Ok, so suppose someone decides to turn the BG series into a movie, who would play the NPCs?

Here is my list:-

Anomen - Tim Curry (just to make him totally rediculous)
Minsc - Vin Deisel (just looks right)
Edwin - Alan Rickman (the best "funny" bad guy actor around)
Keldorn - Sean Connery (for that distinguished look)
Korgan - Brian Blessed (Round, Noisy and Hairy)
Yoshimo - Toshiro Mifune (the best Japanese actor ever)
Cernd - Kevin Costner (the sort of pretentious character he'd play)
Valygar - Ice T (cool, quiet, a bit bad)
Jan - Robin Williams (for the silliness aspect)
Haer Dalis - Ralph Fiennes (sullen intellectual type)
Sarevok - Christopher Walken (think of his character in "Sleepy Hollow")
Khalid - Hugh Grant (stuttering, mumbling fool)
Ajantis - Rutger Hauer (always appears in these sort of movies)
Coran - Willem Defoe (looks almost as zany as Coran's portrait)
Kivan - Clint Eastwood (sixties spaghetti westerns. Mysterious silent type)
Xzar - Jim Carrey ('cos he's a loony!)
Montaron - Joe Pesci (psychopath)
Eldoth - Matt Damon (you can't have one without the other so...)
Xan - Ben Affleck (see Matt Damon)
Tiax - Danny De'vito (might just be able to do the "mad" part convincingly)
Yeslick - Ron Jeremy (!)
Kagain - Tom Cruise (He' the correct height)
Garrick - Eric Idle (for the Sir Robin references)
Quayle - Mickey Rooney (short, old, (probably dead in fact))
Imoen - Christina Ricci (very little sister"ish")
Jaheira - Goldie Hawn (for the "Mumsie" aspect)
Aerie - Sarah Michelle Gellar (just as irritating as Aerie)
Nalia - Helen Baxendale (stuffy upper-class)
Viconia - Natasha Henstridge (painted blue, not a bad look-alike)
Mazzy - Kelly Osbourne (Short, funny hair)
Branwen - Kate Winslet (Err, Blonde?)
Dynaheir - Byonce Knowles (kick-ass attitude)
Shar teel - Brigitte Neilsen (err, she's big?)
Safana - Jennifer Lopez (curves and sultry looks)
Skie - Winona Ryder ('cos she's a Kleptomaniac)
Alora - Mena Suvari (short, bubbly)
Faldorn - Angelica Huston (creepy dark haired woman)

Protagonist Male - Half-Orc Barbarian - Ron Pearlman
Protagonist Female - Amazonian Ranger/Fighter - Salma Hayek

What no bohdi? maybe Liz Hurley ? [img]graemlins/1drool.gif[/img] in stockings of sexiness +3 [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

great post though and I agree with 90% of your choices. loved the idea of tim curry doing his overacting with anomen [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img] :D

I'd have to differ on some suggestions.

Jaheira - Nastassja Kinski (looks kind of Elven, and looks about the right age)
Minsc - Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy) (Also looks right but better acting range than Vin Diesel)
Aerie - Mena Suvari (also looks kind of elven)
Haer'Dalis - Me!

LOL! Excellent list! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] I can't relate to the BGI characters since I never played but the rest are great. You must have put some serious thought into it. The only one I would ammend is having Richard Gear play Cernd.

Hehehe sometimes people just have to much time on there hands and come up with great stuff like this.... nice dude! :D

real nice list, they should really consider making a movie about the BG story (because it's GREAT!)... not a cinema movie because there is simple not that many people that are intresseted in that kind of movie IMHO.

but it will probaly sell real good because BG has many fans (I'm one of them :D )

great list, the only two that i really can't see are kate winslet as branwen(she not much of a warrior) or Goldie Hawn as Jahiera(could you imagine goldie hawn in plate mail, wait you proably are stop that)

other than that fantastic list. dead on

I love the idea of Christopher Walken, but personally I'd cast him as the main villain, Jon Irenicus, rather than Sarevok. I couldn't imagine a better actor to play Irenicus.

Also: Ann-Margret in a guest cameo spot as Elliseme (still gorgeous after all these years, but mature and stately as well).

It had been bandied about in another thread that Drew Barrymore would be just about perfect to play Nalia, as they look so much alike.

Good choices! :D [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

-Sazerac

Lol, I always love these Movie threads :D

These are all great choices, but I'd probably cut out Vin Deisel as Minsc... ;)

Excellent cast lists by all. The only suggestions I would make would be David Warner as Irenicus (It sounds like his voice in the game.) Vin Diesel as Sarevok and Elizabeth Hurley as Viconia.

Alan Rickman as Jon Irenicus. Something I dreamed up watching deadringers a few months ago :D

I'd love to suggest Laurence Fishburne as Valygar, but it's an incredible waste to put such a good actor in a non-speaking role. Wesley Snipes, perhaps?

Imoen = Alysson Hannigan

How dare you! You fiend!!!

Ohh, and Alyson Hannigen is sooo Imoen.

