I would choose Bradley Cooper as Desmond. He sounds a lot, to me, like Desmond and resembles him quite closely.
Also, i would keep Kristin Bell
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Get Kristen Bell as Lucy again.
It would be like Broken Sword without Rolf Saxon.
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Desmond is of heavy Middle Eastern descent. Brad Cooper wouldnt work. id go Kal Penn or something. gotta be middle eastern or at least spanish.
shareI don't know why but Desmond kinda remindz me of Adam Sandler...
shareAll I know is that I will certainly NOT choose Mark Wahlberg.
shareBradley Cooper could work for Desmond. I would probably pick an actual Italian actor for Ezio. A role like that would require going to the source nation for sure.
If they ever did a film of this I think they should make it a trilogy and focus on Altair in the first film, Ezio in the second and a possible new ancestor (depending on if they do this in the new game). The trilogy should revolve around Desmond for the most part but be divided 50/50 between the ancestor and Desmond in each film.
Not really that important of a character, but Willem Dafoe as Cesare Borgia would be cool. Tim Curry as Rodrigo is propably little too much of typecasting, but I wouldn't be surprised if they actually picked him. Especially if the movie turned out to a small budget summer action flick.
shareMaybe it was not clear from the game, but Cesare was in his late twenties when the story took place, so Dafoe would not work, no matter how much I love him as an actor. Rodrigo's character looks like the actor who is voicing him, and I think he would be a great choice as well, although Tim Curry would also be excellent.
shareNoomi Rapace would be perfect as Christina Vespucci.
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This game is a fantastic game with a fantastic story, however it would not work as a movie. This is because the story was written for a video game, not for amy other medium. I am not arguing that video games or movies are better than any other, simply that the mediums are different. Assassin's Creed utilizes its medium's potential so well that it really can't be translated to any other medium with any accuracy.
The structure of the plot works very well for a video game. You have two completely different sets of characters, Desmond and the 2012 gang outside the animus, and Altair and Ezio inside. The thing is, both sets of these characters require development in order for the plot to work. This is handled relatively well in the games (In my opinion, Desmond's character is pretty thin in the first two games and it isn't until Brotherhood that I started caring about him), but this is because you have a lot more time that you are immersed with the characters. In a film, you have about two hours to get invested with two separate sets of characters, and create a solid story about both of them.
So how would you structure this? Do you spend a third of the film in 2012, and two thirds in 1191 (for the first game, of course). This may work fine in the first movie, as I'm sure we'd all agree that the story in the first game is pretty padded, but could you really do Ezio's story justice in only 80 minutes? And could you get the Audience invested enough in Desmond and Lucy in only 40? 40 may seem like a long time, but how do you split that up? You figure you need to start with them to introduce them (15 min), maybe have a bridge in the middle so the audience doesn't forget them (10 min), then have a scene at the end that wraps things up (15 min). Okay, you could probably create mildly interesting characters in 15 minutes (which is all you need), but I feel like an ending of only 15 minutes would be enough. And let's not forget that that opening 15 minutes would not be devoted to the characters, you'd also have to set up the AC world. This would include explaining the Animus technology, and giving mentioning briefly the Assassin/Templar conflict. In the bridge you'd have to bring up Subject 16.
Also remember any time you make a film based off a video game, you're cutting a lot of story. These games are about 20 hours of playing time each, and when you make a film even of each one, you're cutting them down to 2 hours.
I'm not saying a movie could not be made that complements the games, we've seen AC in other mediums that worked well (Assassin's Creed: Lineage), but I'm not convinced a direct adaptation would work at all.
I can understand a few "tl;dnr's," but my overall point is the AC story is brilliantly written for a VIDEO GAME. It works amazingly in this medium, but I don't think every story ever told needs to be turned into a movie.
I agree with you very much on all your points, except that it can't work as a movie.
It wouldn't be easy to do, I agree completely, but if you get the right writers, director, and cast I think it could work (just like any other movie). The main thing would be that the filmmakers would need to work with Ubisoft and the developers of the game, most specifically the writers. The creators of the game could most definitely take the game and cut it down to a skeleton, and the director, actors, and screen writers could take it from there and flesh it back out again in order to fill up maybe an hour and forty-five minutes to two and half hours.
You have to remember that a lot of all of the games are repetition also, no matter how much they try to change it up. You won't have to show Ezio running errands, or Altaïr following his tenth victim to interrogate. You can cut these things out all together, or replace them with other scenes that advance the /story/ versus advancing the /game/.
Which is why the filmmakers would have to work with the game developers in order to best decide what can be replaced, what can be taken out entirely, and what can be added.
But then again, this would all be in a fantastically perfect world where movies are about showing and telling a story, and not entirely about money, and where the creators of the movie have actually played the game and are actually interested in working with the game developers to make an accurate portrayal of the game that's also entertaining to watch....
Oi, maybe you're right, maybe it is impossible. :/
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Anyway, as far as actors go for a film that will probably never be, and to get back to the OP, I'd say that you could probably keep everyone that's already done the game, at least for the main characters.
Kristen Bell's not only a voice actor, so she could probably easily make the transition from the recording booth to a set.
In a lot of cases, voice actors have to act just as much in order to best portray a voice for a character so I think all the voice actors could portray their respective character pretty well on screen... But in regards to /appearance/, Francisco Randez could probably play Desmond, Ezio, and Altaïr best... Given the fact that he was the model for Altaïr and Desmond (http://images.wikia.com/assassinscreed/images/c/c1/Head_01_by_phat3d.jpg), though I have no idea what kind of acting ability he may have, if any.
Seeing as how he's probably not an options... Desmond and Ezio would be the hard ones because you would need to find two guys that look similar, or one guy who can give a very accurate American accent and very accurate Itallian accent. (I'm not including Altaïr in this for the reason that he doesn't speak very much, nor are you really given much insight to the character). The reason I'm saying this is because, clearly, Nolan North can't do it if there's two separate voice actors...
Appearance aside I'd stick with the voice actors for the reason that they know their characters best (at least for the main characters), and with a good makeup artist you could make the three actors for Desmond, Altaïr, and Ezio look enough alike to be able to tell they're related.
Milo Ventimigila (Heroes) as Ezio would be great, IMO. ---> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893257/
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wow... i can actually see that. especially young ezio. he'd have to harden up to play master assassin ezio tho.
shareI think:
Hassan Sabbah:Ghassan Massoud
Lucy:Kristen Bell
Altair:Eddie Izzard
Desmond:Josh Hartnett or Adam Brody
Young Ezio:Gabriel Garko
Ezio:Luca Argentero or Raoul Bova
As you know both Ezio's are Italian and Eddie is from Yemen.And Ghassan Massoud will be the best to cast Hassan Sabbah.
Please Ubisoft read this and try to force my opinion to producers...