SF Casting Game

[greygirlbeast]

So, in the spirit of faustfatale's recent "Noir Casting Game", I offer the science-fiction film casting game. It's going to be entirely surreal cyberpunk affair set in an alternate history post-WWII Berlin, after the earth has been ravaged by alien-Nazi nanotech. I will be played by Tilda Swinton.



Now. Who will play you? Also, feel free to suggest a director, screenwriter, etc. And yes, days off often lead to boredom and peculiar games.

Comments

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

I'll take David Bowie, for such are my cajones.



For director, I'll take Ridley Scott. And Edgar Allan Poe for screenwriter--it may be dreamt!

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I'll take David Bowie, for such are my cajones.

Then Bowie you shall have.

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad these cajones were good for something, especially as that horse is still angry with me...

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

I'd have liked Sara Rue to play me in just about anything, but she got all skinny, so she doesn't get my vote anymore. Are there any sexy, chubby, auburn-haired actresses out there?

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

Well, Aida Turturro doesn't have auburn hair, but the woman defines sexy... she can dye!

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

She's awesome, but a touch old to play me at this point in my life.

[docbrite.livejournal.com]

Michael Clarke Duncan, please.

[wishlish.livejournal.com]

If he's overbooked, will Ving Rhames or the Rock do in a pinch? :)

I'll be the traitor...

[the-final-woman.livejournal.com]

...as played by Charlotte Rampling

Re: I'll be the traitor...

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I'll be the traitor...

...as played by Charlotte Rampling

Perfection.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

I've got dibs on Peter Davison!

[fornikate.livejournal.com]

I call Fairuza Balk. She looks nothing like me; however she has my attitude.

[faustfatale.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be played by Gloria Talbot:

[brokensymmetry.livejournal.com]

Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Voice by Kevin Weisman (Marshall on "Alias," but without any of that character's vocal idiosyncrasies).

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Good choice.

[tjcrowley.livejournal.com]

I would like to be played by John Cusack, and I'd really like part of the storyline call for me to actually be Hitler's head preserved by alien nanotech in a baking tray. Also, I'd like it to be directed by Uwe Boll, based on a script by William Gibson.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Hitler's head preserved by alien nanotech in a baking tray.

Hmmmm. I think it'll be the head of a clone of Hitler's secret twin brother. No Uwe Boll, but I'll take Gibosn anyday. ;-)

[tesseractive.livejournal.com]

I shall be played by Morena Baccarin in a blonde wig. Julie Taymor ought to direct, with a script written by Michel Gondry and a modest number of peyote buttons.

[z0mb1e.livejournal.com]

I think Kate Winslet would play me. I'm not sure if she could be bad ass enough for my tastes, but I'm sure she could surprise me.
Director... probably Tarantino.

[blubeagle.livejournal.com]

Let's see:

If Chastity Bono were an actor, she'd be me, if you threw her in a wheelchair. Writer? Me. Director? Hitchcock or Tarantino.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Jewel Staite will play me. Philip Ridley will direct the screenplay by Anthony Bourdain.

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

Actor: Soccer.... the dog who played Wishbone. Every movie needs a terrier. If it must be a human actor, then Kate Hudson, with unclebastard writing the screenplay, and Peter Jackson directing.

[morganxpage.livejournal.com]

David Cronenberg or David Lynch for Director, obviously.

And Sarah Michelle Gellar (a la Cruel Intentions) as me.


Who's playing Spooky?

~Morgan

[mockingbirdgrrl.livejournal.com]

as the antisocial philosopher who eventually offs herself in a drunken and/or drug-induced fit of despair, i call gretchen moll.

[grandmofhelsing.livejournal.com]

I've been told by several people that, whatever the movie, I will be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I will be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Very well.

[sovay]

I am played by Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione:



I might be twins. No one knows our real names: all our papers are forged and we have no fingerprints. We walk the streets hand in hand, after curfew when the Menschenjägers come out to feed, and if you listen closely to the music we play, in the bit-cafés, the burn of ozone and cigarette smoke, you might find your way to the underground. Or you might never be seen again—it happens. Don't go home with us. We know where your passport leads.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I might be twins. No one knows our real names: all our papers are forged and we have no fingerprints. We walk the streets hand in hand, after curfew when the Menschenjägers come out to feed, and if you listen closely to the music we play, in the bit-cafés, the burn of ozone and cigarette smoke, you might find your way to the underground. Or you might never be seen again—it happens. Don't go home with us. We know where your passport leads.

Nice. We better be careful, or we'll have a story on our hands here...

[sovay]

Heh. Thank you. Hey, I'd read it.

entirely surreal cyberpunk affair set in an alternate history post-WWII Berlin, after the earth has been ravaged by alien-Nazi nanotech.

I keep thinking Jeunet and Caro should direct, though, and Cordwainer Smith should have written the script.

[corucia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Vincent Price can do his best mad scientist role for my spot in the movie. I'd go with a collaborative screenplay written by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean and H. P. Lovecraft, with direction from Terry Gilliam as assisted by Wim Wenders. Soundtrack has to be done by Max Steiner. Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski.

