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Actors who'd be perfect for cinematic adaptations of a novel, or whom you visualise when thinking about a character.

Ben Kingsley, as 'Maurice Conchis' from 'The Magus' (John Fowles)

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Jon Hamm, as 'Philip Marlowe' (Raymond Chandler)

>> No.2440357

>>2440332

Can't unsee.

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Jesse Eisenberg as Hal Incandenza

>> No.2440379

>>2440359
That works. he'd also be good for a DFW biopic

>> No.2441019

Zach Galifinakis as Ignatius J. Reilly.

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Michael Cera as Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye)

>> No.2441044

>>2440379
I'd cast Michael Cera in a DFW biopic.

He'd be playing DFW.

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Mr Wednesday in American Gods

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Dakota Fanning as Dakota Fanning from Tao Lin's Richard Yates.

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Robinson Crusoe.

>> No.2441100

>>2441044
Michael Cera? WTF? DFW was a great big lumbering athletic hairy guy. He was completely un-Michael Cera-ish.

>> No.2441108

>>2441100
Michael Cera is a great actor tho.

>> No.2441122

>>2441108
Yeah, I like him too, but I don't see it at all. He's just all wrong.

Also a DFW biopic would be kind of boring. He was a depressed writer and depressed college prof. It would be kinda thin.

>> No.2441126

>>2441122
Michael Cera kinda thin?

>> No.2441131

>>2441126
No, the dramatic story of DFW's life would be kinda thin. :-) But also Michael Cera. I bet Johnny Depp could do it though.

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>>2441052

>> No.2441145

>>2441131
Eh, maybe if he dropped that something something he seemed to pick up in Fear and Loathing that's been in every performance since.

Might be good if it was like this and about Tao Lin:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/archer/

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Hannah Murray, who plays Cassie in the first generation of Skins, is always how I have pictured Alice (in wonderland)

>> No.2443253

Myself as John Parry from His Dark Materials.

Yeah, I know it's pretty random, but I'd really be great in that role.

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I IMAGINE "SEYMOUR GLASS" AS SOMEONE WHO RESEMBLES LUKE WILSON.

I IMAGINE "SYBIL" FROM "A PERFECT DAY FOR BANANAFISH" AS SOMEONE RESEMBLING MARA GREEN.

I IMAGINE "PHOEBE CAULFIELD" AS SOMEONE RESEMBLING THE LITTLE GIRL FROM THE "MOVIE" "SNOW DAY", AND ALSO AS SOMEONE RESEMBLING RYAN NEWMAN, ALBEIT RYAN NEWMAN NOT BEING A "GINGER".

I IMAGINE "TEDDY" FROM THE "SHORT STORY" BY JEROME DAVID SALINGER "TEDDY", AS SOMEONE RESEMBLING ISAAC BRANFLAKES.

I IMAGINE "ADA" FROM "ADA OR ARDOR" AS SOMEONE RESEMBLING ADELHEID MARIA JOSEPHA SIXTA ANTONIA ROBERTA OTTONIA ZITA CHARLOTTE D'AVIANO.

>> No.2443293

>>2443288
I IMAGINE YOU PRESSING CAPS LOCK AGAIN.

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Crispin Glover as Gregor Samsa

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Chloe as Hypatia of Alexandria.

>>2441052
But who would play Haley Joel Osmont?

>>2443308

I almost feel like this has already been done.

>> No.2444607

>>2444590
i love you

>> No.2444619

>>2443308

Bravo!

The Magus has already been made into a movie called Eyes Wide Shut. Loose adaptation, but still.

Christopher Plummer as King Lear

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>>2444590

>> No.2444629

>>2444590
>>2444607
>>2444627
>>>/b/

>> No.2444723

Bump. I like this topic.

>> No.2446512

Leonardo Di Caprio as Gatsby.
...no I'm joking. Seriously who cast this film?

>> No.2446521

Cumberbatch as Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
He's handsome, he looks dignified, and he's more than capable of pulling off 'arrogant douche'
Colin Firth is just too likable to work as Darcy

>> No.2446524

>>2441038
what? no
that's just wrong

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Meursault.

>> No.2446591

Will Oldham as Grandcourt from Daniel Deronda

>> No.2446600

>>2446521
b cums is only handsome on the internet. admittedly he looks better in motion but I have literally l-o-l'd looking at pictures of him, and I'm not the type of internerd who tags every famous person with a faintly crooked jaw or droopy eyelid as a disgusting monster

>> No.2446611

>>2444590
It hasn't been done, it's just a really obvious choice. Crispin has been typecast into this type of character. He's already played Grendel and such.

>>2446551
Daniel Craig is the only appropriate Meursault. An action star stripped from an action film, tense with energy, but without brooding. A confused man caught between poles.

>> No.2446622

>>2446611
I disagree with your reading of Mersault, but I'd fight to the death for your right to it... well not really, but i'd probably get belligerent about it if I drank too much.

>> No.2446627

Ted Danson as the narrator in the Paul Auster novel "The Brooklyn Follies"
Jason Schwartzman as the nephew.
Zach Galifinakis as the gay bookstore owner

>> No.2446644

>>2446627
fffffffffff would watch. I hated Jonathan Ames before Bored To Death s2 and can attribute nearly all of the goodwill I feel for him now to those dudes

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>>2446627

>> No.2446657

russel crowe as william laurence from naomi novik's temeraire series. mostly because he has already played pretty much the same character in master and commander