Your Pern Movie Cast

[Old Hippie]

Lessa: Andie McDowell. She has a long cloud of black curly hair.

[ghost8772]

Okay, dunno how I missed her, but looks like her name was not tossed into the mix for Lessa, Laura Fraser. Watching A Knight's Tale, and seeing her as the blacksmith. I could so see her as weyrwoman. I looked up information on her, looks like she stands 5'-3" tall. Dark hair, light eyes, and definitely understated beauty.

[GHarris]

Originally Posted by elvenart

I don't know about our good Doctor. He seems to bring along too many Baddies with him. "Destroy,Destroy. Annhilate." OH!Ahem. Sorry.... Maybe Picard or Kirk would be better choices for the time travel.

Speaking of which : Riker's actor as Oldive. He's quick and has a truely Macavellian glint in his eyes when he gets going! I could see him hunchbacking his way behind Menolly one minute only to tease her the next about being as blighted as he (huge grin followed by lots of rolling laughter!) .

His name is Johnathan Frakes. He's also a pretty decent director.

GH

[Weyrlady]

I caught the kinda old movie "Quigley Down Under" on TV, and it occurred to me that whoever the lady is who's the main female character in that flick would make a good Lessa. At leaSt she would have at that time! Tiny and delicate w/ lots of dark hair and a bit of a firecracker personality.

[Kugai]

That would be Laura San Giacomo Weyrlady.

[Danel]

Here are a few of my choices

R'mart - James Earl Jones
Menoly - Hayden Panettiere
Lessa - Miranda Cosgrove
F'lar - David Wenham
F'nor - Sean Bean
Manora - Cate Blanchett
Sebel - Chris Pine
T'bor - Karl Urban
Asengard - Ben Cross
Lord Grogehe - Faran Tahir
Silvana - Susse Budde
Benelek - Heath Ledger
Lytol - Eric Roberts
Fax - Dwayne Johnson (ok so i had to fit The Rock in there some place:P )

[GHarris]

Originally Posted by Danel

Here are a few of my choices
F'nor - Sean Bean
Fax - Dwayne Johnson (ok so i had to fit The Rock in there some place:P )

I'd probably switch these two. I think Sean Bean makes excellent villains, but The Rock makes a better good guy with a sense of humor. Can you imagine The Rock giving F'lar the eyebrow, after F'lar tells F'nor about one of his outrageous plans?

And yes, I know that The Rock doesn't fit the physical description, but since F'lar and F'nor had the same father and different mothers, this would emphasize the fact that they are half-brothers. And I also would like to see a more racially diverse cast than what is seen in The People of Pern. Especially Sebell being played by someone of Arabic or Indic origin (like Suresh from Heroes).

GH

[Brenda]

Except that F'lar and F'nor are supposed to bear a close resemblance to each other... who are you going to find that looks like The Rock?

[Weyrlady]

Originally Posted by Kugai

That would be Laura San Giacomo Weyrlady.

Thanks much!!


Oh and on the subject of the Rock playing F'nor. . . .well. . . that'll take some getting used to! While I agree that the Rock makes a great friendly, likeable- type guy, that's personally not the physical appearance that I always saw for for F'nor. And Brenda's right- where are we going to find someone that looksa like him? And Canth- what about Canth? What about Grall? What about Brekke?

[ElectricDragon]

Originally Posted by Old Hippie

Lessa: Andie McDowell. She has a long cloud of black curly hair.

Waayyy too tall and too solid for Lessa. However, I suspect she was the model for Zulaya on the cover of DE.

[ElectricDragon]

Originally Posted by ghost8772

Just watching Lethal Weapon tonight. I had a random thought of Mel Gibson really showing the depression a dragonrider would likely feel on the loss of his dragon. Perhaps he would make one heck of a Lytol

T'kul.

[ghost8772]

Originally Posted by ElectricDragon

T'kul.

I could see Jeremy irons take that part, or maybe Harry Dean Stanton... but Gibson really doesn't do the malicious sneer so well.

