Serenity Casting (Major Spoilers) No Book!

POSTED BY: outlander
UPDATED: Friday, March 26, 2004 04:35
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OUTLANDER

Saturday, March 13, 2004 7:54 AM

Sombody else posted this link but it didn't have a heading that stood out. So I thought I would repost it with a better heading.

http://www.browncoats.com/movie1.html

Producer: Barry Mendel
Director / Writer: Joss Whedon
Casting Directors: Amy McIntyre Britt / Anya Colloff
Casting Associate: Sari Knight
Casting Assistant: Carrie Levin
Start Date: June 2004
LOCATION: Los Angeles
HARD COPY SUBMISSIONS TO:
CFB CASTING
2260 CENTINELA AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90064
NOTE: This project is set 500 years in the future, when a universal government has
subdued much of the known galaxy, but parties of rebels, outlaws, thieves and
grifters operate on the loosely-policed fringes of the final frontier.

CAST:
MAL: NATHAN FILLION
INARA: MORENA BACCARIN
JAYNE: ADAM BALDWIN
RIVER: SUMMER GLAU
SIMON: SEAN MAHER
KAYLEE: JEWEL STAITE
ZOE: GINA TORRES
WASH: ALAN TUDYK

All roles open to ethnicities (except River at 10). PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES.

[THE OPERATIVE] A Government agent, The Operative is thoughtful, a little
removed, with wire-rimmed glasses and neatly trimmed hair, wearing a suit too
nondescript to be a uniform and too neat to be casual wear. An expert martial artist,
assassin, investigator and tracker, who moves with the fluid grace of a killer and
speaks with the eloquent sophistication of a very intelligent man. Cool in his strategic
planning but a bit feral when provoked, The Operative is on a headlong collision
course with a rogue ship full of renegades and thieves...LEAD

[MR. UNIVERSE] An unkempt young man, sleep-deprived, over-caffeinated and kinda
sweet, he lives in an empty industrial complex on a deserted moon. Accompanied
only by his lovebot, Mr. Universe is the ultimate information junkie, monitoring
pretty much everything in the universe (hence his name) through a variety of video
feeds and monitors. An old buddy of Mal, Mr. Universe knows he'll only hear from his
pal if he's in mortal danger and needs a secret code -- or something -- to get him
out of the latest spitstorm...LEAD/CAMEO 3 scenes.

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[DOCTOR MATHIAS] 35-50. A cold man, more than a little satisfied with himself, Doctor
Mathias is not instantly likable -- nor gradually, for that matter. He fiddles with the cerebral
cortices of teenagers, and his pride in his questionable achievements has made him blind to
potential ethics violations...9 speeches & 15 lines, 2 scenes

[MINGO & FANTY] 20s. A pair of young tough identical twins, whose social status is
somewhere between gangsters and fur-traders. With accents that sound lower class British,
Mingo and Fanty are indistinguishable from each other. Middlemen who handle stolen goods
and keep the best part of the cut, they are the equivalent of the Kray Brothers of the outer
rim of the galaxy. Intent on screwing Mal after his latest bank job goes badly awry, Mingo and
Fanty have a quarrelsome negotiation with the cantankerous Mal, who wants to keep more
than 60% of his haul.
British accents are preferable but not a must...2 speeches & 8
lines, 2 scenes; 1 speech & 5 lines, 2 scenes

[SHEYDRA] A slightly older companion (40-45), Sheydra is elegant, likeable and well-spoken.
She lives in a Companion Training House with Inara, and compliments her on her skill at
training a new generation of consorts and courtesans. But her compliments fail to impress
Inara, who is convinced that her latest crop of students are sweet, but hopelessly gauche and
too undisciplined ever to qualify as true Companions. Sheydra tries to draw out Inara's
reminiscences of her adventures with Mal...3 speeches & 7 lines, 1 scene

[TEACHER] The 30-50 female teacher of a group of highly gifted children, including 12 year
old River, she is a soft-spoken, intelligent woman who tries to instill a belief in the virtues of
The Alliance in her students...2 speeches & 11 lines, 2 scenes

[DOCTOR CARON] 40-60. female scientist (think Jane Goodall), Doctor Caron is seen as a
hologram. On the desolate planet of Miranda, Doctor Caron leaves

BOOMERGOODHEART

Saturday, March 13, 2004 9:17 AM

Until this stuff is actually confirmed from a Joss source, I'm taking it with a grain of salt.

Aside from "The Operative", there's no mention at all of any Alliance characters, or Reavers for that matter. Better to be wary.

BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."

OUTLANDER

Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:22 AM

Often they do casting for a movie or a series in bits and peaces so this is probably not the entire cast. They may have a casting session for just the Reavers at a later date. They often cast similar characters at the same time so they chop and change actors if they want.

STATIC

Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:06 PM

Something doesn't sit right with me about the whole 'Bank Job' thing. . .that doesn't sound like the sort of thing Joss does with our favorite crew. . .

Also. . .LOVE BOT? How completely NON-Joss is THAT? As far as I can tell, we've had NO appearances of robots, androids or the like in the Firefly 'verse so far. I can't picture Joss making a leap like that even WITH the urging of Universal.

I agree. . .this sounds a bit fishy. We've been soooooooooooooooooooooo lacking in spoilers THIS far. . .I doubt these things can be accurate.

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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

AURAPTOR

Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:18 PM

That does it, I'm boycotting the movie!!!

ok, maybe not. I'm on a wait and see mode.

They don't like it when you shoot at 'em.

WHOODAHN

Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:27 PM

Quote:
or Reavers for that matter. Better to be wary.

We haven't actually seen any Reavers yet. Just the kid in 'Bushwacked'.

WHOODAHN

Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:28 PM

Spoiler:

Select to view spoiler:

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I hoped to see the doctors that worked on River. It looks like they are casting the doctor and a young River for flashback scenes. I think that would be a great way to introduce a new audience to what's going on.

RKLENSETH

Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:26 PM

Remember that Joss changed the script since Universal said it might be relaunched as a series. So the comments that Joss made about Reavers came when the only known script was the wrap up script for the whole story.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

WHOODAHN

Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:35 PM

I was thinking that just because the casting doesn't include Reavers, that doesn't mean there wont be Reavers. Two shows have included Reavers and we haven't actually seen one yet, just the CGI of the ship and the poor kid that was trying to imitate them.

Reavers are pretty damn scary and we haven't met one yet.

DELIA

Saturday, March 13, 2004 4:24 PM

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Originally posted by Static:

Also. . .LOVE BOT? How completely NON-Joss is THAT? As far as I can tell, we've had NO appearances of robots, androids or the like in the Firefly 'verse so far. I can't picture Joss making a leap like that even WITH the urging of Universal.

Actually, that may be non-Firefly, but Joss has done a Love 'Bot plot line on Buffy (5th season), which Spike referenced on Angel this season. So, not completely outside the realm of possibilities . . .

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