I am having so much fun casting my NaNo!! Mary gave me the idea to do this, so my thanks go out to her for her ingenuity. Here’s who I have.
My main character, Cindy, is a college girl, kind of plain, even maybe a little dorky.
Before
Mary came up with Anne Hathaway, and this is a picture of her from The Princess Diaries. And like the character in the Princess Diaries, Cindy will have a makeover, and afterwards, she will look somewhat like this:
Yeah, I know, I’m kind of borrowing the actress and the makeover concept from The Princess Diaries. Actually, not really, because I had the idea for this story long before The Princess Diaries ever came out as a movie, but it was just kind of convenient that there’s such a parallel, because I now have great Before and After images.
Anyway, Cindy is a real film buff, and especially loves the old Hollywood Studio films of the 30’s and 40’s, which leads to her having a fantasy/supernatural encounter with Fred Astaire…
But of course he’s dead, so if we had to get someone to play him in the movie, how about Ewan McGregor, who is about the same build, oozing with the same kind of debonair charm, AND can sing and dance to boot…
Now to complicate matters, Cindy is infatuated with Jason a “BMOC.” probably a football player or some such thing.
This is Shawn Ashmore, who played Bobby, the Ice Man, in the X-Men movies. Isn’t he hunky?
But he’s not interested in Cindy (at least not BEFORE her makeover.) But Cindy has a loyal and adoring guy friend, Alan, who is totally interested in her, even when she wore glasses and her hair looked like a rat’s nest.
Here, if you know me, you will easily recognize Adam Lamberg, who of course does the “loyal and adoring guy friend” so well. Cindy is not romatically interested in her friend Alan (subtitle of my novel: “What the Hell is Wrong with Cindy???”) But perhaps that will change before I reach 50,000 words.
Anyway, that’s the main look of my novel. This is tremendous fun, and I recommend it to anyone who is doing a NaNo!
“But of course he’s dead”
LMAO! That’s great! And I certainly hope she BECOMES interested in him! I’m a sucker for the stories where the loving and adoring guy friend gets what he deserves in the end! 🙂
Ewan=Fred Astaire!! XD How awesome!! The rest of your cast looks accurate too. I can see Shawn Ashmore as the jocky guy. But what does BMOC mean? Looking forward to seeing how it plays out!
I guessed you would like the Ewan McGregor casting! Yes, I thought that bit was particularly inspired.
BMOC is Big Man on Campus, typically a jock who is very popular, amybe the quarterback, some such thing.
I see my novel as a Hollywood musical, so I will probably be writing songs for it. Characters will randomly break out in song at odd moments. I think Ewan could handle that, don’t you?
It should be fun!
BTW, love your icon!!!!