Perfect Casting, part 2

[Warden John Marcone]

Alright. Here is my revised cast:

Harry Dresden- Ryan Reynolds
Thomas- James Franco
Carlos Ramirez- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Marcone- Viggo Mortenson
Michael- Russell Crowe
Sanya- Will Smith
Bob- Johnny Depp
Kinkaid- Hugh Jackman
Luccio- Demi Moore
Morgan- Sean Bean
Lara Raith- Sasha Grey
Lash- Hayden Panattiere
Ebenezer- Sean Connery
Hendricks- Tom Hardy
Nicodemus- Liam Neeson
Uriel- Kevin Pollack
Merlin- Christopher Lee
Cowl- Gary Oldman

Fuggeddubaodit!  Crowe's another one on the black list.

[Ladyeshu]

Okay, I cast the movie and assuming I could get these people for an affordable price

Harry-  that's toughest really, because you need a really strong actor who's tall and rangy,  a younger Peter  Coyote mabye   but I'd choose Eric Bana or maybe Christian Bale

Murphy-  she'd be a little voluptuous but I really like Christina Ricci in that role, short, and does badassed very well with a bit of sweetness. 

Thomas-- Brad Pitt.  No contest here.
Morgan-- Alan Rickman    You need menace.  the problem is that before Turn Coat Morgan has few dimensions.
Lara Raith-- Nicole Kidman
Susan-- Rosario Dawson
Bob -- (voiced by John Goodman)
Butters-- Steve Buscemi or a young Wallace Shawn. Okay he's too old but what about Paul Reubens, who might be gettable.
Michael--  he's particularly tough because the actor must pull off Dudley Do-right without going over the top. He needs to  be underplayed.  Steve McQueen would have been perfect but he's too dead for the role.  okay, I'll go for Russell Crowe, who's versatile enough.  Or Gary Oldman.

Nicodemus -- Christoph Waltz--- have you seen inglorious basterds?   
Duke Ortega--  Benecio del Toro
Kincaid --  George Clooney
Queen Mab-- Lena Olin
Aurora-- Scarlett Johansson
Maeve-- Thora Birch (Christina Ricci being taken)
Madrigal Raith -- John Cusack
That's enough for now.

Marcone: Ray Wise
Dresden: Clive Owen or Christian Bale (Really liked that one!) Maybe Hugh Laurie (if we're going older)
Molly: Amanda Seyfried
Murphy: Jessica Marais
Thomas: Jude Law
Susan: Eva Longoria
Morgan: Alan Rickman (would be funny... the man's a genius!) or Ian Glen
Lara Raith: Olivia Wilde or Marena Baccarin
Butters: Anthony Rapp
Ebeneezer: Bruce Willis
Michael: Maybe Sean Bean?

That is all!

[bellmaker]

I like this idea[quoteMichael: Maybe Sean Bean? ][/quote]

[SilvrQuik]

I don't think it's possible for me to go through nearly 300 pages to see if these have been suggested before. But!

I think Misha Collins could make a darned good Dresden. Does well with scruffy, good looking but not overly handsome, does serious & comedy quite well:



And I think Kristen Bell would be a perfect Murphy.

[Tempus Corvus]

After looking through the earlier pages of this thread, I found another suggestion for Murphy: Taylor Schilling


And Misha Collins would make a good Dresden, I guess. I haven't seen enough of his work (only seen bits and pieces of supernatural) to judge.

And here's the Red King. Yes, I know he's supposed to be kinda short. But it's Danny Trejo! This is a man you don't want to mess with.

[Snowleopard]

Trejo, if I remember rightly, is a real ex-con.  So you really would NOT want to tangle with him.

[Tempus Corvus]

Also, he has experience playing a vampire.



...wait, a vampire movie written by Tarantino, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and it has Clooney, Trejo, and Keitel? How have I not seen this?

Come to think of it, Tarantino would make a decent Butters, if we could stop him from dropping F-bombs every minute.

[Snowleopard]

No Tarentino would not make a good Butters.
I vote Sharlto Copley (I know I spelled that wrong) for Butters.
The guy from District 9 - he can do crazy/silly really well - witness the A-Team
As for Harry.  Watched Unstoppable last night - a really really good popcorn movie.
I think Chris Pine would make a great Harry.

[Quantus]

No Tarentino would not make a good Butters.
I vote Sharlto Copley (I know I spelled that wrong) for Butters.
The guy from District 9 - he can do crazy/silly really well - witness the A-Team
As for Harry.  Watched Unstoppable last night - a really really good popcorn movie.
I think Chris Pine would make a great Harry.

Copley could do the character, but he's too old.  Especially if we're talking Chris Pine for Harry, who seems on the young side of things to me

I still dont have a definitive Harry, but Butters is DJ Qualls in my mind. 

[Jaeh]

I wouldn't be opposed to a somewhat-animated-ish Dresden Files bit. xD

(hi, long time since I've been here....)

[Tempus Corvus]

If they got the people behind Batman The Animated Series to do it, or maybe Gennedy Tartovsky, that would be perfect.

[exartiem]

I could see an animated series.  As long as they don't try to make Harry play a stupid card game.

[Snowleopard]

Going animated gets into a whole new realm of things.
It's possible that they've changed but if the show is stated as being for kids there are a whole raft of rules that you
have to follow that would water down the series.  And as for adult animation - depends.
Animateds by nature tend to be somewhat more simplistic in style and story than a live action.
And doing full on, Disney style animation is really, really expensive.

[Jaeh]

David Tennant for Harry? 

He's a little too pretty boy for Harry though.

But he is scrawny.

heh.

[Tempus Corvus]

Going animated gets into a whole new realm of things.
It's possible that they've changed but if the show is stated as being for kids there are a whole raft of rules that you
have to follow that would water down the series.  And as for adult animation - depends.
Animateds by nature tend to be somewhat more simplistic in style and story than a live action.
And doing full on, Disney style animation is really, really expensive.

Ok, that's one of my pet peeves. Just because it's animated, doesn't mean that it has to be simplistic. Plenty of animated stuff has a much better storyline than any live action movie or show. I'm certainly not suggesting that the animated series be made with a younger audience in mind, no sir.

David Tennant for Harry? 

He's a little too pretty boy for Harry though.

But he is scrawny.

heh.

Yeah, but I don't think he could do a convincing American accent. While I would absolutely LOVE to see him as Harry, it wouldn't work.