HP fantasy casting GIP

[prillalar]

So, first there were Remus and Sirius .

And now there's Kingsley and Bellatrix .

And, of course, the Dark Lord .

Hmm, Lori Petty as Tonks?

Comments

[viggorlijah.livejournal.com]

Please, please, pllleeeease can I use the Voldemort one? It's so perfectly sporfly funny!

[prillalar]

Oh, sorry, hon, I'm just showing them off. I'm a selfish Slytherin. *g*

[zortified.livejournal.com]

You are strange. And now I want to see Remus/Sirius, if that's what they'd look like. ;-)

[prillalar]

You are strange.

I have often been told so. :)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEE!

I am laughing what's left of my ass off over the "used to be Dark but then had skin lightening treatments" Lord.

[prillalar]

I swear, I think of Michael Jackson every time I read this bit from GoF:

Whiter than a skull, with wide, livid scarlet eyes and a nose that was flat as a snakes with slits for nostrils...

So, Michael's nose isn't flat, but it is definitely quite odd with slitty nostrils.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Bwah!

I love that Voldemort. So. Perfect.

And yeah, Lori Petty as Tonks works for me.

However, I tend to envision Angelina Jolie as Bellatrix. And maybe Cate Blanchett as Narcissa... Hmm...

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I swear I think of Elizabeth Taylor as Bellatrix. Sort of the aging dissipated look.

[prillalar]

Cate as Narcissa ... interesting. She seems a little too strong to me. I think of Narcissa as kind of Barbie-like. But it could work.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Oh GOD, I'm dying over the Voldemort one. I bet he has a high, cold laugh and everything.

[prillalar]

Hee! Thanks. :) Jeez, now I want to watch the Thriller video.

Alliso Mack

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

would make a fine Tonks, I think, provided she could pull off the accent.

Re: Alliso Mack

[prillalar]

Yeah, I think you're right. And Lori Petty is rather too old for Tonks. I just like her, is all. Because she is hot.

[lifeinwords.livejournal.com]

*cracks up*

I think yours is my favorite fan casting yet.

[prillalar]

Ta! Now that I've started, I want to make more, but then I'd have to delete some of my Hook icons and I'm just not ready to do that.

[phoenixw.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Very nice! And Voldemort? Pure evil. *snorts*

Two thumbs up for Lori Petty as Tonks.

[prillalar]

The only problem is I'm having major 80s flashbacks to Michael Jackson videos. *g*

[maidenjedi]

YES to your Bellatrix. I was thinking that the other day.

[prillalar]

Cool! The first time I read about her "heavy-lidded eyes" I thought of Juliet Landau.

Actually, there's a server in a pub I sometimes go to who looks a *lot* like Juliet. I try not to stare, but it's hard.

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

May I pretty please have the Voldemort one? Please? Because it is Teh Funneh!

[prillalar]

I'm sorry, but I'm meanly going to keep these all to myself. Because I am Teh Selfish. *g* Anyhow, I'd hate to break up the set.

[destina.livejournal.com]

I like your Sirius and Remus, even if they are a little too young, in my mind. But they are sexy, and that's all I care about at the moment. *g* So I have recast them in my head, and that will make it easier to think about them.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

We-ell...

They're only 35-36ish in OotP, per JKR (not that that's necessarily canon, but MWPP+Lily and Snape appear to have been born sometime between 1958 and 1960 - they're younger than Lucius, who's 41 per OotP canon).

Alan Rickman skews the whole thing older in the movies, because obviously, there's no way he's only 33-34ish in PoA, but mentally, yeah. We can do what we like. *g*

[switchknife.livejournal.com]

Oh come one, Samuel Jackson is SO Shacklebolt!

Agree on the Dark Lord, though. Euch. And Remus. Yum.

I still think Sirius would be better off as... damn it, I just forgot his name! You know, that guy who starred in that Irish flick, 'In the Name of the Father'.

[prillalar]

Oh come one, Samuel Jackson is SO Shacklebolt!

Noooooooo!

I've been assuming Kingsley is a little bit younger than Remus and Sirius. Samuel Jackson is about 20 years too old for that, lovely though he is.

I still think Sirius would be better off as... damn it, I just forgot his name! You know, that guy who starred in that Irish flick, 'In the Name of the Father'.

