Dreamcasting # 7 - Y: The Last Man

To everyone casting Lucy Liu and Kelly Hu for all the Asian roles in Dreamcasting... PLEASE STOP.

And don't even think about replacing them with Zhang Zi Yi.
 
Ultimate Houde said:
Wait...you telling me there's Asians who can act?
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I have to tell you the truth --- all those Chinese gals you slept with last year? They were FAKING IT. Every single one of them.

How do I know this? Simple, we Asians are linked by telepathy.

This is how Communist Party lasted so long in China.
 
ourchair said:
I have to tell you the truth --- all those Chinese gals you slept with last year? They were FAKING IT. Every single one of them.

How do I know this? Simple, we Asians are linked by telepathy.

This is how Communist Party lasted so long in China.
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I don't sleep with Chinese gals though

I don't wait teh AIDS

I heard you can get it from them
 
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Hey, don't be mad at me ourchair just cause I don't sleep with Asian women

I do have standards after all

But you on the other hand...

Doing anything tonight?
 
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ourchair said:
:lol: You're all just spiteful cause I set the standards so high you need platform shoes to reach it, meatball.
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Pretty much.



Dick. :p



So here it is.....my final casting choices.

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Yorrick Brown - Brett Harrison - Some of you may recognize him as geeky Brad from "Grounded For Life". But it's his role as young airline exec Sam on "The Loop" that made me think that Harrison is perfect to play the witty Yorrick. A self-proclaimed passionate lit/magic geek with a flair for the pop culture references, Yorrick has that jaded mid-20s attitude down. While he's no idiot...he's still naive to the dangers of the world and always in need of protection. Yorrick might realize that sometimes you need to get your hands dirty---in the end, he's always trying to find the benefit of the doubt. Harrison's pretty boy college looks fills the role of Yorrick out very nicely.

Beth - Sarah Carter - Let's be honest here....Beth is minor character that almost any Hollywood blonde can play. You need someone who will be "haunting". Because that is essentially what her character is. She's haunting Yorrick. It was Sarah's role in Smallville as the teleporting temptress that caught my eye. Her voice has a natural small whisper. Perfect for the halucinations Y has. She needs to be pretty...yet accessible. And she also needs to have that look that says "hot **** in heels....but still down enough to spend a year in the aboriginal Outback". TaDa!

355 - Kimberly Elise - Aside from looking the part perfectly. Kimberly has had plenty of experience playing the strong black woman in all her movies. Best known as Denzel's wife in "John Q." and the lead role in "Diary of a Mad Black Woman", Kimberly has shown that she can hold her own on screen and yet still not overshadow the main character. Her looks allow her to portray a rugged motherly/big sister/protecter role that 355 so often plays to Yorrick...but at the same time she's still sexy enough to catch Yorrick and others' eye.

Dr.Alison Mann - Sandra Oh - I can't tell you how it pains me to cast Oh in this role. I have strict policy of not giving any of teh Grey's Anatomy cast anymore work. Except McDreamy. But I've been down with McDreamy since his "Loverboy" days back in the 80s. Anyways....there's not a lot of asian actresses. And it's an even smaller pool of asian actresses without thick accents to pull from. And the idea of casting Lucy Liu as yet another asian character from a comic makes me wanna throw up. But in the end the fact remains that Mann is pretty much Americanized in this comic and it'd throw the whole feel of the comic off if when Mann opened her mouth she started sounding all chinky. Yeah...I said it. So Oh won in the end. But I'd make sure she straightens her hair again like she did back in her "Arli$$" days.

Hero Brown - Piper Perabo - I could go on and on about this casting choice. But to be honest, Perabo already played this role (almost) in a film called "Lost and Delirious". She looks to be the same age as Yorrick...add a few years. And despite some of the lighter fare roles she's taken....she's capable of a lot more. Lost little girl....looking for redemption.

Jen Brown - Susan Sarandon - To be honest---this is the kinda role Sarandon would love to take. A strong older woman in charge of a feminist nation. When I see Jen Brown, I don't see a feable old woman who looks like she'd have to hit the Life Alert button if she fell. But I see a strong older woman. Hell...she flipped Yorrick over her shoulder in the comic. Plus Sarandon looks good in power suits. Oh shut up.....you knew I liked older women.

