Dragonflight Casting

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Thanks to Wikipedia, I discovered that a Dragonflight movie has been in the works since 2011. David Hayter is the screenwriter, and I found this tweet from him. While the article cited in the tweet is two years old, the tweet response itself is only 1 hour old.

THERE IS HOPE. Now, let's figure out the casting so we can make Mr. Hayter's job oh so much easier  I'll list out the major characters, but if you can think of more who need to be included, let's have them!

Characters of Note:

F'lar	Lessa	Robinton	F'nor
Fax	Gemma	Kylara	R'gul
Larad	Lytol	T'ron	Mandara

Now let's get casting!

[madb]

If I were the casting director I'd cast Emilia Clarke as Lessa, no question.
1. Lessa is described as short, with dark hair, and light eyes (I think they're supposed to be grey but that's the beauty of contacts). Emilia is 5'2", naturally dark-haired, and has light blue eyes. Not too bad, looks-wise.
2. I personally think she can act. Not everyone agrees with me but there we go, that's life for you. At the very least, Lessa isn't too different to play than Dany tbh.
3. Fandom. She's only the most associated woman-with-dragons in pop fantasy culture right now why not take advantage of that and pull people in?? Grab the ASOIAF fandom and pull 'em over to see the movie sounds like a solid plan.


For F'lar I always imagined dark hair, cocky, arrogant, we all kind of know that dude I'm talking about right?
Ian Somerhalder or Colin O'Donoghue or Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and it will be in the contract that whomever gets the part MUST have devilish facial hair yes

F'nor has to look like him but not be quite so... bronzy for lack of a better term. George Blagden?


Kylara - Jennifer Lawrence, she's got the presence to pull off Queenrider and the ability to explore that role to its fullest. I always thought Kylara was one of the more interesting characters. Kylara was always blonde in my mind, don't know if that was in the books or not, but that's how I pictured her.


Robinton - Patrick Stewart. No one else will do. Look at this.

who does that remind you of???
no. you know what. it looks like someone took ian mckellen, grabbed patrick stewart, and blended them into one person.


Lytol
Can be Ian Mckellen. Why not.

/there perfect cast walks away with glitter falling all around her pow fab

[avon]

Huh, I had given up hope on that movie. Good to see they're still working on it!


I would die if George Blagden played F'nor. He was my favorite character in the books (creepy sexual interactions with Brekke aside), and George Blagden is one of my favorite actors...

I would like to see Kaya Scoldelario as Lessa.

Idris Elba as Lytol. I don't remember how Lytol was described in the books but I think Idris could pull off the dragonless thing.

[madb]

I'm always up for Idris Elba in anything