1.10.2013
I've been reading, but my casting juices seem to have dried up
Since my last post - about a year ago? - I've read about a hundred books. Many of them were good, and some not so much. But for some reason, not a single one of them inspired me to cast the movie in my head.
Here's a partial list of what I've read. If anyone wants to throw out a name for a cast member or two, maybe that will get me going. Or, cast an entire book or two, and I'll publish it for you here, with credit of course!
- Abducted by Theresa Ragan
- Absolute Liability by J.W. Becton
- Adios, Scheherazade by Donald E. Westlake
- Adjourned by Lee Goldberg
- Billionaires, Bullets, Exploding Monkeys by Mike Attebery
- Black Cross by Greg Iles
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Breakpoint by Richard A. Clarke
- Buck Fever by Ben Rehder
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Dance of the Winnebagos by Ann Charles
- The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode
- Easy Innocence by Libby Fischer Hellmann
- Fall of the Citizens by Eric Thomas
- Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Grimm Curse by Stephen Carpenter
- I'm Gonna Live My Life Like a Jimmy Buffett Song by Anthony Bjorklund
- Julius Katz and Archie by Dave Zeltserman
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
- Loss by Glen Krisch
- The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books by Hal Dresner
- Skin Deep by Kathleen Cross
- Snake Skin by C.J. Lyons
- Summer People by Aaron Stander
Read on!
10.09.2010
Ann casts HeartSick
Gretchen Lowell is a serial killer who was at it for at least ten years. Archie Sheridan is the cop who spends ten years on the task force created to stop her. Gretchen traps Archie and tortures him nearly to death until, inexplicably, she saves his life and turns herself in.
Gretchen is impossibly beautiful, brilliant, cool, elegant, and cruel. There are dozens of women who could pull off this character; some of them that I considered are...
- Catherine Deneuve - she's too old now, but remember her in The Hunger?
- Gwyneth Paltrow - she's too tall to match the description in the book, but could definitely handle the acting part.
- Kristen Bell - I've actually never seen anything she's done, but she looks the part.
- Monica Potter - Jezzie in Along Came a Spider was cold and beautiful.
- Charlize Theron - nearly perfect. She was actually my number one choice until a friend suggested...
Archie Sheridan is introduced as the broken man that Gretchen made of him. Through flashbacks, we go through torture with him, and we get some glimpses of the man he was before. He will never fully recover physically, and is addicted to vicodin. He's got the worst ever case of Stockholm Syndrome. I don't remember much of a physical description of him in the book, but had the sense that he was kind of average in looks and build. I cast Russell Crowe. I immediately thought of him because he so wonderfully portrayed Maximus, a man who had a similar fate in Gladiator.
Susan Ward is a journalist who is assigned to do a piece on Archie. She's smart, and a case of arrested development - she's emotionally stuck in high school (she has pink hair), a place she hated. I can't help but cast Allison Scagliotti, who plays Claudia in Warehouse 13. In fact, I am casting Claudia.
Henry Sobol is Archie's partner. He feels horribly guilty about his inability to find and save Archie from Gretchen. They're working together again to catch a new serial killer, and Henry tries to save Archie from himself and his obsession with Gretchen. John Goodman seemed ideal, but too large in every way. I also thought of John Belushi. He was so good in Continental Divide. Go rent it if you haven't seen it. I finally selected Jim Belushi. I think that he has the right combination of toughness and gentleness.
What do you think of this cast? I'm really looking forward to continue reading the series. The next one, Sweetheart, has Gretchen Lowell escaped from prison. Will Archie be able to catch her?
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