Who would you cast if a film was made?
I would cast:
Fiona Belli - Allison Lohman
Lorenzo - Ian McDiarmid
Riccardo - Gary Oldman
Daniella - Selma Blair
Debilitas - Ron Perlman
other suggestions/comments?
One of the dogs from Disney's "Eight Below" as Hewie!
Keira Knightly as Fiona
(I like Ian McDiarmid as Lorenzo, good one)
Right, I never thought about the "Eight Below" dogs
As for Keira....well, I like her, and she IS British, like Fiona, which fits well, but Keira is too athletic for Fiona's role. Maybe if she would stop working out for a month or two, then she would be ideal.
Wow...those were some...AWFUL choices! No offense, but they'd be better off hiring an unknown European actress for the role of Fiona (and not to mention Daniella) And Selma Blair as Daniella? Daniella is supposed to be beautiful beyond words. Selma Blair is cute, but is no Daniella. Again, hire a European actress. As for Fiona being English, is that even confirmed? Didn't this all take place somewhere in Italy? (I'm assuming Northern Italy, because of the mountains and castles) Fiona Belli and the other characters have clearly Italian names. Plus, take into account that many European films , when dubbed into English, have Brit accents. I'm assuming they took the same route here, to keep it all "Euro" I think...
"Blacka da berry- sweeta da wine!" - some idiot
You know what...you're right! Those were pretty bad choices, but I was too excited and impulsive.
Monica Belucci would make a good Daniella, IMO. For Fiona, they can use someone young and unknown.
And no, Fiona is not English. None of the characters are, look at their names: Daniella, Ugo, Lorenzo
I think the setting was actually meant to be Switzerland (remember they speak Italian, too). The last character, Lorenzo, his middle name was Aureolus. Aureolus was a Swiss alchemist from the 15th-16th century, who was one of the first alchemists to define the term homunculus. Lorenzo was probably loosely based on him.