Perfect Casting, part 2

[Scop]

Sorry, best pictures I can find of Lee Mead in a Loincloth








(if you missed eariler postings, he does Musical Theatre in the West End, London
These pictures are from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
My Geekdom knows no bounds!!!  Got to love that British Leg hair  )

[Scop]

Can't figure out if I'd like Peter Wingfield (Methos from Highlander, Police captain in Caprica) for Michael or Nicodemus.

http://www.peterwingfield.com/gallery.shtml

In a couple of pictures on that site, he could even pull off Papa Raith

[jbigelow22]

Why not James Marster as Harry? I just picked up some of the audiobooks and his voice is set in my head for Harry then Sarah Michelle Gellar can be Murph (making the size about right for both).

[miketh]

Wow!  Peter Wingfield as Nicodemus, definitely!

[Scop]

Nicodemus it is!

Like the James and Sarah picks, too!


MMmm what about Molly Cyrus for Molly?

[tiny[but]fierce]

Really? A wrestler?

What do you think they do on television exactly? There's physical activity involved, but everything else, the plot lines, the feuds, etc.... it's all acting. Sure, most of them suck at it, but they're usually pulled in because they look the part anyway. John Morrison might be able to act, he might not, I don't know, but as far as perfect visual casting goes -- he looks the part of Thomas that I've always had in my head. Long, curling dark hair, massively hunky abs... Harry's already referred to Thomas in the books as the God of Bowflex and I swear to God, one of Morrison's nicknames on the WWE is "The Shaman of Sexy." I'm sorry, but in my mind, that immediately translates to Thomas

[tiny[but]fierce]

Why not James Marster as Harry? I just picked up some of the audiobooks and his voice is set in my head for Harry then Sarah Michelle Gellar can be Murph (making the size about right for both).

James as Harry was an original concept for the TV show... he just turned it down because he wasn't willing to leave his kids and move in order to film it. (Altogether now: awwwwwww!) I'd love for James to play Harry, but there are several issues that I regretfully have to acknowledge about that, and the first and most prominent is his height. Harry's nearly 7' tall, and James is somewhere around 5'9" to 5'11". And if you were to cast James with Sarah (which would make millions of Spuffy fans hearts gleefully burst in happiness, lemme tell you), the lack of excessive height difference would be very noticeable. Murph's a munchkin compared to Harry.

The books say that Karrin is 5' even -- Sarah is 5'3" which works fine as far as height goes. She's athletic, and she actually has been studying martial arts for years just like Murphy (though her prowess is in Tae Kwon Do, not Aikido), and bonus -- she's done the kick-ass heroine before. The books also say that Murphy's got cheerleader good looks, and hey, what was Sarah for nearly a decade if not a butt-kicking tiny blonde cheerleader?

[MoSeS]

What do you think they do on television exactly? There's physical activity involved, but everything else, the plot lines, the feuds, etc.... it's all acting. Sure, most of them suck at it, but they're usually pulled in because they look the part anyway.

Well I know that they act, it's basically a Soap Opera for men.

I think Dwayne Johnson actually made the transition well, his mistake was getting into the kids movies, which have been like his past 4 or 5 movies like the Toothfairy. Same thing that Hulk Hogan did back in the day with Mr. Nanny.

But I looked at some other pics of your wrestler and I saw some that I could see as Thomas.

Then in others I thought he kind of looks like a young Val Kilmer.

[MoSeS]

Madmartigan! Willow was awesome! Too bad George Lucas movies suck now.

[MoSeS]

Can't figure out if I'd like Peter Wingfield (Methos from Highlander, Police captain in Caprica) for Michael or Nicodemus.

http://www.peterwingfield.com/gallery.shtml

In a couple of pictures on that site, he could even pull off Papa Raith

I think Papa Raith, and I could also see him as Nicodemus, not for Michael though.

I use to love Highlander. Makes me feel old since that show started almost 20 years ago.

[cass]

Ah! He was in the latest attempted adaption of Riverworld.
He makes a really, really good villain; not sure how well he matches the book description of Nicodemus, but he could pull it off, I bet.
I also kinda like him for Morgan-- I think he'd do well (in the early books) as a fanatic/burnt out cop.

[MoSeS]

Ah! He was in the latest attempted adaption of Riverworld.
He makes a really, really good villain; not sure how well he matches the book description of Nicodemus, but he could pull it off, I bet.
I also kinda like him for Morgan-- I think he'd do well (in the early books) as a fanatic/burnt out cop.

He could definitely pull off the Morgan attitude, but I picture Morgan as not as....sharp featured, more like some mean looking Stephen Lang type, or maybe even Jason Statham.

[Atanvarno]

Speaking only for myself, I would have no interest -- absolutely none -- in a Dresden Files universe in which there was a Spuffy redux. I say this as a fan of Buffy, and of Joss Whedon in general, but I don't need to see James Marsters and Sarah Michelle Gellar reprise their roles to even the smallest extent.

[MoSeS]

Off topic a bit but what did you all think of James Marsters as Lord Piccolo?

I am Dragonball fan, but I thought this movie was awful. I think everyone pretty much disliked it.

[MoSeS]

only 37 votes? is that all the Dresden Files fans.