h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There are actually seven Weasley siblings, you missed Charlie, the dragon tamer... Ron and the Gred & Forge team are my favourite characters in the Harry potter books. I've read all four of them... and I'm in my late twenties

quite right, charlie is also a weasly,

my favourite character is sirius black, i cant wait to find our who is going to play him. they are severely limited by age. if harry is about 13 in the prisoner of azkabahn and was assume his parent died on their mid twenties then the age of sirius black must be about 35-40. which knocks out all of the most likely people to play him as most of them are either in, or look like they are in, their 50s.


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Hmmm... Sirius Black... lemme think... it'd have to be a British actor in his late thirties-early forties, pale and gaunt, with a mellow, sad face... how about John Lynch? Bit on the short side, but he can pull off the English accent (as seen in The Secret Garden)... or... hmmm, I'll get back to you on that. Perhaps we should make this a topic for discussion. Daniel Day-Lewis could also do it, but he'd have to lay off the ego a little (I mean, who says that Sirius Black has to be ugly?)

I'm actually curious to see how Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson will age... whether they'll do a Macaulay Culkin/Lukas Haas and turn out to be a bit ugly, or do an Elijah Wood/Kieran Culkin and turn out all right Mind you, I'm not seeing the films unless they get somebody else to direct them either than Chris "Joanne told me to do it this way" Columbus...

Sirius always strikes me as being a good looking guy - just a bit worn - and I'm rooting for them to cast Ralph Fiennes.
Not that Day-Lewis would be too bad

i think an unknown would be a good idea, but going on past performance i dont think they'll miss the chance for a celebraty cameo.

Ralph Fiennes is a little too round-faced, I think... and in love with himself. Colin Firth is big now, after "Bridget Jones's Diary", so they might cast him, although the same argument stands (relatively pudgy).

I'd like to see Rhys Ifans do anything in the Harry Potter series, though. Let me think... well, if they dyed his hair red he'd make a great Bill Weasley, wouldn't he? He's got the swagger and the rock star connections (see his drunken contribution to the first Super Furry Animals album).

No way, Firth could NEVER pull off Black. Although I like Firth, he doesn't look like he could stomach how many(15ish?)years in azkaban). I can't really think of any actor that could pull off the unpretentious humanity of black.

Maybe the new director will make way for a newcomer... who knows.

How about John Lynch?

Colin Firth couldn't do it, I agree.
Also we need decent people for Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.
Harry's parents look about 30 to me (in the mirror) so we can find people who are, or look like they are, in their early forties.
I know Alan Rickman was at school with them and is older, but being a Death Eater has got to take it out of you. (same for Azkaban/being a rat/werewolf - so we've got an age range of 40-50 ish)

I won't even mention my favourite for Sirius, because I know it won't happen.

oh go on, mention him - stop being tantalising!

(I'm still after Ralph Fiennes for the part!)

Tell!

Who's going to be Madame Maxime? The one who played ms. Trunchbull?

What about Trelawney?

Oh no, we're not going to be speculating for book 4 now are we? Anyway, Madame Maxime should be a, er, handsome woman (I think that's the best word), not a Trunchball.

Ralph Fiennes is the best of the plausible choices for Sirius that I've heard so far.

Trelawny is the divination teacher? Oooh, there's a difficult one.

juliette landau would be cool as trelawny, but shes too young.

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I think the Trunchball woman would be good, as she's got a 'presence' like Robbie Coltrane, but can be elegant if she wants to be...methinks.

[Who's Juliette Landau?]

drusilla in buffy the vampire slayer and angel the series.

She would be good!

she can certainly be d*mn scary.

Catwoman - is your choice for Sirius deceased? or just blatantly too old???

Tell us!!

Juliet Landau is too young to play Trelawney... Harry and Ron call her "daft old bat" so obviously she has to be older! (I'd go for Joanna Lumley in oversized specs, I think she could pull it off.)

Ralph Fiennes for Sirius: hmmm... I'm still rooting for John Lynch.

Madame Maxime would have to be cast from nothing, because big actresses are not at all easy to find. She'd have to be big, not fat; can't really think of anyone.