[Lady Maelin]

Originally Posted by ghost8772

Okay, dunno how I missed her, but looks like her name was not tossed into the mix for Lessa, Laura Fraser. Watching A Knight's Tale, and seeing her as the blacksmith. I could so see her as weyrwoman. I looked up information on her, looks like she stands 5'-3" tall. Dark hair, light eyes, and definitely understated beauty.

Laura is pretty good, for Lessa....I went and found this...

http://www.vervepics.com/images/stills/hires/nhd02.jpg

...and can very well see what you saw in her for Lessa.

[ghost8772]

Originally Posted by Lady Maelin

Laura is pretty good, for Lessa....I went and found this...

http://www.vervepics.com/images/stills/hires/nhd02.jpg

...and can very well see what you saw in her for Lessa.

well, this image was a bit more of what I saw Lessa in
http://us.imdb.com/media/rm2460260608/nm0292182

[Lady Maelin]

Ghost...I saw that when I read who you suggested, but I thought she look to well feed in that picture to look like Lessa...remember Lessa was very thin most all her life. I do like her face...if it was a bit thinner.

[T'mynn]

It'd be fairly easy to make her a little thinner. Clothing cut and some pilates workouts for a few months.

[Thistlerose]

I've always pictured Genevieve Bujold as Lessa. Forty or so years ago, she'd have been perfect, I think.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1213/...1d324223_o.jpg
http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/A...65_150x200.jpg
http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/voutes/v...ujold_1974.jpg

[jube]

Originally Posted by Weyrlady

I caught the kinda old movie "Quigley Down Under" on TV, and it occurred to me that whoever the lady is who's the main female character in that flick would make a good Lessa. At leaSt she would have at that time! Tiny and delicate w/ lots of dark hair and a bit of a firecracker personality.

Tom Selleck as Fanderal perhaps....

[Lady Maelin]

Oh noooooooooooo Jube. Fandarel is a *tree Stump* of a man. He is huge, built like a heavy worlder. Robbie Coltrane has always seemed to me to be the perfect Fandarel...give him a short buzz hair cut and put him in leather pants and vest, he would be just perfect

Tom Seleck is just to gorgeous of a man to be Fandarel...in my drooooooling over him opinion....but he would make a hellva fantastic looking Dragonrider or Lord Holder.

[Jandolyn]

Here are a couple I think would fit:
Toric--Woody Harelson
Lessa--Catherine Zeta-Jones

[Emeraldrose]

I can't see Woody Harrelson as Toric. Toric seems "bigger than life" type (whether that is bravado or conceit who can guess ) but someone along the lines of John Wayne would be a better fit to play Toric...imo...

[GHarris]

Originally Posted by Brenda

Except that F'lar and F'nor are supposed to bear a close resemblance to each other... who are you going to find that looks like The Rock?

If I choose Dwayne Johnson and F'nor, then a pretty good (older) F'lar would be Billy Dee Williams (Han's friend Lando, from The Empire Strikes Back). You'd need someone with a strong presence to play him F'lar with The Rock as F'nor. If BDW is too old, then maybe Wesley Snipes.

Someone mentioned needing a larger than life persona to play Toric. The Rock might fit that bill to a "T".

I like muti-cultural, and multi-racial casts. I suggested on an HP board, that the best person to replace Richard Harris would have been Morgan Freeman (and I still think that). But that would have required some guts.

Anyone know how well Morgan Freeman can sing? He's got the presence to play Robinton.

GH

[Lady Maelin]

I would have to agree with Emeraldrose...Woody Harelson just isn't big enough...you would need someone the size of one of those wrestlers they have on the ECW or WWF...a huge hulking guy, who is somewhat good looking in the face as well as smart enough to own half of Southern.

Killafan...Most AMC fans that I polled, thought that Catherine Zeta-Jones...was the spitting image of Avril Bitra....
http://forums.srellim.org/showthread...ht=Avril+Bitra
thats why I did this of her...hope you enjoy it. I would love to see her play the part in the movie as well...but she might be getting to old to play Avril now.

