Casting the Primarchs

[OCdt Mephiston]

I saw a fun thread on bolter and chainsword asking who would be the ideal actors to portray the primarchs in a Heresy era movie, and thought that the lounge would probably have some interesting opinions on the matter. So have at it, who would you have lead the legions of the emperor into battle on the silver screen? The only big restrictions that I can think of is that the primarchs all appeared to be young men at the time, scratching Connery and other distinguished gentlemen from the list of badass mofos elligeble for roles.

[dagonis]

I-Lion El'Jonson (Dark Angels) Hugh Jackman
III-Fulgrim (Emperor's Children) Orlando Bloom
IV-Perturabo (Iron Warriors) Michael Ironside *a bit old, but makeup and CGI could fix this*
V-Jaghatai Khan (White Scars) Tony Jaa
VI-Leman Russ (Space Wolves) Viggo Mortenson (with a killer beard)
VII-Rogal Dorn (Imperial Fists) Jason Statham
VIII-Konrad Curze/Night Haunter (Night Lords) Clive Owen
IX-Sanguinius (Blood Angels) Jude Law
X-Ferrus Manus (Iron Hands) Vin Diesel
XII-Angron (World Eaters) Bruce Willis
XIII-Roboute Guilliman (Ultramarines) Brad Pitt
XIV-Mortarion (Death Guard) Kevin Nash
XV-Magnus the Red (Thousand Sons) Udo Keir
XVI-Horus (Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus) Vinnie Jones
XVII-Lorgar (Word Bearers) Willem Dafoe
XVIII-Vulkan (Salamanders) Samuel L Jackson
XIX-Corax (Raven Guard) Gerard Butler
XX-Alpharius Omegon (Alpha Legion) Johnny Depp

I know not all those are the best of all possible choices, but I think it would make a solid ensemble cast.

[OCdt Mephiston]

[QUOTE=dagonis;32324]XIII-Roboute Guilliman (Ultramarines) Brad Pitt
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I must say that this caught me by surprise, but as i thought about it, the more he seemed to fit!

Also, I think I may have switched your choices for Sanguinius and Fulgrim. IMO Jude Law would probably do a better job with the "greater than thou" mentality, and we know that Bloom can do majestic pretty darned well (ref. LoTR)

[dagonis]

I definitely thought about that and the more I consider it I think you are right.

Tbh I was thinking of Legolas when I chose him for that spot (some dude with long blonde hair).

[eldargal]

Horus - Rufus Sewell
Leman Russ - Brian Blessed (with some cgi to make him look younger:rolleyes:)
Alpharius - David Tennant


Perhaps River Pheonix and Heath Ledger as the missing primarchs?

Yes I know, poor taste.

[Kieranator K82]

Liev Schreiber - Leman Russ of the Space Wolves (Sabretooth of the future)
Christian Bale - Konrad Kurze of the Night Lords (Batman in power armour)

I'm not entirely sure Vulkan even looks like the rest of the Salamanders, originally being from Terra and not from Nocturne, so until we have evidence to support his darkness, Samuel L. Jackson needs to sit on the sidelines.

[Aldramelech]

Swap Brad Pitt for Timothy Oliphant and Samual L Jackson for Larry Fishburn.

[entendre_entendre]

my vote's for Ron Pearlman for Dorn.

[miteyheroes]

I'd have Joaquin Phoenix for Horus and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo from Rome) as Angron.

Mortarion's difficult. Maybe Edward Norton?

And I'm utterly stumped for Magnus the Red.

Other than that, I support most of the choices above...

[AirHorse]

XVI-Horus (Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus) Vinnie Jones
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I died little bit when I read that lol! Horus was supposed to be the brightest of all the primarchs and you suggested vinne jones XD I do admit that he kind of has a mild resemblance to the artwork of horus but I cant really handle the idea of vinne jones being the "greatest" of the primarchs. I would pick someone like Matt Damon for horus personally, or maybe harrison ford!

As for other primarchs heres a short list of what I thought was apropriate:

Angron - Dolph Lundgren
Lion El'Johnson - Christian Bale
Roboute Guilliman - Jean-Claude Van Damme!

[DarkLink]

Jeremy Irons has got to be in there somewhere. Liam Neeson, too.

[miteyheroes]

Liam Neeson as the Emperor and Jeremy Irons as Malacdor?

[Majorcrash]

I-Lion El'Jonson (Dark Angels) Hugh Jackman
III-Fulgrim (Emperor's Children) Orlando Bloom
IV-Perturabo (Iron Warriors) Michael Ironside *a bit old, but makeup and CGI could fix this*
V-Jaghatai Khan (White Scars) Tony Jaa
VI-Leman Russ (Space Wolves) Viggo Mortenson (with a killer beard)
VII-Rogal Dorn (Imperial Fists) Jason Statham
VIII-Konrad Curze/Night Haunter (Night Lords) Clive Owen
IX-Sanguinius (Blood Angels) Jude Law
X-Ferrus Manus (Iron Hands) Vin Diesel
XII-Angron (World Eaters) Bruce Willis
XIII-Roboute Guilliman (Ultramarines) Brad Pitt
XIV-Mortarion (Death Guard) Kevin Nash
XV-Magnus the Red (Thousand Sons) Udo Keir
XVI-Horus (Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus) Vinnie Jones
XVII-Lorgar (Word Bearers) Willem Dafoe
XVIII-Vulkan (Salamanders) Samuel L Jackson
XIX-Corax (Raven Guard) Gerard Butler
XX-Alpharius Omegon (Alpha Legion) Johnny Depp

I know not all those are the best of all possible choices, but I think it would make a solid ensemble cast.

ARE you a girl??????????:p

[gwensdad]

Horus - Rufus Sewell
Leman Russ - Brian Blessed (with some cgi to make him look younger:rolleyes:)
Alpharius - David Tennant



For some reason I see Tennant as being more Sanguinius and Christopher Eccleston as Alpharius.
(for extra credit, work Paul McGann and Matt Smith into this!)

Now I'm dreaming of Big Finish doing full-cast audio play adaptations of all the books...

[DarkLink]

I like the idea of Liam Neeson for the Emperor, and Jeremy Irons was born for roles like Malcador.

Angron should be Vinnie Jones. Giant, angry buff guy? Heck yeah.

I originally though Hugh Jackman should be Russ (thanks to his wolverine work), but then someone pointed out Liev Schreiber.

[Capn Stoogey]

I (and my girlfriend) think Dwayne "THE ROCK!" Johnson would make an awesome Horus.
The dude's huge, and has that awesome charming charisma, just think Doom, he was all smiles and sunshine at the start and then went all badass at the end, kinda reminds me of another storyline...