Damon is way too small for Shadow.

As my brain is currently stuffed to death with casting decisions for A Midsummer Night's Dream (it's a project my friend has to do for school), so I can only offer one: Jeremy Irons for Wednesday. I don't know, I like the idea.

I know he isn't a big enough guy to play Shadow, and he doesn't have enough hair, but i was constantly thinking of Wentworth Miller when i was reading American Gods. I think this was primarilly becasue i'd seen an episode of Prison Break before i picked the book up, and then the book starts with Shadow in jail. Also, Wentworth Miller has these grey eyes like i imagined Shadows to be, and his character in Prison Break has the nickname "Snowflake" and it made me think of when Shadow makes it snow. i like the idea of Vin Diesel though.

Get the other guy from Prison Break for Shadow. You know, Dominic Purcell.

It's been suggested as a secondary choice, but after seeing Clive Owen in Sin City and then turning around and seeing him in Children of Men, I would love to see him play Shadow.

hmmm... Clive Owen... I could get with that. Could he shave his head (and eyebrows too probably)? Because I've heard Vin Diesel mentioned for Shadow and probably the only reason Vin Diesel appeals to me in the role is physical - bald and big just as any demi-god should be.

well there are some interesting ideas there, but some of them really smell bad,

my only suggestions would be jeremy irons for either mr inis or jaques, and tim burtons wife as one of the three witches adn tim burton to direct(just not with jonny depp as anything other than an extra)

to everyone who envisions Vin Diesel as Shadow, turn to page 45 in the paperback edition of AG; this is when Shadow uses the "Clean-U-Up" shaving kit in the gas station bathroom-- the fifth line reads: "He wet his hair and combed it back. He still looked rough." so he is definitely not bald throughout most of the book! just wanted to point that out, if someone else hasn't already!

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Originally posted by feline_dreams:
to everyone who envisions Vin Diesel as Shadow, turn to page 45 in the paperback edition of AG; this is when Shadow uses the "Clean-U-Up" shaving kit in the gas station bathroom-- the fifth line reads: "He wet his hair and combed it back. He still looked rough." so he is definitely not bald throughout most of the book! just wanted to point that out, if someone else hasn't already!

hehehehe vin diesel as shoadow is like having rob schnieder as batman.

My memory's hazy on this, but I think NG himself said at some point that he thought Vin Diesel might make a good Shadow.

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Originally posted by Thirith & His Enormous Tibia:
My memory's hazy on this, but I think NG himself said at some point that he thought Vin Diesel might make a good Shadow.

really....?

I might be wrong, but I'm definitely not lying on purpose.

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Originally posted by Thirith & His Enormous Tibia:
I might be wrong, but I'm definitely not lying on purpose.

lol well i should think so to.

personally i just cant see him as shadow.

I've decided that I'm not going to read all 18 pages in order to formulate my choice, so here goes:

Shadow: Go with an unknown. If you go with an unknown, you won't be bothered with preconceived notions of how the actor would be.

Wednesday:Sam Elliot (see him in Ghost Rider and you'll know what I'm getting at, plus I think he'd look pretty badass with an eyepatch)

Loki/Low Key Lyesmith/Mr. World: Eric Stoltz or Tim Roth (Loki seems a bit older so I'd probably pick him first)

Laura: Neve Campbell (still young enough, because I envision Shadow and them in their early/mid-30's, plus I can imagine the way she would call Shadow "Puppy" and she can be pretty pale. plus I think she'd be hot as a blonde)

Robbie Burton: Ben Affleck; cocky a-hole who dies at the beginning. Perfect

Audrey Burton: Amy Smart (give her red hair and a bitch attitude, and you have Audrey)

Mad Sweeney: That guy who plays Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies...Robbie Coltrane

Mr. Nancy/Anansi:Garret Morris (classic SNL; and if you saw him as the assistance to the hearing impaired on a recent episode of Family Guy, you'd see what I'm getting at)

Hinzelman: Ian Holm (Priest from Fifth Element, Bilbo from LOTR); gotta be a kind old guy, who you'd least expect to be a serial killing old god

Tech boy: Jonah Hill (the overweight kid from Grandma's Boy and Accepted)

Sam Black Crow: Lacey Chabert's okay (she'd have to hack off her hair to get the boyish-yet-still-girly look, plus with a tan she looks like she has native american blood in her

Marguerite Olson: Julianna Marguiles (ER, the Lost Room mini on Sci-Fi)

Czernobog: Gary Oldman; he could definitely pull off the grizzled old Eastern European with a sledghammer fetish;
That, or Jean Reno. I think it'd be a bit of comic relief with Jean voicing that constant insistence on eventually smashing Shadow's head in with the slegde when the whole thing's done.

Chad Mulligan: Aaron Eckhart

Eostre/Easter: Jennifer Coolidge (Stiffler's Mom)

Mr. Ibis: James Cromwell or Donald Sutherland if you went white. They seem old and eloquent enough to be able to pull off the role of an aging funeral parlor owner. If you went with an black actor, I'd go with Morgan Freeman or Laurence Fishburne

Mr. Jacquel/Jackal: That guy who plays "The Haitian" on Heroes...Jimmy Jean-Louis; or maybe Orlando Jones

Horus: Milo Ventimiglia; he's a smaller guy, and just give him a little muscle-tone and some wilder hair, and I bet he could play "bugf--k crazy"

Bast: Erica Durance (Lois Lane on Smallville), or (long shot) Halle Berry

Bilquis: Christina Ricci; basing this on her upcoming appearance in "Black Snake Moan" and on her past role in "Monster," I think she could pull off the prostitute role and give it a little bit of class at that

Media: Rebecca Romijn

Mr. Town: Aidan Quinn
Mr. Wood: Adrian Pasdar
Mr. Street: Greg Grunberg

I'm blanking on others for some reason...but what do you think?

How about Stellan Skarsgaard as Wedesday. I think he would be perfect, and quite how I imagined him as I was reading the book. He played the leader of the Saxons in the movie "King Arthur" and has been in many other films as well. I'd like to see Steve Bucemi as Mad Sweeney as well

Stellan Skarsgaard has been rather dry and joyless in the films I've seen him in; cynical, perhaps, but Wednesday is a rather exuberant guy who loves life and physical pleasures. Brian Cox would work very well, I think. (Personally, I'd give Anthony Hopkins a miss, because the guy's been too present for a long time, and in lots of crap. It's been a while since I've seen him do some real acting and not just his Anthony Hopkins spiel.)

What about John Hedder as Shadow he could bring a sense of humor to the character and Rob Schnieder(Duece Biggilo) would make an awesome wednesday also if Julia Childs is still with us she'd make a great Easter, Dick Van Patten was born to play Czernobog, Henry Winkler as Loki, and Webster would be an awesome tech boy.

I'd also like to add that most of these actors as great as they may be would pretty much work for peanuts.

I made a small cast list of my own today and put all of it in a nice layout which you can see here:
http://chaosworks.org/art/castingAmericanGods.gif

Stellan Skarsgård is also in there - I think he's a great and talented actor. I never really experienced him as joyless or dry.

Nice job!Excellent choices for the Fates, by the way.