Cast your movie version of Rosemary and Rue! Tell me who you'd pick to play the major roles, and why. The cast list I find the most utterly delightful will win a signed ARC of A Local Habitation.
To get you started, here are some main characters to consider:
* October "Toby" Daye
* Sylvester and Simon Torquill
* Devin
* Dare
* Tybalt
* Connor O'Dell
* Danny
* Luna Torquill
* Rayseline Torquill
Game on!
ETA: ...and a winner has been chosen. Feel free to keep on casting, though, this is hysterical!
February 20 2010, 09:07:51 UTC 7 years ago
I have picks for only a few of the roles, because I haven't yet reread R&R in anticipation of picking up the new book. However:
Toby:
Molly Quinn from Castle, necessarily aged a few years.
If one is trying to visually approximate the book covers, there are two instantly obvious contenders -- Eliza Dushku and Kristen Kreuk (Smallville), but Kreuk doesn't have nearly the acting chops, and Dushku seems to me to bleed too much of herself into her roles. The thing about Molly Quinn is that while she has criminally low screen time on her current series, there are indicators every so often that she has considerably more range than Castle allows her to display. And she does so very well as the no-nonsense Good Girl (Alexis) that I think she'd nail the no-nonsense Damaged Girl that is Toby just as solidly.
As a possible runner-up (and bearing in mind that I've not seen True Blood at all, and so am extraplating far more from her X-Men appearances), Anna Paquin could work well for me.
Devin:
Daniel Radcliffe, probably also aged a few years (but not too much).
As
Tybalt, King of Cats:
Neil Patrick Harris.
Here again,
Danny the Bridge Troll:
Keith David, best known for his voice work as Goliath in Gargoyles.
the Luidaeg:
Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers in Castle -- both because it would be highly amusing with Molly Quinn playing Toby, and because I think she'd do an excellent job in the part.
February 24 2010, 18:29:59 UTC 7 years ago