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After reading Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames I was thinking about who I would cast in the film version of the books.

Here is my cast list.

The Emperor - Patrick Stewart

Warmaster Horus - Daniel Day Lewis

Sanguinius - Brad Pitt

Rogal Dorn - Derik Jacobi - (Classic English Shakespearian Actor who looks similar to Dorn)

Angron - Michael Clarke Duncan (massive dude from The Green Mile)

Garviel Loken - Edward Norton (could do the more subtle sides of his character well)
Tarik Torgaddon - Jason Statham (hard man and a joker)
Nero Vipus - Jake Gyllenhaal
Little Horus Aximand - Vin Diesel
Iacton Qruze - Robert Duvall
First Chaplain Erebus - Joaquin Phoenix (complete with shaved head)
Ezekyle Abaddon - Mickey Rourke

Iterator Sindermann - Morgan Freeman
Ignace Karkasy - Colin Farrell
Mercedie Olliton - Zoe Saldana

That's all i can think of now. What's yours?

I don't know who he'd play, but Bruce Willis should be in this film. Excellent choice for the Emperor by the way

OMG I COULD PLAY FACELESS MARINE NUMBER 27!

And obviously MR T needs to be the emperor. And chuck norris could play Horus. (This would equal the worlds most epic battle scene)

All those talented actors would be wasted in this movie, if the script was as banal as the novels.

IMO Brad Pitt isn't "pretty" enough for Sanguinius, you need to go down a more Orlando Bloom type route.

Lmao why don't you just get jonny depp?
Or Dwayne "the rock" johnston?
Both are actually pretty solid actors

A lot of the actor you've picked are good actor, but I think most of them would fail to convey the 'physicality' of their role.

There's a reason why some actor do action movies and others don't - not everybody is a convincing bad ass.

That is not to say that the movie cast should look like the cast of the expendable, not at all - the old school 80s 'Action Movie Star' doesn't really exist anymore and much of the better action movie of the last decade have featured good actors instead of muscles heads... but the point remain - not everybody can pull it off.

For what it's worth, I don't think Edward Norton would make a convincing Space Marine Captain... he's the nerd or the little scrappy guy. I'd pick Clive Owen myself - the guy can pull off the bad ass routine easily and he's got enough range to easily play the more subtle side as well.

Definitly don't see Stewart as the Emperor...

I wouldn't want Vin Diesel involve with any project tbh ... if you want a big guy who can look tough and be funny, while still actually being able to act, go with Dwayne Johnson.

Dude you need to see Norton in American History X. He is scary, built like a barn door, but is very human while also being abhorrent.

And Brad Pitt in Troy, Thelma and Louise and Legends of the Fall could definitely be considered as 'pretty'.

Horus: Jeff Bridges

Mukkin'About wrote:Or Dwayne "the rock" Johnson?

Not a bad idea, really.

I could see him as a Space Marine! Can you smell what Sanguinius is cooking?

fluffywyvern wrote:After reading Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames I was thinking about who I would cast in the film version of the books.

Here is my cast list.

The Emperor - Manu Bennet


Warmaster Horus - Steve Austin


Sanguinius - Fabio


Angron - Nathan Jones

Greetings to all. Sorry for the "thread necromancy" but i felt this was too much a pertinent topic to be left alone.

Saying this here it is my cast suggestions:

Emperor of Mankind (Beloved of All): Jim Caviezel

Warmaster Horus: Bill Goldberg

Little Horus: Vin Diesel

Ezekyle Abbadon: Steve Austin

Garviel Loken: Manu Bennet

Leman Russ: Vladimir Kulich

Maguns The Red: Ron Pearlman

Sanguinus: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Corvus Corax: Karl Urban

Fulgrim: Craig Parker

Mortarion: TBA
Lorgar: TBA
Tarik Torgaddon: James Purefoy

Mortarion: Willem Dafoe

Rogal Dorn: TBA
Angron: Brian Thompson



The are much more in the Horus Heresy Series but these are the ones i have a fixed vision of...more will follow

At first I was gonna say Dave Bautista, but on second thoughts I don't think anyone would play Horus better than Tom Hardy.

Tom Hardy would be amazing as Horus.

 fluffywyvern wrote:
After reading Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames I was thinking about who I would cast in the film version of the books.


Angron - Michael Clarke Duncan (massive dude from The Green Mile)

He's dead.

I could imagine Norman Reedus as Corax.

You raised this thread from the dead well and good!

Vin Diesel needs to be in this film. Somewhere.

 The Dreadnote wrote:
I don't know who he'd play, but Bruce Willis should be in this film. Excellent choice for the Emperor by the way

Sorry, Bruce Willis has already been cast in the Badab War movie as Carab Culln.

These casting picks are downright weird. The only person I could imagine actually capturing Horus well is Mark Strong. Also, given how Neeson did a good job as Zeus in Clash of the Titans, he might make a good cast for the Emperor.

It's tricky though, as it's like trying to cast the Iliad. There's nobody truly alive who could capture the character of Diomedes or Achilles properly. They're just too large for life.

Hmmm

Emperor-George Clooney
Horus-the guy who plays 'the mountain' from GoT
Thats all i got

Aftercredits
13th black crusade
Failbaddon-A good actor that can shout a name really loudly for a long period of time (you know why)
Creed-'The rock'

WHAT?!?!? HOW DID HE GET IN THERE? IT COULDVE ONLY TAKEN A TACTICAL GENI-
CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!

