Casting Call: Casting "The Stand"

Here's hoping that it's in development hell. And that it stays there.

 

Who should play Daisy in the DiCaprio/Luhrmann "Great Gatsby"?

 

It's Carey Mulligan.

 

From EW:

"Finally! Steven Spielberg?s long-gestating biopic of President Abraham Lincoln has got a start date ? and its star. Two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis will play the man on the five dollar bill in Lincoln, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin?s best-selling biography of Lincoln?s presidency, Team of Rivals. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) has penned the screenplay, which in a release DreamWorks said will likely focus on ?the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.?

Great casting; better than Neeson, even.

 

I agree. Day-Lewis is really perfect.

 

Can't wait to see what he makes of the role.

 

Probably the best pick.
I'm looking forward to this.

 

Casting "The Stand"

 

Recasting "The Stand" is a kind of tough one for me - the cast of the mini-series, IMO, were absolutely PERFECT......except for the guy who played Flagg himself. That guy kind of ruined it for me, his performance just seemed a bit "tacky".

While I was actually reading the novel (numerous times!), the image I had in mind for the Dark Man was more of a quiet, sinister guy - someone like Christopher Walken or a younger Clint Eastwood.