THE PRETENDER’S CROWN contest/give-away

I have just received two early copies of THE PRETENDER’S CROWN. It is, in my ever-so-humble opinion, absolutely beautiful. In fact, it’s so pretty it makes me want to re-read it, which isn’t all that usual. :)

So! I have two copies. One must go on my Shelf Of Books I Wrote, but the other, I think, cries out to be sent into the world. So there will be a contest!

I will be the director. You will be the Casting Agents. The book will go to the person who builds what is to my mind the best complete cast for THE QUEEN’S BASTARD. The integral characters, therefore, are Belinda Primrose, Robert Drake, Lorraine Walter, Sandalia de Costa, Javier de Castille, Eliza Beaulieu, Marius Poulin, and Sacha Asselin. Bonus points for also casting Dmitri Leontyev, Rodrigo de Costa, Irina Durova, and Akilina Pankejeff. And I’ll be really impressed if you also cast Viktor, Ilyana and the gondola boy. :)

The parts don’t have to be cast with current actors, I wouldn’t say, or people at their current ages. That makes it more fun, I think. :)

Here’s the catch: I only have the one copy to send out, and this post goes out at mizkit.com, cemurphy.net, mizkit.livejournal.com, Facebook, and Myspace. I expect answers will come in from most of those places, so you might not see the winning entry wherever you actually do your own answering. I will, of course, post the winning entry here.

Let’s see. I’ll choose a winner (EDITED: deadline extended!) at noon EST on Tuesday, April 7.

Have at!

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1. Good gracious what a hard contest! Let’s see if I can fix something for you.

   Belinda Primrose – Eliza Dushku
   Javier de Castille – He’s a prince and well there are only so few that can pull off the reagal thing. So I would say that Jonathan Rhys Meyers would definitely pull it off.
   Robert Drake – Now if I could choose anyone I would put Sean Connery here, but he might be a bit too old for him to play the father of Belinda, then again it might work because of the times that the book is suppose to be in. So I think I’ll stick with him.
   Sandalia de Costa – Angelina Jolie
   Lorraine Walter – I would love to have Angelina Jolie here as well, but I think that Siri Svegler would be a much better Lorraine.
   Eliza Beaulieu – Emilie De Ravin (dark hair)
   Marius Pulin – Henry Cavill
   Sascha Asselin – Charlie Hunnam (no hair and no accent)
   Dmitri Leontyev – Peter Stormare
   Rodrigo de Costa – Antonio Banderas
   Irina Durova – Olga Kurylenko
   Akilina Pankejeff – Natalie Portman
   Ilyana – Scarlett Johansson
   Ana Di Meo – Zooey Deschanel
   Victor – He’s one of the few that I had troubles casting, but I think and if I’m not mistaken I imagined Viggo Morensen’s face when I read the book, so him in beard, then I think we have a Victor.
   Gondola boy – I would love to see Corbin Bleu in this one

   

   Paks

   1 Apr 09 at 1:53 pm

    

2. Javier-Kyle Schmid (kind of a ginger…it’s hard to find actors with red hair!)
   http://media.photobucket.com/image/Kyle%20Schmid/jessmunkee/Kyle%20Schmid/tiff_schmid02.jpg
   http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/tuned/uploaded_images/cast_KyleSchmid-708816.jpg
   Belinda-Michelle Trachtenberg (age appropriate; pretty but not too pretty; the girl on the cover of the first book looks like her!)
   http://www.gossipgirlinsider.com/images/gallery/michelle-trachtenberg-photo.jpg
   http://media.photobucket.com/image/michelle%20trachtenberg/SamTweedle/mt01b.jpg
   Lorraine-Tilda Swinton
   http://thebosh.com/upload/2008/06/08/tilda_swintons_partner_admits_he_has_another_lover/Tilda-Swinton.jpg
   http://www.baronage.co.uk/2006a/orlando.jpg
   Eliza-Natalie Portman (looks gorgeous with her hair short, so we know she could pull off that look)
   http://img2.timeinc.net/instyle/images/2007/galleries/070607_portman_400X400.jpg
   http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Natalie_Portman-1-The_Other_Boleyn_Girl.jpg
   Lord Drake-Eric Braeden
   http://www.soaps.com/images/news/719_1_15420.jpg
   http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j0v2DJR3IqI/SAMAnHIkeuI/AAAAAAAAAn8/OvBWWg8bLcs/s400/eric-braeden_1.jpg
   Marius-Henry Cavill
   http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1lc3z65u6EE/R-GJMx2OL-I/AAAAAAAAFa8/ZGCrsebeUcc/s400/cavill.jpg
   Asselin-Paul Walker
   http://www.elitefamosos.com/famosos/Paul_Walker/gra/foto_paul_walker_060.jpg
   http://www.the-trades.com/sjuba/paulwalker.jpg
   Sandalia- Orla Brady
   http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/69/06/98/19055239.jpg
   Irina-Cate Blanchett
   http://www.cmarshallpr.com/clients/sbiff_2008/cate%20blanchett%20by%20justin%20smith.jpg
   Akilina-Shirley Henderson
   http://www.paperbean.com.au/blog/pettigrew08.jpg
   Rodrigo-Javier Bardem
   http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_X6Isw4ybb4U/SapeZ2rrI-I/AAAAAAAAeqs/EWZMDBy_Wco/s400/javier_bardem.jpg
   Dmitri-Clive Owen
   http://groovyvic.mu.nu/archives/images/clive_owen_99.jpg
   http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2251ea318549d00e398b6fcaa0002-500pi
   Gondola Boy-Jim Sturgess
   http://captainokeefes.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/gyi0050818716_jim-sturgess2.jpg

   

   Madn

   7 Apr 09 at 3:42 am

    

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