I'd not go with a live action movie the budget for something like that would be all kinds of nuts. I'd go the animation route. then we could choose actors whose voices could carry the role. Patrick Stewart suddenly would become a very viable choice for the role of the emperor (or maybe Malcador) you'd just need to find voice actors whom could really carry the presence, hmm Maybe Kevin Conroy as one of the Primarchs?

Mark Strong for Horus for certain. He did a great job of getting the SM 'feel' right in Space Marine (the video game), and just generally is one of the few actors in the right age bracket that has that kind of gravitas. As for the rest of the cast, here are a few I think could work well:

Christopher Lee as the voice of The Emperor. No one alive has as much gravitas as him.

Loken: Chris Hemsworth, perhaps?

Torgaddon: James Purefoy was a good suggestion, so I'll go with that (although in other 'Cast the HH' threads I usually have him down for Lion)

Abbadon: Manu Bennet (since he's great as a tough good guy and an out-and-out evil villain)

Aximand: Vin Diesel could almost work, actually

Erebus: Marc Warren (anyone who disagrees, see his performance as Rochefort in The Musketeers. Pure evil stuff!)

Rogal Dorn: Russel Crowe

Lorgar: The chap who played Wormtongue in LotR, I forget his name.

Lucius: Jason Flemyng

Struggling to think of Sanguinis, Maloghurst and Tarvitz.

I actually did a similar topic a few years ago
Here is the link as it shows pictures of the actors (some of which have a likeness to the character being played ie Brad Pitt bald) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/481991.page

Here were my thoughts


Emperor – Jim Caviezel
Horus – Eric Bana
Magnus the Red - Ron Perlman
Angron - Tom Hardy
Mortarion – Nathan Jones
Fulgrim - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Lorgar Aurelian – Brad Pitt
Perturabo - James Purefoy
Konrad Curze – Christain Bale
Alpharius/Omegon - Sam Worthington
Ferrus Manus - Steve Austin
Sanguinius – Alexander Skarsgård
Lion El'Jonson – Chris Hemsworth
Jaghatai Khan - Ken Watanabe
Leman Russ - Vladimir Kulich
Roboute Guilliman – Thomas Jane
Vulkan - Peter Mensah
Corax – Karl Urban
Rogal Dorn – Gerard Butler

 Wyzilla wrote:
These casting picks are downright weird. The only person I could imagine actually capturing Horus well is Mark Strong. Also, given how Neeson did a good job as Zeus in Clash of the Titans, he might make a good cast for the Emperor.

It's tricky though, as it's like trying to cast the Iliad. There's nobody truly alive who could capture the character of Diomedes or Achilles properly. They're just too large for life.

~

Tottaly agree when you say some cast suggestions are weird, but allow me to explain...starting with the most pertinent one...Horus

Of course Bill Golderg is not cut for the role...i mean, look at him...Goldberg is 100 % Phisic and 0% Charisma...and lets face it, Horus "eats" rhetoric for breakfast and craps charisma in industrial doses. Its impossible not to like him even when he goes awire (And im a Loyalist )

But some of my suggestion were exactly that...phisic based suggestions. Mark Strong IS Horus, hands down. Only one problem though...
In this movie Horus would be smaller than Abbandon (if Stone Cold gets the role)

I agree with the suggestion of Marc Warren for Erebus...but i always imagined Ralph Fienes in the role.
I keep struggling with my choice for Mortarion...i imagine him with a sick(ish) face...i mean...its screams Steve Buscemi. But a Primarch with funny teeth...ehnnn


Rogal Dorn - Stephen Lang


Erebus - Ralph Fienes (Evil roles fit him like a glove)


Roboute Guilliman - Sean Bean


Ferrus Manus - Ray Stevenson



And girls??? Lets talk about girls...

Mersadie Olitton - Rosario Dawson


Euphrati Keeler - AJ Cook


Its all for now...

PS: Wouldnt mind seeing Chuck Norris somewhere in here...im open to suggestions

Gerald Butler- Leman Russ

Sean Bean can't be Guilliman - he doesn't die! Sean Bean always dies! Unless he's Richard Sharpe.

I would've put Patrick Stewart as Malcador.

Poly Ranger wrote:
Sean Bean can't be Guilliman - he doesn't die! Sean Bean always dies! Unless he's Richard Sharpe.

Theres always a first time for everything...give the man a chance

Poly Ranger wrote:
I would've put Patrick Stewart as Malcador.

That would be EPIC!

Kyril Sindermann - Max Von Sydow


Saul Tarvitz - Kevin McKidd

Horus:



Magnus the Red



Angron



Mortarion



Fulgrim



Lorgar Aurelian



Perturabo



Konrad Curze



Alpharius/Omegon



Ferrus Manus



Sanguinius



Lion El'Jonson



Jaghatai Khan



Leman Russ



Roboute Guilliman



Vulkan



Corax



Rogal Dorn



And Finally;
The Emperor of Mankind














































(well they are family)

ROFL

Does he plays the female roles too?

Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson as Ferrus Manus, maybe?

+1 for Christopher Lee as Emperor.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson as Ferrus Manus, maybe?

+1 for Christopher Lee as Emperor.

Christopher Lee and the Emperor are probably around the same age so that works