[smu.livejournal.com]

Even though I'm a girl, I can't think of any girl character to play me.

I want to be played by a (living) Ivor Novello. Who would be a sarcastic spy with a morbid sense of humor, who plays both sides as it pleases him.



I also say we resurrect Conrad Veidt and make him a creepy general-type character, akin to a Vincent Price crazy.

As for screenwriter, quite possibly Neil Gaiman or Simon R Green, or whoever is currently writing for Doctor Who. Director would perhaps be Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam; someone who can handle a huge cast and bizarre setting and pull it off perfectly.

(If I had to play as a girl, maybe a serious Kate Bush, or little known 20s starlet...)

And sorry for the double post, the pic didn't work.

[nathan-long.livejournal.com]

Ralph Fiennes as the tormented propaganda ministry flack in love with his Jewish mistress.

[nathan-long.livejournal.com]

Erk! Photo was a bit large, wasn't it? Sorry.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Julianne Moore will play me.
Screenwriter: Lemony Snicket
Director: David Cronenberg

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I will be played by Jessica Rabbit, because I still think it's a criminal shame that she did not get the lead in Tomb Raider, and she hasn't had work in far too long, as the central characters' perky virtual assistant/AI familiar.

If that does not fit, Drew Barrymore, Jeff Goldblum, Rutger Hauer or Jamie Lee Curtis would do me fine. Unless I get to be a nanotech-powered shapeshifter, in which case, all of the above.

My first choice for director is Jean-Pierre Jeunet circa Cite des Enfants Perdu. Though form what you describe Richard Stanley could do a good job of it, in the Hardware direction. Or Alex de la Iglesia. [ Have you seen Accion Mutante ? I think it would appeal to you. ]

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Accion Mutante ?

Yes, thanks to faustfatale. I even have it on video. Entirely drad.

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

I, the wisecracking commando with a dark past (that leads to a secret death wish, that leads to brilliant heroics that actually end up accomplishing nothing of consequence), would originally be cast as Nikolaj Kaas, with the same hairstyle he had in The Green Butchers, but gaining fifty pounds to play the role.



Unfortunately, Roy Lee becomes attached to the production, decides no one in America knows who Nikolaj Kaas is, and recasts The Rock.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, Roy Lee becomes attached to the production, decides no one in America knows who Nikolaj Kaas is, and recasts The Rock.

*snork*

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

Because my life conspires to engineer self-deprecating satire, I will probably be played by Wilmer Valderrama (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005519/) as a Spanish blacktech/arms smuggler for the Anarchist underground. He is regularly seen at the the degenerate, Serbian-Moorish opium den/stimsim cabaret.

Although the script originally called for his presence in the disastrous, abortive rescue from Robo-Gestapo HQ, he is written out of the script after test audiences can't figure out where Spain is on a map. His character is replaced by Ashton Kutcher, as a plucky American spy with boyish good looks and a few choice one-liners.

Script by Jonathan Lethem, Directed by Alex Proyas. Soundtrack featuring Dresden Dolls, Paolo Conte, Graeme Revell, Merzbow.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Soundtrack featuring Dresden Dolls, Paolo Conte, Graeme Revell, Merzbow.


Excellent!

[wishlish.livejournal.com]

My role is the crabby, sarcastic lackey who complains about everything and is the first to be blown to smithereens when the shit hits the fan. But at least I'll get a few good lines, and some points on the T-shirts with my best line.

If we're casting on personality, I'll take Lewis Black.

If we're casting on looks, um, Jon Favreau. Maybe Jeremy Piven if you're kind.

Someone always has to play the fool, right?

[sisyphusiren.livejournal.com]

I'm a little late, but, you know. I will be played by either Christina Ricci

or Johnny Depp

In either case my love interest will be the David Bowie character. We'll have antique weapons. If Christina plays me, I'll have a garter Deringer. Mark Z. Danielewski is the screenwriter. That's as far as I got.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I'm a little late, but, you know. I will be played by either Christina Ricci or or Johnny Depp.

Why not both? Considering the nannotech, genetic alterations, and cybernetics involved, perhaps the two character were lovers, who decided to become a single entity, a co-consciousness with the ability to morph from one phenotype to the other as the mood suits them.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Another late entry...

I'd like to be played by Rachel Weisz.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Steve Buscemi. Steve Buscemi will play me in everything. BUT! In this one, he must have the entire right side of his body encased in seething black nanospawn that randomly shoots out tentacles to absorb nearby organic matter, and he is clad entirely in an SS officer's dress uniform.

[kalamah.livejournal.com]

Late, late entry. Kat Von D. She's not an actress, but she is, er, on tv. Does that count?

-- Elizabeth

[reverendcrofoot.livejournal.com]

I want to be a long, thin, sharp-toothed, white haired, old woman. A recurring extra that only a sharp eyed viewer would notice. Probably a metaphor but the director never explains it.

I'd go for director Terry Gilliam and writer well you if you were up to it.