hanna is not a boy's name! - the motion picture
oh why hello there.
yes i am suddenly alive.
anyhoo~, i've been working on this thing for months - a hypothetical movie cast for the (AMAZING) webcomic hanna is not a boy's name (go on. click it. it's worth it.)
so yeah, here we go!
"Humans really are social creatures - They benefit greatly from each other's company. In that sense, at least, I am still very human."
"Your narrator and dead for [at least] ten years, { … } has grown bored of contemplating life and his own lack thereof. As he is unable to remember much of anything, he no longer dwells on it, finding that he would rather spend his time creating new memories instead of straining to call upon things that are clearly gone. So he somehow found himself at the doorstep of Hanna Falk Cross, a wanna-be paranormal investigator who ends up messing up more than not. Despite Hanna’s seemingly constant failures however, he is quite content with being Hanna’s partner and sincerely tries to aid in all of the smaller man’s endeavors."
i've loved lee pace since wonderfalls, and once somebody suggested him for zombie/{...}, i immediately agreed. he's beautifully solemn without being completely boring, which is important for our dear undead narrator.
"Whu-what? Were you teasing me? No way! That's awesome! This is a whole new step in our friendship, I think."
"Hanna is best described as an overly enthusiastic, obnoxious child in the body of a twenty four year old man. Yes, he’s twenty four, yes he would love it if you bothered to remember, yes he can drink, and yes ladies, he’s single. Hanna finds glee in almost every aspect of his life, even the things that suck. He seems to believe that without your hardknock experiences you are ill suited to better appreciate the good things that come into your life. While that may seem wise beyond his years, don’t give up too much hope because he regularly exudes a far more pressing childlike innocence and naivety. It’s that same naivety that has him INSISTING upon being a paranormal investigator when it seems rather obvious to everyone that he’s not all that great at it."
tessa said on a deviation once that andrew (of ludo fame) was one of the inspirations for hanna, and now i just can't unsee it. XDD he's so goofy and precious, and something tells me he could really get into character, even for the serious scenes.
"This is all a load of nonsense. Like one giant tasteless practical joke. I keep thinking at any moment one of you will turn to me and be all, 'Just kidding!' and I dunno, tell me I'm high on Vicodin."
"Possibly categorized as the worst vampire in the world, Conrad can’t seem to get over that tiny mental hurdle of seeing people as food. It’s not so much that he wants to be the ‘nice vampire guy’ that simply won’t eat humans, its just that he has a cocktail of anxieties and neurosis so that when it comes to placing his mouth on a complete stranger, biting and sucking that all away, he really can’t bring himself to do it. This might make him seem like a complete wuss but….oh wait, no Conrad really is a complete wuss, sorry about that."
hahaha omg i love conrad. he's just amazing. i didn't know who to cast as him for the longest time, until my darling alicia shoved a picture of gary go in my face, squealing "oh my god conrad's real!" he even has the nose, which, really, is my favorite trait of dear connie's.
"Ffft, don't ask me. I'm not a witch doctor. Thought about it once, though. It'd be handy."
"Doc Worth calls himself a doctor, but not many other people do. I mean Hanna does, but Hanna has terrible judgment. Doc Worth did the whole fancy going to medical school thing for a while, until he realized that dressing nicely and remembering a bunch of ‘useless crap’ wasn’t really his style. So he dropped out, fell out of touch with his family and started a practice in a dark alley somewhere while simultaneously deciding that all of his coats needed to have a line of fur on it for absolutely no reason except maybe that it made him look sorta dingier and skeezier."
oh my lord do i love doc worth. (i'm actually cosplaying him in october, trololo~) he's just...he's so gross but i love him. someone somewhere said paul bettany for him, and i agree whole-heartedly. i mean...blond, scrawny, scruffy...mmm. <3 and i'm sure he could totally rock an aussie accent.
"You're not quite the usual archetype for vampires either. I don't think sweater vests and nerdy glasses really scream Nosferatu."
