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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3375 on: March 01, 2011, 06:08:12 PM »
Hendricks- Jason Statham

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3376 on: March 01, 2011, 06:13:47 PM »
james-there are very few pretty boys who are badass, i couldn't come up with another
Sean- i know, he'd have to be deaged
Tilda- it kinda makes sense though. think the white witch from narnia

uriel- and yet you didn't comment on will smith or taye diggs- not to mention he's an angel


Swinton isn't athletic enough.  Gard uses a double bitted axe.  Swinton would go over backwards trying to swing one of those.
Connery has stopped acting.  And deaging someone would be extremely expensive.
I didn't see Kincaid/Will Smith - and I don't think that's a good match either.
Kincaid is enormous.  The Rock - now that I could see.
As for Morgan/Taye Diggs - I think Diggs is too young and not world weary enough.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3377 on: March 01, 2011, 09:40:54 PM »
I still say Clancy Brown for Morgan.  That voice, that presence...for god's sake, he's not just the Kurgan! He's Lex FREAKING Luthor!
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3378 on: March 02, 2011, 01:44:45 AM »
I still say Clancy Brown for Morgan.  That voice, that presence...for god's sake, he's not just the Kurgan! He's Lex FREAKING Luthor!

A. Freakin'. Men. Besides, Jim said it himself.
Also, Rutger Hauer for Lord Raith. After watching Blade Runner last night, and checking what he looks like now, he's a good fit for the role.

Kincaid is enormous.  The Rock - now that I could see.

When was Kincaid described as enormous? I've always seen him as a few inches shorter than Harry. 6'5'' at most. (that might count as enormous, actually. I don't know.) Plus, The Rock's a bit too muscular for Kincaid.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3379 on: March 02, 2011, 05:21:20 PM »
When was Kincaid described as enormous? I've always seen him as a few inches shorter than Harry. 6'5'' at most. (that might count as enormous, actually. I don't know.) Plus, The Rock's a bit too muscular for Kincaid.

I may be mistaken, but I'd SWEAR that he's described has having a lean, muscular swimmer's build.  I think another few people are described the same way, but I'm relatively sure Kincaid was one of those.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3380 on: March 02, 2011, 05:31:20 PM »
I may be mistaken, but I'd SWEAR that he's described has having a lean, muscular swimmer's build.  I think another few people are described the same way, but I'm relatively sure Kincaid was one of those.

Harry's described that way.

Found the first description of Kincaid.
"A man stood on my doorstep.  He was nearly as tall as me but looked a lot more solid,
with shoulders wide enough to make the loose black jacket he wore fit tightly on his upper arms."

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3381 on: March 02, 2011, 05:31:43 PM »
Here's what I have so far.

Harry: still up in the air.
Thomas: John Morrison
Eb: Robert Duvall
Morgan: Clancy Brown (as soon as someone said the Kurgan, I knew who he was.  Yes)
Kincaid: Brad Pitt (I could see Murph using him as a man toy)
Nic: Jeremy Irons
Malcolm: Liam Neeson
Uriel: James Earl Jones?
Langtry: Christopher Lee
Sanya: Dwayne Johnson( if you could teach him how to act with a russion accent)

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3382 on: March 02, 2011, 09:03:18 PM »
Here's what I have so far.

Harry: still up in the air.
Thomas: John Morrison
Eb: Robert Duvall
Morgan: Clancy Brown (as soon as someone said the Kurgan, I knew who he was.  Yes)
Kincaid: Brad Pitt (I could see Murph using him as a man toy) Christian Kane
Nic: Jeremy Irons
Malcolm: Liam Neeson
Uriel: James Earl Jones?
Langtry: Christopher Lee
Sanya: Dwayne Johnson( if you could teach him how to act with a russion accent)

FIFY ;D

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3383 on: March 03, 2011, 01:56:09 AM »
Er..Sanya is supposed to be Black.  That's part of the reason he got
involved with the Denarians.  He was SO very out of place in Russia.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3384 on: March 03, 2011, 07:06:56 AM »
Er..Sanya is supposed to be Black.  That's part of the reason he got
involved with the Denarians.  He was SO very out of place in Russia.
   so maybe will smith? i forgot he wasn't russian. doesn't he have that accent though?
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3385 on: March 03, 2011, 07:14:58 AM »
I think Will Smith is too well known to play Sanya.
Also I think he's not quite buff enough.
Sanya has probably developed some pretty impressive shoulder and arm muscles from
swinging a sword though no where near as wide as Michael.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3386 on: March 03, 2011, 08:00:09 AM »
I think Jim mentioned once Will Smith could play Harry, and when you look at pics of him an his wife, who's Murphy?  :D



ok so he's 6"2 and but she's 5' 0 (sorry I don't know the correct way to do feet and inches)

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3387 on: March 03, 2011, 03:58:24 PM »
It's a single stroke ' for feet and a double stroke " for inches, Icecream.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3388 on: March 03, 2011, 04:35:54 PM »
Dwayne Johnson is black/Samoan. 

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #3389 on: March 03, 2011, 05:41:25 PM »
Er..Sanya is supposed to be Black.  That's part of the reason he got
involved with the Denarians.  He was SO very out of place in Russia.

But it never says how black he is.  I don't mean to sound racist, but there's varying degrees of skin tone from black black to light brown, just like there's variations of any other skin "color".
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