[T'mynn]

Morgan Freeman has the 'wisw old man' presence. He can pull off the sneakyness of Robinton, as for singing, he can lipsync if he can't actyally carry a tune. I'd love to see Morgan as Robinton, but from the pictures I'd seen of the Masterharper Morgon doesn't look like hinm.

[ElectricDragon]

Originally Posted by Lady Maelin

Ghost...I saw that when I read who you suggested, but I thought she look to well feed in that picture to look like Lessa...remember Lessa was very thin most all her life. I do like her face...if it was a bit thinner.

I have to concur, which is why I put forward another relative unknown: Leah Cairns. Dancer thin already.

Originally Posted by jube

Tom Selleck as Fanderal perhaps....

A better Groghe, circa the Harper Hall books.

Originally Posted by Killafan

Here are a couple I think would fit:
Toric--Woody Harelson
Lessa--Catherine Zeta-Jones

Harelson doesn't have the commanding presence of Toric.
CZJ is too well fleshed for Lessa.

Originally Posted by Emeraldrose

I can't see Woody Harrelson as Toric. Toric seems "bigger than life" type (whether that is bravado or conceit who can guess ) but someone along the lines of John Wayne would be a better fit to play Toric...imo...

Toric...Vin Diesel.

Originally Posted by GHarris

If I choose Dwayne Johnson and F'nor, then a pretty good (older) F'lar would be Billy Dee Williams (Han's friend Lando, from The Empire Strikes Back). You'd need someone with a strong presence to play him F'lar with The Rock as F'nor. If BDW is too old, then maybe Wesley Snipes.

Someone mentioned needing a larger than life persona to play Toric. The Rock might fit that bill to a "T".

I like muti-cultural, and multi-racial casts. I suggested on an HP board, that the best person to replace Richard Harris would have been Morgan Freeman (and I still think that). But that would have required some guts.

Anyone know how well Morgan Freeman can sing? He's got the presence to play Robinton.

GH

I don't mind stirring the racial pot where I can get away with it. Kal Penn for Sebell for example. Major changes with major characters...a bit over the top. I like Morgan Freeman (thought he was great as God in Bruce Almighty), but I don't see him pop to mind for anything in Pern except Zi Ongala.

BDW is way too old and I'd sooner cast Snipes as R'gul.

Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson works better for funny than truly bad, so I can't see him as Toric. For someone from the same batch of actors I'd sooner take Vin Diesel (if you've ever seen the Riddick films, he can do truly bad and better he can do truly ambiguous), although truth-be-told, my first choice for Toric might be Tahmoh Penikett with a blond dye job.

Originally Posted by Lady Maelin

I would have to agree with Emeraldrose...Woody Harelson just isn't big enough...you would need someone the size of one of those wrestlers they have on the ECW or WWF...a huge hulking guy, who is somewhat good looking in the face as well as smart enough to own half of Southern.

Killafan...Most AMC fans that I polled, thought that Catherine Zeta-Jones...was the spitting image of Avril Bitra....
http://forums.srellim.org/showthread...ht=Avril+Bitra
thats why I did this of her...hope you enjoy it. I would love to see her play the part in the movie as well...but she might be getting to old to play Avril now.

Good choice for Bitra.

[Emeraldrose]

I want to repeat my choice for Fandarel (Michael Clarke Duncan from Armegeddon and Green Mile)
Thinking of Robinton's mobile face made me think of Jim Carrey (sp?) but he is wrong age and does not have the dramatic weight for Robinton (at least in pictures I have seen him in)...He has done some drama though.
If I watched more daytime soaps I could probably come up with some names. Tamara Braun comes to mind as Lessa http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2609289984/nm0105860

[T'mynn]

Jim Carrey is a very mobile in the face. For him to appear older just need some latex facial prothesis.;-)

Vin Desil, good actor.I saw the RIddick films. He's being considered for Hannible in one of the up coming "Hannible" films. Dwane still new as an actor, it leaves room to grow, seems to have a LOT of fun. Give 'em a shot for dramatic and see how he flys. Vin and Dwane "could" pull off sibling charactors. Putting a tan on Vin is easy with the spray tanning solution.

