HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

u just blew my mind

Who would be a good Stannis? I Googled "cast as Stannis" to see if anybody had been cast as Stannis and the second result was "HBO Cast Alan Rickman as Stannis", but then I noticed there was a comma after "HBO" and it was just a Facebook group making unreasonable demands

He's like ~30 years too old for the role, right? I guess everyone in this is older than the book says they are but even so

Seems like he should be played by a "name" actor cos he's important but not too omnipresent on screen, but then I also quite like the idea of him being someone maddeningly familiar who you belatedly realise was an awkward parliamentary advisor in two episodes of The Thick of It

mark strong

tom hanks

Is there a dude who looks kind of like Colin Firth that isn't Colin Firth?

Oooh! Ciaran Hinds? Is that his name? Caesar from Rome?

I've heard Mark Strong and Christopher Eccleston's names being bandied about by a lot of people. On board with either.

Eccles would be a strong choice, yeah

Gasp! Eccles! YES

That would make me vvvvvvvv happy

Badg, it worked, but now that I've selected the two games, I wonder if I can download them later...

Err, wrong thread.

traitor

:)

Anyway, you teasing cravens make me wish I read faster.

Trying to think of a Who/GoT joke, it's not working. :\`

"Every Westeros has a north".

man kind sux to know there are books of this i will never read while i wait around for more eps

they shoulda just made it all at once, sent to me in a torrent

show's more addictive than crack. To think only a week ago I was only peripherally aware of it and today there's a Game Of Thrones hole in my world that True Blood won't fill.

Would love Rufus Sewell as Stannis.

hmmmm, rufus sewell best suggestion so far imo. doesn't look too old, can pull off a bit of po-faced gravitas.

man kind sux to know there are books of this i will never read while i wait around for more eps

― ice cr?m, Friday, July 1, 2011 12:16 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they shoulda just made it all at once, sent to me in a torrent

― ice cr?m, Friday, July 1, 2011 12:16 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

haha the only reason i read the books is because when they were promoting the show i was like 'hmm im probably gonna watch this, i guess i'll read it just so nobody can spoiler me on it'

yeah i basically read them cause i saw the first six episodes early and didnt want to have to wait six weeks to find out what happened next

me too. but damn, they sucked me in hardcore.

why because there intersting

I bet you smell like blackberry jam.

http://innatthecrossroads.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/moderntarts.jpeg%3Fw%3D768%26h%3D1024

btw, kinda lol that "butt" is part of the vernacular in the books ("Nearly a man grown, he yet slipped and fell on his butt").

He compensates by describing things as a "mummer's farce" on the regular; guy must be a total downer at ren fairs

"he walked like he had a dagger up his butt" was the point where I considered just skipping to book 2 to find out about deaths

A song of ice and fire more like a description of beards and armour

ha yeah one definitely doesn't read these books for the prose

Massive Westeros Map

I'll come back to this map once I've made it deeper into the books. 2/3 into GoT is the most fun I've had w/ a book in ages. Then again, I haven't read anything like this in a long time.

my god that map do they really mention all those places in the book wtf

way more

too much! #OJVU

a massive family tree wd be more helpful

Brienne of Tarth
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1EDafL1qUqg/TKvChJVWP7I/AAAAAAAAQe8/Ja6H_TRdns8/s1600/Picture+80.png

should work. she's tall

although Not Actually Unattractive, tho that's not that surprising, i guess. who is she?

Gwendoline Christie is a British actress. She graduated from drama school in 2005 and has appeared in the RSC's Great Expectations and Pravda. Last year she played the queen in Cymbeline at the Barbican. She lives in London

Her only screen role to date seems to be a very small part in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. She's 6ft 3

she's the amazon from the patrick wolf videos

Whoa:

I had seen Gwendoline walking in Brighton and was drawn to her. She's over 6'5" in heels and very striking. I couldn't get her out of my head. She was working at a funky interiors boutique in Brighton called Pussy; I was looking for a new project in 2002 and realised I needed to track down this girl to see if she'd do some photos.

Tall order: it took Borland (right) six months to convince Christie to pose seminude
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00034/howwemet_brownlee_34968a.jpg

I am...torn. Have to see how they style her character. Wanted someone less feminine, definitely.

watch the damaris video –– she's definitely capable of less feminine

damaris video?

she's definitely prettier than i imagined, and thinner too. i pictured brienne being built like a female shot putter:

http://i.imgur.com/zUMYm.jpg

it's a tough role to cast though.

damaris video (good song, too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77jnQWU4Uo

yikes only 4 days left for me to finish my re-read and i'm not even done with 3 yet, might have to just skim 4 if its as inconsequential as i remember

tamtam otm, but I imagine she'll be bulked out with armor and stuff: her gonzo height (six five!) is more visually striking than being jacked would be.

6'5" in heels, 6'3" in real life apparently

i dunno. i feel like hbo were never going to go with anyone actually unattractive, so it's at least better that they're at least putting onscreen someone with a non-standard body type and stuff

She's "TV ugly" basically