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Sep. 20th, 2010 01:34 pmWarning: this entry discusses the Hunger Games books, although not in any detail, and there's nothing I'd personally consider spoilers for any book. However, if you're all vigilant about not being spoiled for, like, names and attitudes of characters, you might want to skip this one! All the links go to my Flickr; all the pictures are SFW.
Despite my general dislike for the Hunger Games trilogy, my friends and I have been idly chatting for the last few days about our dream casting for the movies. I'm pretty solidly down with the Harry Potter style of casting for this -- the big three and their contemporaries as mostly or entirely unknowns, and then solid (and awesome) adult actors for the adult roles.
Of course, because I was bored by most of the books, I didn't really pay attention to the clear red shirt characters who were obviously going to die -- but I did, in fact, pay attention to the characters who I could mentally cast with actors I like while reading the book, and also the characters who I found charming or obnoxious or both.
One of my friends brought up the idea of Misha Collins as Haymitch, which I think is awesome, and can't get that out of my head. He does a depressed drunk guy really well (e.g., Supernatural episode 5x04, "The End"!), and if he's not cast as Haymitch, it will be a crime.
While reading the books, I immediately thought of Michelle Rodriguez for Johanna. Honestly, I can't remember how Johanna was described, and it didn't matter to me anyway, for two reasons: (1) I am a firm believer that the best movies based on books are adaptations, not copies, and that the best person for the role should be cast regardless of the way the character's physical attributes are described in the book(s). Now, if the character having black hair or green skin is a pivotal plot point, fine -- but if not, put in the actor with the right attitude. And (2) as soon as we got a sense of Johanna's attitude, I associated her with Michelle Rodriguez, so how she was physically described never really entered my mind.
Katee Sackhoff as Enobaria -- although I worry that maybe Katee will get typecast as The Sociopath! She does dead eyes really well, though...
LL Cool J as Boggs -- again, this is sort of an easy one. Who else could possibly play Boggs? Maybe my boyfriend Oded Fehr. He should definitely be getting more work as a badass action hero, too, by the way, if anyone reading this has any Hollywood pull and cares about my opinion.
(Yeah, yeah, I know LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez were in S.W.A.T. together a million years ago -- a movie I, by the way, unsurprisingly, really love.)
Originally I'd been down with Sigourney Weaver as Coin -- but now I'm thinking Coin should be Linda Hamilton. Although, uh, 1991 was a pretty long time ago, so I'd happily settle for Navi Rawat. Remember when she was on Angel as the crazy potential-turned-Slayer? Carrying around that bone saw? Hell yeaaaaaah.
Oh, and my "stunt casting" choice: Adam Lambert as Cinna. Now that you've thought about that, can you really ever pick anyone else for that role? I'm not even a fan of his (in fact, I am pretty ambivalent about him right now, but I do have to say that his music is perfect for singing along to in the car on road trips), but I seriously think he'd make a great, and somewhat unexpected, Cinna.
Okay, I think that's all of mine. What are yours?
(FYI: I got all these images from Google and just uploaded them to my Flickr; none of them belong to me. For much hilarity, I suggest appending the word "badass" to all Google searches. It brought me quite a bit of delight!)
Despite my general dislike for the Hunger Games trilogy, my friends and I have been idly chatting for the last few days about our dream casting for the movies. I'm pretty solidly down with the Harry Potter style of casting for this -- the big three and their contemporaries as mostly or entirely unknowns, and then solid (and awesome) adult actors for the adult roles.
Of course, because I was bored by most of the books, I didn't really pay attention to the clear red shirt characters who were obviously going to die -- but I did, in fact, pay attention to the characters who I could mentally cast with actors I like while reading the book, and also the characters who I found charming or obnoxious or both.
One of my friends brought up the idea of Misha Collins as Haymitch, which I think is awesome, and can't get that out of my head. He does a depressed drunk guy really well (e.g., Supernatural episode 5x04, "The End"!), and if he's not cast as Haymitch, it will be a crime.
While reading the books, I immediately thought of Michelle Rodriguez for Johanna. Honestly, I can't remember how Johanna was described, and it didn't matter to me anyway, for two reasons: (1) I am a firm believer that the best movies based on books are adaptations, not copies, and that the best person for the role should be cast regardless of the way the character's physical attributes are described in the book(s). Now, if the character having black hair or green skin is a pivotal plot point, fine -- but if not, put in the actor with the right attitude. And (2) as soon as we got a sense of Johanna's attitude, I associated her with Michelle Rodriguez, so how she was physically described never really entered my mind.
Katee Sackhoff as Enobaria -- although I worry that maybe Katee will get typecast as The Sociopath! She does dead eyes really well, though...
LL Cool J as Boggs -- again, this is sort of an easy one. Who else could possibly play Boggs? Maybe my boyfriend Oded Fehr. He should definitely be getting more work as a badass action hero, too, by the way, if anyone reading this has any Hollywood pull and cares about my opinion.
(Yeah, yeah, I know LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez were in S.W.A.T. together a million years ago -- a movie I, by the way, unsurprisingly, really love.)
Originally I'd been down with Sigourney Weaver as Coin -- but now I'm thinking Coin should be Linda Hamilton. Although, uh, 1991 was a pretty long time ago, so I'd happily settle for Navi Rawat. Remember when she was on Angel as the crazy potential-turned-Slayer? Carrying around that bone saw? Hell yeaaaaaah.
Oh, and my "stunt casting" choice: Adam Lambert as Cinna. Now that you've thought about that, can you really ever pick anyone else for that role? I'm not even a fan of his (in fact, I am pretty ambivalent about him right now, but I do have to say that his music is perfect for singing along to in the car on road trips), but I seriously think he'd make a great, and somewhat unexpected, Cinna.
Okay, I think that's all of mine. What are yours?
(FYI: I got all these images from Google and just uploaded them to my Flickr; none of them belong to me. For much hilarity, I suggest appending the word "badass" to all Google searches. It brought me quite a bit of delight!)