Alter - Andie MacDowell - Probably the most contriversal choice of my cast. Andie is a veteran actor. She's quite versitile and has aged gracefully. Which is why I cast her. Alter is not some young female who can't take care of herself. She is a grown woman who has seen the horrors of war. For this role...I don't want MacDowell to smile. Ever. She will look just like her counterpart and Mac's trademark brow will purvey a look of determination.

Victoria - Rachel McAdams - I chose to do this extra cast member for the role she plays in the first arc as well as the continuation of the series. As Leader of the Amazons, Victoria uses her womanly wiles to lure some of her soldiers to be the utmost loyal. But it's her brains that she values more than anything. I basically combined several of McAdams' previous roles and got Victoria. The plotting evil ***** in Mean Girls. The feminist college student in Family Stone. There's others but my fingers are tired. Slap some reddish/orange hair and some glasses on her and boom.





My God I'm so money!
 
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Victor Von Doom said:
Hero Brown - Piper Perabo - I could go on and on about this casting choice. But to be honest, Perabo already played this role (almost) in a film called "Lost and Delirious". She looks to be the same age as Yorrick...add a few years. And despite some of the lighter fare roles she's taken....she's capable of a lot more. Lost little girl....looking for redemption.
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I approve.

Victor Von Doom[B said:
Jen Brown[/B] - Susan Sarandon - To be honest---this is the kinda role Sarandon would love to take. A strong older woman in charge of a feminist nation. When I see Jen Brown, I don't see a feable old woman who looks like she'd have to hit the Life Alert button if she fell. But I see a strong older woman. Hell...she flipped Yorrick over her shoulder in the comic. Plus Sarandon looks good in power suits. Oh shut up.....you knew I liked older women.
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I think what would add to Sarandon's performance is the fact that she is actually a former screen sex symbol herself, and that could easily be communicated through her voice and body language to add a nice dimension to a congresswoman, I mean, congressperson who says things like, "Are you going to spank me? Because I usually leave that to my husband."

Victor Von Doom said:
Alter - Andie MacDowell - Probably the most contriversal choice of my cast. Andie is a veteran actor. She's quite versitile and has aged gracefully. Which is why I cast her. Alter is not some young female who can't take care of herself. She is a grown woman who has seen the horrors of war. For this role...I don't want MacDowell to smile. Ever. She will look just like her counterpart and Mac's trademark brow will purvey a look of determination.
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You're right, it's an unlikely choice, but if she just maintains a look of grim consternation and a complete inability to smile throughout the film, it would work purrrrrrrfectly.
 
The challenge of handling a cast like Y The Last Man's is that most of the diverse range of roles that's usually handled by men is impossible in this Unmanned World. As such, it requires that the vast range of dramatic heft be carried on the shoulders of women, who have to a minor extent, not been given as much dramatic range in cinema. For this cast, I tried to go dig up actors with equally diverse niches --- big budget regulars, TV talent, artsy types --- all in various stages in their careers: up and coming names, veterans and decidedly under the radar ones.

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Clockwise from upper left: Chris Evans, N'Bushe Wright, Michaela Conlin, Joan Allen,
Rachel Nichols, Mili Avital and Neve Campbell​

Yorick Brown - Look past Chris Evans' generic hunktitude looks and you'll see an actor who is committed to more than just being a conventional leading man. Evans is severely under-rated in spite of his rapidly improving resume in films like Cellular, where he played a young man who's self-centered on most days, but does the right thing under pressure and Sunshine, where he played an engineer with the righteous determination to get things done. Combine that with the inherent schmuckness of his Johnny Storm and you've got Yorick Brown --- underachiever, slacker, escape artist and lover of teh cranberry stuffed turkey. I will defend this choice to the death. Even VVD agrees. To paraphrase his PM to me:
"Yorick is the genius slacker. Evans' Johnny Storm is just that one of the elite few to go into space, yet just wants to get chicks.

The scene where he says that cranberry sauce is too awesome to only serve once a year? In my mind I'm having actors stuff a big portion of cranberry sauce in their mouth and saying that line. Their lips still wet and juicy from the sauce.....their left cheek fat with an excess amount of cranberry sauce being held until they can finish the line and down some more sauce.

I can see Evans doing that and pulling it off. I wholeheartedly endorse Evans."
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Agent 355 - A presence in gritty urban television fare like Homicide and Third Watch, N'Bushe Wright won critical acclaim for her portrayal of a Black Panther idealist in Dead Presidents and earned praises for her performance in Boaz Yakin's Fresh. Wright is best recognized as Dr. Karen Jenson, mortician turned reluctant toughie from Blade, and is more than capable of handling the role of Agent 355, ostracized orphan turned government operative.

