# Casting: not! *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 May 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Peter Stephenson *14 May 1998, 08:25* I had some nightmares of my own last night: Sev: Travolta (not that I've got anything against him, it's just that he has `late twentieth century' written all over his face; I would constantly expect him to throw off his cloak and `get down'.) Thecla: Goldie Hawn Dorcas: Pia Zadora (Bonham-Carter was a nice idea, but I don't see Dorcas in corsets, which surely gets written into her contracts?) Agia: Bette Midler Baldanders: Sly Himself Talos: Dustin (maybe this works OK if you're a Hoffman fan, but it makes me shudder) Autarch #-1: Vincent Price Jonas: John Belushi Hethor: Billy Crystal Jolenta: Miriam Margolyes (if you don't know her, think `matronly', no insult intended, just wrong for the part etc. etc.) Palaemon: Rowan Atkinson Drotte) ( Mike Myers Roche ) whichever ( Dana Carvey "The necropolis gate is locked! Denied!" The director is Edward D. Wood, who wrote this moving voice-over prologue specially: "If you walked down the street, and saw him, you would think, `This is the future'. Or is it the past? And the next time you go out and see a man in a black coat, you think to yourself, `Is he a torturer?', and it may be he is." You can cast Monty Python and the Holy Claw yourself ("But I'm your Autarch!" "Well, I didn't vote for you."), and imagine Mickey Mouse as `The Torturer's Apprentice'. `The Hitchhiker's Guide to Briah' is going to be difficult. pws ---