"Toni was one of those people who couldn’t help but notice that there was something slightly ‘off’ about Hanna and the people that he seemed to keep as company. It probably had something to do with the fact that she, herself, was odd company, revealing very canine tendencies should she get sort of miffed about something. An insensitive guy might suggest that is just cos she’s a crazy girl, but she would assure you that there is something much bigger going on than just that. She’s pretty sure that being a crazy girl doesn’t actually give you the urge to howl at the moon."
my toni was originally zoe saldana, who, while gorgeous, wasn't quite real enough for toni for my tastes. enter angel in a picspam for merlin and it was love at first sight. she's got beautiful hair and looks great in blue. and i bet she would make a kickass werewolf. what's more to love?
"Lee wanted to do something really nice for me, and because of it--because I asked him too, he's fucking dead. The least I can do is beat up the damn bastard who let him die."
"The first thing you may notice about Veser is that he has ungodly huge eyes. Second thing may be his horrible rows of gnashing shark teeth, and thirdly may be that he’s an annoying teenage twat. These are all accurate and wonderful observations. Veser is nineteen, but he acts way younger than that, though how much of it is a mask is somewhat debatable. Its hard to tell whether or not he decides to say inappropriate things because he thinks it is funny or because he sincerely lacks the social tact. Most speculate it is both."
awww, veser...if you can't tell, i'm in love with every member of this entire fucking cast. anyway. jake abel was suggested by someone on the hanna lj community, and while i haven't seen him act, from looks alone he seems perfect. look at that sad puppy face...:C
"Oh, my apologies. I just have known lesser men to kill for even lesser reasons."
"Primarily known as the guy who looks great in suspenders and ticks an awful lot, Ples is the guy who [unsurprisingly] looks great in suspenders and ticks an awful lot. Sorry, that’s all I got right now."
as we can tell from tessa's lovely description, not much is known about our dear ples. however, this doesn't stop him from earning a rapid fanbase, due to his mysterious nature, impeccable taste in victorian clothing, and the fact that he is the only canon gay character in the comic. XDD johnny is pretty much the only "a-lister" here, but there is truly no one else in my mind who could play him better. i've always thought ples an ichabod/sweeney hybrid anyway.
"You actually know your stuff, Mr. Cross. Color me surprised."
"For whatever reason, she ended up being in Conrad’s apartment and claimed it as her own, kicking the poor dip out on his ass. She was Hanna’s first case, but it didn’t turn out so well [for Hanna]. She got away, ripped { … }’s arm off at some point and insulted Hanna’s personal hygiene to boot. She also killed Conrad, oh yea. But she left him an unintentional parting gift of vampirism, so now he gets to experience that on a daily basis. She is Conrad’s true sire, or true boss, and is almost like vampire family but she so far hasn’t either noticed or given a shit. She does seem to piss off other vampires too, though."
adelaide was actually the first person i cast - as soon as i saw her human form i imagined idina playing her. idina plays a wonderful bitch, and she's absolutely beautiful to boot. now if we could just get in a scene of her singing....
"So damn stupid. Who would've thought I would have had the mind to deny death when it actually happened...?"
"First regarded as the ghost who got kinda pissed off whenever a girl was off key, Lee turned out to have much more deeply rooted problems than an intolerance for bad singing. As a ghost he is irritable, jealous and vengeful no matter who it is he may be talking to, having bouts of aggression coupled with crippling sadness and self pity. As a person, Lee was commonly confused, well meaning but dull, and had a horrible ability to push the worst case scenario out of his head in favor of a much more comforting half-truth. Lee was really the only parental figure in Veser’s life, but he failed to really understand how much Veser needed him. That is, until he died."
this was also an instant cast - alan would be so wonderfully forlorn as lee. i could hear his voice reading the quote above and it nearly brought me to tears.
"Heh. You're some detective, Cross. Quite a rag-tag freak show ya got goin' here. Seems you're more into paranormal charity than any real sleuthing, though."
"Careful, Casimiro. You're losing your humanity."
"Two vampires that seem to be after Conrad’s sire for whatever reason, they not only differ in physical appearance, but they are like night and day in personality. While Casimiro is brazen and self assured and can be a bit of a bully, Finas would much rather take the quieter, much more self-reserved route. They both are what they are though, hunters and killers, and most likely, hedonists. Unlike Conrad, they have been walking the earth for a long enough time to decide that starving really blew.
