Q4 - Casting Call

[Rachael]

CASTING CALL
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Before the Director can call "Lights, Camera, Action!", the actors need to be cast. For this quarterly challenge, your favourite actor(s) will have starring roles in the books you read.

-- Choose an actor/actress and read books featuring characters they have played and/or roles you would like them to play. You can reuse the same character, if say they appear in a series, but each book should only be counted once. It is also up to you if you focus on just one actor or choose a few.
For example: David Tennant
Barty Crouch Junior in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Crowley in Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who: The Stone Rose and Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm
The Riddler (fancast) in Batman: Five Riddles for Robin

-- Alternatively, for each book read during this challenge, choose an actor for the main character(s). If the book has already been made into a movie/TV series/theatre production/radio drama, feel free to use the actual actors if you agree with the choice. Otherwise, you can use your very own dream cast.
Example:
His Majesty's Dragon with Benedict Cumberbatch as Captain Laurence and Eddie Redmayne as Temeraire (dream cast)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West with Idina Menzel as Elphaba (actual original Broadway cast)

Post below if you would like to take part and let's see which actors pass their auditions to become the stars of your books.

SarahKat will be leading this challenge. Thanks!

[oshizu]

I just don't watch enough TV/cable these days to consider any of the more recent screen stars to fancast. So I shall pick one actress and one actor whom I've admired since, well, for many years.

Please me up for 5 books.

Progress: 5/5

Matt Macfadyen (I've been a fan since Spooks/MI5)
In the role of Sebastian St. Cyr, a debonair aristocrat, skilled fighter, and good samaritan in Regency England.
✔️1. Why Mermaids Sing
✔️2. Where Serpents Sleep
✔️3. What Remains of Heaven

Sonia Braga in her younger days
Yes, I realize that Sonia Braga is Brazilian rather than Mexican, but I'm not familiar with Mexican screen stars. Sonia Braga, on the other hand, is consistently fabulous.
✔️1. Atl, an Aztecan vampire: Certain Dark Things
✔️2. Casiopea Tun: Gods of Jade and Shadow

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[L Y N N]

Having no TV in my home for 20 years plus the fact I rarely watch any movies or anything else on the computer, this will definitely be a challenge.

Let's say I'll try to complete 2 for this challenge. I'll just take it as it comes and see what I can do about matching actors to books. Since I know few of the younger actors, they will be from the "older crowd"! :)

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Since I'm planning to read the Harry Potter series this month for Serial Reader, Monster Mash, and Trick or Treat, I chose Emma Watson as my actress for this challenge.

CASTING CALL - Quarterly Challenge
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Progress: 13/13 -- COMPLETE

Actress: Emma Watson
⭐ Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
⭐ Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
⭐ Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
⭐ Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
⭐ Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
⭐ Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
⭐ Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
⭐ Princess Pea (voice) in The Tale of Despereaux
⭐ Pauline Fossil in Ballet Shoes
⭐ Lucy in My Week With Marilyn
⭐ Mae Holland in The Circle
⭐ Meg March in Little Women
⭐ Belle in Beauty and the Beast

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Welcome Everyone!

Carmen: 17/17 - Complete!
Diane: 6/15
Lynn: 2/2 - Complete!
oshizu: 5/5- Complete!
Sarah: 14/14 - Complete!
SarahKat: 10/10 - Complete!
Satin: 0/2
Sunshine: 0/5
Suzanne: 0/1+
TerryJane: 13/13 - Complete!

[Rachael]

Thanks, SarahKat! I've updated the first post.

[Suzanne]

2019 Reading Challenge
Q4 - Casting Call
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Progress: 0 out of 1+

Before the Director can call "Lights, Camera, Action!", the actors need to be cast. For this quarterly challenge, your favourite actor(s) will have starring roles in the books you read.

For each book read during this challenge, choose an actor for the main character(s). If the book has already been made into a movie/TV series/theatre production/radio drama, feel free to use the actual actors if you agree with the choice. Otherwise, you can use your very own dream cast.
Example:
His Majesty's Dragon with Benedict Cumberbatch as Captain Laurence and Eddie Redmayne as Temeraire (dream cast)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West with Idina Menzel as Elphaba (actual original Broadway cast)

Post below if you would like to take part and let's see which actors pass their auditions to become the stars of your books.

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[Carmen]

Hola!
Searching in my TBR list for the rest of the year I've found at least 15 books that have already been made into a movie/TV series so after reading the book I'll give my verdict on the casting (if I agree or if I'd chose someone else.)
Furthermore, I'll chose one book each, that ideally woud be interpreted by my all time favourite actor and actress: Daniel Day Lewis and Katharine Hepburn.

