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Who should play Harry Dresden in a Movie?

Zachary Quinto
41 (5.9%)
Lee Pace
26 (3.8%)
Ryan Reynolds
51 (7.4%)
Hugh Jackman
91 (13.2%)
Clive Owen
46 (6.7%)
Paul Bettany
19 (2.8%)
Timothy Olyphant
75 (10.9%)
Nathan Fillion
220 (31.9%)
Joe Flanigan
37 (5.4%)
Chris Evans
7 (1%)
Gerard Butler
22 (3.2%)
Neil Flynn
8 (1.2%)
Jared Padalecki
47 (6.8%)

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5625 on: January 13, 2013, 09:18:53 PM »
???  Who?  Is this a comic book character?  Because you obviously aren't talking about the Walker.

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REALLY deep, menacing voice that would be perfect for DR without the machine-filter/
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5626 on: January 14, 2013, 02:34:19 AM »
This guy:



REALLY deep, menacing voice that would be perfect for DR without the machine-filter/

That from Mass Effect?  I've never played it.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5627 on: January 14, 2013, 10:04:08 AM »
I personally never had a problem with blackstone, but then again, I saw the show before I read the books. That being saidI wouldn't mind him playing Harry's dad in the flashbacks and dream sequence where Harry talked to him.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5628 on: January 14, 2013, 11:40:03 AM »
That from Mass Effect?  I've never played it.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5629 on: January 14, 2013, 03:24:04 PM »
I personally never had a problem with blackstone, but then again, I saw the show before I read the books. That being saidI wouldn't mind him playing Harry's dad in the flashbacks and dream sequence where Harry talked to him.

I have to agree with Blackstone as Harry. I honestly couldn't see any of the actors on the poll as Harry, fine actors that many of them are. We all tend to cast any book with our own preferences in mind. I haven't done through all these posts yet, but I don't remember anyone casting Molly yet. And I have no idea who would work. I do have a Butters though. Geoffrey Arend of Body of  Proof tv show. http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Shows/A_F/Bi_Bp/Body_of_Proof/season2/body-of-proof-194.jpg He's even got his own Andi-he's married to Christina Hendricks- our Mrs Reynolds/the redhead from Mad Men. Only one problem. Butters is a short little guy-Geoffrey is 6'3". Sigh we just can't win.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5630 on: January 14, 2013, 04:20:26 PM »
Michael Wincott as Nic.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5631 on: January 14, 2013, 04:26:40 PM »
I dunno, he looks a little too weathered these days, an I always picture Nic as still being immortally youngish.
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« Reply #5632 on: January 14, 2013, 04:30:11 PM »
I think for me, it's the combination of his voice and look that screams Nic to me.
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« Reply #5633 on: January 15, 2013, 09:05:37 PM »
Hey, double post.  Go me!

How about James Purefoy for Nic?  He can do wicked.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5634 on: January 15, 2013, 09:07:35 PM »
Gary Oldman for Nic - he'd be great.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5635 on: January 15, 2013, 09:22:02 PM »
Gary Oldman for Nic - he'd be great.

Most of the villains I've seen him do are too chaotic, and Benedict Cumberbatch is too young and the wrong sort of inhuman-looking (he'd make a workable Faerie, to my mind, rather than an angel.)

I still vote for either Anthony Stewart Head, or wait another ten or fifteen years for capturing images of actors from older movies to be a mature tech and then cast Michael Caine when he was about forty.
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« Reply #5636 on: January 15, 2013, 09:55:14 PM »
Has anyone considered Izabella Miko as Murphy?  She is 5'4", which could be workable.

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« Reply #5637 on: January 17, 2013, 10:08:02 PM »
Has anyone considered Izabella Miko as Murphy?  She is 5'4", which could be workable.



I know Murph is supposed to look cute, but she's too baby-faced, IMO. She looks like a teen, and no descriptions of Murphy give that impression. Sarah Michelle Gellar would be a good Murphy, especially now she's aged a little.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #5638 on: January 18, 2013, 12:49:51 AM »
I know Murph is supposed to look cute, but she's too baby-faced, IMO. She looks like a teen, and no descriptions of Murphy give that impression. Sarah Michelle Gellar would be a good Murphy, especially now she's aged a little.

*hiss* Yuck.

Personality-wise, I see Murphy being a lot more like Myka Bering in Warehouse 13, but Joanne Kelly does not look good as a blonde.
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« Reply #5639 on: January 18, 2013, 12:51:39 AM »
*hiss* Yuck.

Personality-wise, I see Murphy being a lot more like Myka Bering in Warehouse 13, but Joanne Kelly does not look good as a blonde.

The X-Files were a long time ago, but Gillian Anderson would have made a good Murphy too.
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