Casting: not!
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