My ultimate to play TC in a film version

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:14 pm

danlo wrote:I you want to see Guy Pearce display a wide range watch Till Human Voices Wake Us--he does an outstanding job, great film shot in Australia. He was one of my orginal suggestions, on another thread, before I became enamored of Christian (Bruce Wayne) Bale who almost did too good a job in American Psycho--freaked me out so much I couldn't finish it!

I agree about American Psycho. I have a tough time seeing him as anything but. Especially in the Batman movie when he was going as the Partygoing Playboy Bruce Wayne (action figure now available at www.imaliar.com).

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:26 pm

I thought Bale was excellent in A Reign of Dragons, as well. In fact that movie was very good until Matthew McConagehy turned it into a cartoon--the ending was awesome though. Fantasy apprears to suit him.

Post by **Volvolicus** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:03 am

Cable Seadreamer wrote:

Ioan Gruffudd, the fellow who plays Horatio Hornblower. He also played Launcelot in the recent "King Arthur" movie.

Ioan Gruffud is the perfect choice! Daniel Day-Lewis would also be an excellent choice. Either actor would bring the talent and range worthy of Thomas Covenant. As far as the Haruchai go, they should be athletically built Greek or Italian actors with extensive martial arts training. That fits the "brown skinned and curly hair" description, as well as the slightly lilting accent.

Lord Foul's voice? Tim Curry, (with some digital enhancement that would shift his pitch down like in Legend), or Christopher Lee without any enhancement at all.

Gary Oldman would make an excellent Lord Mhoram. I haven't given much thought to who would make a good Linden Avery, but Nicole Kidman comes to mind right off the bat, and she definitely has the ability.

Of course the movie would require extensive CGI of unprecedented quality, so the only two companies that could pull that off is Industrial Light and Magic or WETA Digital, provided a sufficient budget is available. Also, I still say that John McTiernan would be the ideal director. He could pull it off better than anyone and he wouldn't carry the price tag that guys like James Cameron or Ridley Scott would.

From what I understand, all this rides on having enough MONEY to do it right. So here's an idea: Take up a collection! As broke as I am, I wouldn't hesitate a second to cough up 50 bucks a month for a year to see this movie made. With 1269 registered members on this board, we probably couldn't raise enough to have a significant impact on the movie budget, but we could conceivably generate enough to make the studio sit up and take notice! This would be a first in Hollywood history, and if a potential studio saw that the Chronicles had such a loyal following, it could conceivably sway them in their decision to cough up a worthy budget. Or maybe this is just infantile wishful thinking, but hey, we ARE talking about the best Fantasy Fiction series ever written, so give me a break for being overly enthusiastic.

Post by **Zahir** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:53 pm

I've posted most of these before, but...

Thomas Covenant: Ben Browder
Lord Mhoram: Alan Rickman
Lord Prothall: Christopher Lee
Lord Osondrea: Julie Dench
Bannor: Christian Bale
Young Lena: Emily Browning
Elena: Jennifer Conelly
Old Lena: Angelina Jolie
Saltheart Foamfollower: Ron Perlman
Lord Foul: Andy Serkis (some of you may or may not know he did the voice of the Witch King, as well as many other characters throughout LOTR)

Post by **bloodguard** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:02 pm

Id say hugh jackman would be a good bet

Post by **Cail** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:06 pm

Too pretty.

Post by **bloodguard** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:27 am

Good point i suppose.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:14 pm

danlo wrote:Christian (Bruce Wayne) Bale who almost did too good a job in American Psycho--freaked me out so much I couldn't finish it!

Those of you who doubt the mighty Bale, watch Batman Begins; if you've already seen it, do so again. Bale in the prison scenes is Thomas Covenant. And no-one can be more gaunt than Bale in The Machinist.

Post by **bossk** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:38 pm

Nav wrote:I'm coming around to the Ed Norton idea, as his acting pedigree is beyond doubt (Keeping the Faith aside). I don't think he has his American History X muscles anymore, and if he lost some weight and was given Robert Redford-style salt and pepper colour hair (which I always imagined TC to have. Contrary to the books, I suspect) he could really look the part.

The thing I like about the Edward Norton idea is that he doesn't have an iconic face like a Depp. He is an excellent actor who can melt into a role - look at the range of characters he's played! He's also probably a lot cheaper than some of those others, and I could definitely see him handling the transition from early TC to later TC. I think he'd be serious about getting it right.

Post by **bossk** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:44 pm

Avytaya wrote: Now if we could only get a good Foamfollower......
-Avy

My friend Cagliostro has always had the perfect suggestion for Foamfollower:

Brian Blessed - I don't know how old he is now, but with the beard, it might not matter so much.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:42 pm

I find Brian Blessed more scary than jovial

Post by **Alynna Lis Eachann** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:32 am

Zahir wrote:I've posted most of these before, but...

Thomas Covenant: Ben Browder
Lord Mhoram: Alan Rickman
Lord Prothall: Christopher Lee
Lord Osondrea: Julie Dench
Bannor: Christian Bale
Young Lena: Emily Browning
Elena: Jennifer Conelly
Old Lena: Angelina Jolie
Saltheart Foamfollower: Ron Perlman
Lord Foul: Andy Serkis (some of you may or may not know he did the voice of the Witch King, as well as many other characters throughout LOTR)

Err... is this "Parody of Who I'd like to be in the Movie?"

The first one, at least.

I can never see Ben Browder as anything other than Farscape'sJohn Crichton, and as well as he plays the pain-wracked, sarcastic lost-in-space type, he's really too funny, just like Hugh Laurie is ultimately too funny to be Covenant.

Post by **Warmark** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:57 am

I ll cry if/when the TC films are made because they will make the Haruchai asian-esque and i always imagined them black - african if you will - i will cry...

Post by **CovenantJr** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:42 pm

The Haruchai have never been black, silly boy

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:04 pm

I always thought Hile Troy was black (and no it had nothing to do with his uniform or Geordi LaForge)

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:54 am

Just a feeling? Or based on some hint in the text?

--A

Post by **Warmark** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:35 am

CovenantJr wrote:The Haruchai have never been black, silly boy

Does it ever say they are asain?

Post by **Akasri** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:18 am

danlo wrote:I always thought Hile Troy was black (and no it had nothing to do with his uniform or Geordi LaForge)

Well... he was very badly burned... oh, that was his body here in the real world. NM

Post by **danlo** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:24 pm

Just a feeling--and no Akasri it had nothing to do with being an overdone marshmellow

Post by **bossk** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:03 pm

I agree, I always saw the Haruchai as kind of light-skinned black men. There's a lot of room for interpretation within the term "brown skin". That's why movies made of books can kind of suck. They alter what you have in your head.

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My ultimate to play TC in a film version