Perfect Casting, part 2

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Description of Butters:
From Dead Beat:

"Screw up my life?" He stared a me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst."

From White Night:

Butters was an odd little duck. He wasn’t much taller than Murphy, and she probably had more muscle than he did. His shock of black hair resembled nothing so much as an explosion in a steel wool factory. He was all knees and elbows, especially in the surgical greens he was wearing, his face was lean and angular, his nose beaky, and his eyes were bright behind the prescription glasses.

You won me over Unless there's someone much more suitable for the role that comes along, Justin Long has my vote for Butters!

[Jaeh]

my butters would be Zach Galinifianakis, but man don't look like him (he's my mental image, tho).

I vote TJ Thyne!

[MoSeS]

my butters would be Zach Galinifianakis, but man don't look like him (he's my mental image, tho).

I vote TJ Thyne!

This is Waldo Butters in the TV show (on the right).


This is Zach Galifianakis in Tru Calling.


This is probably why people see Zach as Butters.

IMO Zach is way too funny, and not tweeky enough to be the Butters from the books.

I don't think TJ Thyne fits either. Too masculine. TJ Thyne to me is more of a......Michael type character probably, I mean because of his build, I don't know about the attitude though.
But people (or person) choose him for Butters too, because he plays a forensics guy on Bones.

[Jaeh]

I don't think TJ Thyne fits either. Too masculine.

thin him up T.T I still vote TJ Thyne. :p

[MoSeS]

 

[Jaeh]

actually, my reason for thinking Zach for butters is because of Tru Calling. saw that dude with Tru in there and just thought immediately: BUTTERS!... so yeah

[MoSeS]

I mean I can see the reasons why you would choose them, I just think Justin Long fits better than both of them.

[Jaeh]

But people (or person) choose him for Butters too, because he plays a forensics guy on Bones.

yeah, actually, it's mostly that for me. I loved him in bones. he got the attitude down in bones, though, I thought. 

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But...

Don't you guys think that T.J. is a little too hot to portray Butters? I'm not saying Butters is ugly or anything, but based on how he talks about himself, he doesn't think he's any hot shit. And T.J.'s ridiculously good-looking, and knows it to boot. I don't know if I could buy T.J. talking himself down as Butters

[miketh]

Dude, just tell me what you want and I'll help

Are you still gonna continue the After The Funeral fic? I need something to tide me over until Aftermath, and it was doing a real good job of that!

Yeah, I'm going to continue Funeral (when not working on my novel) gradually between now and Ghost Story.  I'm excited to see the similarities between the two

As for the script, I'm thinking of doing things a bit 'out of order' - my ideal Dresden Files series would skip around in the order of the case files, to offer as comprehensive a look at the supernatural world as possible while highlighting the trials and tribulations of Harry and friends.  I'd probably skip over Storm Front, as, while a GREAT introductory novel, I don't think that it's got enough of a "hook" to it to succeed financially on a large scale.  I think that going straight into Fool Moon and working from there would be a better option, leaving the hints and jabs towards Storm Front as a sort of "Noodle Incident" to pique the viewer's interest for when it is eventually made (later in the series, as a prologue to the rest of the stories).

To that end, I aim to brush up on scriptwriting and the like in the near future before beginning work on a fan's version of it I've got some great ideas for a film version of "Fool Moon", and if anyone wants to discuss further outside of this Topic, feel free to drop me a PM.

[MoSeS]

But...

Don't you guys think that T.J. is a little too hot to portray Butters? I'm not saying Butters is ugly or anything, but based on how he talks about himself, he doesn't think he's any hot shit. And T.J.'s ridiculously good-looking, and knows it to boot. I don't know if I could buy T.J. talking himself down as Butters

Bam!  

That's you hitting the nail on the head. That's what I was trying to say, ridiculously good looking for Butters.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. ~ Derek Zoolander

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Bam!  

That's you hitting the nail on the head. That's what I was trying to say, ridiculously good looking for Butters.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. ~ Derek Zoolander

Hee!

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Yeah, I'm going to continue Funeral (when not working on my novel) gradually between now and Ghost Story.  I'm excited to see the similarities between the two

As for the script, I'm thinking of doing things a bit 'out of order' - my ideal Dresden Files series would skip around in the order of the case files, to offer as comprehensive a look at the supernatural world as possible while highlighting the trials and tribulations of Harry and friends.  I'd probably skip over Storm Front, as, while a GREAT introductory novel, I don't think that it's got enough of a "hook" to it to succeed financially on a large scale.  I think that going straight into Fool Moon and working from there would be a better option, leaving the hints and jabs towards Storm Front as a sort of "Noodle Incident" to pique the viewer's interest for when it is eventually made (later in the series, as a prologue to the rest of the stories).

To that end, I aim to brush up on scriptwriting and the like in the near future before beginning work on a fan's version of it I've got some great ideas for a film version of "Fool Moon", and if anyone wants to discuss further outside of this Topic, feel free to drop me a PM.

I take it you mean that, during Fool Moon and the other case files, you would flash back to Storm Front the way Harry flashes back to the night DuMorne tried to kill him, and to what happened at Camp Kaboom with the twins? That might work, but I personally always liked Storm Front. It's not the first book of the series that I read (I did read them out of order -- Blood Rites was the first book I touched, and thus why it's my favorite), but I think flashing back to it in bits and pieces might actually work.

And also, yay for Funeral! .... which is very odd-sounding in retrospect.

[miketh]

I meant that more as the offhand references already in the later books ("That business last spring") would be supplemented with a little more nods in that direction, and such.  Nothing so overt as a flashback - doing such may detract from the story.

[MoSeS]

Mavra = Helena Bonham Carter