since there's one for dream and everyone else gives a line up of their actors/actress to play the roles in a sandman movie, why not one for death too? right? anyway here's my bid:
death: raechel leigh cook (she's all that, eighteenth angel, silicon valley-i think)

she's really cute and she still looks young and she can be a real goth. we edited her picture to add some make up and boy does she have death inside her...

well just want to know what you guys think about that

I asked Neil about this at a signing. He said if he directs the movie, he might go with an unknown. When the Death movie was first being developed, around the late 1980s, Neil and co. looked at a number of actors, who are now too old to play the parts. For example, for the role of Sexton, they thought about a young, little-known actor named Leonardo DiCaprio.

I've had trouble mentally casting the role of Death. Neil's described the character in print as being so charismatic that you instantly fall in love with her and are willing to folow her into the Underworld. It's hard to find a young actress with that quality. Take Christina Ricci. She's a talented actress, and one of the few celebrities Goth enough to play Death, but I don't think I'd follow her into the Underworld.

At one point, on this board, I suggested Anne Hathaway (the Princess Diaries actress, not Shakespeare's wife) and was ridiculed for it, for the obvious reasons. She's definitely not Goth, and I'm not sure casting her would solve any of the problems I mentioned above; but she's a genuinely talented actress, and more charismatic than most people in her age group.

So in summary: They should probably go with an unknown.

--Daniel

I thought Neil modeled Death after singer Tori Amos, who he is friends with? Am I right in this?

I'd do Death - anywhere, anytime...


- Soul

Neil did not model Death on Tori. Tori, along with Jill Thompson and others, served as inspiration for Delirium. According to Neil, in the Sandman Companion, the look of Death was designed by Mike Dringenberg based on his (Mike D's) friend Cinnamon, with an odd bit of synchronicity. The day that Neil saw Mike's drawing of Death, he went to My Old Dutch Pancake House in Chelsea for dinner with Dave McKean, and their waitress looked just like the drawing of Death, dressed all in black with a big silver ankh.

What about Brittany Murphy?

Is Elizabeth Hurley too old for the part?

i don't think it's a matter of age but hohw they would look fitting in the age group. some people don't look their age... well i guess we should look for the one that looks like and can act but not act out like the endless? right?

I'd go for Patricia Arquette - She was gothic looking in 'Lost Highway'

Actually, I'd go for the original idea... Rachael Leigh Cook....

Thin, bubbly, intense when she has to be... I see a weeee bit of difficulty in her going Elizabethan or Victorian (as Death and her brother were sometimes seen as)....

But I definitely see her doing the 'soccer ball catch' thing, when she was getting on Dream's case, at the fountain, early on in the comic book series.. and am quite sure she could adapt into the whole persona quite readilly..

Trager.

according to everything i've read, delerium was not based on tori (considering he started writing sandman before he met tori, it's not really possible anyway). according to both neil and tori, delerium and tori just "shamelessly" steal character traits from each other (now that they know each other).
anyway, i haven't read death: the high cost of living, but my understanding is that tori wrote some stuff for it. if i'm wrong, i'm sorry, but here's where i got the notion: http://www.hereinmyhead.com/neil/death.html

anyway i still think no one could do death better than tori, even though the characters are not the same, they share certain aspects.

This is kind of off the wall, but I was watching Whale Rider, and the actress who plays the uncle's girlfriend just jumped off the screen and said "Hi, I'm Death!" She really did!
Ok, maybe she's not quite as young and hot as Death should be, but not by much. And I think she could pull off the character, which (should be) much more important.
Anybody know her name?

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i haven't read death: the high cost of living, but my understanding is that tori wrote some stuff for it. if i'm wrong, i'm sorry, but here's where i got the notion: http://www.hereinmyhead.com/neil/death.html

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the piece you find in hereinmyhead.com is in fact the introduction tori amos wrote for THCOL. honestly, tori could remind me of death because of hersonality, but not phisically. I can't think of any famous actress who could that role, so I'd stick to the idea of some unknown. perhaps we could dig up the waitress that inspired the drawing.
or anyone with the body of a model and the smile of your best friend, like claire danes described her in the intro of TTOYL.

this might sound crazy (especially because im a newbie here, still covered in placenta and motherly juices) but i think id make a damned good death. im 5'7", lanky, black hair, pale skin, AND a complete unknown. ive had acting training and i know death's character pretty well (shes my fav).

ps. my older bro is an actor; geoff arend, nothing big but google him and stuff will come up. he's rising, not huge, but rising. we both studied acting - he just made it a career. im a writer, love it, cant get enough of it, ohhhhhhhhh yeah.

Selma Blair has stated she would love to play death in a sandman movie, she's the one playing Liz Shermen in Hellboy.
Here's the link to AICN
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17289
And for the record...I vote for her.

I think Sherilyn Fenn in her younger years could've been a decent Death. She is beautiful and pale, could easily be made over into Goth.

I have a friend who looks exactly like Death. Really pale skin, long curly hair thats almost black, goth. Except she's pretty short and can't really act. But the pictures of Death just remind me of her. =)

i just hope they make the movie, period!
i'd seriously like to have a stab at it. i am unknown, not gothy and all about celebrating life. my journal nick is death. it's funny with friends 'cause everyone makes jokes about how they'd get a recipe from death or death came by... can you imagine. i had to quit the journal thing, too many threats.

Hello, this is my first post and probably one of my last as I confess I've never read a single comic book. Bad me. Anyway, two different friends of mine have spotted the cover of the 'Death: The time of your life' book seen here and said it looks exactly like me. To be honest, if I didn't know better I'd say it WAS me about 8-9 years ago, all the way down to the haircut, make-up and clothes!

My curiosity about this has been going for some time now, so I thought I'd ask. Who drew that particular cover and were they inspired by anyone in particular? It doesn't look like the pics of Death inside the comic book, so I'm even more curious. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Chica, London

the cover was by chris bachalo, but he wasn't the first artist to draw death but his rendition is one of the most well-known (he did the two death miniseries of comics). for the inspiration for death's original design, parsival posts this a few clicks up on this page:

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According to Neil, in the Sandman Companion, the look of Death was designed by Mike Dringenberg based on his (Mike D's) friend Cinnamon, with an odd bit of synchronicity. The day that Neil saw Mike's drawing of Death, he went to My Old Dutch Pancake House in Chelsea for dinner with Dave McKean, and their waitress looked just like the drawing of Death, dressed all in black with a big silver ankh.

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I'm not so interested in the original Death, but rather that one on the cover of that particular book. It is very different from the others, even those drawn by the same artist.