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Casting ideas?
Here are some of mine:
Dorothea Brooke: Emily Blunt Sally Hawkins
Tertius Lydgate: Christian Bale Rupert Friend Matthew McFadyen Clive Owen
Rev. Edward Casaubon: Kenneth Branagh Jeremy Irons Hugh Laurie Gary Oldman Alan Rickman Geoffrey Rush Stellan Skarsgard David Thewlis Tom Wilkinson
Will Ladislaw: Hugh Dancy James McAvoy
Rosamond Vincy: Anna Friel Rosamund Pike Kelly Reilly Claire Skinner
Mary Garth: Claudie Blakley Kelly MacDonald Ruth Wilson
and some casting ideas I've collated from other people:
Dorothea Brooke: Jacinda Barrett Rose Byrne Romola Garai Tamsin Greig Kelly MacDonald Anna Maxwell Martin Jemima Rooper Ruth Wilson Kate Winslet Catherine Zeta-Jones
Tertius Lydgate: Sean Bean Benedict Cumberbatch Daniel Day-Lewis Ioan Gruffudd Ciaran Hinds Ewan McGregor Viggo Mortensen Rufus Sewell
Rev. Edward Casaubon: Johnny Depp Trevor Eve Philip Glenister Tom Hanks Damian Lewis Gerard McSorley David Morrissey Liam Neeson Pete Postlethwaite Steven Waddington
Will Ladislaw: Richard Armitage Gerard Butler Ben Chaplin Leonardo DiCaprio Ioan Gruffudd Julian Ovenden Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Ronan Vibert David Wenham Samuel West Sam Worthington
Rosamond Vincy: Emily Blunt Christina Cole Abbie Cornish Natalie Dormer Romola Garai Keira Knightley Sophia Myles Naomi Watts Natasha Wightman
Mary Garth: Emily Blunt Helen Coker Anne-Marie Duff Alison Garland Alex Kelly Anna Maxwell Martin
Celia Brooke: Anne Hathaway Felicity Jones Carey Mulligan
Mr. Brooke: David Thewlis
Sir James Chettam: Toby Stephens
Fred Vincy: Rafe Spall Simon Woods
Caleb Garth: Hugh Laurie
Nicholas Bulstrode: Danny Huston Stephen Rea
What are your ideas? If the casting is good I'm expecting awards attention for Dorothea, Casaubon, Rosamond and *possibly* Mary Garth and Fred Vincy if their characters are given a chance to shine.
Anyone who needs to be told the story and the characters of this classic piece of literature doesn't need to be in this thread. Nor are they qualified to make casting decision.
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I hope it's a BBC mini-series - those seem to do best justice to a complicated and well-known story (to a particular kind of British audience).
Although my first thought on hearing this, is that the director has gotten lost in a certain kind of British intellectual pretension. Those attracted to that certain era of writing often seem to be jaundiced with their own era and that somehow affects a theatrical piece in a negative way. (It's different for an individual reader who isn't producing something for others).
Thanks, Egg Fu, I didn't know that. You obviously know and love the novel, and I guess you've seen the miniseries too. Do you think that Mendes can bring something new to the story in 2 hours that was lacking in the miniseries? If a lot of the characters and subplots are trimmed away, what do you think is absolutely essential that must be left?
I know I seem a little down on his plan to direct this - but when directors don't seem passionate and invigorated by "today" and think they have films in them that have never been done before, I'm hesitant.
But it could be a great movie, prove me totally wrong, and I'd gladly admit it. I hope that's the case. I wouldn't have been eagerly awaiting "Tristam Shandy" either, but that one made me laugh, and I did see it twice. And actually, I liked the Mira Nair "Vanity Fair" even though it was a very selective version of the story. So I'll take back my initial words, and adopt a "wait and see'.
I think Mendes has a real joie de cinema as far as this is concerned, he clearly enjoys experimenting with new styles so a period may be an interesting turn for him. I did like the book a lot but its a bit ambitious to condense it to 2 hours, even 3.