The only possible Edwin is IMHO Gary Oldman.. Best choice ever [img]smile.gif[/img]

Someone once suggested Angelina Jolie to play Bodhi. *shiver*

I think Korgan should be Danny DeVito :D

The real casting problem will be Yoshimo: Nobody really seems to look like him. (I realize that physical appearance isn't mandatory, but it does count for something.) He's from Kara-Tur, and does indeed look Japanese, and as the best Thief in the game, we should be expecting some martial arts from him (I just can't see Jan executing an outer crescent kick to somebody's temple, somehow).

So that leaves us with Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Chow-Yun Fat, none of whom look anything like Yoshimo.

That's because it is his voice. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Anjelina Jolie has got to play Viconia, she always does for me. Is it warm in here?

Can anyone tell me who Alysson Hannigan is?

she's willow from buffy the vampire slayer and the band camp chick from american pie. I actually think she'd make a very good imoen, cause of her ability to play innocent and younger but still dramatic(she has been tortured afterall)

That's exactly who I was going to say should play her, I just didn't know her name. I think there's a portrait floating around somewhere of her(Willow) as Imoen.

Thinking about it, Lawrence Fishbourne might just make an excellent Sarevok. Give him a beard and some gleaming eyes... and he's away! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Tanc

Hey, dang, you're right. I wonder how well he could do the voice, though. Probably pretty well.

David Warner simply *has* to be Irenicus, even if he's not buffed up on Protien Max and a buttload of Steroids. I don't care who does the acting, as long as Warner does the voice.

Sean Connery's getting too old to play Keldorn--is there a way we could stick his head on Arnold Schwarzennegger's body? (Arnold's about 55 now, correct? That's the right age.)

Robin Williams is awfully hairy, and does rather look like Korgan--but he's greying, so that argues for Jan, whom he also looks like, and Robin's born to be the party's jester anyway. I see a tossup between Williams & Danny DeVito for Jan.

Calista Flockheart as Aerie. If she keeps saying that she's about to die from her injuries or be swept away by the next strong gust of wind, I say bring on Calista.

There's David Borenanz (of Angel fame) for Cernd, I think. Give the guy a long wig and some feathers, hey presto. He's already proved he can do quiet-and-mystical, has David.

Rufus Sewell for Anomen! Rufus is a versatile actor - and he looks good in armour *and* with a snob accent (A Knight's Tale - Count Adhemar)

Another that sprang to mind was Richard E. Grant as Saemon Havarian. [img]smile.gif[/img] Ok, he might not be able to do the accent, but he'd be bloody funny.

OK, kids, I don't know if anyone will read down this far, but let's try these:

Imoen - Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks, also in Vampires)
Jaheira - MILLA JOVOVICH
Viconia - JESSICA ALBA
Aerie - LEELEE SOBIESKI
Jan - Armin Shimerman (Quark in DeepSpace9)
Keldorn - Kenneth Branagh, or Sean Bean
Edwin - John Malkovich
Nalia - Drew Barrymore, or Alicia Witt
Cernd - James Spader
Mazzy - Sherilyn Fenn?
Irenicus - David Warner himself, or John DeLancie (Q in StarTrekTNG)
Bodhi - Angelina Jolie
Ellisime - Catherine Deneuve, or Jacqueline Bisset
Minsc - Bruce Willis ???
Yoshimo - Mako
Korgan - whoever played the dwarf in LOTR
Haer'Dalis - Ewan McGregor
Anomen - ?
Valygar - Wesley Snipes ?

Saemon Havarian - Robert Carlyle
Raelis Shai - Gillian Anderson
Aran Linvail - Mark Hamill ?!
Bubbles - Pam Anderson
Voice of Lilarcor - QUENTIN TARANTINO

(Protagonist, Sorceror) - Jude Law?)

[ 02-17-2003, 02:09 AM: Message edited by: Mahlennacht ]

omg i totally agree w/ jude law as the protaganist, he's such a great actor

Yah, I thought he could be a sorceror realizing, and learning about, his innate wizard skills, along with coming to terms with his Bhaal blood... then at the end, because sorcerors are so powerful, he can be really heroic and waste Irenicus himself. It will require a 13-part miniseries, but that's not implausible. I thought about taking several months of free time to work out the storyline, but... what would the neighbors think of me? [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

they'd think"wow, our very own nieghborhood una-bomber, sure are strange times, so what do you all think of this wheather we're having"

ok so that's what they'd say not think but you get the point

Hmmm...not Branagh, I can tell you that much. 17 STR means the fellow must have muscles.

I saw a portrait of Halle Berry the other day, and was stunned at how much she looked like Mazzy. The face, the hair....her face is too thin, sure, but the resemblance is undeniable.

John Rhys-Davies.

Who the heck is Bubbles?

Renal Bloodscalp - Michael York

Bubbles is the courtesan in the bridge with two guys fighting over her, just north of that building where you find Neb, IIRC [img]smile.gif[/img]

Why would we want to give her a major role? I would rather see the angry woman in the Copper Coronet, looking for her husband (who's upstairs). Too funny!
"No you can't have him, he's mine!"
*snicker* :D [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

*smacks himself upside da head* Duh! Shank & Carbos. Yeah.

what about a prtagonist femail Paladin - Sarah Michelle Gellar

protaganist barbarian - Kevin Sorbo ( or even Minsc )

Aerie --> Estella Warren, there's no other option really ;)

http://home.graffiti.net/rataxes/estella2.jpg
Aerie?
http://home.graffiti.net/rataxes/aerie.jpg
Estella?