Who plays what in the WoW movie?
by Allison Robert 
Aug 19th 2009 at 8:00PM
The Alexstrasza talk got me to thinking about having seen Mission Impossible on an idle evening recently. While it's your basic (though slick) action flick, the standout character was Vanessa Redgrave's Max-the-arms-dealer. Not only was her entrance thoroughly unexpected, but she was cool, controlled, overflowing with sardonic amusement, and unaffected by the thought of having someone killed. While I would love to see her fight Judi Dench's M from the Bond movies, that won't happen, but now I've wondering who would make a better dragon (black, not red).
Of course, all of this is entirely academic because we have no idea what the movie is even going to be about, but I am entirely certain that Vanessa Redgrave is a dragon (although possibly this is not news). We've talked a lot about a possible plot and the music for the film, but if you got the opportunity to cast it, who would you put in which role?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 9)
Amritrao Aug 19th 2009 8:06PM
Tilda Swinton or Cate Blanchett as Sylvanas.
Rocksanne Aug 19th 2009 8:57PM
Cate Blanchette as Sylvanas = epic win
yokumgang Aug 19th 2009 9:37PM
IMO it's gonna be Megan Fox.
Bullseyed Aug 20th 2009 12:11PM
Scarlet Johanson as a scantily clad elf. You know you all want it.
They should get Mila Kunis in too since she plays WoW.
Also, if Chuck Norris of Sean Connery gets casted, nerds will have a field day. I hope one or the other ends up in.
Noid Aug 19th 2009 8:10PM
zach galifianakis as bronzebeard
Charlie Aug 19th 2009 8:26PM
YES.
Aaron Aug 19th 2009 8:39PM
I'd rather see John Rhys-Davies as 'em. Just sayin'.
Speculate Aug 19th 2009 8:12PM
Liam Neeson as Uther. Or Tirion, or Malygos, or 3rd Kobold from the left. What I'm trying to say is Neeson needs to be in this film.
Otome Aug 20th 2009 12:59AM
Seconded. Neeson in the movie would blow my mind.
Turlagh Aug 20th 2009 4:15AM
Yes, but his characters tend to die early in the movie.
Alja Aug 20th 2009 10:38AM
he would be a good vyrkul maybe or a dwarf if they could suddenly make him 20 feet shorter - but yes he would be awesomeness in the movie
ayalafatalis Aug 19th 2009 8:14PM
Why not cast Micheal Cera and Seth Rogen and make the WoW movie one of those awkward teen geek comedy chick flick movies? They can even have the bands with the ironic facial hair who play acoustic coffee house rock...
ayalafatalis Aug 19th 2009 8:21PM
...to do the soundtrack.
(forgot to add that..)
Allen Ibrahim Aug 19th 2009 10:25PM
Michael Cera and Jack Black are busy starring in Halo, Cera of course playing the titular role.........of Halo. Anybody who gets this reference is awesome.
"Hi guys. My name's Halo."
Arkeband Aug 19th 2009 11:24PM
It's probably because instead of discussing the topic, you just used your posting privileges to flame Judd Apatow and his movies.
ayalafatalis Aug 19th 2009 11:47PM
Flaming? How in the blue hell did what I say was flaming in any way? Read it once, get schooled on reading comprehension, read it again, then go read the wikipedia article on 'JOKES'. For fuck sake.
And yea, all these other people putting asinine actors are really contributing to the topic. Go mark those people down too.
Nick Aug 19th 2009 8:15PM
Verne Troyer as High Tinker Mekkatorke.
We have a movie.
rogue Aug 19th 2009 8:20PM
keanu.
(as all of them)
Eisengel Aug 20th 2009 3:47AM
He needs to be a Forsaken Rogue... I can see the scene now:
In a dank, dark catacomb with a hard-packed dirt floor a Forsaken Priest in tattered robes mumbles incomprehensibly while rocking back and forth on his knees. Randomly placed bits of yellowed candles gutter and spit, throwing up tendrils of acrid, thick smoke and casting wild shadows throughout the crypt. The Priest rises unsteadily, tottering oddly on his decayed legs, his strange muttering reaching a more frantic pitch. The Priest starts gesturing wildly with the remains of what were his hands, as if swatting away invisible gnats in slow motion. His eyes glint wildly in the intermittent light. Slowly a pale, forboding light begins to ooze from the dank walls. His gestures become wilder, his bony fingers scratching and clawing at thin air as if weaving some spectral tapestry. The candles gutter heavily under a dread, moaning wind and begin to flutter out. A thick, silvery light fills the tomb. The Priest's mumblings become more urgent and shrill until he's plaintively screeching out words in some vile, forgotten tongue while trying to stay standing through his increasingly wild gestures. The light condenses down a point above the hard earthen floor, pitching the room and the Priest in sharp relief. Suddenly the point of light drops into the ground and Priest falls silent in the pitch black. In the dark you can hear a sigh and a clatter as the Priest drops his broken body to the ground. There is the sound of blind fumbling in a bag of odds and ends, a muttered curse, and the darkness is broken by the sharp rasp of a knife against flint. A thick, yellow spark sears through the dark, and in a moment a small flame glows on a bit of yellow candle next to the Priest. The Priest stares unflinchingly at the ground, his one hand tightly clutching a dilapidated, rusted dagger.
A small crack begins to appear in the floor... barely an inch wide, but it quickly extends, running a good 5 feet across the floor. The Priest's death rictus widens, in what is presumably a smile, and his grip tightens on the dagger, causing it to creak. Suddenly a pair of decayed hands thrust out of the crack, swing down to grip the floor, and after tensing in a moment of exertion, a body erupts from the earth. Thick clods of earth explode from the floor with the force of rising corpse, shattering against the wall and pattering down around the Priest.
The newly risen corpse slowly swivels its head up toward the Priest and says, in a thick, raspy sigh, "I know Kung-Fu..." The Priest leans forward, his hand thoughtfully strokng what had been his chain and says, "Show me."
Nazgûl Aug 19th 2009 8:20PM
This movie absolutely, undoubtedly, MUST have one thing.
Some character must utter the words "I have a bad feeling about this."