So we all know that the real money comes from getting your book made in to a film ;)
Last year I went and found actors who I thought would be good if my novel was one day given such a huge honour.
Not sure about doing the same this year as I kinda want the same actors XD I mean, who can put aside Johnny Depp for another actor??? It's just not possible!
So, insanity aside, do you find pictures of actors and models which you then use to help you imagine your character? And who have you picked this year?
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Remember, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 07 35
Guilty! :)
This year I only have one down at the moment, since I haven't actually planned anything for NaNo yet. I only know I need this character because he won't get out of my head. He has taken the face of my favourite Norwegian actor, Trond Espen Seim. I'm quite pleased with that! :)
Though now that you mention it... Johnny Depp wouldn't be half bad... hmmm.....
----------Script Frenzy 2009: The Girl Least Likely To (won!)
NaNoWriMo 2009: Between The Lines (won!!!!!)
51,360 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2009 - 07 40
I do for some of them as it helps me picture them and I do visual scenes in my head before writing them. The others are often people I know or have known- fictionalized.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 08 01
Yeah, I almost always do. This year, I have Justin Hartley as my MMC, and Daniela Ruah as my FMC. Jensen Ackles would be my FMC's half-brother, and Molly C. Quinn would be my MMC's little sister. Sean Patrick Flanery would be another one of my MC's, and Allison Mack is another one. The last MC would probably be played by Norman Reedus, if only because I loved the awesome team he and Sean Patrick Flanery made in Boondock Saints, and think that they could totally do that with Arty and Topher. :D
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Oct 30, 2009 - 08 13
No. Aside from having no interest in ever having my book - should I get published, let's not get ahead of ourselves :P - turned into a movies, I'm a shameless perfectionist. And there's always just something with the actor that doesn't fit my idea of the character and I'm just not willing to settle.
----------Her spelling was not so much apalling as three-hundred-years too late.
- Good Omens, Neil Gaiman
50,203 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2009 - 08 19
Yeahhh, I might be marginally guilty of doing this.
I don't necessarily go to painstaking levels to pick them out, but as I'm writing, I may or may not fantasize Ryan Reynolds as the Main Male ;) I usually find myself picking out the actors for my male characters more than I do my female ones. I don't really know why, either.
If I come up with a good cast for the NanoWriMo I'll be working on for this year, I'll let you know ;)
----------NaNoWriMo '09 - WON!
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Oct 30, 2009 - 08 28
I have to admit, I ALWAYS do this.
It's just easier for me to find an actor (or a musician/model/etc) to base my character around, because then it helps me understand how the character talks and moves and all that jazz. I usually tend to expand on the celebrities' looks though -- like giving them different eye colors, making them different heights, adding scars or tattoos and the like.
This year, my main characters are based on the looks of Milo Ventimiglia, Ian Somerhalder, Zachary Quinto and Zooey Deschanel. Plus others -- I've cast nearly every character in my novel. XD
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Oct 30, 2009 - 08 30
Yep! It requires a lot of effort on my part, because I am really picky about the image I have in my head.
I have found though, that there is an actor "look-a-like" for almost every character that's ever been in my head. Plus, i love putting together little music videos (total procrastination tactic, ahh lol) in iMovie with clips of the actors I pick out. My main character this year I "cast" as Chyler Leigh. My character isn't nearly as sweet as the girls Chyler usually plays, but she's spot on for appearance. :)
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Oct 30, 2009 - 08 42
I used to, but it's starting to get a lot harder, since I don't watch as much TV or as many movies as I used to, and my book has a majority-black cast, sooo.....
I do have one idea, though.... Meryl Cassie, or maybe her sister Megan, could play Axel. I'm thinking more Megan, because she's taller, and I want Axel to be very tall.
----------I swear most people don't even think before they speak. At all. Their mouths just go on auto-pilot and the most useless noise comes out.
Ken Dee (thanks for letting me quote this! ^_^
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Oct 30, 2009 - 09 02
All. The. Time.
----------D; its confusing when people tell you what they think your characters look like.
-ROBOTS&&skypirates-
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Oct 30, 2009 - 09 18
I did it shamelessly from the first day last year, to the point that almost all of my characters were cast. The problem with that was that I had a character (Raphael) who is such a strange mix of genetics that I don't think anyone in the world looks like him.
This year, though. . . . I'll admit I imagine my story being made into an anime, and I MAY have started picking out voice actors. . . ^_^
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Oct 30, 2009 - 14 48
Most of the time I only pick an actor for my MMC. This year it's James Roday.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 15 04
I do that a lot. This year, I've been on a Castle kick, so I've got Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Molly Quinn , and Susan Sullivan(though she looks as she did in the pictures I've seen of her Lenore years on Another World. I wanted someone with her look but around the same age as the others). I also have Stephanie Zimbalist in her Remington Steele years, Terri Hatcher in her Lois and Clark years, Jaclyn Smith in her Charlie's Angels years, and Zachary Levi. Weird mix, I know.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 15 08
-hides NaNo binder with a fullsection devoted to this- N-no. Not at all. ^^ What would give you that idea?
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Oct 30, 2009 - 15 12
I try not to do this, but sometimes the characters voice in my head will shift to become that of an actor I enjoy.
----------http://WingDamage.com - Editorial Gaming Blog
http://HereThereBeRobots.com - Webcomic
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Oct 30, 2009 - 15 17
Wow, I do this too. And I also used a YouTube starlet as the main idea behind one of my characters.
----------I am, therefore I write.
Write on!!!