✔In Cold Blood
✔Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino
✔The Scapegoat
✔The Body
✔The Black Dahlia
✔Fight Club
✔La carretera
✔Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
✔Warm Bodies
✔The Witches of Eastwick
✔The Godfather
✔War and Peace
✔Rojo y negro
✔El Proceso
✔Captain Blood: His Odyssey

Book for Katharine Hepburn: False Colours as any female character in the book ✔
Book for Daniel Day Lewis: Treasure Island as Long John Silver✔

❎PROGRESS: 17/17

[L Y N N]

CASTING CALL
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Completed October 13: 2/2

Before the Director can call "Lights, Camera, Action!", the actors need to be cast. For this quarterly challenge, your favourite actor(s) will have starring roles in the books you read.

-- Choose an actor/actress and read books featuring characters they have played and/or roles you would like them to play. You can reuse the same character, if say they appear in a series, but each book should only be counted once. It is also up to you if you focus on just one actor or choose a few.
For example: David Tennant
Barty Crouch Junior in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

-- Alternatively, for each book read during this challenge, choose an actor for the main character(s). If the book has already been made into a movie/TV series/theatre production/radio drama, feel free to use the actual actors if you agree with the choice. Otherwise, you can use your very own dream cast.

Okay, I'll need to do the second suggestion...

1) The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
For the fiance of the woman who died: James Franco.
Reading of this character's misdirected coping mechanisms reminded me so much of the totally delinquent juveniles depicted in Franco's mess that was Palo Alto. Then I considered that he would be an excellent choice for this role, IMHO.

2) The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
I think this would translate well into a movie format. I could easily imagine Anne Hathaway playing Stella and a much younger Omar Sharif or Pierce Brosnan playing Michael. Okay, those guys are both so damn handsome and sexy, IMHO!

[oshizu]

Updated msg 2

A much younger Sonia Braga as Atl, a 20-something Aztecan vampire, in Certain Dark Things

Progress: 1/5

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 1/17

by Cormac McCarthy

The Road (2009 film):
The man: Viggo Mortensen
The boy: Kodi Smit-McPhee

I totally agree with the movie cast, I think Vigo Mortesen's job was spot on, I'll always identify the man with him.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

1/10

Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
Dreamcast:
Rose Leslie as Finley

[Diane]

I am in for fancasting, for 15 books.

Goal: 9/15

1. Remainder
* Unnamed male, main character - Thomas Brodie-Sangster
2. The Nightingale
(this is based solely on their looks, because I've never seen them act)
* Vianne - Lea Seydoux
* Isabelle - Nora Arnezeder
3. The Husband's Secret
* Cecilia - Kylie Minogue
* Tess - Anna Torv (with blue contacts)
* Felicity - Bella Heathcote
4. The Wedding Party
* Maddie - Logan Browning
* Theo - Stephan James
And for fun... (the other two books in the trilogy):
* Alexa - Antoinette Robertson
* Drew - Adam Gregory
* Nikole - Alexandra Shipp
* Carlos - Wilmer Valderrama
5. The Company of Demons
* John Coleman - Liam Neeson
6. Still Life
* Chief Inspector Armand Gamache - a younger Jean Reno
7. A Fatal Grace
* Clara Morrow - Helena Bonham Carter
8. The Cruelest Month
* Jean-Guy Beauvoir - Marc-André Grondin
9. A Rule Against Murder
* Ruth Zardo - Angela Lansbury

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 2/17

by Daphne du Maurier

There are two films based on this book, that I'm aware of, but I only watched the trailers.
I think I prefer Matthew Rhys (2012 film) over Alec Guinnes (1959 film) in the role of John/Jean

[Satin]

In for 2:
Emma Watson:
Little Women
Alegiant

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 3/17

by Douglas Adams

There are two TV series based on Adam's books: one (2010-2012) starred by Stephen Mangan and one (2016) starred by Samuel Barnett, as the "holistic detective".
Taking into acount that I didn't watch none of the two, I think Mangan resembles more the mental image I made of Svlad Cjelli, aka Dirk Gently, than Barnett.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

2. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
I liked the Netflix adaptation with Sandra Bullock. I'd agree with that casting.
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker
For nostalgia's sake I'll agree with the casting on both 90's movies (one being a Mel Brooks parody)
4. Watership Down by Richard Adams. Peter Capaldi on the Netflix adaptation and also the audio is great

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 4/17

Book for Daniel Day Lewis:

by Robert Louis Stevenson

There are a lot of adaptations of this classic, but I think that Daniel Day Lewis would be magnificient as Long John Silver.

