[ SECRET POST #2608 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2608 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The Stardust movie is vastly superior to the book, though. I love Gaiman, but the movie version is just so, so good. The actors alone are excellent.

I do agree with you about American Gods, though. I just don't think it would make a very good movie/mini-series.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Gaiman wrote the script for Stardust. So... XD

[(Anonymous)]

No, he didn't. Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn did.

[(Anonymous)]

maybe not but:

Stardust the Movie Gets Neil Gaiman’s Stamp of Approval: “It’s really incredibly wonderfully, thrillingly exciting. [I’m saying that] because it’s good,” declared Gaiman. “And really, Charles and I only found out over the last two weeks. I worked with Matthew Vaughn and Jane [Goldman] a little on the script and I’ve been there through casting, and I was there through pre-production. Then the day that they started production, I flew back to America and then went off to Australia and bounced around the world. And I was just sort of very nervous, frankly, of what was going on in Skye and Iceland and Pinewood [Studios]. Then two weeks ago I got down to Pinewood. They walked into the screening theater there and they showed me half an hour of footage. I wound up with a grin on my face that you couldn’t have removed with an ax.

It’s my thing and it’s working. They made it into a film - and it’s good. It’s funny and the scary bits - they didn’t actually show any of the scary bits, but the scary bits are scary. Michele Pfeiffer is absolutely f**king terrifying. Robert De Niro is terrific and Ricky Gervais is hilarious. The Prince is Rupert Everett. I do wish they’d had the Rupert Everett sequence."

So he did get to work on the script a little and was pretty much involved with a lot of things.

[the_missing_y]

I just don't think it would make a very good movie/mini-series.

I think it would depend entirely on the strength of the actors playing the various parts. It's a fantastic world, but the strength of the characters are what drive the story more than anything else.

Can't think who they'd cast though.

Shadow: I want to say Idris Elba. Built like a tone of bricks, can play the character type so well, but shadow is not so obviously black. it would need to be someone who could pass for a dark skinned white guy or a light skinned black guy.

Wednesday: Maybe Jeff Bridges? Oo oo ooh, Donald Sutherland! OOoo No Sutherland would be a much better Czernobog, so how about Bruce Campbell as Wednesday!

I cast Morgan Freeman as almost every cool old black guy, but I can think of no better Anansi. He's the only one I have no qualms about.

[gondremark]

When I try to think of the casting, every actor I come up with is too pretty to play anyone in the book. Except Ibis. Ibis as I imagine him is far prettier than any actor anywhere.
And I can't even get a lock on what I think Shadow looks like; he changes every time I re-read the book.

[the_missing_y]

Ibis... hm, I'm not sure who could play him.

Shadow is big, muscled, somewhere in his thirties, and of some kind of mixed race (it turns out half black half white but people all through the book take guesses at it, ranging from Roma, Black, and Native American) Skin colour aside Idris Elba would be prefect.

[serafina20]

I always picture Vin Diesel as Shadow.

[(Anonymous)]

I always picture Dwayne Johnson as Shadow. He's got that sort of big and tough but cuddliness to him that I think Shadow should have. But honestly, he's probably way too charismatic to play Shadow, who gets half of his power by sort of blending in.

I know he isn't the right stature, but last time I read it I was picturing Christoph Waltz as Wednesday. I think he'd pull off that brand of manipulation really well.

[(Anonymous)]

I read somewhere that Gaiman said Shadow looks like Dwayne Johnson.

[(Anonymous)]

That's my mental casting, too. :)

[ginainthekingsroad]

The problem with dramatizing American Gods is that a lot of the stuff related to actual war-is-coming-let's-prepare plot is really glossed over. Like, Shadow and Wednesday go around and meet with a whole bunch of gods and it gets like 4-5 very short paragraphs, and then he goes back to Lakeside and we get whole chapters full of that.

I don't really have any strong thoughts on casting other than Jackie Earle Haley as Low Key.

[(Anonymous)]

That would be perfect actually

[gondremark]

I said above that any actor I could think of was too pretty to play anyone from American Gods, but I take that back. Jackie Earle Haley as Low Key would be perfect.

[arcadiaego]

I saw a fancast with JEH as Loki and that's now all I want.

[(Anonymous)]

I always pictured Shadow as younger than Idris Elba, though. More 30ish. And I'd be totally cool with a darker black guy, but knowing movies they'd probably cast a white Shadow anyway. :///

Jeff Bridges as Wednesday, I love it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love to see Jason Momoa as Shadow, if Dwayne Johnson isn't up for it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes!

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't care for the movie, tbh. Parts of it were fine, others were... I just didn't go for the nutty slapstick of Robert DeNiro as a camp Captain Shakespeare. It felt really cringeworthy and juvenile, even for a movie that was meant to appeal to a younger audience.