My YuGiOh casting by Sean ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: seanslcars@comcast.net Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:08:34 +0000 Hey it’s me Sean again. I’m back. I took a break over Easter break, but I’m back. SEAN’S IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: I have my own website now! Feel free to click around www.seanzhomepage.freeservers.com. Custom page 1 is my yugioh page. This is something I’ve been dying to do ever since the idea first came out. I think it was Pook who first put the idea out. We owe him for that. All hail Pook. Casting for a yugioh live action movie. Well, I’m going to do something differently, namely, not take age into account. I don’t know of nearly enough child actors to put them in here. Remember, I don’t mind hatemail per se, but this is an exception. Please do not send me an email saying, "The people you picked are too old!" I KNOW they're too old. If you do send me that stuff I’ll either ignore it completely or send a reply that is not entirely polite. Please remember that I am making that exception to my general policy of "hatemail ok". Anyway moving on. Seto Kaiba: This was tough because Kaiba’s my favorite character. I honestly can’t think of an actor that really does Kaiba well enough. I got two that come close. The first is the Australian wonder, Mel Gibson himself. He’s already got the blue eyes and tough attitude, and his performances in Braveheart, The Patriot, and We Were Soldiers would all mesh pretty well with Kaiba. However, my primary choice would be Eric Bana, who you may know as Hector from Troy. He’s got the brown hair, and blue eyes aren’t hard to put in. He even looks a lot like Kaiba. In Troy, he plays a tough warrior whose primary concerns are his family and winning the fight. Sound familiar? Yugi: Another tough one. I couldn’t think of anyone who really looks like Yugi. So then I dealt with this thing the same way I dealt with Bakura, which you’ll find later on. What would Yugi be? Preferably short, a determined guy who tries to do his best but is kinda clueless as to the grand scheme of things and is a vessel of power, rather than an instrument of it. Going on that we got one glaringly obvious choice. Elijah Wood, Frodo Baggins himself. Frodo carried the ring, I don’t think it’s too much of a jump from the Ring of Power to the Millennium Puzzle. Yami: This was another tough one, and like Kaiba I couldn’t think of anyone who would be perfect for it. The closest I can come up with is Andy Garcia, Terry Benedict from Ocean’s Eleven. He did the determined, do-anything-to-win character really well and I think would do good with Yami. Joey: Thank God for an easy one. David Spade, Dennis Finch from the sitcom Just Shoot Me. Funny, kinda dim-witted, blond hair-David Spade’s forte. Marik: I’m actually going to not use an actor here. Chad Kroeger, the lead singer and guitarist from my favorite band Nickelback. He’s got a kinda gruff voice and rogue attitude, not to mention long hair that could be spiked. Tea: Got to be a kinda short, innocent type girl. I got three choices here. First, another of the Just Shoot Me cast, Laura san Giacomo, aka Maya Gallo. She’d have to cut her hair, which would be a crime by the way, but I think she could do this part. However, the two better choices would be two from American Pie, Alyson Hannigon (Michelle), and Mena Suvari (Heather). I would go with Alyson Hannigan, but either could pull of Tea. Pegasus: This was the easiest of them all. There’s one actor who is just so Pegasus it’s nuts. That guy is Christopher Lee. They don’t get much more obvious than that. Mokuba: For Seto’s kid brother we turn to another of the Hobbits. Mokuba is a kid with scraggly hair who generally has no idea what is really going on. Biily Boyd, who you may know as Pippin, all the way. Remember the scene at the end of the Council of Elrond when, after discussing the dangers of Mordor and the fact that the quest is suicidal and they all volunteer to go with Frodo, Elrond says, "Nine Companions. So be it. You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring", and Pippin replies with "Great! Where are we going?" That’s just so Mokuba. Mai: Had the exact opposite problem here than Kaiba and Yami. Too many good candidates. You would need a kick butt hot chick. I got three candidates for you. First, Gwyneth Paltrow. Blond, tall, hot, kick-butt chick. She would be the best choice. Two other possibilities would be Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean and Arthur, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, Daphne from Scooby-Doo. Tristan: We need a tough sidekick type here. My three choices would be Matt Damon, Linus from Ocean’s Eleven, Chris Klein, Oz in American Pie, or Christopher Meloni, Detective Stabler on Law and Order SVU. Bakura: I racked my brain for like 20 minutes trying to figure this one out and couldn’t. Then I thought, ok, what would Bakura be? Sophisticated, calculating, cruel, accent, kind of a shadowy character. I got my answer in then seconds when thinking of it that way. Lambert Wilson, who you may know as The Merovingian from the Matrix trilogy. Bandit Keith: I hate to copy off Pook. I really do. But there’s one actor who would do Bandit Keith so well there’s just no dodging it, and that actor is Owen Wilson. If he recreated his Hansel look from Zoolander, he’d be the perfect Bandit Keith. Ishizu: I wasn’t actually planning on doing Ishizu, but while I was bored beyond belief in french class I realized, hey, Liv Tyler would be the perfect Ishizu. You may know Liv Tyler as Arwen in Lord of the Rings, or Gracie from Armageddon. Well that’s it for my casting. Comments? Questions? My email is seanslcars@comcast.net and my AIM screenname is NazGul0010. I’m not one of those people that says "No hatemail please". I love reading that stuff. Until next time-SetoKaibafan13