Necroscope the movie, who would u cast?

[HydraCluster]

My take on Casting of Necroscope....

Gregor Borrowitz - Rade Serbedzija- boris the blade in snatch Who can disagree if you know of whom i speak?

Harry Keough - someone unkown since he's only going to be in one of the movies. Doughy eyes and almost a pushover until he cast a cold glare.

Alec Kyle - <-------Most Important Character to Cast Because of YOU KNOW WHAT!!!!! He's the guy we should be worried about being casted properly. He needs to be hansome but slightly overwieght, he needs to be likable but imperfect. So what should Johnny Depp or Collin Farrel be Alec. NO!!!! Big Names are overrated. A story loses its depth to mass of such actors. Ask Archimedes........

Boris Dragasoni- Cillian Murphy- jim from 28 days later Young with slippery eyes. Thats whats needed for Boooorrrrrrrissss.......


Thibor - This one i'm goin' with a personal favorite more than what's right.....Hey, I'm entitled to it people can argue Peter "big budget" Jackson should direct.....heh heh...

Ron Pearlman, for a big guy he can act. Most importantly he can be fatherly and cruel. I'm not speaking of that hellboy nonsense but of most of the films i've seen him in. Since he'd be narrating alot of Vamphyri his voice would be most excellent.

[Malinari]

Right then, I'm only gonna go on about who should play the Harry's. The kid from the 6th sense would be good for Harry Keogh as a child but the 6th sense kid probably isn't so small anymore [img]tongue.gif[/img] He'd be good to play the pre-Alec Kyle 21 year old Harry. I also agree that Jhonny Depp should play Harry-Kyle 'cos he has dark brown eyes... well he did in Pirates of the Caribbean. Oh yeah, Cameron Diaz for Zek as well.

[grimalkin]

Hi! I like all the suggestions, but Gary Oldman is Dragosani. What about Stuart Townsen (? Lestat in Queen of the Damned) for something. He's so seductive and beautiful. I think Christopher Walken should be in there, too, if he could loose the NY accent.

[skinters]

to be honest my heart says ,yeah make a necroscope film ,but my head is saying i just hope it dont turn out like so many book to films that have gone wrong in the past and cant really see any director script music score that will do the fantastic story brian has created any justice at all....i fear the worse

ill put this reply to all the of the necro film threads ,sorry i sound so negative ,jus my thoughts and i feel that its taking away the sincerity from brians work i dont know why i feel this way jus do .

p.s as for the likes of depp playing harry ,have you heard his english accent ? hmmmmm

[HydraCluster]

I personally can live without a movie. An weekly hour long tv drama series would be more appropriate than anything. I am an american and I have to say that most headline actors are'nt good enough for Mr. Lumley's characters. The only actor i'll stick by that I listed is....

posted January 16, 2005 11:30 PM
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My take on Casting of Necroscope....

Gregor Borrowitz - Rade Serbedzija- boris the blade in snatch Who can disagree if you know of whom i speak?

[nightshade]

dragonsoni (necromancer)- I like Gary Oldman, but he's too old. Someone Oldman-esque but 25-35.
harry as a child - you gots me
harry grown up - Cillian sounds good.
harrys ghostly mother - Cate Blanchette or Mel Harris
brenda - Shirley Henderson or someone similar
thibor the wallach - Blank
thibor frecenzy - Blank
faethor frecenzy - Predrag Bjelac
max batu - I'm forgetting if he's old or young old - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I'm just throwing things out there. Talk amongst yourselves.

[skinters]

its not easy picking a cast for the film ,and we all got different views how each should look .....sometimes you see a film and think hey i know someone else who would have played that role better

but i do think it has to have a lot of british influence for obvious reasons,and would rather the british film industry was making the film instead of hollywood,but alas it doesnt have the huge resources hollywood can throw,and this film is going to take some special effects to rival anything that has gone before it .

the big test is how the wamphyri are going to to be done effects wise without it looking like raw head rex ,a story about a mythical monster by the writer clive barker which was ruined effects wise,
and which clive barker was excluded from any input how the monster would look.jus hope that brian isnt pushed out like he was ,and has a lot to say and have has much close contact with director and special effect teams alike as possible,

[ March 12, 2005, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: skinters ]

[Red Willow]

have been re-reading the series and i think it's already been mentioned but i can really picture the guy from queen of the damned as Dragosani. Even imagined a poster of him looking all evil with 'Necromancer' underneath and some non-descript guy as Harry with 'Necroscope' and some sort of tagline like 'Who will win'.
And there's gotta be a way to fit Bruce 'the chin' Campbell in as well!

[nightshade]

Vincent Perez or Stuart T? Cause now that you mention it, VP would be an EXCELLENT Dragosani. Stuart is too 'meh' if you ask me.

[Red Willow]

i meant stuart townsend (thanks! couldn't be bothered to look it up!) but fair enuf, thought maybe VP was a bit old though.

[Jade Rose]

I've only seen Townsend as Lestat and I don't even think that Lestat is on the same level as Dragosani. I can't see him switchin from portraying Lestat's pretty boy vampire who in comparison to Dragosani is like a little bully just playing at being evil to becoming Dragosani who actually is the real thing. I could be understimating the actor though. I do tend to live in a book.

[Wicked Gypsy]

I think Marton Csokos would make a GREAT Dragosani, He played the terrorist Leader of "Anarchy 99" in XXX. He's a great actor for the part. Gormley should be played by Sir Ian McKellan, Ewan McGregor as Alec Kyle, And Orlando Bloom as Harry. This would make a Fantastic nucleus for the cast.

[TheGardenGnome]

Ed Norton as the older harry would be excellent IMHO. He has great range and is an under rated actor. Unfortunately since Harry becomes Kyle, Ed doesn't fit my mind's eye of Kyle. So he wouldn't last past the first movie which is a shame. As to who would play Kyle, that's a tough one.
One thing is for sure, Brian has to make some sort of walk-on role in the movie. If not, we'll be greatly disappointed!!!!!

[jbp]

Just a suggestion but what does everybody think of Daniel Craig(the guy from Layer Cake) as Dragosani

[wslibra66]

I cannot believe that no one has suggested Angelina Jolie as a Wamphry Lady. I see her as Wratha the Risen. Does anyone agree?

[Lord Melkor]

What about Monica Belluci as Lady Karen? Is she too old for this?

What about Keanu Reeves as Alec Kyle?

[Azazel005]

Originally posted by Lord Melkor:
What about Keanu Reeves as Alec Kyle?

Dude, please tell me that was a joke?

I think Belluci could conceivably play Lady Karen though.

[Lord Melkor]

Originally posted by Azazel005:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Lord Melkor:
What about Keanu Reeves as Alec Kyle?

Dude, please tell me that was a joke?

I think Belluci could conceivably play Lady Karen though. </font>[/QUOTE]Well , my girlfriend says she sees Keanu in this role, despite the fact that he doesn`t look exactly like book desciption.

[Botch the Mad]

if he could get the accent, haley joel osment could play young harry.

[Azazel005]

Originally posted by Lord Melkor:
Well , my girlfriend says she sees Keanu in this role, despite the fact that he doesn`t look exactly like book desciption. [/QB]

It's just...he can hardly act as is, he's not british doesn't look british doesn't sound british...

I could see him playing a frazzled Alec Kyle like character sort of down the lines as he had played in perhaps "The Devil's Advocate" (barely)but...this is the actor that will become adult Harry? That's gotta feel kind of a stretch right?