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.

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.

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!!!!!

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

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

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

 

What about Keanu Reeves as Alec Kyle?

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.

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>

Well , my girlfriend says she sees Keanu in this role, despite the fact that he doesn`t look exactly like book desciption.

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

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?

Yeah, I know, the whole SG-1 thing...forgive me, but this is how I see the characters as I read

 

Young Harry-Daniel Radcliffe

Harry grown up-Michael Shanks

Alec Kyle-Ewan McGregor

Darcy Clarke-Mr. Bean!

Ben Trask-Chris O'donnell

Anna Marie English-Lily Tomlin

David Chung-Garrett Wang

Zek Foener-Angelina Jolee

Jazz Simmons-Corin Nemec

Sir Keenan-Sean Connory

Vasagi the suck-Michael Jackson(Yeah, I've got issues)

Thibor-Ron Pearlman

Faethor-Christopher Walken

Gregor Borowitz-Don Davis

Dragosani-Marton Csokos

Harry Junior in "The Source"-Daniel Radcliffe again(he'd be grown up a bit at that point, and Harry Jr. is supposed to be a spitting image of Harry Sr.)

Minister Responsible-Brian, of course!

Lardis-Mark Lewis VIII-the gypsy leader in Ever After w/Drew Barrymore

Turkur Tzonov-Billy Zane-He has that "I'm important, don't screw with me." attitude

Devataki Skullguise-Beverly D'angelo

 

That's it for now

Young Harry Keogh- Unknown young actor

Harry Keogh grown up- Cillian Murphy

Alec Kyle- Adrian Paul or Peter Wingfield

Darcy Clarke- Hugh Laurie

Ben Trask- Kyle Maclachlan

Anna Marie English- Uknown actor

David Chung- Unknown actor

Sir Keenan Gormley - Sean Connery

Thibor Ferenczy - Ron Pearlman or Clancy Brown

Gregor Borowitz- Rutger Hauer

Boris Dragosani- Michael Wincott

The Minister Responsible- Patrick Stewart

sorry i think of patrick stewart when trying to guess for Turkov

This was done between me and my brother couldnt get everyone though:

 

Casting for Necroscope the trilogy:

 

First Movie: Necroscope

Design for vampire world and cgi done by H.R. Giger

 

Harry Keogh child – Divid Dorfman (boy from THE RING)

HARRY KEOGH / Callum Blue (dead like me)

Alec Kyle-

Sir Keenan Gromly – Sean Connery

Boris Dragasoni - Ralph Fiennes (Red Dragon)

Gregor Borowitz – Lawrence Tierney (resivour Dogs)

Max Batu – Hiroyuki Tagawa

The Dweller in his garden in the west – Edward Furlong (American history X)

Thibor – Russel Crow

Fatheor - Ian McKellen (lord of the rings/apt pupil)

Lady Karen - Monica Belluci ( Passion of Christ)

Zek Foener- Patricia Velasquez

Jazz Simmons-

Lardis –

Yulan –

Yulan’s cousin –

Darcy Clark –

Ben Trask –

David Chung –

Ian Goodly –

Paxton –

Shatian – Doesn’t Matter will be CGI when needed Ryan Phillippe

Shanthis – gary oldman

Scientist who was vampirized in the source – Nerdy guy from ghost busters

 

Vampire World Necroscope II

Design for vampire world and cgi done by H.R. Giger

 

Tukur - Arnold Vosloo (the mummy)

Nathan Kiklu - Callum Blue

Nestor Kiklu – Callum Blue

Nana Kiklu –

Vasigi – CGI doesn’t matter

Wratha –

Maglore –

Wran & Spiro Killgalnce -

Carmen (who should not be) – Daryl Hannah

Canker –

Vormulac Unsleep –

Devitaki Skullguise – Beverly D'angelo

So...who's gonna be miffed if Sean Connory isn't cast as Sir Keenan?

Not me.

Sho Sean Connery as Sir keenan Gormley l don't think sho, l'm shtill rooting for James Grout or at a push John Savident (Fred Elliott).

hiya I'm a long time Lumlian, but brand-spanking new to the boards. And I'm psych'd about the movie, granted that they keep it true to the book as possible. I guess my dream team for the Necroscope book movies would be:

 

Faethor: Donald Sutherland

Thibor: Kiefer Sutherland

Alec Kyle: Sam Niel (Played Alan Grant in Jurassic Park)

Big Harry: Jonny Lee Miller (played Dade Murphy in Hackers)

Little Harry: Haley Jole Osmund

Dragosani:

Juilian Bodescu: Jonny Depp

Ben Trask: Anthony Stewart Head

Darcy Clarke: Alan Tudyk (Wat in A Knights Tale)

Lady Karen: Angelina Jolie

Zek FoenerMila Jovovich

 

Thats all I got for now I will try to come up with some others and post 'em to ya.

 

Thanks for listening.

 

[ August 29, 2005, 07:45 PM: Message edited by: John_Bigboote ]

If I was making a Necroscope movie I'd condense the first 2 books into an hour and jump straight in at The Source.

 

HARRY - Rhys Ifans

KYLE - Sean Bean

ZEK - Famke Janssen

DRAGOSANI - MIchael Massee (the villain from the first season of 24)

 

LADY KAREN - Sigourney Weaver

SHAITHIS - The Undertaker (believe me it would work)

 

In fact the more I think about it the more I believe all the Wamphyri lords were meant to be played by WWE wrestlers.