Dr. Alison Mann - The good doctor is far from being just another Asian American model minority. She rebelled against her parents by abandoning their names. She rejects the heterosexual norm in favor of lesbianism. But most of all she rejected the draconian ethics of scientific convention by impregnating herself with her own clone. To play Alison Mann, you need not just any Asian-American with experience playing smart women, but one with the ability to combine that package with a feisty spirit. Enter Michaela Conlin, best known as wild-child' facial reconstructionist Angela Montenegro from TV's Bones.

Representative Jennifer Brown - Academy AWard nominee and Tony Award winner Joan Allen is an actor who has brought consummate professionalism to films like Manhunter and Searching for Bobby Fischer. Though some people might recall her as a frail mother figure for her roles in Pleasantvilleu and The Ice Storm. She's also played some strong figures like CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy in The Bourne Supremacy, but it was in The Contender that she caught my eye, where she played a Vice Presidential nominee who refuses to dignify scandalous gossip about her even when the rumors prove to be false. As Jennifer Brown, she has to combine the tough, the maternal and the snarky into one feisty little congresswoman, and she most certainly can.

Beth DeVille - I'd call upon Rachel Nichols who plays the rookie government operative Rachel Gibson in TV's Alias to play the outdoorsy young woman who Yorick intended to marry. Nichols also has extensive experience handling suspense, thriller and horror fare with a resume that includes films like The Amityville Horror and The Woods and has done this by combining her natural good looks with an ability to suggest vulnerability with competence, without looking like a female toughie. One can easily see her haunting the dreams of the Last Man on Earth.

Alter Tse'elon - I really wanted an Israeli born performer to take this part, and I chose Mili Avital who has successfully transitioned from a stage and film career in Israel to films like Wim Wenders' The End of Violence and the BBC miniseries' Arabian nights. She is probably most recognized by fans of sci-fi as Shau'ri the Abydonian from Roland Emmerich's Stargate. But what clinches the deal for her to play Alter Tse'elon, is her role as a Jewish freedom fighter from the NBC miniseries The Uprising which was based on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Hero Brown - To play the police officer turned feminist extremist with a self-mutilated breast, I choose Neve Campbell. Her mundane likeability from TV's Party of Five hasn't actually translated into high profile success, but she's been carefully operating under the radar with films like Partition and When Will I Be Loved, but it's her discombobulating performance as the manipulative trailer trash from the schlocky "will never die on cable" thriller Wild Things that shows she has what it takes to play a responsible ex-copper who's been tilted slightly on the edge by the unmanned apocalypse.
 
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ourchair said:
Dr. Alison Mann - The good doctor is far from being just another Asian American model minority. She rebelled against her parents by abandoning their names. She rejects the heterosexual norm in favor of lesbianism. But most of all she rejected the draconian ethics of scientific convention by impregnating herself with her own clone. To play Alison Mann, you need not just any Asian-American with experience playing smart women, but one with the ability to combine that package with a feisty spirit. Enter Michaela Conlin, best known as wild-child' facial reconstructionist Angela Montenegro from TV's Bones.
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Ugh. You dick! You ****ing dick! It's perfect! I don't know whether to applaud it because it's perfectly brilliant or commit seppuku because I am shamed that I didn't think of it first? I don't know whether to hate you or give you my babies?

ourchair said:
Representative Jennifer Brown - Academy AWard nominee and Tony Award winner Joan Allen is an actor who has brought consummate professionalism to films like Manhunter and Searching for Bobby Fischer. Though some people might recall her as a frail mother figure for her roles in Pleasantvilleu and The Ice Storm. She's also played some strong figures like CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy in The Bourne Supremacy, but it was in The Contender that she caught my eye, where she played a Vice Presidential nominee who refuses to dignify scandalous gossip about her even when the rumors prove to be false. As Jennifer Brown, she has to combine the tough, the maternal and the snarky into one feisty little congresswoman, and she most certainly can.
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Another damn fine choice. Love her work. She was also another contentder in my choices.

ourchair said:
Beth DeVille - I'd call upon Rachel Nichols who plays the rookie government operative in TV's Alias to play the outdoorsy young woman who Yorick intended to marry. Nichols also has extensive experience handling suspense, thriller and horror fare with a resume that includes films like The Amityville Horror and The Woods and has done this by combining her natural good looks with an ability to suggest vulnerability with competence, without looking like a female toughie. One can easily see her haunting the dreams of the Last Man on Earth.

