Dreamcasting #14 - Seven Soldiers Of Victory

You Won the Last Round, So you don't get a say in who wins this one... I dont know. Tradition?
 
Moonmaster's link goes to Bluebeast and you missed out Langsta.
 
Ok.....I was gonna get all fancy with the pics....but I just couldn't find any that matched the looks I was going for with the characters.

So here's the cast...



Zatanna - Kristen Bell - I will continue to cast her in almost anything I do. Not because she's a damn great actress....I mean she is and all......but it's mostly because I love her and I want to see her as often as possible. Did I mention that she's one of the best young actresses out there? Dye the hair black, slap on some fishnets-----'scuse me...I need to go do something, I'll be right back-----ok....I'm all done.

Klarion - Cameron Bright - I know someone else already said it.....but **** it. It's a perfect casting choice. I know Cameron's gotta be tired of playing the creepy kid....but you know what? You do what you gotta do to pay the bills. If that means playing the creepy character for the 47th time....we'll go on and get that paycheck Freako.

Frankenstein - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - Big...charismatic....and able to kick serious *** and have it all look believable. A little make-up and prosthetics and it'll work.

Shining Knight - Keira Knightley - Cross her role in "Pirates of the Carribean" and her role from "Domino" and you've got a girl who looks like a boy who can weild a mean blade. Plus if you dirty Keira up....she does in fact look like a boy. A cute boy...but a boy nonetheless.

Manhattan Guardian - Henry Simmons - I really hate casting someone based on looks but.......whatever. Plus I know he can act. Moving on...

Mr.Miracle - Chiwetel Ejiofor - I love this guy. He's like the british Terrance Howard. I wanna see him in more mainstream stuff and less indy films.

Bulleteer - Rachel McAdams - I keep thinking of her exuding sexiness from "Mean Girls"....but with her jaded bitterness from "Family Stone". I think it could work.









Ugh. Not my proudest round. I don't know what it was about this round that made it so draining. I hope I don't win......there are so many other better choices out there. But I do know that when I do finally win....I'm doing a "Runaways" dreamcasting.
 
Shining Knight - Keira Knightley - Cross her role in "Pirates of the Carribean" and her role from "Domino" and you've got a girl who looks like a boy who can weild a mean blade. Plus if you dirty Keira up....she does in fact look like a boy. A cute boy...but a boy nonetheless.


I like this one.
 
Shining Knight - Keira Knightley - Cross her role in "Pirates of the Carribean" and her role from "Domino" and you've got a girl who looks like a boy who can weild a mean blade. Plus if you dirty Keira up....she does in fact look like a boy. A cute boy...but a boy nonetheless.

Doom's. Gayest. Post. Ever.

I do agree with the casting choice though - nice one.
 
I thought about Keira Knightley but then I realised that a majority of her roles were just that. It's like having Ron Perlman as every giant monster guy, I suppose.
 
Doom fantasizes about Keira Knightly dressed up as a boy...Punching him.
 
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Christina Ricci as Zatanna
Ricci is just weird enough to pull this role off. The indie film princess can play dejected to a tee, as Zatanna comes off in Seven Soldiers mythos. She is also busty enough to pull off the look of the sexy magician with the plunging neckline.

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Justin Chatwin as Klarion (BUM BUM BUUUUUM) The Witch Boy
Chatwin is a solid actor. Watch Chumscrubber, War of the Worlds or The Invisible. Plus, he's got the look. Movie=added realism, no "devil horn" hair. No "Teekl" cat. A bit of a creepy, Marilyn Manson-or-perhaps an emo/screamo vibe. Perfect for this role.

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Sid Haig as Frankenstein
It's Sid Haig. Look at 'im. As much as I hated House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects in so many ways, he always delivered with his character(s). He's just tall enough and just ugly enough to pull of Frankenstein with a minimum of special effects.

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Anna Paquin as Shining Knight
Paquin is tomboyish enough to play the part. It need not be mentioned that she had major roles in all 3 X-Men films, Anna Paquin is still involved in indy films and challenging new roles (25th Hour anyone?). A close second is Hilary Swank, mostly because of her Oscar worthy performance in "Boys Don't Cry", but some would argue that is typecasting. :(

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Sticky Fingaz as The Manhattan Guardian
Sticky is from Brooklyn but seriously, it's not too much of a stretch, and nobody will remember him as Blade over Wesley Snipes. He's got the street smarts and the attitude you'd expect from Manhattan Guardian.

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Will Smith as Mister Miracle
Will Smith is a very family-friendly, admirable sort of entertainer. He's extremely charismatic which is always a plus when you're a stage magician. Plus, Will Smith has a habit of cranking out box-office hits... and if you're tackling a project like Seven Soldiers for the big screen, you need a big name. Yes, Virginia, Will Smith is cast in this film for many reasons, but one of the most important is because Will Smith can put butts in seats. This film is now elevated to blockbuster status. w00t!