The two are not related, but do travel everywhere together even if people can’t completely wrap their head around why."
these two are fantastic XDD i chose james franco for cas because, well, casimiro is a sexy, snarky italian, and james is a sexy, snarky italian. he's got the attitude and swagger to play him to perfection. i've heard great things about misha from supernatural reviews, and he's got the broad-shouldered bodyguard look that finas works so well. i'd love to see these two on the big screen.
"Don't worry, he's unfortunately quite okay. Just a bit out of it."
"There’s a man behind everything, and behind all of Worth’s shady shenanigans is Lamont Toucey. Sporting the look of a stocky, sturdy man who wouldn’t mind getting his hands a little dirty for a few quick bucks, his looks aren’t all that deceiving. Though despite his slicked back hair and his dark eyes and who he keeps company with (Doc Worth), Lamont proves to be horrendously polite and soft spoken. How much of those manners are genuine is debatable, but at least if he’s being sneaky he’s going to be very superficially kind while doing so."
lamont toucey. what can i say about lamont toucey? lamont toucey is flawless. okay, before i get too into that mean girls reference, let's get onto the casting. i was searching the web for italian-american actors, and was surprised to find mark on the list. suddenly, it hit me that "oh my god this man is lamont why didn't i realize it before?" then i watched eternal sunshine and my decision was sealed.
"I hunt all vampires, Mr. Achenleck. Even you. But you are more of a mercy kill."
"[Abner] is, in essence, similar to Hanna in that he deals with paranormal oddities, however unlike Hanna, he eliminates them all instead of any sort of general problem solving. Also, he's a lot better at it. And while the mask and goggles seem to be worn for looks, it's really because he can't stand any sort of bodily fluid touching him at any time, be it sweat, spit, or yanno. Anything else. BLOOD. Since that comes out of people too. He's horrendously obssessive compulsive, and it may be his greatest weakness if one were able to exploit it."
can i just echo the entire fanbase by saying that I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL ABNER GETS INTO THE COMIC. this guys looks like SUCH a badass, and seems to be a very good recurring villain. also, before you laugh about my casting choice, think about it. sacha was deliciously evil in sweeney todd, even if it was for a few scenes, and physically he screams abner. just look at that profile!
oh my lord i've been working on this for like four hours. nfdjksg.
bedtime.
yes i am suddenly alive.
anyhoo~, i've been working on this thing for months - a hypothetical movie cast for the (AMAZING) webcomic hanna is not a boy's name (go on. click it. it's worth it.)
so yeah, here we go!
"Humans really are social creatures - They benefit greatly from each other's company. In that sense, at least, I am still very human."
"Your narrator and dead for [at least] ten years, { … } has grown bored of contemplating life and his own lack thereof. As he is unable to remember much of anything, he no longer dwells on it, finding that he would rather spend his time creating new memories instead of straining to call upon things that are clearly gone. So he somehow found himself at the doorstep of Hanna Falk Cross, a wanna-be paranormal investigator who ends up messing up more than not. Despite Hanna’s seemingly constant failures however, he is quite content with being Hanna’s partner and sincerely tries to aid in all of the smaller man’s endeavors."
i've loved lee pace since wonderfalls, and once somebody suggested him for zombie/{...}, i immediately agreed. he's beautifully solemn without being completely boring, which is important for our dear undead narrator.
"Whu-what? Were you teasing me? No way! That's awesome! This is a whole new step in our friendship, I think."
"Hanna is best described as an overly enthusiastic, obnoxious child in the body of a twenty four year old man. Yes, he’s twenty four, yes he would love it if you bothered to remember, yes he can drink, and yes ladies, he’s single. Hanna finds glee in almost every aspect of his life, even the things that suck. He seems to believe that without your hardknock experiences you are ill suited to better appreciate the good things that come into your life. While that may seem wise beyond his years, don’t give up too much hope because he regularly exudes a far more pressing childlike innocence and naivety. It’s that same naivety that has him INSISTING upon being a paranormal investigator when it seems rather obvious to everyone that he’s not all that great at it."
tessa said on a deviation once that andrew (of ludo fame) was one of the inspirations for hanna, and now i just can't unsee it. XDD he's so goofy and precious, and something tells me he could really get into character, even for the serious scenes.
"This is all a load of nonsense. Like one giant tasteless practical joke. I keep thinking at any moment one of you will turn to me and be all, 'Just kidding!' and I dunno, tell me I'm high on Vicodin."
