My Dream Cast for “Mystical Circles”

Novelists, have you “dreamcast the film adaptation of your book? Many do! [image error] If you do it early enough in the process of writing your novel, it can be very helpful. Though I understand that the reality of having your book turned into a film can sometimes not be a very pleasant experience. I was amused by this quote from the blog My Book, the Movie:

They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they’d say, ‘Oh, that’s interesting.’ And that would be the end of it.   (Elmore Leonard, in 2000, on the extent of his input for Hollywood’s adaptation of his novels).

Here’s my dream cast for Mystical Circles:

Juliet, my main protagonist, who  hurries to the Cotswolds to rescue her sister from a charismatic cult leader:  

Zoe, Juliet’s younger sister:      

Theo, a troubled priest:    

Rory, a strange young man with a mysterious “thorn in the flesh”:    

Edgar, obsessed with getting new recruits to fill out questionnaires:    

Al, an American visitor:    

Llewellyn, a Welsh poet:    

Don, the cult leader’s disenchanted father:    

Oleg, a Russian visitor:    

Sam, a nervous youth, here on his GP’s recommendation to recover from an unhealthy mutually interdependent relationship with his twin brother:    

Laura, flighty girl-woman of indeterminate age:    

Craig, the cult leader:    

James, urbane and elegant, Craig’s former mentor from Edinburgh University who inspired him to set up the cult in the first place:    

Patrick, an Irish handyman and gardener:    

Beth, an insecure and tense young woman:      

And having chosen the cast, here is my dream production company:  Working Title Films.

And the producers:  , Eric Fellner and .

And finally, the Director:

Look out for the third edition of Mystical Circles  with a new cover design. It will be published by Luminarie on 30 August 2017.

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