Merlin, Dig Out Your Wands . . . Options

[Jessopjessopjess...]

You also forgot that Guinevere will be some fresh out of LAMBDA girly who speaks in a Sloaney-slumming way and the 'modern' soundtrack full of beeps and twiddles and geeee-tar.

Don't forget the animated screen-titles of a magic wand making words appear, informing the audience which location they are looking at, in case their eyes had been burned out by Archangel Gabriel in the past 5 minutes since it was last on screen; *SWOOOSH* "Meanwhile at Winalot"

The main villians will include an incredibly hammy, well-regarded thespian biting chunks out of the scenery while commenting wryly on his or her sidekick's slapstick shenanigans.

[logger]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it will be ultra realistic as insane alchemist leads messianic Arthur on a bloody crusade against foreign types to prove Briton's god given sovereignty over the rest of the world. That's the kind of thing the beeb are likely to put out, right.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

Is Billie available?

You wouldn't need Merlin, with Billie's extraordinary magical ability to actually NOT turn into a horse, mouth-first.

[Serafina_Pekkala]

And there will be an extended opening sequence every bleeding episode.

The main villians will include an incredibly hammy, well-regarded thespian biting chunks out of the scenery while commenting wryly on his or her sidekick's slapstick shenanigans.

Yes - but i wonder who now Allen's been used. Nigel Planer? The gotta have at least comedy actor cast against type in a villain's role.

Sefi x

[Starscream`s Gho...]

And there will be an extended opening sequence every bleeding episode. 
Yes - but i wonder who now Allen's been used.  Nigel Planer?  The gotta have at least comedy actor cast against type in a villain's role.

Sefi x

Tom Baker.

[Sostie]

I look forward to whole thing being an analogy for US Imperialism and religious tolerance

[Jessopjessopjess...]

Nigel Planer? The gotta have at least comedy actor cast against type in a villain's role.

Good call, I saw him the other day looking miserable.

My first thought was Joanna Lumley, in another completely-out-of-character character as an evil witch like Evilynn from He-Man but with smaller tits.

[Serafina_Pekkala]

Tom Baker.

I said comedy actor cast against type. Baker will be guesting as strange old magician of the Saruman school who turns evil. I'd say around episode 7.

Still - renowned actress of some unspecified Celtic descent such as Dervla Kirwan or Susan Lynch as Morgana will probably be good.

Sefi x

[dandan]

more likely to be toyah...

[Sostie]

more likely to be toyah...

I'd watch

[dandan]

or bonnie langford...

[Jessopjessopjess...]

Still - renowned actress of some unspecified Celtic descent such as Dervla Kirwan or Susan Lynch as Morgana will probably be good.

Gina McKee has smallprint in her contract which binds her to any fantasy project made in the UK.

[Serafina_Pekkala]

like Evilynn from He-Man but with smaller tits.

I really did LOL when i read this.

more likely to be toyah...

It is a mysterwy (haw haw) but she ain't sexy enough. Morgana has to be fanciable for the dads - the nearest thing to Miranda Richardson they can get.

EDIT - Gina McKee - exactement!!

Sefi x

This post has been edited by Serafina_Pekkala: Mar 12 2007, 03:15 PM

[Starscream`s Gho...]

Gina McKee has smallprint in her contract which binds her to any fantasy project made in the UK.

As does Jean Marsh.

[Sostie]

I really did LOL when i read this. 
It is a mysterwy (haw haw) but she ain't sexy enough.  Morgana has to be fanciable for the dads -

Well Helen Mirren is too "big" for the role again, Lindsay Duncan slightly too old so it has to be Gillian Anderson!