You mean Daniel Day-Lewis?

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

Juliet Landau as Bellatrix. I'm only shocked that it never occurred to me.

(And MJ as Voldemort? Scarily accurate. But I think you know that.)

[prillalar]

It's not just her looks, either. I bet she'd do a bang-up job.

I must say, fantasy casting is a *lot* of fun. :)

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

Voldemort: The Dark Lord of Pop? I love it.

I've seen Ewan bandied about as Remus quite a bit, and I can see it to a degree, but he strikes me as more solid than I see Remus (unless we're talking Trainspotting-skinny). Hm.

Also, I adore Johnny Depp (have since Nightmare on Elm Street!) and think he'd do a great job with the acting, but his looks are so 100% American in my mind. Even when he's playing non-Americans, I never really think of him as anything but. Go figure. *g*

I love Juliet Landau as Bellatrix! She'd be great.

Hmm... how about Adrien Brody as a closer-to-age-appropriate Snape? (I like Rickman a lot, but he's too old!)

Fantasy casts are fun. ;)

[prillalar]

Hmm... how about Adrien Brody as a closer-to-age-appropriate Snape?

I haven't seen him in anything, so I can't speculate on his performance, but looks-wise, I think he'd be great. He's got a Snape-ish nose. :)

[mylexie.livejournal.com]

Okay, so - who's this one you put up as Bellatrix? (Sorry people, but I don't know her!) I love Moony, Padfoot and Shacklebolt, and I know the perfect one for Tonks (that being me ;) - so love her, she's absolutely fab!)

As far as Kristin Scott Thomas is concerned, she's got class. And Rickman is the only man on the planet I fancy, so anybody anybody saying he'd too old, I have to disagree. He's just wicked.

[prillalar]

Okay, so - who's this one you put up as Bellatrix?

Juliet Landau. She's primarily known in fandom for playing Drusilla, a vampire, on Buffy.

And Rickman is the only man on the planet I fancy, so anybody anybody saying he'd too old, I have to disagree.

Hee! I don't think anyone's saying he's too old to fancy. :) Just that Snape is in his early-to-mid thirties during the books and Rickman is over 50.

[debc.livejournal.com]

Now there's the inspiration for yummy Remus/Sirius goodness if I ever saw it!

And Ewan as Remus.... *happy sigh* I could so see that!

[prillalar]

Yeah, I think he could really pull it off. He's not just a pretty boy.

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

God, so many people have commented already, but I have to say, thank God I didn't actually have my breakfast/lunch meatballs *in my mouth* when I saw the Voldemort icon. The noise I made is best described as a chortle, I think--a high-pitched, maniacal chortle.

I only wish Juliet Landau would play Bellatrix. My mental image of her is as a has-been opera diva who can't hit the high notes any more but insists on doing farewell tours where she mangles the Queen of the Night's great aria.

[prillalar]

Meatballs on the monitor would be rather worse than coffee, I think. Good thing you overcame Voldemort's evil plan! *g*

My mental image of her is as a has-been opera diva who can't hit the high notes any more but insists on doing farewell tours where she mangles the Queen of the Night's great aria.

Oh, I like that. I'm very intrigued by Bellatrix, I have to say. And attracted by her ravaged beauty.

[scribbulus-ink.livejournal.com]

I'll join the others who are cracking up over the Jackson-as-Voldemort icon -- that is both inspired and hilarious. *g*

I like your other choices as well, particularly Ewan as Remus. For one thing, I love the full size version of that photo and the other two that go with it. Utterly, utterly lickable, and he's got his hand down his trousers to boot. Also, I would have loved to have seen Ewan in the role.

[prillalar]

Oh, I like your icon. Or was that "lick your icon"? Hmm.

I never did see the hand down the trousers, I'm sorry to say, just the headshot portion of the pic.

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

I want to put forth leonard roberts, forrest from buffy, for shacklebolt, too http://www.allmegastar.com/c/LeonardRoberts_1.html

[prillalar]

He is truly lickable. :) But I'm going to stick to my DB Woodside. I think he has more gravitas.

Hmm, could we do an all-BtVS/AtS casting?

[babydracky.livejournal.com]

Voldemort????
PPPPPPfffffffffff...
That's a good one!