...this will either be amazing, and become one of their favourite films or it will be a huge disappointment?
I'm really excited at the prospect of a film being made but I'm very attatched to my own ideas of how the characters and the locations look - I can't think of a single actor who could play stephen. I really want this film to be great, I'm just very nervous!
me too. i'm always on this message board searching for th lastest buzz.
nah i think i can see a few people in the role of stephen, the only problem is they are too old. then again if his ges doesnt come up in the movie then i guess age isnt a problem if they choose a man in early 30's. i think this could be a great film, a potential award winner (not that i value the academy's opinion ofr anything.)
i'm a little worried about the director. apparently he did a great job in bleak house, but the other boleyn girl was apparently *beep* the pivot point to this film is the casting. if stephen is cast awfully, then the film will probably be intollerable.
I enjoyed TOBG, but everything was completely swapped around from the book. :S
Weren't the screen tests a couple of weeks ago? We're waiting for news Mr Chadwick!
dreamtheater, I agree! I keep thinking of actors and then I realise that they're to old for the role.
shareI have to agree with all of you, I read on another string that orland Bloome could have been considered for the role. but I hope not.
Thing is people often looked older than they did in those days so you could get away with someone slightly older. I have through that maybe James Purfoy could be an interesting choice. Sadly I just know they will have an american to play the main role.
purefoys way too old. i think he's in his 40's.
shareoh I love james purefoy, but definately too old.
shareTrouble is I think we all have this idealised picture of what Stephen would look like and I don't think there is an actor out there that would fit the bill and the execs would want to hire.
Might have to be the best of a bad bunch
Realistically a film such a this could live up to the heights of 'Atonement'. I read this for my English Literature A-level 5 years ago and I thought Jude Law would make an excellent Stephen, but he's far too old now. I'm not worried about the casting, my main concern is that it lives up to the book. There is so much material, that to completely destroy it would be a difficult thing to do.
I'm just wondering what the main focus of the film will be. Whether the primary focus will be on war and it's effects or on the lustful relationship between Stephen and Isabelle.
I can't wait.
I just finished reading it for my English Literature A-Level! Read it in 3 days, (I'd had it for the whole holiday but stupidly decided that it'd be a good idea to read it in about 3 days at the end, took up all my time and energy!) and I have to say that it's much, much better than Atonement. The book for Atonement was intolerably boring, the film wasn't much better but Keira got me through it! When I read books, I can never picture a characters face, I just imagine that most of the face is shadowed or link the scene to pieces of a film I'd seen before, therefore making the main character the character in focus on the film (if that makes sense). So I'm not worried about the casting either.
As to your other point, I did wonder the same thing, but then I thought if the filmmaker gets it right then it will cover both with the same intensity that they were focused on in the book.
Just watched this last night. Have mixed feelings about it. However, I am an American and I am so very curious as to why you think the BBC would cast an American for the role of Steven? (The only American who could possibly pull this role off is Edward Norton and he is too old to play Steven). The book was one I will never forget.
If I wasn't a transvestite terrorist, would you marry me?
I Can See David Tennant As Stephan For Some Reason
Other Thank Dr. Who He's Had Good Reviews As Hamlet & He Blew Me Away In A One Off Drama I Saw Him In A Few Years Ago
If Anyone Can Remember The Name Of It That Would Be Great! It Was About 2 Sisters & I Think He Was Engaged To One Or Something & Then Ran Off With The Other & He Turned Out To Be A Bit Unhinged & Rapes One Sister At The End...And She Fakes Her Own Death & Frames Him For It & Starts A New Life In Australia XD