Remember...?

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

So remember that one book group that was voting on which book(s) to read this month? Well, I was curious to see what they might have said about Our Favorite Series, seeing as how they should be well into it by now...

http://smartremarksbookclub.blogspot.com/2009/04/progress-report.html

Looks like we've got a few who are in love with our One-Handed Goatfoot ("Oh Gen. Gen, Gen, Gen.") :-)
What do you think of their casting ideas? They certainly have some, um, original ideas I don't think I've seen before, despite our many discussions on this topic. My thoughts mostly go along the lines of "casting Orlando Bloom as Gen? OH PLEASE NO."

But mostly I'm just happy that many of them seem to like the books.

Comments

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Dominic Monaghan? As Gen?

...love of actor vs. physical appearance, SO HARD.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, interesting choices - I know I've always imagined a 30-plus-year-old Irish guy or an American actor in his mid-40s as Eugenides. Good grief.

I guess they're not reading the book[s] very closely, are they?

*is busy drooling over your icon*

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

well, it sounds like they're reading them at kind of a breakneck pace.

Re: *is busy drooling over your icon*

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Yes - for a long time McAvoy was my Eugenides, but unfortunately he's a little too old now. At the time of Children of Dune, though, he was perfect.

[traboule.livejournal.com]

I pictured the Magus as a short fat guy.
*sobs*
I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the suggestion that the Magus be played by Jafar. Whom I like an awful lot, but - erm?

I'm not surprised at the Aladdin preferences, and I am pretty entertained that Orlando Bloom seems to have these roles he is just meant to play. Legarus the Awesomely Beautiful, of course, and I hope the Dorothy Dunnett fans agree with me that he pretty much is Jerrott Blyth.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

*sobs as well*

it's kind of like--Dr. Watson? Someone pointed out that, despite the fact that everyone thinks of him as this short roly poly guy in a bowler hat, he's actually, you know, a very intelligent doctor who used to be a soldier, and so is probably not-that-old and not-that-short and actually quite fit and therefore it's totally cool that Jude Law is playing him.

Yeah. Jafar as Magus is, uh, *brainasploding*

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

Jude Law Jude Law Jude Law Jude Law Jude Law Jude Law Jude Law Jude Law Jude Law

Ahem.

Wasn't there a cartoon where Sherlock is carricature-ish tall and lean, and Watson is roly poly?

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

I tried to post this comment before and it FAILED, but, my mental image of the Magus has always been a middle-aged Ben Kingsley. Which, you know. Not actually a viable casting choice now. >_> But that is who I see!

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

butbutbut

What about Alan Rickman???????

And this guy????????????????

http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews36_02/pictures/20071222_044%20(WinCE).jpg

(The girl is a FABULOUS actress, but I can't fit her into QT)

[rose-amidlilies.livejournal.com]

I can see Jafar as Nahuseresh personally, he even has the goatee going on... as for Wentworth Miller for Eugenides, his character in Prison Break is as brilliant as Gen, and he CAN escape prison...

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

as for Wentworth Miller for Eugenides, his character in Prison Break is as brilliant as Gen, and he CAN escape prison...

LOL! Didn't make the connection.
At least Miller has a tad darker complexion than a hobbit =D

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

He is also BUFF like a BEAR. I think, moving in that direction, we should just put it all on the line.

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v329/PenguinKye/?action=view&current=857441Vin-Diesel-The-Chronicles-of-.jpg)

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!! ROFL.....WIN!

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

*dies*

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

*is ded*

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

DEAD FROM THE LULZ

GUIN WINS AT LIFE

[readsintrees.livejournal.com]

Ugh, the whole topic of casting makes me nervous....since very few people (outside of Sounis) seem to have any sort of clear grasp on what these characters look like....which means IF these DID get made into movies, there's about a 96% chance that the casting is going to be awful. I hate seeing good books being made into poor movies...and so naturally, the thought of The Queen's Thief developing into movies....well, it just keeps me awake at night.

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A couple of weeks ago, we discussed favorite books and recommended other fantasy/YA books to each other....just want to say a thanks to whomever it was that recommended Kenneth Oppel's "Airborn" trilogy. I couldn't put it down! I got all three through inter library loan, and devoured them. Good old fashioned, yet original, adventure stories are hard to come by these days. PLUS, "Skybreaker" was the FIRST BOOK EVER to literally make me jump from fright. Actually, I jumped and exclaimed, "JESUS CHRIST!!" It was just one line...about seeing an eye staring back at him (if you've read it, you might recognize this). It definitely says something about an author that can get you so engrossed in the story that you actually jump just from reading a line. Incidentally, as I read that book and the next, I had to keep covering up lower halves of pages with my hands so that I wouldn't accidentally glance ahead and spoil any surprises. Thank you!

[readsintrees.livejournal.com]

Whoops...it was supposed to say "Completely irrelevant sidenote" in the brackets above...I forgot that that counts as formatting".

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Those are On My List and I think I'll bump them up now--in fact, I read the first couple pages at work today (I know, I know, bad employee--but what do they expect me to do? Not read?.

The only book to ever make me jump from fright is Neverwhere. (HOLY FREAK ITS CROUP AND VANDEMAR WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE?!?!?!?) I think I startled my roomate who was in the room. And while I'm rambling, my roommates told me that it sounded like I was being Repeatedly Stabbed while I was reading a certain passage of The Sunbird.... if you've read it you know what I mean.

I think my roommates are generally Extremely Amused by the Noises I make while reading. If I wasn't all caught up in the book I'd probably be amused to. :-)

[claire-mirkwood.livejournal.com]

"I've got to say that Orlando Bloom has been reserved for Legarus the Awesomely Beautiful."

Oh, yes. Yes, he is. Now *that* I want to see.