Personally I'd say that the films of the Lord of the Rings do a better job of telling the story than the books do because of Tolkien's rather turgid writing, but I'm sure many would disagree!

I think it might be good to have a relatively unknown actress playing Cayce. That way there are less preconceptions of the style of the film and it would give it a more 'art house' aesthetic.

(I'm beginning to feel like Mama Anarchia here!)

"And as for who should play Cayce, I like Gillian Anderson...she's just soft spoken enough to play the Cayce I picture in my mind. Of course, she'd have to dye her hair..."

Didn't she dye her hair already, monaoverride? I'm sure she's back to her real colour, i.e. blond. And although I'm still getting used to the idea of her being Cayce, at least she's a very good, chameleon-like actress, so maybe she could pull it off.

Plus she's foxy as hell.

Er, excuse me.

i agree with those sugesting a cast of "unknowns". i also agree that an anime translation may work better. some CGI employing the same tech used for The Incredibles. the folks at pixar out did themselves and if this same tech is applied to a PR anime flick...woah...i'm feelin' dizzy...

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pixelherder mentioned curve for the renderfarm as a hackerish music. I personaly don't know their music. Here is what I can tell you though. When your coding you normaly listen to something a bit lower temp say Pink Floyd, Orb or some mild trance. This is because if you are prone to anxiety or ADD then your kepp yourself calm and focused. If your doing on the edge hacking or phreaking or something other you listen to some hard insdustrila or hard trance, it builds up the adrenaline and those psychic early warning paranoia sences are up. Question my knowleged on such things? Google 'oki 900 faq'

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HAHA! You are so right. I have never heard any one put it like that before. I suppose thats because the life of a programer is a relatively lonesome one ^_^ Ever try streaming audio??? I have around 60 gigs of music, and it gets old fast listening to it that much. I love winamps streaming audio. Philosomatika is awesome . . . DIGITALY IMPORTED Chillout isnt to shabby either. Oh, and while your at it, check out demoscene in streaming video if you need a break

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I'd rather see it as an animated feature (Perhaps the Ghost In The Shell group?).
Can you imagine how boring PR might play out in the wrong hands? Scary...

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Unfortunately, in America, anime and animated features are stigmatised before they even get a chance. In japan, a film is concidered by its genera and its reputation (among other things) before it is an animited film.

I suppose this boils down to the fact that many americans would look at an awesome creation such as ghost in the shell and think "cartoons are for kids" before giving it a shot.

I've mentioned my choice of Cayce in another thread:

Cayce - Mary McCormack of The West Wing, Private Parts and Mystery, Alaska.

Director - David Fincher, especially for the Moscow/London scenes.

No flames please. Happy Holidays!

David Fincher could well be a good choice for a director, but I suspect his style might be a bit too dynamic to do the footage justice.

Mamoru Oshii would be a great choice (the guy who directed Ghost in the Shell). He has done live action work before ('Avalon', which was filmed in Polish, mainly I suspect because he fancied the lead actress and she is Polish), and he has a very interesting eye for locations. His anime approach to visuals means that he packs in a lot of detail as well as having a relatively fresh take on what you can and can't do with visual narratives.

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Didn't she dye her hair already, monaoverride? I'm sure she's back to her real colour, i.e. blond. And although I'm still getting used to the idea of her being Cayce, at least she's a very good, chameleon-like actress, so maybe she could pull it off.

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It probably is back to its natural color...although, it has been so long since I've seen her act, I wouldn't know.

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David Fincher could well be a good choice for a director, but I suspect his style might be a bit too dynamic to do the footage justice.

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Sure, Fight Club was good, and The Game was medicore . . but Alien 3? Madonna flicks? Panic Room? His syle isnt too dynamic, its to incosistant and disapointing. Even at his best (fight club) he is a director of a "psychological" action movie . . not any thing along the lines of PR.
Some may refer to se7en, but i dispised that more then any of his films . . horrible. . . I realy dont understand what people see in tha film. Way to blatantly "shocking" and much to streamlined in its theme. Just like fight club, the dual personality thing has been done before, way too much, and it was easily noticed in that film.
No my friends, no maker of Lord of The Rings or Panic Room will do here. What we need is the man who had shown us what the year 2001 would be like . . .

David Fincher would always be a long bet after the ill-fated Gibson script and the Alien 3 debacle. The film isn't as bad as its press was, and frankly that's a miracle considering the difficulties making it...