Alter Tse'elon - I really wanted an Israeli born performer to take this part, and I chose Mili Avital who has successfully transitioned from a stage and film career in Israel to films like Wim Wenders' The End of Violence and the BBC miniseries' Arabian nights. She is probably most recognized by fans of sci-fi as Shau'ri the Abydonian from Roland Emmerich's Stargate. But what clinches the deal for her to play Alter Tse'elon, is her role as a Jewish freedom fighter from the NBC miniseries The Uprising which was based on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Not too familiar with either of their work.

ourchair said:
Hero Brown - To play the police officer turned feminist extremist with a self-mutilated breast, I choose Neve Campbell. Her mundane likeability from TV's Party of Five hasn't actually translated into high profile success, but she's been carefully operating under the radar with films like Partition and When Will I Be Loved, but it's her discombobulating performance as the manipulative trailer trash from the schlocky "will never die on cable" thriller Wild Things that shows she has what it takes to play a responsible ex-copper who's been tilted slightly on the edge by the unmanned apocalypse.
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Another excellent choice. I find it funny that we both opted for "former" Hollywood sex symbols for Hero as opposed to current "it girls". As well as the fact that our choices have really showed what they're capable of in lesser-known projects as opposed to their bland performances in their Hollywood big show productions.




God why aren't we in Hollywood?
 
Victor Von Doom said:
Ugh. You dick! You ****ing dick! It's perfect! I don't know whether to applaud it because it's perfectly brilliant or commit seppuku because I am shamed that I didn't think of it first? I don't know whether to hate you or give you my babies?
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Told you. Knew you'd be jealous. And I've only seen half a season of Bones. I thought it'd cross your mind since you've never hidden your love for Bones.

Victor Von Doom said:
Another damn fine choice. Love her work. She was also another contentder in my choices.
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You said "The Contender". Punny.

Victor Von Doom said:
Another excellent choice. I find it funny that we both opted for "former" Hollywood sex symbols for Hero as opposed to current "it girls". As well as the fact that our choices have really showed what they're capable of in lesser-known projects as opposed to their bland performances in their Hollywood big show productions.
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I dunno, the difference between Perabo and Campbell is that Perabo actually had the potential to increase her profile, but she never exploited that fully, whereas Campbell just continued to star in stuff that wasn't exactly career-broadening. That includes Scream.

Victor Von Doom said:
God why aren't we in Hollywood?
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We have to start writing gay porno first. That is how Peter Dragon became a Hollywood producer.
 
I think ourchair should post first from now on so we can all copy his people.
 
ourchair said:
Yorick Brown - Look past Chris Evans' generic hunktitude looks and you'll see an actor who is committed to more than just being a conventional leading man. Evans is severely under-rated in spite of his rapidly improving resume in films like Cellular, where he played a young man who's self-centered on most days, but does the right thing under pressure and Sunshine, where he played an engineer with the righteous determination to get things done. Combine that with the inherent schmuckness of his Johnny Storm and you've got Yorick Brown --- underachiever, slacker, escape artist and lover of teh cranberry stuffed turkey. I will defend this choice to the death. Even VVD agrees. To paraphrase his PM to me: Agent 355 - A presence in gritty urban television fare like Homicide and Third Watch, N'Bushe Wright won critical acclaim for her portrayal of a Black Panther idealist in Dead Presidents and earned praises for her performance in Boaz Yakin's Fresh. Wright is best recognized as Dr. Karen Jenson, mortician turned reluctant toughie from Blade, and is more than capable of handling the role of Agent 355, ostracized orphan turned government operative.

Dr. Alison Mann - The good doctor is far from being just another Asian American model minority. She rebelled against her parents by abandoning their names. She rejects the heterosexual norm in favor of lesbianism. But most of all she rejected the draconian ethics of scientific convention by impregnating herself with her own clone. To play Alison Mann, you need not just any Asian-American with experience playing smart women, but one with the ability to combine that package with a feisty spirit. Enter Michaela Conlin, best known as wild-child' facial reconstructionist Angela Montenegro from TV's Bones.
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I really love those choices.
 
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