Fantasy Casting Thread

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 15 Jan 2009, 00:29 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:29:00 -0800
Subject: (urth) Fantasy Casting Thread
Message-ID: <1f7617370901141629t60a20606s464c35241ad738cf at mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Matthew Groves
<matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>> on that note, maybe we should start a "fantasy casting" thread.
>> I've been casting actors from all ages into the roles of BotNS. Since my
>> motives are for illustrations and not a movie (*shudder*) I've been casting
>> from any era.  I'd be interested in what others would think, though it
>> should be it's own thread I suppose.  As a teaser, I'll say I like a young
>> Sigourney Weaver as Thecla and an OLD Clint Eastwood as Malrubius.
>
> What fun!  A young Keanu Reeves for Severian?

Keanu Reeves isn't sympathetic enough to play a torturer. No, really.

Silk: A young Robert Redford
Marble and Mint: CGI with unknowns as voiceovers
Crane: Geoffrey Rush - don't laugh, look at him as Trotsky in "Frida"
Blood: Alfred Molina

Severian: is really hard to cast. Viggo Mortensen might almost work but
     not quite. Maybe Mandy Patinken ca. "Princess Bride"?
Jolenta: Selma Hayek
Dorcas: Anne Hathaway, but a bit older
Dr. Talos: Jonathan Frid
Baldanders: another hard one; a body builder of some sort, magicked
    even larger by the wonders of SFX. But not Ahnold.
Jonas: Bruce Boxleitner

Someone else take over here.
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