If not TC then Who

[TOMAHAWK]

Mr Motile has put up a good point on another thread ..

If you had the choice ..who do you think would be a good choice of lead man in the film , who would you cast

Personally I wouldn't go with the heart throb sorta guy!!

How about Tim Robbins (Shawshank Redemption) or Robert Patrick (T2 ..T1000)

I would have said Jeff Goldblum or Sam Neill but it may be a bit of Deja Vue ...Jurassic park/ ID4

any thoughts.....

[themotile]

Tim Robbins is already cast as Ogilvy.

[I own a cylinder]

I always thought Patrick (Picard) Stewart would have been good to play 'Old Space lovin Ogilvy'.

[Anthony]

I think TC has been well cast but if not and if it were set in UK Johney Depp would of fitted the character of the writer well.

[Gnorn]

Anthony Piana?

-Gnorn

[malfunkshun]

an unknown. but then that wouldn't be the best choice to guarantee money coming in hand over fist, would it? SS has gotta squeeze Wells for all he's worth and that means Tom Cruise, or if not him another A-list heart throb like antonio banderas or george clooney.

[themotile]

Anthony said:

I think TC has been well cast but if not and if it were set in UK Johney Depp would of fitted the character of the writer well.

Yes! Johny Depp! I hadnt thought of him, he would have been cool as the narrator.

[Topaz]

Hmmm. Actually, yes, Depp would've been perfect for the role had the thing been done more authentically.

As it appears this is actually going to be more 'traditional' action fare, I suspect Cruise is probably perfect for the part.

I'm hoping that they avoid action clichés like Tom fighting one of the FMs with his crane, as was mentioned by someone else, but that would be out of character for him. On the other hand, perhaps this will finally give him a film where he can put the usual acrobatics aside and actually play a straight dramatic part.

One can hope.

[malfunkshun]

i absolutely can't WAIT to see the alleged humor that is going to be written into this production, and how much of it Cruise will actually be responsible for. don't you just love it when movies with serious themes try to be funny? thats part of the winning formula though, right? there has to be a love story, and there has to be comedy relief, or else its gonna flop at the box office.

we were reminded of this very rudely in LOTR, which otherwise was a great book to film translation

[Gnorn]

Topaz said:

Hmmm. Actually, yes, Depp would've been perfect for the role had the thing been done more authentically.

As it appears this is actually going to be more 'traditional' action fare, I suspect Cruise is probably perfect for the part.

I'm hoping that they avoid action clichés like Tom fighting one of the FMs with his crane, as was mentioned by someone else, but that would be out of character for him. On the other hand, perhaps this will finally give him a film where he can put the usual acrobatics aside and actually play a straight dramatic part.

One can hope.

I suddenly got a scary thought of Cruise slamming the arm of the crane at high speed and repeatetly into the hood of a fighting machine. Kind of a Dexter vs. Mandark robots fight.

-Gnorn

[themotile]

Yeah theheatray thought of the idea, but you know the more I think of it the more it makes a scary kind os sense, why give him a job using "giant" cranes at the docks? It adds nothing to the narrative, surely the 'common working man' theme would have worked better if he had been a lowly dock worker.

So if your not using a battle ship but you need something big by the water for a thunderchild scene what could you use hmmmm, a giant cargo crane!

If thats true I may change camps on this.

[jeffwaynefan]

Nah, not Jeff Goldblum, he takes 5 mintues to say just two words, plus he's too smug, even smugger than ole TC (hay there Officer Dibble ;D). I agree with Motle, Johnny Depp would have been good, but then again, is Deppy in Spielberg phone book?, top page like Cruise.

[uuulllaaa]

Guy pearce ,who starred in the Time machine ,i could also see him as the writer.

[ArtilleryMan]

Anthony said:

I think TC has been well cast but if not and if it were set in UK Johney Depp would of fitted the character of the writer well.

You know? I started writing a script adapted from the novel a few years ago an I had Johnny Depp in mind as the write too.

[Cylinder]

malfunkshun said:

i absolutely can't WAIT to see the alleged humor that is going to be written into this production, and how much of it Cruise will actually be responsible for. don't you just love it when movies with serious themes try to be funny? thats part of the winning formula though, right? there has to be a love story, and there has to be comedy relief, or else its gonna flop at the box office.

we were reminded of this very rudely in LOTR, which otherwise was a great book to film translation

Humour is present in most books, plays, films intentionally. Some of Shakespeare's darkest plays are full of humour. Schindler's List has humourous moments and it is used to add extra discomfort to the audience. People are joking in life right up to the moment they are killed, they ain't aware of what's going to happen next. You add that to a movie you add an extra layer of realism.

[themotile]

Well put Cylinder

[TOMAHAWK]

Well I don't recall any humour in the Novel, so why introduce it...oh I forgot ...cos the modern audience of today won't be able to cope with a serious film of human suffering and Martian invasion .....perhaps the Martians could be, say ...the stay puffed marshmellow man with a heat ray...that would cater for all tastes then..

or perhaps we could have a slapstick routine on board the Thunderchild, I dunno the cabin boy chasing the ships cat and bumping into stuff ..just before it gets heatrayed to hell

[TOMAHAWK]

Ha SS has ripped off another film then, if it's true about the crane arm ..

anybody seen the Hammer version of Quatermass and the pit (the one in colour) at the end one of the scientists climbs onto one of the tall T shaped cranes and swings it into the Big baddy alien thing, to ground it and thereby dispercing/killing it

Talk about rippin off ..SS is just a con man

[themotile]

TOMAHAWK said:

Well I don't recall any humour in the Novel, so why introduce it...oh I forgot ...cos the modern audience of today won't be able to cope with a serious film of human suffering and Martian invasion .....perhaps the Martians could be, say ...the stay puffed marshmellow man with a heat ray...that would cater for all tastes then..

or perhaps we could have a slapstick routine on board the Thunderchild, I dunno the cabin boy chasing the ships cat and bumping into stuff ..just before it gets heatrayed to hell

Tom, you have no idea of subtle humour, no concept of black humour when people laugh but there is no joke.

There is humour in the book but its subtle and not in your face, you have just missed it or taken it to be a querk of the period.

[TOMAHAWK]

Go on then ...were is the supposed Humour in the book? ...I do have a good sense of humour ...but I cannot recall laughing, or even tittering whilst reading the book well maybe at the Thunderchild bit or when the narrator finds the inn keeper with his head at a funny angle GOD THEY WERE SOOO FUNNY, I nearly wet myself , neither do I do big belly laughs or even sblack person at the JW album, have I missed the Ali G section somewhere....he isn't listed in the credits.