OFFICIAL CAST!

[alexia]

Inkheart - The Movie


The Inkheart cast - News
The Inkheart casting is in progress and finally we are allowed to publish first news on the possible cast:



Mo - Brendan Fraser (confirmed - well, the book is dedicated to him, so
there is no other Mo on this planet)

Dustfinger - Paul Bettany (confirmed - please see him
in "A Knight`s Tale" if you want to understand why Cornelia thinks he
is the most wonderful cast)

Meggie - Eliza Bennett (confirmed)

Farid - Rafi Gavron (confirmed)

Resa - Sienna Guillory (confirmed)

Elinor - Helen Mirren (confirmed)

Fenoglio - Jim Broadbent (confirmed - can it get any
better??)

[kate12whisper13]

I want to work with Jim Broadbent! WAHHHH!

[giz1]

Here's what I think on the cast:

Mo - Brendan Fraser: he's not who I would have cast but he'll be great!
Dustfinger - Paul Bettany: same.
Meggie - Eliza Bennett: she'll be good, I guess.
Farid - Rafi Gavron: he looks pretty good for the part
Resa - Sienna Guillory: YAYYYYYYYY!!!! I love her!
Elinor - Helen Mirren: ehhh...
Fenoglio - Jim Broadbent: AWESEOME!

[rose1elf]

Sienna Guillory was so awesome in Helen of Troy

[giz1]

Um...that wasn't Sienna Guillory in Troy...that was Diane Kruger. Sienna Guillory's in Eragon and The Time Machine and some other stuff... ;D

[rose1elf]

ooohhhhhhhhhhhh ok.. i was thinking of this other movie that came out a couple of years ago called Helen of Troy and someone in that looks like her.... ok...

[rose1elf]

ok i just checked and Sienna was in Helen of Troy cus i Wikipedia'd her and that movie came up and the picture matched

[giz1]

Oh, I thought you meant Helen in Troy!

[steph]

lol!!

i think the cast is pretty flippin awesome!! so many big names means more people will wanna go see it, meaning more people will fall in love with Inkheart, meaning more people will buy the book!!

[rose1elf]

yah!! i've never seen anything with Helen Mirren, whats she been in?

[Caitlin :)]

The Queen and Elizabeth I . She's a pretty good actress.

[alexia]

I like the choice of Jim and Sienna....!

[kia]

Hooray!!!! Information!!
The Inkheart cast

The shooting of Inkheart started on 9 November. Here is the complete cast list:



Mo - Brendan Fraser (Crash, The Quiet American, The Mummy)

Meggie - Eliza Bennett (Nanny McPhee)

Dustfinger - Paul Bettany (A Knight`s Tale, A Beautiful Mind)

Farid - Rafi Gavron (Breaking and Entering)

Resa - Sienna Guillory (Eragon, Resident Evil, Love Actually)

Elinor - Helen Mirren (The Queen, Elizabeth I, Calendar Girls)

Fenoglio - Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge, The Chronicles of Narnia)

Capricorn - Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings, King Kong)

Mortola - Lesley Sharp (Vera Drake, From Hell)

Basta - Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake, Polanski`Oliver Twist)


The Official Press Release

NEW LINE CINEMA’S INKHEART COMPLETES CASTING, STARTS PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Academy Award Nominee Helen Mirren Joins Cast

LONDON (Nov. 9, 2006) – New Line Cinema has completed casting for its upcoming feature film adaptation of the best-selling Cornelia Funke novel Inkheart with the addition of Academy Award nominee Helen Mirren (The Queen, Elizabeth I), and commenced principal photography on November 8th, it was announced today by New Line Production President Toby Emmerich.

Principal photography on Inkheart will begin on location in Liguria, Italy before moving to Shepperton Studios in England. The film is being directed by BAFTA nominee Iain Softley (The Skeleton Key, Backbeat) and is scheduled for a 2008 release.