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 5/17

by Stephen King

Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell. The film is based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body. Its title is derived from Ben E. King's song, which plays over the ending credits.

Wonderful book and wonderful film. I think the cast is perfect, I would not make any change.

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 6/17

by James Ellroy

I agree with the 2006 film cast, starring Josh Hartnett (although there's nothing wrong with his teeth! 😬), Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, and Mia Kirshner.

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 7/17

Book for Katharine Hepburn:
False Colours by Georgette Heyer

I think this book never hit the stage, but while reading it, I couldn't help imagining the three main female characters played by Katharine Hepburn as she was growing older:
As Cressy, when she was younger (as when she starred Bringing up Baby)
As Lady Denvill, when she was of middle age (as in The African Queen)
As Lady Stavely, when she was older (as in The Lion in winter)

[Diane]

Update progress for msg #13 Progress 3/15. Thank you.

[oshizu]

Updated msg 2

Progress: 2/5

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 8/17

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
I agree with the cast on the 1967 film based on the book by Capote. It stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard "Dick" Hickock.

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 9/17

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

I did not like this book very much and I did not watch the 1999 film based on it, so I suppose I agree with the original cast, even though Brad Pitt and Edward Norton don't look alike at all.

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 10/17

Captain Blood: His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini

There are a lot of adaptations of this book into movies, I think the one everybody has in mind is, possibly, the 1935 film starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Maybe it's time for a remake, my ideal couple would be Henry Cavill as Peter Blood (dark and with sapphire blue eyes) and Lily Collins as Arabella Bishop (with reddish brown hair and big hazel eyes.)

[L Y N N]

Update to message #9--I completed the challenge: 2 of 2 done as of October 13. Thank you for moderating, Rachael!

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 12/17
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

I did not like the book and I have not seen the movie, so I will not give my verdict.

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

I really liked both the book and the 1987 movie (although the script is quite different from the book.)
My ideal cast (in a more faithful adaptation) would be:
Liv Tyler as Alexandra
Anne Hathaway as Jane
Emma Stone as Sukie
Bradley Cooper as Darryl

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated message #4. Progress: 7/13.

[oshizu]

Update to msg 3: 3/5 books read

[oshizu]

Updated #msg 3: 4/5

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

10/10 Complete!

I'm getting lazy so I probably won't come up with any more roles for people.

Full List: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Sarah]

I have a goal of 14 books

CHALLENGE COMPLETED

Books Read: 14/14

Emma Watson
Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(5/10/19)
Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(20/10/19)
Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(28/11/19)
Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(6/11/19)
Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(17/11/19)
Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(1/12/19)
Bella in Beauty and the Beast(18/11/19)

David Bowie
Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film(26/10/19)

Cole Sprouse
Jughead Jones in Jughead (2015-) #1 (Jughead(Riverdale)(10/11/19)
Will Newman in Five Feet Apart(9/11/19)

Anne Hathaway
The White Queen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass(20/10/19)

Matt Smith
Eleventh Doctor in Magic of the Angels(4/11/19)
Parson Collins in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies(28/11/19)

Lily James
Cinderella in Cinderella(18/11/19)

[Sarah]

Message 34 Updated

11/14

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 13/17



There is a 1954 film and a 1997 TV series, that I remember watching, but I can't judge the cast, it's been a long time.

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 14/17


I love the 1956 film!

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 15/17


There are a couple of films adaptations of Stendhal's masterpiece, but I didn't watch any of them, so I can't say.

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 16/17


Magnificient book and magnificient movie. I have no objections with the cast, I feel like rewatching it again!

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 17/17
Challenge completed!🎥🎭

by Franz Kafka

I don't know whom to choose as best K, Anthony Hopkins in the 1962 movie or Kyle MacLachlan in the 1993 BBC adaptation, 🤔

Thanks for another fantastic challenge!

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congrats Carmen!

[Diane]

Update to msg #13 - progress 5/15. Thank you!

[Sarah]

Message 34 Updated

CHALLENGE COMPLETED

14/14

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congratulations Sarah!

[Diane]

Update to msg #13 - progress 6/15.

[oshizu]

Carmen wrote: "Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 16/17


Magnificient book and magnificient movie. I have no objections with the cast, I feel like rewatching it again!"

May I just fangirl here over the young Robert de Niro as Vito Corleone in the film Godfather II? 😍

[oshizu]

Oh, right, why am I visiting this thread? *thinks hard
I finished!
Progress: 5/5 books

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congrats oshizu!

[oshizu]

SarahKat wrote: "Congrats oshizu!"

Thank you, Sarahkat! And thank you for leading this challenge!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated message #4.
Completed 13/13.

Thanks for the fun challenge!