin.
Of course, this overlooks the more obvious choice:
Oh, come on. You were thinking it.
OKAY! Bad Guys:
Brian Blessed as Headmaster Boggin.
I realize that Boggin is supposed to be redheaded and cleanshaven, but Brian Blessed has the right attitude, and hey, its a movie, so we will be lucky if they don't change the Greek pantheon into a White Separatist Terrorist group, so don't gripe.
For the movie version, we can add a scene where Boggin discovers that Colin Mac FirBolg is still alive, so that Brian Blessed can belt out with roaring wonder: "Colin Mac Firbolg ALIVE!! And approaching on a Hawkman rocket-cycle?!!"
Ben Kingsley as Ananias Fell.
Maybe him. Or Michael Ansara (The guy who does the voice of Dr. Freeze on Batman.)
(Fanboys will recognize him as Kang the Klingon on Star Trek)
Margaret Hamilton as Mrs. Wren. The obvious choice.
Freddie Jones as Grendel Glum. You should have seen him in COLD COMFORT FARM.
Grace Kelly as Miss Daw. No one else has the perfect icy beauty.
Aishwarya Rai as the Hindu Princess Draupadi.
Okay, this character is not in my book, but its my blog, and so there is a completely gratuitous picture of Aishwarya Rai.
UPDATE
I just thought of a better choice for Amelia.
Helen Slater as Amelia Windrose.
Now there is a girl who looks like she runs track and can do 4-D geometry in her head.
What a cutie pie. If Grendel touches her again, he dies.
Speaking of which, I thought of a better choice for Grendel Glum.
The great Robert Newton. That's more like it. Here is what he looks like underwater:
He can also play Mannanen the Seal King if they make LAST GUARDIAN OF EVERNESS into a talkie. Ha Har, maties!
You are allowed to pick actors and actresses from when they are younger than they are, so that "Harrison Ford When He Was Young" is a perfectly legit choice.
I am not very good at this game, since no one seems quite to be what I imagined, but here below are some suggestions.
These are not necessarily canon, and so if you want to cast Peter Wingfield or Adrian Paul, go right ahead.
I could not find anyone who looks like Victor Triumph, who is cool, blond, and stoical. This is the closest I could get.
Alison Doody as Amelia Windrose. Picture her in flight helmet, goggles, and jodhpurs
Lindsay Lohan as Vanity Fair.
Vanity is supposed to be somewhat well-endowed and cheerful. I am not sure if Lohan is the best choice.
Kate Winslet when she is a redhead could also play Vanity. Note large green eyes.
Mario Lopez (Slater) as Colin Mc FirBolg. Shown here with his shirt off.
This one was hard to cast, because he is described as "built like a wrestler"-- most actors these days are slim and boyish.
Lopez fits the bill because he has that devil-may-care grin that is pure Colin.
I could not find anyone who looks like Victor Triumph, who is cool, blond, and stoical. This is the closest I could get.
Alison Doody as Amelia Windrose. Picture her in flight helmet, goggles, and jodhpurs
Lindsay Lohan as Vanity Fair.
Vanity is supposed to be somewhat well-endowed and cheerful. I am not sure if Lohan is the best choice.
Kate Winslet when she is a redhead could also play Vanity. Note large green eyes.
Mario Lopez (Slater) as Colin Mc FirBolg. Shown here with his shirt off.
This one was hard to cast, because he is described as "built like a wrestler"-- most actors these days are slim and boyish.
Lopez fits the bill because he has that devil-may-care grin that is pure Colin.
Hugh Grant as Quentin Nemo.
He would have to be cgi's to be short and young, but he has that earnest look we want in a Quentin.
Of course, this overlooks the more obvious choice:
Oh, come on. You were thinking it.
OKAY! Bad Guys:
Brian Blessed as Headmaster Boggin.
I realize that Boggin is supposed to be redheaded and cleanshaven, but Brian Blessed has the right attitude, and hey, its a movie, so we will be lucky if they don't change the Greek pantheon into a White Separatist Terrorist group, so don't gripe.
For the movie version, we can add a scene where Boggin discovers that Colin Mac FirBolg is still alive, so that Brian Blessed can belt out with roaring wonder: "Colin Mac Firbolg ALIVE!! And approaching on a Hawkman rocket-cycle?!!"
Ben Kingsley as Ananias Fell.
Maybe him. Or Michael Ansara (The guy who does the voice of Dr. Freeze on Batman.)
(Fanboys will recognize him as Kang the Klingon on Star Trek)
Margaret Hamilton as Mrs. Wren. The obvious choice.
Freddie Jones as Grendel Glum. You should have seen him in COLD COMFORT FARM.
Grace Kelly as Miss Daw. No one else has the perfect icy beauty.
Aishwarya Rai as the Hindu Princess Draupadi.
Okay, this character is not in my book, but its my blog, and so there is a completely gratuitous picture of Aishwarya Rai.
UPDATE
I just thought of a better choice for Amelia.
Helen Slater as Amelia Windrose.
Now there is a girl who looks like she runs track and can do 4-D geometry in her head.
What a cutie pie. If Grendel touches her again, he dies.
Speaking of which, I thought of a better choice for Grendel Glum.
The great Robert Newton. That's more like it. Here is what he looks like underwater:
He can also play Mannanen the Seal King if they make LAST GUARDIAN OF EVERNESS into a talkie. Ha Har, maties!
May 4 2007, 00:32:26 UTC 5 years ago
that and sit around and look cute on set.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f
Anyway, for victor, if only keanu reeves were blond ! :(
Otherwise, I think if we somehow made Lohan a happy girl then all would be well.