"Possibly categorized as the worst vampire in the world, Conrad can’t seem to get over that tiny mental hurdle of seeing people as food. It’s not so much that he wants to be the ‘nice vampire guy’ that simply won’t eat humans, its just that he has a cocktail of anxieties and neurosis so that when it comes to placing his mouth on a complete stranger, biting and sucking that all away, he really can’t bring himself to do it. This might make him seem like a complete wuss but….oh wait, no Conrad really is a complete wuss, sorry about that."
hahaha omg i love conrad. he's just amazing. i didn't know who to cast as him for the longest time, until my darling alicia shoved a picture of gary go in my face, squealing "oh my god conrad's real!" he even has the nose, which, really, is my favorite trait of dear connie's.
"Ffft, don't ask me. I'm not a witch doctor. Thought about it once, though. It'd be handy."
"Doc Worth calls himself a doctor, but not many other people do. I mean Hanna does, but Hanna has terrible judgment. Doc Worth did the whole fancy going to medical school thing for a while, until he realized that dressing nicely and remembering a bunch of ‘useless crap’ wasn’t really his style. So he dropped out, fell out of touch with his family and started a practice in a dark alley somewhere while simultaneously deciding that all of his coats needed to have a line of fur on it for absolutely no reason except maybe that it made him look sorta dingier and skeezier."
oh my lord do i love doc worth. (i'm actually cosplaying him in october, trololo~) he's just...he's so gross but i love him. someone somewhere said paul bettany for him, and i agree whole-heartedly. i mean...blond, scrawny, scruffy...mmm. <3 and i'm sure he could totally rock an aussie accent.
"You're not quite the usual archetype for vampires either. I don't think sweater vests and nerdy glasses really scream Nosferatu."
"Toni was one of those people who couldn’t help but notice that there was something slightly ‘off’ about Hanna and the people that he seemed to keep as company. It probably had something to do with the fact that she, herself, was odd company, revealing very canine tendencies should she get sort of miffed about something. An insensitive guy might suggest that is just cos she’s a crazy girl, but she would assure you that there is something much bigger going on than just that. She’s pretty sure that being a crazy girl doesn’t actually give you the urge to howl at the moon."
my toni was originally zoe saldana, who, while gorgeous, wasn't quite real enough for toni for my tastes. enter angel in a picspam for merlin and it was love at first sight. she's got beautiful hair and looks great in blue. and i bet she would make a kickass werewolf. what's more to love?
"Lee wanted to do something really nice for me, and because of it--because I asked him too, he's fucking dead. The least I can do is beat up the damn bastard who let him die."
"The first thing you may notice about Veser is that he has ungodly huge eyes. Second thing may be his horrible rows of gnashing shark teeth, and thirdly may be that he’s an annoying teenage twat. These are all accurate and wonderful observations. Veser is nineteen, but he acts way younger than that, though how much of it is a mask is somewhat debatable. Its hard to tell whether or not he decides to say inappropriate things because he thinks it is funny or because he sincerely lacks the social tact. Most speculate it is both."
awww, veser...if you can't tell, i'm in love with every member of this entire fucking cast. anyway. jake abel was suggested by someone on the hanna lj community, and while i haven't seen him act, from looks alone he seems perfect. look at that sad puppy face...:C
"Oh, my apologies. I just have known lesser men to kill for even lesser reasons."
"Primarily known as the guy who looks great in suspenders and ticks an awful lot, Ples is the guy who [unsurprisingly] looks great in suspenders and ticks an awful lot. Sorry, that’s all I got right now."
as we can tell from tessa's lovely description, not much is known about our dear ples. however, this doesn't stop him from earning a rapid fanbase, due to his mysterious nature, impeccable taste in victorian clothing, and the fact that he is the only canon gay character in the comic. XDD johnny is pretty much the only "a-lister" here, but there is truly no one else in my mind who could play him better. i've always thought ples an ichabod/sweeney hybrid anyway.
"You actually know your stuff, Mr. Cross. Color me surprised."
