Friday, March 12, 2010

When they make the movie... - Jay Eckert

Big dream alert, people. BIG DREAMS!
Flash forward. Your book is published and has a large fan base. It's so good that a big Hollywood studio has bought the movie rights. The script is in the can. (That's what it's called, right? LOL) A huge director, maybe Spielberg, is lined up. It's casting time. Who do you want? Okay, now I haven't thought about this very much, but I'm going to take a moment to fantasize.
Mythos
Director
Well, since I can't have John Hughes *sniff*, and Spielberg is producing more nowadays, Ron Howard
The Lead
Zydeco - Robert Pattinson
The Bad Guys
Phineas Malice - Richard Griffiths
Hunter - Mickey Rourke
Supporting Cast
Blaine - Brandon Jackson - can he do an English accent?
Tameina - Dakota Fanning
The Children of Midian Director I'd want Richard Donner to direct the movie adaptation of the Children of Midian. This is he of Goonies fame. Or maybe Robert Rodriguez from all the Spy Kids movies. The Lead Elliot - Do you think Freddie Highmore could do an American accent? The Bad Guy Lycaon - Jeromy Irons. Totally Jeremy Irons. Supporting Cast Mara - Abigail Breslin. Maggie - Introducing my daughter Rachel.... Will I have that kind of pull? Mr. Snyder, a.k.a. The Fisherman - Christopher Walken
Ah, to dream. How about you? Who are your stars?

13 comments:

  1. Jeremy Irons makes a fantastic bad guy. Almost as good as Alan Rickman :-)

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  2. Oh-oh-oh!! I love this game! I have to google actors' names. It'll take me a bit because, well, I do have a lot of charactes....

    And I only know one actor's name.

    JENSEN ACKLES!!!!! DEXX!!!!!! *stalker scream*

    *pant, pant* I will google and come back! I LOVE this game!

    Frankie

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  3. ROFL @ Frankie! Oh goodness, girlfriend. Jay, those were some awesome picks. Christopher Walken? I can totally see that. :)

    Hmmm...well, I'm not up on producers/directors so, I'll skip that part.

    Ninevah-Jessica Caulfiel
    Graham-David Boreanz

    Other than that, not sure. hehehe...

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  4. I've done a few minor changes to my cast (along with a few things I think Frankie might kill me for...but I'm not sharing yet.) so...this is what I've got so far:

    MC Joey: Kaley Cuoco (Billie from "Charmed", Bridget from "8 Rules for Dating My Daughter")

    MC Cameron: Bradley James *Swoon* (Prince Arthur from "Merlin")

    I haven't figured out the rest of them yet. It'll be a real pain to try and find Seraphina if I decide to keep her. >.>

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  5. This is sad! I don't know actors' names, so I can't GOOGLE them? Amazing, right? You've gotta know their name, or the name of the movie or whatever that you saw them in...That's just freaky. GAH!

    *pouting*

    However, I have Jensen, so that's all that really matters!

    Frankie

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  6. It's too funny. I started up this post, and then I'm like, wait... I forgot every actor's name! And so many child actors I like are too old for the Midian roles. Ah, well.

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  7. LOL! This is awesome! But Robert Pattinson for Zydeco? Heh, I haven't reviewed the book, but I took a sneak peek at the first chapter and wouldn't Rob be too old?

    This is a fun game, but I won't let myself do it until I finish my darn novel. *mumbles*

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  8. Well, I wanted somebody w/ charisma. A bit of makeup, silver hair color, and maybe?

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  9. Uhm...honestly I don't think RPatz should be playing ANYBODY let alone the awesomeness that is any of our characters, dude. :P

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  10. haha!! I haven't thought about this very much...lol...Yeah, right! :D

    Awesome post, Jay. I can't play cos I'm the same as Frankie, I don't know actors' names. I'm terrible with names.

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  11. Jay, this is a cool post! I've often thought about this.

    I have tried to think of actors who remind me of the characters, but I really can't think of any. Maybe I would have to have every character played by an unknown. :) The one exception is Adrian Brody....he might make it in as Peytra ;)

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  12. Robert Pattinson? (LOL @ RPatz, that's great) But seriously, him? His face freaks me out a bit.

    I just have one- My MC, Hester, would be played by Ellen Page, but she would have to dye her hair strawberry red and mat it up into dreads. Think she'd be game?

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  13. Oh I love Ellen Page. She's an awesome actress! I think if the MS was cool/quirky enough, she'd be up for it! ;)

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