Dragaera

Vlad Taltos: Casting Call

Wed Oct 8 08:07:49 PDT 2003

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:04:06 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Charlie Smith wrote:
>
>@> I was reading a conversation in an anime newsgroup in which they were
>@> debating who they would cast in a live action version of some cartoon
>@> that I had never heard of before.  This has absolutely nothing to do
>@> this group but it did get me to think in a vein that I hadn't explored
>@> myself.  It might have been talked about already but who would you cast
>@> for a movie of the Vlad Taltos series?
>
>I sometimes think that in the smoking ruins of America left behind after
>the next apocalyptic war, as the mutants and humans struggle for survival
>in a hellish nightmare world with tooth, nail, and gun, a small group
>of them will occasionally congregate and discuss whether Turkuts the
>Annihiliator or Emal, Devourer of Eyes, should play Vlad in the
>shadow-puppet version of the charred remnants of their only copy of Yendi.
>
>Just saying.

I vote Emal, Devourer of Eyes.  Just a personal preference.


-- 

lazarus

"Folly it may seem," said Haldir. "Indeed, in nothing is the power 
of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that 
divides all those who still oppose him." -- J.R.R. Tolkien