melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2022-02-01 11:05 am

Snowflake #12

Well, "post every day" didn't go super well for January, but it did go better than the previous month?

[community profile] snowflake_challenge is over except for the wrap-up friending meme, but I guess I'm going to try to keep going on the ones I missed (I wasn't doing it right anyway.)

Challenge #12 was to do a recast. I would need to be less faceblind and a lot more visually oriented and interested in celebrities to do this well, but once in awhile I to stumble on a perfect casting for someone, and luckily I did that relatively recently!

So here's a cast list for Harrow the Ninth (I wanted to do Gideon, but you very quickly run into a severe lack of female options for the cast; Harrow is therefore slightly more doable.)


John Gaius, the Emperor Undying, Necrolord Prime: Kermit the Frog
The Body/Cytherea's corpse (dual role): Miss Piggy (Also playing Commander Wake if needed for flashbacks, in a red wig.)

Augustine the First, First Saint to Serve the King Undying: Rizzo the Rat
Mercymorn the First, Second Saint to Serve the King Undying: Uncle Deadly (or possibly an Uncle Deadly relation done all in peach fuzz, but I think Deadly could pull it off.)
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(sorry)

Camilla the Fifth: Camilla
Palamedes Sextus: Gonzo the Great
Judith Deuteros: A female relative of Sam the American Eagle
Coronabeth Tridentarius: Janice

I think I would want to cast Harrow and Ianthe as young, relatively unknown actresses, preferably Maori and Pakeha, the only non-Muppets in the 'real world' scenes - having them be the only human characters would point up how isolating and dissociating their circumstances are (and I think it's important to cast Ianthe that way too, because Harrow/the camera sees her as way more together and on top of things than Harrow, but she is also thrown into a situation she isn't really ready to handle. Also neither of them can be classically Hollywood beautiful, which leaves out most star actresses who are young enough.)

All the characters in Harrow's dream bubble are also played by humans even if they were Muppets in the first movie, but I leave that casting up to the rest of you.
petra: Luke Skywalker and Miss Piggy, who is dressed as Princess Leia (Luke Skywalker & Miss Piggy - Aw)

[personal profile] petra 2022-02-01 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the meta of Harrow and Ianthe as the only humans, but you won me completely with the cheap-but-perfect joke of Camilla: Camilla.
petra: A white woman and a black man in unitards, reaching for the sky (Britta & Troy - Gotta dance)

[personal profile] petra 2022-02-01 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for making me cackle during my SO's telemeeting. I'm sure his colleagues appreciated it.