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?

Comments

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Uh, you're freaking me out ...

Okay, I have to get back to work, but I just skimmed your cast list and had a little freakout because it is one of my often-visited rants that MICHELLE PFEIFFER is THE ONLY ONE to play Gabrielle (I go ranty mcrantpants over this) and Nicole Kidman has *got* to play Maharet/Mekare.

On the other hand, Marius and Lestat are both described in the books as being very blonde in coloring. I am kind of picky about how the actors really ought to look like the characters as written ... there is just no way Colin Farrell could possibly work, and even though I like Vincent Perez he bears NO resemblance physically to Marius as written!

... no time to consider the rest ... (some of the actors' names I don't even recognize, actually.)