Being practical about these things, it would probably be best to have someone who is accustomed to directing period dramas on set. Anyone who is from a more whizz-bang school of directing would probably be too tempted to try and make a big sci-fi thriller out of the story. It's a great story, but time needs to be taken over the pacing and I don't think that many big Hollywood directors would be suitable.

But hey, it's not like anything we say here matters anyway, we don't have any influence at all over the final choice!

So eRthIan, any chance of being less enigmatic and telling us who you have in mind?

i just posted a bit about this in the similar spoilers thread.

hurtstotouchfire as stella (and nora?)
orlando bloom as damien
damien lewis as parkaboy
matthew mcconaghy (i didn't even try to spell that right) as bigend
dorotea needs a bit of the lara flynn boyles about her, needs to be a cold hard bitter type. hungry. penelope cruz?
can robbie coltrane play hobbs baranov? i would just like cracker in there being the bitter genius.
voytek & magda: who has cheekbones?

but what about cayce? cate blanchett can act, at least, and i think you need someone who can look relatively plain generally, and then look catwalk after the makeup girls have a go at her.

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David Fincher could well be a good choice for a director, but I suspect his style might be a bit too dynamic to do the footage justice.

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Sure, Fight Club was good, and The Game was medicore . . but Alien 3? Madonna flicks? Panic Room? His syle isnt too dynamic, its to incosistant and disapointing. Even at his best (fight club) he is a director of a "psychological" action movie . . not any thing along the lines of PR.
Some may refer to se7en, but i dispised that more then any of his films . . horrible. . . I realy dont understand what people see in tha film. Way to blatantly "shocking" and much to streamlined in its theme. Just like fight club, the dual personality thing has been done before, way too much, and it was easily noticed in that film.

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Hey, David Fincher is a fantastic director. Consider the fact that he managed to make an awesome film from a Chuck Palahniuk novel.

*ducks and covers*

I maintain that I want to see a Japanese hold over any PR flick. They are the future of cinematography and animation, and I despair at the thought of some low budget no-talent ass buying up the rights to it.

Please WG, don't do that to us.

Jennifer Connelly = Cayce hands down in my book.

I'm a little late to this thread, but for what it's worth, here's how I pictured the characters as I was reading PR:

Cayce: Cate Blanchett
Bigend: Alfred Molina
Damien: Todd Louiso
Parkaboy: Matt Walsh
Stonestreet: Charles Dance
Dorotea: Isabella Rosellini
Hobbs-Baranov: Gerard McSorley
Boone: Li Yapeng
Voytek: Vincent Cassel
Magda: Milla Jojovich
Ngemi: Ger Duany
Keiko/Judy: Chiaki Kuriyama
Volkov: Jonathan Pryce
Stella/Nora: Oksana Akinshina

d9000 - i think alfred molina's great, but cayce says at one point or other that bigend's the most handsome man she'd ever met or something.

I thought of that, but he's stuck in my head for some reason. Maybe it's the grin (too many teeth) or the way he can be charismatic but still not quite trustworthy.

John de Lancie (Q) as Bigend? He can pull off smug, and definitely NOT trustworthy - no prob.

Not THE most handsome guy in the world, though.

Of course, it would be truly funny to get Tom Cruise to play him, given that Bigend was described as "Tom Cruise on a diet of virgin's blood and truffled chocolates". Gotta cram more teeth into his mouth though, to really complete the picture.

Matthew McConaughey (looked that up, to be sure) would be a good choice, Misty - he's probably the right age, too - he'd have to drop the drawl, though, as Bigend is also described as speaking English with less of an accent than anyone [Cayce] has ever known.

Cayce - Laura Allen - not too well known yet. Would have to dye her hair, but she's the right age. Just a thought really - I've only seen her in The 4400 so far.

Boone - B. D. Wong (Law & Order SVU, etc) or Daniel Dae Kim

Just my thoughts - as for the Director - Nolan sounds pretty good. Eastwood? Hmmm... that would be a very different type of movie for him. He'd probably do his homework to get it to feel right.

I see the thread is somehow still alive, so I dare to add my "three cents":
- I like the idea of Gillian Anderson playing Caycee - she has proper character and age
- I wonder why nobody mentioned her: Gina Gershon as Dorotea... what do you think?

Michael Mann would also do alot of homework and preparation.

Rupert Everett would be a good Bigend, imo.

Donnie Yen, Sky from Hero, would be a great Boone Chu.

uh, yeah.