Finish it!!!
Retro Typin' Gal
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Oct 30, 2009 - 15 54
I don't do this... sometimes I cringe when I see someone has posted pictures of their characters an I click them an find that they are all famous actors/actresses... all famous an all perfect looking...I don't know about you, but when I look outside I don't see that, I see average looking people an on a good day(or bad, depending on gender) maybe one flat out perfect looking person.
But, if someone asks me what my character looks like an I can't be bothered with going into details... I'll name a random celebrity so they leave me alone likkee... "George Clooney, shaved head, 20 years auld, scarred up"...
----------Carlos: "So, what, were they psychos, or..."
Seth: "Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a ** how crazy they are!"
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Oct 30, 2009 - 16 17
No, I can't really do that while I'm still working on something. I'm an actor and I have worked with lots of actors and traditionally speaking actors are neurotic introverts who, despite this, also bizarrely subsist on nothing but red bull and attention. So, knowing this, it's hard for me to match any one actor to a character while the character still has things left to do in the story.
But sometimes when I've finished something and the characters are very concrete to me I have a mental field day casting people who could play them.
I do love the idea of an actor-as-muse, though. Wish it would work for me. :)
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Hi, I'm Alyssa.
50,351 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2009 - 16 17
Nope.
I want my characters to be my creations. If I modelled them on actors, I'd be influenced in my character creation by what I knew of those actors and their past work.
----------Laura Rainbow Dragon
http://rainbowdragon.ca/
NaNovelist Woes
(a video about NaNo and beyond)
98,478 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2009 - 16 34
I do pick them, though I have serious difficulties deciding on who fits my image. I have a basic outline of how I want them to be, but I like to pick actors to flesh out the physical appearances better. Thus far, I'm completely stumped.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 16 40
No, but I try to draw them. Not many actors are carved from stone or covered in scales and fur with six pairs of eyes:)
----------The Unicorn Skin Book
http://tinyterrarium.blogspot.com/
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Oct 30, 2009 - 17 31
This thread actually made me think a little harder about who would play them and it wan't too hard of a decision, especially with some help from another thread in this forum (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3273435) which helped me better define my characters relationship with each other which was really cool.
And I would easily choose Emily Browning as Cassie and Alex Pettyfer as Max
----------http://lilymoore.wordpress.com
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Oct 30, 2009 - 17 57
I found my character lurking in an advertisement in GQ magazine. He was dressed just as I would want my character to dress for a formal occasion. It was a cologne ad so he smelled just as I would want my hero to smell. I keep him in the top drawer of my desk.
----------Susan H.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 19 55
Always. I need to see the story playing out in my head in order to write it, and actors I know well are easiest to visualize. If I don't cast an actor in the part, I have a hard time describing their body language and giving them a specific speech pattern.
For this year's NaNo I've got Colin Ford as my MC, and Sofia Vassilieva, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jesse Spencer, Misha Collins, and Jared Padalecki. There are 2 other characters I'm desperately trying to cast before NaNo starts, or they'll end up being completely 1-dimensional when I get around to writing them.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 20 39
All of my characters used to be my own creations, 100% of the time.
... then my friend told me about this dream she had with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jesse Spencer and a bajillion actors... and it's all gone downhill from there. Actually, this story I came up with a week ago (NaNo is driving me insane; I came up with about five fully fledged plots in all of October!) has over ten different actors (no actresses, heh) and they fit perfectly.
For my NaNo, though, the only actor that randomly showed up for the "casting party" was Jeremy Irons, of all people. Haha, he's a fairy in hiding and my MC's landlord. He used to have some sort of obsession with butter, but I think that went away... heehee he wears Hawaiian shirts all year round even though he lives in Seattle. He's just a bit awesome that way.
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Oct 31, 2009 - 02 45
Actors? No. Comic book characters? Yes.
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Oct 31, 2009 - 03 05
The best part about fan fiction is that I have all my characters already set out, like a skeleton. But I change their personalities a bit, and sometimes their appearences. For instance - Spencer Smith, right now? He's thin and sharp and to me, I miss it when he was chubby and had stubble and was an adorable amount of fluff. So I'll write him like that.
The bad part is that I see so many of my scenes as if they were scenes in a movie, but then, I'll never be able to have it made as a movie because to me, the characters can *only* be played by the musicians, and I know that Decaydance will never agree to acting out what I'm going to write :X
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Oct 31, 2009 - 05 59
Wow. Johnny is busy this year. I cast him my non Nano WIP, and in my Nano novel (voicing a cat with scissors for claws, incidentally. Long live my Tim Burton obsession).
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Nano 2009: Jingle Scissorclaws - A Fairy Tale. Tagline: "Once you have something worth living for, is it worth dying for?" Goal 100k
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Oct 31, 2009 - 06 11
Never. My characters choose their own looks, and they tend to be stubborn about them. Plus me being a perfectionist, I'd have a hard time settling for anything less than a character's real-life doppelganger.
----------Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
-- Erma Bombeck
5,254 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2009 - 06 53
I suppose my male main character could be described as looking like a young Takeshi Kitano, if anybody knows who he is (although I used Tony Leung in th mock-up, despite the fact that he is far too ungrizzled). For the female no-one springs to mind. She has to be quite feisty, so maybe a post-Karate-Kid Hilary Swank would cut the mustard. My villain is essentially modelled on the legendary Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Would anyone see that movie?
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Oct 31, 2009 - 07 28
I'll see anything with Alan Rickman. Instantly.
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Hi, I'm Alyssa.