Thursday 9 July 2009

Casting Call : PLANETARY

Wildstorm's PLANETARY, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by John Cassaday, is, to me at least, one of the best comics ever.

The tale of a mysterious organization who specializes in "Super-hero" archeology is often scary, sometimes baffling, but always interesting and fascinating. And the "done-in-one" structure of story-telling made it seem tailor-made for an HBO mini-series.

So, in a bit of harmless fun, who would be the guys and gals to perfectly capture these people on screen?

For Elijah Snow, i stand by Ed Harris. He has the white hair, and can flip-flop between tender and tough in an instant.


For the amazonian JAkita Wagner, i chose Rosario Dawson. The reason? Take a look...


For the Drummer, James Cameron's new guy Sam Worthington fits the bill. He can be innocent yet sarcastic at the same time.


BONUS! For Planetary's too-cool Third Man, Ambrose Chase, i think Chewitel Ejiofor would do nicely...


For the villains... Ah, The Four. These evil analogues of MArvel's first family deserve their place at the Top Ten list of the best bad-guys of all-time..

Randall Dowling = Christopher Eccleston. Nuff Said.


Kim Suskind = Miranda Richardson. She got that ice-cold b!tch thing down pat.


William Leather = Alan Tudyk. Tudyk can show off the tragic side of LEather very well, i thought.


Jacob Greene = Andy SErkis. No stranger to CGI... which means he can pull off the Abominable Monster facade....


Waht do you guys think?