 

THE DWELLER - Marc Dacascos (from the Crying Freeman film)

 

The film should be at least 150 - 180 mins long and from there become an epic series, as the Harry Potter movies are.

I'm not a Harry Potter fan, I just think the Necroscope movies should be done on the same scale.

 

In an ideal world I'd love to see Peter Jackson pick us the series an give it the full LOTR treatment, but essentially the books are very adult orientated and any producer would find it difficult to splash out on such a huge budget.

 

I do however have high hopes for the film(s), and seriously hope that justice is done to the series.

 

As far as special effects go, the advent of LOTR has ushered in a new era in combining CGI and prosthetics, which Necroscope could fully exploit, and be utterly convincing.

 

Fingers crossed.

Originally posted by christ2810:

If I was making a Necroscope movie I'd condense the first 2 books into an hour and jump straight in at The Source.

 

HARRY - Rhys Ifans

KYLE - Sean Bean

ZEK - Famke Janssen

DRAGOSANI - MIchael Massee (the villain from the first season of 24)

 

LADY KAREN - Sigourney Weaver

SHAITHIS - The Undertaker (believe me it would work)

 

In fact the more I think about it the more I believe all the Wamphyri lords were meant to be played by WWE wrestlers.

 

THE DWELLER - Marc Dacascos (from the Crying Freeman film)

 

The film should be at least 150 - 180 mins long and from there become an epic series, as the Harry Potter movies are.

I'm not a Harry Potter fan, I just think the Necroscope movies should be done on the same scale.

 

In an ideal world I'd love to see Peter Jackson pick us the series an give it the full LOTR treatment, but essentially the books are very adult orientated and any producer would find it difficult to splash out on such a huge budget.

 

I do however have high hopes for the film(s), and seriously hope that justice is done to the series.

 

As far as special effects go, the advent of LOTR has ushered in a new era in combining CGI and prosthetics, which Necroscope could fully exploit, and be utterly convincing.

 

Fingers crossed.

to condense the first two books is crazy your a loony

Why?

I just don't think they would make very good films by themselves.

 

From The Source onwards is where the business is at.

I personally would hate them to condense the first two. Besisdes the vampire world trilogy they were my favourite books in the series. I think these two are the ones that have to be as close to the books as possible, more so than later ones. Theres so much to explain and so much going on. Harry needs to be introduced properly with his childhood, avenging his mother etc, you need to explain his powers, indeed all powers of all members of e-branch. Then the russian side of things needs to be explained, we need to see the ascension of Dragosani from man to Wamphyri and also introduce Thibor. Then you've got all the action, plenty of gore and stuff, necromancy, murder, dead things killing living things. Ahhh so much great stuff and thats just one book. If you condednsed two into an hour and then jumped into the source I fear the great majority of mere mortals who know nothing of Necroscope would overload their brains trying to work out whats going on and their heads would actually explode!

I totally agree Elior there's nothing worse than a film supposing it's audience knows the characters before the movie starts.

Maybe so but you're looking purely from a fan's point of view.

I desperately want the film to be succesful, and I'd hate to see a mainstream audience walk away thinking "christ, that was boring".

 

I can almost imagine the reviews - "you've got to read the books to understand".

 

You can squeeze a hell of a lot of information into an hour of screen time, and there's no reason why some of the finer points can't be incorporated into later movies.

 

The Lord Of The Rings movies missed a fair bit from the beginning of the book, and it wasn't detrimental to the final product at all.

 

All I'm saying is, the main part of the whole Necroscope saga revolves around the Vampire World, and the Sunside/Starside wars should be the main focus of the movies.

 

All that comes before is merely set up for The Source as far as I'm concerned - and that's not taking anything away from the first two books - it's just that as great as they are, I don't think a lot of it would transfer into interesting cinema.

Sure, Dragosani's ascension should play a major part, along with Harry learning of the Moebius Strip. But the Yulian Bodescu saga is a little long winded and although it could create a neat set-piece, it doesn't really have much relevance to the later novels.

 

It's the age old battle of trying to please all of the people all of the time.

Obviously, the more hardcore fans will balk at the mere thought of omitting so much of the story, but sometimes less is more - especially when it comes to movies.

 

Try looking at the bigger picture and maybe you'll see where I'm coming from.

I can totally see where you're coming from and i'm not saying that you're wrong! All i am saying is I don't agree with you. The reason why they could leave so much out of the Lord of the rings was because it was so well read for generations and a vast amount of people knew the story, vaguely if not totally, anyway. With Necroscope, which I would presume would garner an adult rating, even with it's popularity the vast majority will never have heard of it.

All I am saying is that I would like as much characterisation as in the book so you know where Harry is coming from and what motivated him to do what he did.

Over the years I feel the best films are those that followed the book / comic in essence. I am in no way saying i'm right it's just my personal preference and sorry if you thought I was not taking your opinion into account. I feel you have a valid point too, it would be nice for to jump in at an action point rather like George Lucas did in Star Wars at episode 4. the only thing that worries me is the mess they'd make of going back if they ever decided to ... just look at Star Wars episode 1 ---- lololol

Anyway I hope we can agree to disagree