The perfect Jack Aubrey

[kate_nepveu]

The rhinoceros sent me off on a skim re-read of the Aubrey-Maturin books, which reminded me how, though I quite enjoyed the movie, I don't think either Aubrey or Maturin were properly cast. And thus:

Chris Hemsworth (in recent-Thor mode) would be the perfect Jack Aubrey, y/y?

Maturin . . . look, I think it's important that Maturin be scrawny. And I'm not particularly up on scrawny European dudes? So I've got nothing there.

Going purely off looks, Diana can be Katie McGrath (I haven't actually seen anything she's been in). Sophie's tall, so she can be Elizabeth Debicki, who does a nice coming-into-her-own arc in Widows.

And I spent all afternoon standing outside in the cold and I need to go to sleep now. Please feel free to contribute your own fancasts in comments (and to move the series in space and time so we can racebend).

Comments

[cofax7]

Concur on the miscasting of the movie, although I enjoyed the movie much more on a second viewing after I'd read the books. They really did a great job of shoe-horning in a LOT from the series. That said, both Aubrey and Maturin were totally miscast. I think Bettany might have been able to pull off a Maturin written closer to the original (cranky, dirty, secretive, obsessive), but Crowe was just... wrong. I'm not sure why: maybe he has too much interiority?

Hemsworth is not a bad idea, although I think he's much better-looking than Jack is.

I like your ideas for Sophie and Diana, although I would want to see them in action.

But who, WHO do we cast as Preserved Killick and Barrett Bonden?

[kate_nepveu]

I'm not sure what I think of Crowe at this point (edit: the details, I mean), I'd have to rewatch. I personally think Hemsworth is looks best in gladiator mode (very short dark hair, beard), so if you put a long yellow wig on him, his attractiveness immediately drops by about a third to me. => but too attractive is going to be a problem generally for this, and his physical presence and ability to manage both goofy and intense I just think are perfect.

I am completely incapable of thinking of a Killick or a Bonden! character actors all the way, the kind that are "you know, that guy . . . "

[oracne]

Rory Kinnear for Bonden?