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Fat Charlie- Chiwetel Ejiofor
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OMG Ricky Gervais and Mos Def are PERFECT! How about Rosario Dawson as Rosie? And, in keeping with the popular opinion of the AG cast, Morgan Freeman as Anansi.
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Thanks, and yeah Morgan Freeman would have to be Anansi.
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lol. of course! and yes, ricky gervais is perfect for graham coats! |
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Well darn, I was gunna suggest Brock Peters as Anansi, but turns out he just passed away. A great actor if there ever was one. Maybe Avery Brooks for Anansi would work as well.
----------------------------- "I'd like to be a wolf. Not all the time. Just sometimes. In the dark. I would run through the forests as a wolf at night," said Richard, mostly to himself. "I'd never hurt anyone. Not that kind of wolf. I'd just run and run forever in the moonlight, through the trees, and never get tired or out of breath, and never have to stop. That's what I want to be when I grow up..." - Neil Gaiman, One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock |
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You know, I never saw Morgan Freeman as Anansi. He's too big, and tends to play things a little too somber. I always pictured someone more like the cool old black guy from the Shining and the Twilight Zone movie, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest. Is he still alive?
And I don't know who this Lenny Bruce person Neil is always on about is, but seeing as Neil always says he was thinking about him as he wrote, maybe he'd be a good choice for Spider or Fat Charlie. Although Mos Def is pretty much perfect for Spider. |
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This is Lance Diamond.
 He's a local lounge singer here, and he's exactly who I was picturing for Anansi, in this book at least. Mos Def was exactly who I had in mind for Spider, but as for the other characters, I don't know enough British actors, but I would like to give something to Paterson Joseph (The Marquis de Carabas from the Neverwhere miniseries) because he rocked so hard in that. However, I think he's probably too old or too young for any of the parts, as I saw them. Also, Keith David as Tiger, or at least the voice of Tiger. "You pass through the places, and the places they pass through you, but you carry 'em with you on the soles of your travelin' shoes." --The Be Good Tanyas, "The Littlest Birds" http://hatchingphoenix.livejournal.com www.xanga.com/hatching_phoenix |
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i think lenny bruce is dead. and white. love all the ideas for the characters from spam. i can't see morgan freeman as anansi either though. how about a latexed cameo from mr gaiman. i played connect the dots with your beauty marks and came up with picture perfect sheet music. |
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Ricky Gervais? Absatively!
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*snort* you should have heard Neil Gaiman's Coats voice at the reading. faabbulous High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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are you thinking of Lenny Henry? the British comedian?
this one?   he's perfect. "Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth." -Brian Andreas Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon |
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Funny how I kept thinking about Cab Calloway while reading Anansi Boys.
(I know he's dead, but hey, maybe he's just faking it like Anansi  ) *bounces out of thread* |
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oh WAY yes. seance, anyone?
"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth." -Brian Andreas Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon |
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can we have a bit part for Michael Madsen? I just like him.
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I'd disagree with your thoughts on Morgan Freeman, I think he did a fantastic thing playing God in Bruce Almighty in a very playful way. But moreso, I wholly agree with your idea about the guy from The Shining, unfortunately the greath Scatman Crothers has passed into the great beyond. Mos Def? Right on. I like Mos Def or Don Cheadle. ***An rud a scríobhann an púca léann sé féin é.*** |
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i don't remember the book mentioning they were black...because at first i was thinking Zach Braff (Scrubs, Garden State) as Fat Charlie and whoever played Zach's brother on the show, who used to be on the show Ed.
But since they're black, I always thought Denzel Washington and Jamie Fox kind of look alike. But they're sort of older. Wayne Brady would be a good spider, in my opinion. I love him. I can't think of any good ones right now, I'll think a little harder... |
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i wuz thinkin' maybe denzel washington could play anansi.
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ugh - i thought i was at least slightly 'worldly'...it never occurred to me that anyone looked any different than me!
i totally love cab calloway as anansi (except for the dead part). funny about that gervais guy some suggested for graham. i didn't know who he was, but one of my picks was the guy who plays in the US version of the same show! i also thought william shatner would make a good graham. quentin tarantino might be fun too. janine garafalo would be a good daisy (is she getting too old though?), and i like that chick who's on ER, who starred in Bend it Like Beckham for rosie - what's her name? if eddie murphy wasn't already a charicature of himself, i could see his axel character from 48 hours moving nicely into spider. |
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Perfect - i was thinking of Cab Calloway for Anansi, and Lenny Henry isn't Lenny Bruce, but perfect for fat charlie! maybe puff daddy for spider??????
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how about Chris Rock for Spider!? sorry, I was watching Jay and Silent Bob last night. I love Chris Rock. Especially in Dogma. Great movie.
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