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I recently posted about my mental casting for the lead character in The Magicians and how it shakes up to the actor in the new show (and why I hate that book so, so much). Which brings up this topic:

What are your favorite live-action mental casts for books, cartoons and comics?

Jason Mamoa is physically my headcanon of Melkor. Though I'm not sure he could pull off that evil a character. But if he could, he's perfect. Roman Reigns also really looks the part, but he probably can't act.

Sauron is harder. Physically the closest would be either Stuart Townsend in Queen of the Damned or this male model named Ton Heukels. But I don't know of any current actors who both look the part and could act the part.

I thin Tom Hiddleston could be a really good Celebrimbor. Though he could also pull off a good Feanor I think. And he could also make a good Ar-Pharazon.

Another model, Reinaldo Berthoti, is my favorite fancast for Maedhros. Harry Lloyd would also be a good choice too. He actually looks good as a redhead.

And someone suggested Swedish model Filip Gustavsson for Gil-Galad, but I think he looks more like a Fingolfin.

I think Chris Hemsworth would make a good Cirden.

Maybe Ben Barnes as Fingon? IDK.

Edited 2016-02-10 01:37 (UTC)

There's a character in the Silmarillion called Bór. I have two images of him. One is Oded Fehr as he looks when he plays Ardeth Bay.

The other is this guy:
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I have never found anyone who could play an elf to my satisfaction.

Yes to both of these.

I struggle with elves too. Looks wise, the only ones that are really close are models. But then they likely don't have the acting ability to pull off the role. There are some actors who I think could work, but they aren't really exact more like willing to accept because I think they are good actors.

I think that's part of the problem. Everyone imagines they must be models but these are also beings who can kill a werewolf with their bare hands. They have to be strong and tall and lithe and beautiful and otherworldly. It's the last one that means the most to me and is the hardest to capture.

I think Lee Pace did as good a job as a human is likely to do (if I couldn't see his 5 o'clock shadow all the time and he'd actually let them mess with his eyebrows). Despite the fact that he was channeling Thingol and not Thranduil, he has the height, authority, and good looks for an elven king. I just didn't get a sense of the "alien" from him. He just seemed like a douchy human.

That's kind of the point, though. Elves look like models but are physically strong and badass and wise and otherworldly. It is pretty hard to capture that look. And physically I think (some) models probably come closest. Not acting wise, though. I don't think they could pull it off.

Lee Pace was close looks-wise. Even though he wasn't really Thranduil-like and not quite otherworldly enough. I'd also say Cate Blanchett comes as close as a human possibly could. I don't think anyone could really pull off elves, but I'm willing to accept ones that come close.

Jerry Trainor of iCarly fame is my ideal live action Flynn Rider from Tangled.

And this fanart of Persephone & Hades: http://slaymate.tumblr.com/post/93783060541/hands-down-the-best-thing-about-this-modern-au-is makes me really want a live action film about the characters. Based on this fanart (and the fact that I like them both as actors) I'd like to see Teen Wolf's Holland Roden & Psych's Timothy Omundson in the roles.

Admittedly, I made this cast 5+ years ago so if they're gonna do it they'd better hurry or the actors will have aged out of their roles. And I haven't picked a replacement for Leonard Nimoy...

Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Detective Meyer Landsman: Adrien Brody
Berko Shemets, Landsman's partner and cousin: Morris Birdyellowhead
Bina Gelbfish, their superior and Landsman's ex-wife: Lisa Edelman
Hertz Shemets, Landsman's uncle and Berko's father: Harvey Keitel

"Emmanuel Lasker" aka Mendel Shpilman, a murder victim: TJ Thyne
Itzak Zimbalist, the boundary maven: Leonard Nimoy *(this list was made in 2010)
Aryeh Baronshteyn, the Shpilman family consigliere: James Franco
Rebbe Shpilman, leader of a Verbover sect and implied mob boss: Harvey Fierstein
Batsheva Shpilman, his wife: Zoë Wannamaker

Inspector Willie Dick, native Alaskan police force: Adam Beach
Naomi Landsman, Meyer's deceased sister: Maggie Siff
Alter Litvak, former Army ranger: Richard Dreyfuss
Cashdollar, an American CIA agent: Bryan Cranston

I also have a lengthy fancast for Jo Walton's Small Change series, but it's incomplete and difficult to post without spoiling at least a few things.

Since The Raven Cycle is ripe for being adapted by the CW (what with their history of YA book adaptations), I spend a LOT of time thinking about that, although a lot of it is really scattershot/I only have half of them thought out.

Malese Jow for Blue, Kelly Hu as Maura (whatever, it'll just be a Vampire Diaries reunion) Daniel Sharman for Adam, and Erica Tazel for Calla (who's not right physically (I always thought of Calla as being bigger), but I can hear her say "A secret killed your father and you know what it is" so perfectly).

And miscellaneous male models who want to get into acting for Gansey, Ronan, and Noah.

For me, Finnick Odair from the Hunger Games is and always will be Jesse Williams.

I started watching the show and then decided to read the book. I finished the book. But only just finished it and will definitely not be reading the second and third books in the series. The book was bad. Quentin wasn't bad at first but he only got worse as the story went on and he's a douchebag by the end of the book.

I like the direction the TV show is going and am curious how it will differ from the books, since it already significantly has. If you feel like talking about it I know NO ONE else who has either read the book or is watching the TV show.

God, Quentin was the worst. And you're right, he didn't start out that way. Sure, he had a bit of superiority complex going on, but so do a lot of people who feel like they've been mistreated and misunderstood for some reason or other. His treatment of Alice during and after their breakup was my breaking point.

I hung in there for a little while after they found Not Narnia and he was off looking for a quest, but then I finally just had to come here and be all "Y'all, does Quentin get better or is everything about his horrible personality justified and held up as good?"

And everyone pretty much said he was made out to be right all along, and that was that. Maybe it would have been cliche, but I would have much rather have had a story about Josh, a mediocre student who tries really hard and becomes a hero with a ragtag team of outcasts. Or Penny finding a community, or Alice solving her mystery.

And maybe a little less overt in its ripping off of Chronicles of Narnia. Excuse me, it's homage.

I found book!Quentin to be like any typical high school senior looking forward to going away to college but I hated how he instantly dropped Julia and James, which TV!Quentin has not done yet. I also thought it was so bizarre that Brakebills was on a different time than the rest of the world and that was Quentin's excuse for not caring about his parents, who haven't made an appearance in the TV show. By changing it from undergrad to grad school, the TV avoids the point of the parents.

Ugh book!Alice and book!Quentin's relationship! I also hate how both of them were able to skip a year and Penny just gets left behind but then vanishes and then comes back to be super important.

Honestly you missed NOTHING by bouncing after they get to Not Narnia. The book ended terribly. I think it was paced oddly and the way it was split in to "four" books, but not really.

Obviously, I have a lot of feelings on this, but I really like the TV show and will keep watching to see how bad it will get.

Hugh Laurie as the White Knight in Through the Looking Glass.

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