Vin "So I'm flyin' a dragon? Cool. Do I get to set some things on fire?"

FOr another bad guy, how about Temura (Jango Fett Star Wars). He was also in a few Dr. WHo episodes.

[Lady Maelin]

Emeraldrose...I love Michael Clarke Duncan to...and he is definitely big enough to play Fandarel...he was also in The Scorpion King, and he was marvelous. I think he would do a great job...but I still see Robbie Coltraine in my minds eye...I think he would be fantastic as Fandarel.

[ghost8772]

Diesel, is supposed to play THE Hannibal, not Hannibal Lecter of recent fame. The one Vin plays is the guy who brought elephants over the Alps to attack Rome, around two thousand years ago.
Come to think of it though, the dragonriders tend to be described as lithe/lanky, except for Jora. Light of frame at the very least. I can't see Diesel as a dragonrider. Hey, how about he be Brand.

[Neryma]

Here is my two cents...
I did not come up with all of these on my own- some have already been mentioned and my mentioning is my agreeing with that choice.


Lessa - Amy Jo Johnson with black hair
F'lar - Christian Bale beefed up
F'nor - Eric Bana
Robinton - Jeremy Irons or Liam Neeson
Moreta - Amanda Tapping
Menolly - Emma Watson (Hermione)
Toric - Tahmoh Penikett
Jaxom - Tom Welling
Sharra - Jennifer Connelly
T'bor - Karl Urban
Kylara - Amy Smart
T'kul - Mel Gibson ( Think Lethal Weapon)
Peimur - Frankie Muniz
Sebell - Ewan McGregor
C'gan - Alexander Morton
Fandarel - John Rhys-Davies
F'lessan - Eric Dane

[Lady Maelin]

Neryma...Have you seen John Rhys-Davies lately. In the last few years he has been getting as thin as a rail...he's also way to old to be able to handle it now.

Last year I did a portrait of Liam Neeson as *Red Hanrahan* with red hair of course...so I can't really see him as Robinton.

Emma Watson...now that is a lovely pick for Menolly!!

I think Christian Bale is to hard looking for Flar

[jube]

Daniel Ratcliffe as a young F'nor or perhaps F'lessan.

[ghost8772]

sure sure, so lets have Rupert Grint as T'gellan, and Maggie Smith as Manora. once they're done with Harry Potter of course.

[Lady Maelin]

WOW!!! Just went and had a look at Eric Bana...now that is F'lar if ever I saw him. Not only that Eric Bana is a great actor, great looking and just perfect for the part. Lord I hope they pick him...OOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOO Cute Patuty

[Weyrlady]

So ya like Eric Bana, Lady M.? He is such a cutie. He played Eowynn's brother (Eomer?) in Lord of the Rings.

How about we switch them, and make Christian Bale for F'nor (does he really have bright blue eyes like he did in The Dark Knight?) and Eric Bana for F'lar? They're both such lookers maybe that'd work!

[Neryma]

the first message for this post said something about a time machine... so it doesnt really matter What he looks like NOW! And I always thought of F'lar being a little rough looking and Christian bale can clean up- any one remember Little Women?

[Emeraldrose]

I love "Little Women" (had a great day awhile back as the Little Women movies were in a marathon. Saw the versions with Kathryn Hepburn and June Allyson in addition to the one with Christian Bale as Laurie...
Using the time machine we could cast Carroll O'Connor as any one of the Lord Holders (except for Oterel--need someone gaunt for him)
Family is watching an episode of "In the Heat of the Night"

[ghost8772]

well time machine, Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power as F'lar and F'nor.

[Neryma]

ok i apologize for the off topic- but were do you all get your wonderful avatars! escpecially those with pics and firelizards?!?!

[Lady Maelin]

Neryma...your right...I had forgotten that it was from anytime...like with the way-back Machine....LOL.