Attention 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Fans

[themostepotente]

GRRM's 'A Game of Thrones' Casting for HBO

The Starks look pretty awesome, save for Catelyn who looks a little like Joan Cusack to me. But Cersei and Jaime? ALL WRONG. Fuck you very much for ruining my pretteh canon incest :P

What does everyone else think of the casting?

--P

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Love them all. They seem to be terrific actors and I love most of them in terms of how they look compared to my mental image. OKay, Sandor seems a bit old, but he's hot and he's got this sexxxxxxy scottish accent so i don't mind.

[the-gentleman.livejournal.com]

Been following it for months on winter-is-coming.blogspot.com. I'm pretty impressed- perhaps some people are a little too pretty (especially compared to some of HBO's series, The Wire in particular) but so be it.

Particularly looking forward to Peter Dinklage and Jennifer Ehle. And I'll wait until I see Lena and Nikolai all blonded up before passing judgement on their similarity...

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I'm very happy with all of them, particularly Nicolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime. He's a brilliant actor and I'd rather have someone who can pull off the part than a vapid pretty boy in the role. Besides, he's dead sexy.

[red_squared]

What does everyone else think of the casting?


I THINK HE SHOUOLD GET BACK TO WRITING THE FUCKING BOOKS. NINE YEARS.

NINE YEARS.

FINISH THE BOOK! FINISH IT!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

/caps

*pants*

Also, posts such as this just... make me uncomfortable, and so I haven't really been on the blog.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

The Lannister twins look most un-Lannister. But Theon? PERFECT.

They also cast Khal Drogo and he is also perfect.

[tiffosis.livejournal.com]

i may have to add hbo to my cable package. can't wait.

mmmm, sean bean. =)

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

Idk, I knew that almost none could match my mental image of the characters so I sort of created a new folder for tv verse XD a bit like with the HP movies. So far I'm really pleased, most of the cast, while not being the spitting image of my "design" for the characters, seems to give off the right vibes. The only thing that left me a bit taken aback was casting Lena Headey as Cersei, because my pal misstopia made such a good case for her as the perfect Catelyn casting. But I guess she wanted to change from the stark (ha!), determined mother of TSC and go for more ambiguity - while probably the casting people decided to "twinfy" Jaime and Cersei by giving her a sharper/more androgynous look instead of softening him.

If you want more tl;dr, I wrote down some other casting reaction back in August (http://pojypojy.livejournal.com/260913.html#cutid1).

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'm not impressed with the choices. :(

[ceilidh]

I think it's great and I'm excited! Jason Momoa as Drogo, well, I think he's too hot for that part but I don't care, because yum. I love the look of all the Stark kids and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion is fucking brilliant.

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

I'm still remaining pretty upbeat, despite some of the actors not quite matching my image of them; but then, when it comes to the marriage of ASoIaF and HBO, I remain with pretty high hopes. :D

[countouttheday.livejournal.com]

I'm really excited. Particularly about Tyrion - I've seen him in a couple of other movies and he's an amazing actor. Theon looks perfect to me, as do most of the Starks.

Jaime and Cersei are very harsh-looking, but both of them are very attractive... just not sure how they'd look blond, which is kind of important plot-wise.

And the Rome town crier guy as Illyrio? AWESOME.

[moonlite-tryst.livejournal.com]

I Love Jennifer Ehle. She's such a talented actress with a voice to die for. She was in the BBC's award winning 1995 version of Pride and Predjudice with Colin Firth.

Rock o HBO for having so many UK actors.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

I find this thread really interesting, because I'm really nonvisual so I didn't really have an internal picture of what they all looked like? I'm fascinated by/jealous of artistic people who can actually, like, have a picture of a face in their heads when they're reading. Must be a very different experience.

Mostly, I'm so thrilled over Peter Dinklage that I don't care about the rest of it anyway. :) I heart him and I heart his character, so, yay! (I'm not quite done with book 1 at the moment though, so that may change)