I sort of saw
shaven and Dr Fell.
To be honest, I always forgot that Amelia was blonde. She is forever a luscious brunette in my head, despite that I know better. I am likely biased. XD
May 10 2007, 09:39:28 UTC 5 years ago
Unfair to blondes--!
(D'you think we could get a Victim Group going. On second thought, don't answer that: there probably already is one and that's just too darn depressing. But I digress.)They always forget that about Lucy Pevensie, too.
May 10 2007, 23:12:23 UTC 5 years ago
Re: Unfair to blondes--!
I am only unfair to blondes because I am overly-fair to fellow brunettes 8DAww, lucy ~ <3
a belated note: i think jessica alba gone redhead could be a nice vanity. :o
May 4 2007, 01:27:14 UTC 5 years ago
And yes, I kept seeing Quentin as "Mr Potter", I admit. Poor Radcliffe is typecast for life, I think.
As far as Miss Daw--anyone who can play Flora in an Amber game can do Miss Daw.
May 4 2007, 12:45:06 UTC 5 years ago
May 4 2007, 21:33:28 UTC 5 years ago
May 4 2007, 13:16:17 UTC 5 years ago
<img src="http://www.korschmin.com/albums/halsman/audrey_hepburn.sized.jpg> As Vanity? With red hair? Well, maybe not, but I just like Hepburn :p
May 4 2007, 21:34:14 UTC 5 years ago
May 4 2007, 16:12:25 UTC 5 years ago
Vanity = the young Jill St. John
Victor = Val Kilmer (very cold)
Quentin = Tom Cruise (short, earnest)
Colin = Brad Pit
Boggin = Sean Connery (he needs a wig anyway)
Mavors = Clint Eastwood (steely)
Miss Daw = Julie Andrews (very proper)
Mrs Wren = Rosie O’Donnell
Grendel Glum = William Shatner (who else?)
Lady Cyprian=Sophia Loren
Lady Wisdom=the current Catherine Deneuve (so, I’m obsessed)
Lady Phoebe=Sandra Bullock
Hermes = Jim Carrey
Hephaestus=Marlon Brando
Lord Terminus=Orson Welles (both dead)
not Keanu Reeves or Hugh Grant under any circumstances!
May 4 2007, 16:14:41 UTC 5 years ago
Hear, hear. Good choice.
May 4 2007, 16:49:01 UTC 5 years ago
Aish
She's Aishwarya Bachchan now. No longer single. Sorry, fellas. :)Mir
May 4 2007, 21:31:42 UTC 5 years ago
Not so much Miss Wren. It pains me to see an author who doesn't understand his characters. Miss Wren is not a spinster or a prune. She's the perversion of motherhood, so she should be sorta plump and grandmotherly looking.
May 7 2007, 13:10:09 UTC 5 years ago
she should be sorta plump and grandmotherly looking
I don't recall whether the text says she is plump or thin. She is described as having mousy brown flyaway hair, and being a drunk.Well, here is a more plump, more maternal version. Submitted for your approval:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e
May 7 2007, 13:44:03 UTC 5 years ago
Re: she should be sorta plump and grandmotherly looking
Wow.May 4 2007, 22:27:49 UTC 5 years ago
Would an ex-boxer do for Colin?
Liam Neeson, when he was younger? May not have been a wrestler, but he started boxing at age nine and was Youth Heavyweight Champion of Ireland for three consecutive years when he gave it up at seventeen.Couldn't find a nice piccy of him shirtless and as younger actor, so will just have to put up with this one of him as Rob Roy - oh, the deprivation! ;-)
http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/thum
Bearing in mind my fellow-females, since I find drool so bothersome to clean off the keyboard, I haven't put up any links to pictures of him as Qui-Gon Jinn :-)
May 6 2007, 23:16:53 UTC 5 years ago
Re: Would an ex-boxer do for Colin?
One problem with the casting couch game is that certain actors, like Liam Neeson, are simply so good on so many levels, they could play any of the roles. Put him in a wig and he can play Vanity.Did you see him in ROB ROY? That was one fine movie, unfairly overlooked (it was overshadowed by BRAVEHEART, which was a poorer film on many levels).
May 5 2007, 00:03:32 UTC 5 years ago
Amelia
It's been too long to think of other characters, but for Amelia, how about Elizabeth Banks?http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/elizab
http://www.universomarvel.com/news/2
Another thought - Rachel McAdams. She seems to be able to pull off any hair color.
http://rachel-mcadams-news.newslib.c
Sorry, too lazy to upload the pictures directly. What say ye?
July 16 2007, 10:36:29 UTC 4 years ago
I know this thread is old, but hey!
I don't have all the characters, but I have a good amount!Amelia:
Lucia Ball (my friend who is an aspiring actress)
or Keira Knightely
Quentin Nemo:
Daniel Radcliffe
or William Moseley
Colin MacFirbolg:
Robert Pattinson
Mrs. Wren:
Maggie Smith
Dr. Fell:
Patrick Malahide
July 19 2007, 16:35:56 UTC 4 years ago
Re: I know this thread is old, but hey!
Frankly, I like your choices better than mine: especially your friend who is an aspiring actress: she look almost exactly like the cover painting for FUGITIVES OF CHAOS.If I found out later that she was the model who posed for Scott M. Fischer, I would not be shocked. Try to see if she will put on a leather flying cap and goggles for a photo.
July 19 2007, 17:41:59 UTC 4 years ago
Re: I know this thread is old, but hey!
Wow! She will be so happy to hear that. Thanks, I'm glad you like my choices. I will try to get her to wear one if we can find one haha. :)