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Scarlett Johanson as Bulleteer
The young widow to the elderly billionaire and old-school superhero. His last conquest who ends up with the lion's share of his fortunes, as well as his legacy. She takes the mantle of the Bulleteer and fights crime in his honor, with a massive inheritance backing her up. She's a bit of a female Tony Stark... though more of a Man-inizer than a womanizer.

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Ving Rhames as the voice of Darkseid
Darkseid should be CGI, though perhaps based on the general body frame of Ving Rhames. The voice, with some effects, is perfect. In many of Ving's roles, he plays an authoritarian figure. (Pulp Fiction, Dawn of the Dead as examples). When Ving says he's going to kick someone's ***, you believe it. As Darkseid, when Ving says he's going to subjugate or wipe out someone's civilization, you believe it. Case closed.
 
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Justin Chatwin as Klarion (BUM BUM BUUUUUM) The Witch Boy
Chatwin is a solid actor. Watch Chumscrubber, War of the Worlds or The Invisible. Plus, he's got the look. Movie=added realism, no "devil horn" hair. No "Teekl" cat. A bit of a creepy, Marilyn Manson-or-perhaps an emo/screamo vibe. Perfect for this role.

Your whole Seven Soldiers cast is awesome, but are you sure that isn't Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day?
 
Solid stuff, Willverine. Probably the best cast here.
 
Okay, I'm shooting from the hip here and I haven't seen anybody else's cast yet... but I'm doing this anyway cause I miss Dreamcasting.

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Clockwise, from upper left: Morena Baccarin, Keira Knightley, Jeri Ryan, Henry Simmons,
Danny Trejo, Isaiah Washington, Elijah Wood​

Zatanna - Zatanna Zatara contrasts her magical nigh-omnipotence with a playful sense of showmanship and an almost kidding sense of humor. Enter Morena Baccarin, who is best known to UC members as Inara Serra, the charismatically sharp-tongued Companion on TV's Firefly. Since Firefly, Baccarin has continued to gain the attention of science fiction fans in her portrayal of Adria, the genetically engineered superpowered woman-child on Stargate SG-1.

Shining Knight - The first thing I wanted when casting Ystina was an actress who not just fakes a knightly demeanor, but is androgynous enough to pull off the cross dressing business. I was initially reluctant to place Keira Knightley in the role, but her boyish figure has been frequently documented by celebrity slander blogs, and I couldn't resist. Regardless, the most important asset on Knightley's resume is her insistence on portraying feisty girls playing tough with the men in films like Bend It Like Beckham and Domino.

Bulleteer - If she can pull herself away from 'serious TV' like Shark and stomach the notion of wearing anatomically revealing wardrobe again, Jeri Ryan would be great as the reluctant crimefighter. Ryan is most famous for her portrayal of Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager, a Borg drone searching for a humanity she never grew up to have. That's a perfect role to prepare for a heroine who is perennially depressed and looking for a higher purpose.

Manhattan Guardian - Just an honest guy looking for an honest living, even if that means being the crime-stopping face of journalism. Most of you will recognize Henry Simmons as District Attorney Investigator Isaac Wright on CBS' Shark. But it's his honest Joe appeal as Detective Baldwin Jones that got my attention on NYPD Blue and one can easily imagine him keeping the coolest of heads when surrounded by subway pirates.

Frankenstein - I can already see it now: everyone before me has already cast Ron Perlman. Or some wrestler. But in my opinion, the original bad *** of few words is Danny Trejo. This is a man who has been to prison and whose characters are named after knives and other sharp objects. To quote Fametracker, "He is so bad-*** he now gets paid oodles of money to do pretty much exactly what he used to do every day for free." I don't need to justify this any further.

Mister Miracle - Most keen film observers --- meaning anyone with an eidetic memory for movies like me --- will remember Isaiah Washington playing a large number of forgettable criminal types in a large number of forgettable movies. But the rest of you humans probably know him as the almost non-human overachieving cardio-thoracic surgeon on Grey's Anatomy. It doesn't take a leap of logic to see him playing Mister Miracle, essentially an overachieving showman looking for the next great escape... even if it means from the center of a black hole.

Klarion, the Witch-Boy - Two aspects of Elijah Wood make him the only choice to play Klarion Bleak: (1) His ability to play unsettlingly creepy young men, whether it's a Ring-addled hobbit in The Lord of the Rings trilogy or the mute sociopath Kevin in Frank Miller's Sin City. (2) His early career experience playing young boys with anti-authoritarian sensibilities in films like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and North. Add the former to the latter, and you have Klarion. No question about it.
 
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