because it's 5AM and I haven't been to bed yet

[seraphcelene]

Putting together the outline for a paper - Lame, stupid and otherwise totally undescriptive working title is

"As strong and as interesting as men": Re-imagining H. Rider Haggard's Ayesha and the Victorian New Woman for a modern audience in Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned.

I'll tell you what it's about later. There is a thesis, I promise.

Now for the wacky fun, or maybe not so much:

When, notice I say *when* and not if, they re-make Queen of the Damned I would like to see the parts cast as following (note that some of these are based on acting skills, some on looks and some are kinda arbitrary):

Akasha: Patricia Velasquez
Maharet: Nicole Kidman
Mekare: Nicole Kidman
Khayman: Johnny Depp or Viggo Mortensen
Enkil: Joaquin Phoenix
Mael: Tom Welling
Marius: Vincent Perez (liked him well enough for him to go it again)
Lestat: Orlando Bloom (or *maybe* Colin Farrell)
Louis: Brad Pitt (of course)
Daniel: James Marsden
Armand: Gael Garcia Bernal
Jesse: Fairuza Balk, Julia Stiles or Erika Christensen (I'm pretty ambivalent)
David Talbot: Anthony Hopkins
Baby Jenks: Christina Rici
Pandora: Claudia Black (criminally under used in the first version)
Gabrielle: Michelle Pfiffer


So, who would you cast?