Suppose a Sandman movie..... cast (Spoilers)

DanielDaniel
edited April 2014 in Sandman Book Club
To quote @mtgordon:

Suppose a Sandman movie was being made, and you were the casting director.  If you could cast anyone in these roles, whom would you cast?

(I'm adding a spoiler tag to the topic, so it's easier to talk about the Characters

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  • SvithrirSvithrir
    Anyone? Living or dead? ;) Because given the power, I'd reach back for Peter O'Toole in his prime and have him read for Morpheus.

    For Destruction, I have to throw Jonathan Frakes out there.
  • SusSus

    I thought a lot about this a while back. My dream (heh) cast would cost as much as a small country.

    Destiny: Alan Rickman
    Desire: Tilda Swinton
    Dream: Ed Norton
    Delirium: Natalie Portman
    Death: Anna Kendrick

    The Corinthian: Brad Pitt
    Lucifer: Tom Hiddleston
    Fiddler's Green: Sir Patrick Stewart

    ... :)

  • DanielDaniel
    Ok, so first of all, it would have to not be a story about the same tale in the comics - I don't think it would work, and I'm not sure if it's needed.

    But lets take the idea of the prequel comics that are coming out - 
    Lets set the movie during the time Dream is imprisoned. 

    I'm also going to try to do a cast that isn't headliners, under the idea that maybe it could actually happen.

    Who I would call in to read for which part:

    Destiny - Neil Gaiman (It's a small part, ideally have him uncredited) 

    Desire - Katee Sackhoff, and Neil Patrick Harris  - I think I would keep Desire underlit, so you never actually see Desire, but you want to. (Check out NPH in Starship Troopers, after graduation. He just oozes desire on the dance floor)

    Delirium - Beth Riesgraf

    Lucifer - Wil Wheaton

    Despair - Honestly, this is a character that I have the most trouble with, It's all words on a page when she speaks.  
    Maybe see what Andy Richter and Shawna Howson (Nanalew) would do with it?

    The Corinthian: Summer Glau

    Cain - Chris Hardwick 
    Abel - Matt Mira

    Mathew the Raven - Felicia Day

    Fiddler's Green: Freema Agyeman

    Death - Amy Acker

    I have a feeling that Katee Sackhoff would come in to read for Desire, but want to do Despair.  Maybe she would do both parts?

  • Joi_the_ArtistJoi_the_Artist
    Oooh, I love the idea of Tilda Swinton as Desire. That could be really fun. And Anna Kendrick might make a fun Death, but I've never seen any of her serious work, so that's iffy for me. 

    I just know that if there's a Sandman movie, I need Doug Jones to be in it somewhere. Ooooh, maybe as Oberon...
  • reo_1963reo_1963
    Great question! 
    Great answers!

    Oliver Reed for Destruction (from his younger days or at least as how he appeared in the 3 and 4 Musketeers).
    Choosing from the living: Christian Kane.

    Daniel: really like your idea of having whomever plays "Desire" also play "Despair".


    I'm less concerned about who plays the roles and more concerned about who directs it and has creative control. I liked the recent "John Carter from Mars" as a movie (because having read some of the comics), I knew it would be difficult and expectations would be high. Lots of people disliked that. A "Sandman" movie could suffer a similar fate. Anyone seen "Noah"? Or test audiences hate the ending and for the sake of greater mass appeal, an alternate ending is tacked on. Welcome to Hollywood!
  • reo_1963reo_1963
    The gears of Hollywood have been turning...

    http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/jack-thorne-to-script-sandman-for-joseph-gordon-levitt/
  • AK_BeckyAK_Becky
    Just realized, the character  I most associate with Delirium is Drusilla from Buffy (I know, I know, child of the 90's, so sue me). She has psychotic delirium DOWN...I sometimes even hear her voice in my head when Delirium is talking. But I can see Christina Ricci actually playing the character - short stature, crazy eyes, and acting ability. I'd believe it. 
  • MarianCallMarianCall
    I would totally believe Christina Ricci.

    I'm trying not to see Helena Bonham Carter as Death, because Tim Burton overdid her natural spookiness into cliché-land.  But I'm a child of the 90's too, and I remember her best as Lady Jane and Ophelia and Marla in Fight Club.

    I'm with Reo, I'm more concerned about who has creative control than who acts.  I can imagine something truly magical at the hands of a foreign director, like Guillermo del Toro, or something ghastly in the hands of even quite a good blockbuster director.  It's a touchy piece because despite the effects and thrills, this is all one million per cent about character.

    And Book Club has taught me nothing if not that.
  • MarianCallMarianCall
    Summer Glau as the Corinthian is terrifying.
  • twodogs9twodogs9
    I keep thinking of Alice Cooper for Morpheus. He's got the hair, the long, gaunt, older (and somehow ageless) face and the persona.
  • MarianCallMarianCall
    Hahaha! Welcome to my nightmare...
  • jillybobjillybob
    This might strike everyone else as nuts, but I keep thinking David Tennant would be a great Morpheus. He's tall and thin and (dream)Lord knows he's white enough, but more importantly, I think he could move between haunted and severe and sexy and angry and exhausted with ease. Or maybe Tom Mison. He'd be a good Morpheus as well.

    If she could do an English accent and if nobody got a bug up their butt about her not being skinny enough, I think Amber Benson could be a great Delirium.

    Many of the illustrations of Destruction -- so large and blond and bearded and jolly -- remind me of Chris Hemsworth as Thor.

    I'd love to see John Noble in there somewhere, maybe as Destiny or Odin.

    That's all that comes to mind, for now!
  • twodogs9twodogs9
    "Welcome to my nightmare." Exactly Cooper's last line from the movie Suck (which maybe didn't depending on how you feel about rock-n-blood movies. Interesting casting.)

    I'm beginning to think that perhaps no one actor should be playing Morpheus. He changes visage from panel to panel & story to story. How can one actor accomplish that? Having multiple actors (all ectomorphs [see what I did there?]), sort of like was done in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, could help get that shifting face, the same as dreams shift in subtle ways as they occur.
  • MarianCallMarianCall
    John Noble would be a wonderful Odin!
  • MarianCallMarianCall
    Has it been said yet? Lupita Nyong'o as Nada.

    No, not because she's the only black actress ever.  Because she's an INCREDIBLE black actress, and because I can see her looking the other women of her kingdom in the eye and saying "Where, then, is the man for me?" and just killing it.  She would be amazing.
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