Chromatic Casting: Star Wars

[dealan311]

Okay fine. I bite. Here's my version of Star Wars:

Anakin Skywalker- Jaden Smith / Lee Thompson Young


Padme Amidala - Keke Palmer / Angel Coulby


Qui-Gon Jinn - Colin Salmon


Shmi Skywalker- Gina Torres


Palpatine - Ben Kingsley


Mace Windu - Samuel L. Jackson (Like I'm gonna mess with that one)


Obi Wan Kenobi- Daniel Henney / Ken Watanabe (Apparently when he went into hiding, he changed from Korean to Japanese. He's stealthy like that.)


Luke Skywalker- Tristan Wilds


Princess Leia Organa- Lenora Crichlow


Han Solo- John Cho


Lando Calrissan- Sendhil Ramamurthy


Feel free to make alternate suggestions.

Comments

[catch22girl]

Oh I like your suggestions! I feel awful that I don't recognize all of the actors above, but they all look like'd rock the Star Wars and with the pretty, yes.

I agree with all of the above except I have to admit I'm not a huge John Cho fan.

[dealan311.livejournal.com]

Jaden rocked Pursuit of Happiness and he just got casted as the Karate Kid. (He's not the one I really object to in the film. More like Jackie Chan replacing Mr. Miyagi.) Lee Thompson Young was in the Disney show, the Famous Jett Jackson, when he was younger (about a movie star moving back home and just trying to be normal). He also was in Flash Forward and given his story arc in that series, I could see him bringing an edge to the role that Hayden didn't have- thus transforming whiny to just young and foolish.

Keke Palmer was in Akeehla and the Bee. Angel's been in a handful of British stuff, but she's most famous for her role as the future Queen Guinevere on the BBC's Merlin. Her Gwen is amazing when you consider how little she is given to work with.

Colon Salmon is probably most famous for his role in Bond films, but he's also been in Dr. Who as well as Ladies No.1 Detective Agency, which is how I know him.

Daniel Henney: Mostly Korean soap operas (where he's a HUGE star) but in the US he was Agent Zero in the Wolverine movie and Dr Lee in the CBS show, Three Rivers. I casted him because of his voice, because it oozes authority AND sexy (a hard combination to find). Ken Watanabe was most famous in the US for Memoirs of a Geisha and Last Samurai.

Tristan Wilds brought on some AMAZING work as a young actor in the Wire. Really gritty stuff there. But he's currently in the new 90210 so he could pull off Luke's innocence, I think.

Lenora Crichlow plays Annie on the BBC's Being Human, a show about a werewolf, a vampire and ghost all sharing an apartment. She plays the ghost. She's just cheeky enough to play Leia, but she's got fire too.

That should cover most of the obscure ones. I'm gonna assume you've seen everyone else, yes?