Joining Mirren in the Inkheart cast is an acclaimed ensemble of actors that includes Brendan Fraser (Crash, The Mummy, New Line’s upcoming Journey 3D), Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge, The Chronicles of Narnia), Rafi Gavron (Breaking and Entering), Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings, King Kong), and 12-year-old British actress Eliza Bennett (Nanny McPhee) as the young protagonist Meggie Folchart. Mirren will play Elinor Loredan, Meggie’s great aunt in the film.

Based on the international bestselling novel by Cornelia Funke, Inkheart centers on Meggie, a young girl whose father (Brendan Fraser) has a secret ability to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud. But when a power-hungry villain from a rare children’s fable kidnaps Meggie’s father to bring others out of the boundaries of fiction, she and a disparate group of friends - both real and magic - embark on an adventure to save him and set things right.

“Inkheart is a magical reality, and Cornelia has provided us with such rich material for the film that bringing it to life is the easy part,” says Softley. “Her illustrations and descriptions in the book have provided us with a way to really feel this new world, and that’s what we are creating, a new world brought forward from a book within a book. Everyone can’t wait to get out to Italy and start principal photography and seeing it all come to life – it’s a very exciting journey we’re about to embark on.”

Inkheart, the first book of a planned trilogy which includes Inkspell (released in 2005) and the upcoming Inkdawn, debuted at number nine on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to be translated into 20 languages. Its author, Funke, has written more than 40 books in 15 years including the international bestseller The Thief Lord. She was named one of Time magazine’s “Most Influential People of the Year” in 2005.

Inkheart is being produced by Cornelia Funke and Academy Award® nominee Barry Mendel (The Sixth Sense, Munich). It is executive produced by Diana Porkony (Dark Water, The Shipping News) and being overseen for the studio by New Line’s Executive Vice President of Production Mark Ordesky and Senior Vice President of European Productions Ileen Maisel (Ripley’s Game, One Gin). Behind the scenes, Inkheart features an all-star production team that includes Academy Award nominated director of photography Roger Pratt (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The End of the Affair) and Academy Award-winning editor Martin Walsh (V For Vendetta, Chicago). The Inkheart screenplay was written by David Lindsay-Abaire (Robots).

Here's the link: www.corneliafunke.de/en/film/film-82.html

[kia]

Now for my opinion...
Mo - Brendan Fraser -never saw him as Mo, still don't see him as Mo. He'll do great, I'm sure, but he'll never be Mo to me.

Meggie - Eliza Bennett - don't know much about her, doesn't look the part, but who knows.... maybe she'll surprise me!

Dustfinger - Paul Bettany - YES!!! He is brilliant! I'm so excited he's playing this part!

Farid - Rafi Gavron - don't know him. He looks perfect, seems perfect.

Resa - Sienna Guillory - Fine... not a real difficult nor important part in my eyes.

Elinor - Helen Mirren - Ooo, good. This is an excellent choice. I wouldn't have thought of her, but she's gonna be great.

Fenoglio - Jim Broadbent - haha, he's a perfect fit!

Capricorn - Andy Serkis -I'm still trying to grapple with this idea... He doesn't fit the image in my head AT ALL!! ... but I love him, he's brilliant, he can do evil. I'll have to wait on this one...

Mortola - Lesley Sharp - not a clue to who this is!

Basta - Jamie Foreman -saw the picture of him... looks mildy promising...

[Tinsley]

Now for my opinion...
Mo - Brendan Fraser - I think he''ll be good, he just looks different than what I expected

Meggie - Eliza Bennett - She's really nice, met her at auditions for Sylvia Young, will do a fine job!

Dustfinger - Paul Bettany - Not sure about him, but he was good in "Da Vinci Code"

Farid - Rafi Gavron - YAY! Always have thought he is v. cute

Resa - Sienna Guillory - YES!

Elinor - Helen Mirren - Um....no. Kathy Bates or Meryl Streep would have been better.

Fenoglio - Jim Broadbent - GREAT!

Capricorn - Andy Serkis - No. Not now, not ever. Good actor, but I can't see him as Cappie.
Mortola - Lesley Sharp - who?

Basta - Jamie Foreman - maybee...