They'll have to find a talented 12 year old boy the part of Milo.
For the rest of the cast i would choose:
Tim Allen as Tock.
Anthony Hopkins or Patrick Stewart as Humbug.
Jack Black as Officer Shortshift.
Ian Mckellen as King Azaz.
Linda Hunt as Faintly Macabre the Which.
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I could deffinately see Tim Allen as Tock and Patrick Stewart as Humbug. How about Cynthia Nixon And Kim Catrall as the Princess Rhyme & Reason? Also how about Danny Divito as Officer Short Shrift & Bobcat Goldwaite as Dr. Dischord.
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Good casting MayMay98! But what about Jack Black as Shortshrift? and maybe Andy Serkis or Pauly Shore can be the voice of "Spelling Bee".
WETA should do the special effects for this movie.
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Omg! Andy Serkis as the Spelling Bee! That's awesome! Jack Black as Officer Shrift is hilarious to imagine. I think casting the five members of the king's cabinet would be fun. But, I can't think of anyone. I'd love to do a live-action version of this some day and I would cast all un-knowns. I wouldn't want it to have even a hint of the "Hollywood touch". I would just hold open auditions in England and what not and see what kind of awesome talent I could find. Freddy Highmore did spring to mind for Milo. But I wouldn't want HIM exactly. Maybe someone similar...only better. I think another good candidate would be the boy that played Edmund in the Chronicles of Narnia. He'd be way too old by the time I got around to making this. But whatever. Here's a question---what color hair have you always pictured Milo having? I can't remember if his hair color is ever mentioned in the book. I always pictured a medium brown.
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King Azaz - Jim Broadbent
The Mathmagician -
Short Shrift - Mario Cantone
Faintly Macabre - June Lockhart, Maggie Smith
Rhyme - Emily Van Camp
Reason - Emmy Rossum
Tock - T.R. Knight
Humbug - Kenneth Branagh (would be a lot like his Harry Potter character)
Milo should be an unknown. No Haley Joel Osment, no Jonathan Lipnicki, no Freddy Highmore. He should be fresh.
Bobcat Goldthwaite would make a good DYNNE.
Brunettes do it better...
Wallace Shawn as Short Shrift!!! There's no one more suited for that part than he. And I'd love to see Marley Shelton (only the hottest chick alive) as one of the princesses. I think the Awful Dynne should be some sort of clay creation with Frank Oz's voice.
shareI do like the idea of Wallace Shawn for Short Shrift.
Brunettes do it better...
Tim Allen As Tock sounds great & about right.
shareHere are some more ideas:
Humbug- Hugh Laurie
King Azaz- John Rhys-Davies
Terrible Trivium- Malcolm McDowell
Gellatinous Giant- Richard Kiel
Everpresent Word Snatcher- Voice of Frank Welker
Chroma the Great- Seiji Ozawa
I think they should make the Demon of Insincerity a master voice artist. When he's claiming to be a monster, we should hear Tony Jay's voice. Then, once the truth is revealed, it should be someone like Gilbert Gottfried.
I think I'd be interested to see how well Rene Auberjonois would do at playing the Mathemagician. I've seen him play a king twice and he has the right kind of humorous style needed for that character. And how about Jane Horrocks for the Soundkeeper? She has the sweet voice I envison that character having.
shareI just found out today that Tony Jay died almost two months ago. I guess his voicing the Demon of Insincerity is out of the question now. A shame. Rest in peace, Tony.
shareAll I can think of:
Tim Allen or Neil Patrick Harris-Tock
Rowan Atkinson or Eric Idle-Humbug
Kristin Chenoweth-Princess Rhyme
Laura Osnes or Idina Menzel-Princess Reason
Julie Andrews, Meryl Steep, or Betty White-The Which
Dan DeVito-Office Shortshift
Tom Kenny-Spelling Bee
Terrible Trivium-Anyone who can do a great villian performance
Milo - ???
Tock - Ben Stiller maybe?
Humbug - Rowan Atkinson
The Whetherman - Terry Jones
The Spelling Bee - Eric Idle
King Azaz - Michael Caine
Mathemagician - John Cleese
Officer Shortshrift - Jack Black
Doctor Dischord - Eddie Murphy
Dodecahedron - Michael Palin
Chroma - Tom Baker (Dr Who)
Canby - Hugh Laurie
Alec Bings - ???
The Tallest Thinnest Shortest Fattest Man - Alec Baldwin, because he has that irritating non-chalant quality
Terrible Trivium - Jim Carrey, a must!
Gelatinous Giant - John Goodman
The Senses Taker - John Hurt, a must!
Linda Hunt as Faintly Macabre was already mentioned - a good choice
Christopher Walken should be in it too - but where?
I'd invent an additional role: The Tollbooth Collector, and cast Morgan Freeman
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I hadn't really been thinking much about this for quite a while, but I just recently happened to come back here and read more posts and I started considering the matter further. And now I have an idea for a character I hadn't been able to come up with an actor for before. How about Nathan Lane as Doctor Dischord?
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