"For whatever reason, she ended up being in Conrad’s apartment and claimed it as her own, kicking the poor dip out on his ass. She was Hanna’s first case, but it didn’t turn out so well [for Hanna]. She got away, ripped { … }’s arm off at some point and insulted Hanna’s personal hygiene to boot. She also killed Conrad, oh yea. But she left him an unintentional parting gift of vampirism, so now he gets to experience that on a daily basis. She is Conrad’s true sire, or true boss, and is almost like vampire family but she so far hasn’t either noticed or given a shit. She does seem to piss off other vampires too, though."
adelaide was actually the first person i cast - as soon as i saw her human form i imagined idina playing her. idina plays a wonderful bitch, and she's absolutely beautiful to boot. now if we could just get in a scene of her singing....
"So damn stupid. Who would've thought I would have had the mind to deny death when it actually happened...?"
"First regarded as the ghost who got kinda pissed off whenever a girl was off key, Lee turned out to have much more deeply rooted problems than an intolerance for bad singing. As a ghost he is irritable, jealous and vengeful no matter who it is he may be talking to, having bouts of aggression coupled with crippling sadness and self pity. As a person, Lee was commonly confused, well meaning but dull, and had a horrible ability to push the worst case scenario out of his head in favor of a much more comforting half-truth. Lee was really the only parental figure in Veser’s life, but he failed to really understand how much Veser needed him. That is, until he died."
this was also an instant cast - alan would be so wonderfully forlorn as lee. i could hear his voice reading the quote above and it nearly brought me to tears.
"Heh. You're some detective, Cross. Quite a rag-tag freak show ya got goin' here. Seems you're more into paranormal charity than any real sleuthing, though."
"Careful, Casimiro. You're losing your humanity."
"Two vampires that seem to be after Conrad’s sire for whatever reason, they not only differ in physical appearance, but they are like night and day in personality. While Casimiro is brazen and self assured and can be a bit of a bully, Finas would much rather take the quieter, much more self-reserved route. They both are what they are though, hunters and killers, and most likely, hedonists. Unlike Conrad, they have been walking the earth for a long enough time to decide that starving really blew.
The two are not related, but do travel everywhere together even if people can’t completely wrap their head around why."
these two are fantastic XDD i chose james franco for cas because, well, casimiro is a sexy, snarky italian, and james is a sexy, snarky italian. he's got the attitude and swagger to play him to perfection. i've heard great things about misha from supernatural reviews, and he's got the broad-shouldered bodyguard look that finas works so well. i'd love to see these two on the big screen.
"Don't worry, he's unfortunately quite okay. Just a bit out of it."
"There’s a man behind everything, and behind all of Worth’s shady shenanigans is Lamont Toucey. Sporting the look of a stocky, sturdy man who wouldn’t mind getting his hands a little dirty for a few quick bucks, his looks aren’t all that deceiving. Though despite his slicked back hair and his dark eyes and who he keeps company with (Doc Worth), Lamont proves to be horrendously polite and soft spoken. How much of those manners are genuine is debatable, but at least if he’s being sneaky he’s going to be very superficially kind while doing so."
lamont toucey. what can i say about lamont toucey? lamont toucey is flawless. okay, before i get too into that mean girls reference, let's get onto the casting. i was searching the web for italian-american actors, and was surprised to find mark on the list. suddenly, it hit me that "oh my god this man is lamont why didn't i realize it before?" then i watched eternal sunshine and my decision was sealed.
"I hunt all vampires, Mr. Achenleck. Even you. But you are more of a mercy kill."
"[Abner] is, in essence, similar to Hanna in that he deals with paranormal oddities, however unlike Hanna, he eliminates them all instead of any sort of general problem solving. Also, he's a lot better at it. And while the mask and goggles seem to be worn for looks, it's really because he can't stand any sort of bodily fluid touching him at any time, be it sweat, spit, or yanno. Anything else. BLOOD. Since that comes out of people too. He's horrendously obssessive compulsive, and it may be his greatest weakness if one were able to exploit it."
can i just echo the entire fanbase by saying that I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL ABNER GETS INTO THE COMIC. this guys looks like SUCH a badass, and seems to be a very good recurring villain. also, before you laugh about my casting choice, think about it. sacha was deliciously evil in sweeney todd, even if it was for a few scenes, and physically he screams abner. just look at that profile!
oh my lord i've been working on this for like four hours. nfdjksg.
bedtime.