Storycasting

[pameladlloyd]

During the autographing session at TusCon, a gentleman came around passing out bookmarks advertising a new website: Storycasting. The basic conceit, as I understand it, is that authors and fans can suggest the actors that they think should be cast, should a book be made into a movie.

I'd almost forgotten about this until I came across a reference to the site in athanarel, when lady_notorious posted a link to the story cast for Sherwood Smith's (sartorias) Crown Duel.

Exploring the site a bit, I discovered that a number of authors and their works are listed, but have not yet had casts assigned. Out of curiosity, I checked for works by Lois McMaster Bujold and Emma Bull (coffeeem), but neither had been cast, yet. I'm not enough of a movie buff to feel comfortable suggesting a cast for any of their books, but maybe some of you will have some ideas.

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Storycasting - all one word - is "for the movie in your mind"

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I'm the man who came around with our bookmarkers. We normally give them to authors, to use as freebies at signing events, but they work as a good introduction. I demo'd the site that day to Emma Bull, and wrote to invite her, but no response so far. Diana Gabaldon is SUPREMELY uninterested in casting; likewise Laurell K. Hamilton ("it just starts fights among the fans!"), but Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind) is casting and having a BIG discussion at Storycasting, lots of fun. Hope you come take a look - if you read books and like movies, you'll like the site.

Jeff Reid
jeff.reid@storycasting.com

Re: Storycasting - all one word - is "for the movie in your mind"

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Hi, Jeff. Thanks for dropping by and introducing yourself. I think, as you've seen, you're going to have different reactions from different writers. Good luck to you! :)