#inheritance cycle fancast

[modern-inheritance]

I've not said it for a while.

Give her a slightly more angular face, but GOD I LOVE Michelle Rodriguez as MIC!Arya in her original Fast and Furious days. BAMF woman, got the right mix of badass, snark, sharp, and slightly silly when she can be.

al;dskfjsdl;kj I Fucking LOVE HER.

^^^^I mean, look at that!!^^^^ That's the attitude, the 'yeah i'll fuck you up, wanna go a few rounds and get a drink later?', covered in dirt and grime and evidence of her actually putting in the work instead of just using magic, the casual stance.

FUCK.

okay. I'm done.

[shroom-kitty]

Okay, hear me out. While Garrett Hedlund to me is the only person who could play Murtagh, and I'm praying that whatever Eragon series they're working on now is an ANIMATED series... if they really will have to make a show with actual actors... who plays misunderstood characters with daddy issues better?

[indycaelumskywalker]

Now that Disney+ will make an Eragon series (or movie?) Its time for the fancast:

I nominate Gijs Blom as Murtagh!

And that's it..... My main concern is Murtagh.

[microfeelings]

I have my doubts that we're ever going to get an Eragon adaptation, but if we do, how the fuck are they going to make the twinkification of Eragon without making it look like shit with a ton of CGI? Makeup? I already have my (strong) opinions against it in the books, are they just going to change actors when it comes to it??

[laptop-lazuli]

Eragon fancast since disney bought Eragon and my hopes are up: (please add more!)

Eragon: Miles Heizer

Arya: Jamie Chung

Murtagh: Tyler Posey

Nasuada: Teah Otomewo

Angela: Laura Bailey

Roran: Charlie Rowe

Katrina: Alyson Hannigan

Brom: only ever Jeremy Irons

[other-scottish-tragedy]

Screw it, I’m doing an inheritance cycle fancast

leave suggestions pls!

[saphira-approves]

I am watching The Boys and it got me thinking. How about Jack Quaid as Eragon. Or Karl Urban as an older version.

Tbh I’d actually love to see Karl Urban as an older Murtagh! Maybe it’s just because I have horse associations with him after playing Eomer… he’d also be a good Roran.

Not so sure about Jack Quaid; I haven’t actually seen him in a lot of stuff, and The Boys just hasn’t caught my interest, haha.

[withdragonblood]

If you don't think Bridget Reagan is the perfect Selena, what are you doing with your life?

[roleplayedits]

RPG Edit ; Inheritance Cycle: Arya.

[drogonz]

queen islanzadi of the elves

[modern-inheritance]

Heyyy there, how’s it going?

Do you think Izlanzadí could’ve had another mate between Evandar and the “current” events of the story? (both canon and MIC Izzy)

I’m curious about your personal take on that!!

Haaaaaai!!! Thanks for the ask!

So, I know for sure MIC Iz does not take another partner, for any length of time. I think that in both IC and MIC she and Evandar were soulmates, evidence further by their having Arya, which is said to be the symbol of a lifetime commitment among elves if I’m not mistaken.

MIC Izzy is quite nearly, and quite possibly, broken by Evandar’s death. She never completely heals from it. Finding someone else, even for a single night of comfort, feels like a betrayal to her, and she is also trying to manage the elves during their greatest decline in known history. It’s not something she really thinks about.

IC Izzy, though? I can’t say anything for certain. She was certainly erratic, and a lot of what we see of her feels like she is a very self serving person on the surface while caring deeply for the elves as her people. I’m not sure she would go for a distraction, but elves have different cultural and social values and outlooks, especially around partners, mates, and flings. I typically explain it to people outside the fandom as ‘As long as it’s of age and can and IS giving enthusiastic consent, elves really don’t care who you screw.’ And I think that IC Izzy wouldn’t be up for anything close to just a romantic relationship. Nor, I think, would anyone want to enter into one with her after they saw the lengths she went to when trying to manipulate Arya into abandoning the fight, an action that Arya was taking in service to her people and was held in extremely high regard from everyone else with their culture of self sacrifice for the elven nation and the dragons.

I’ve only just started truly unpacking Islanzadi in MIC. I just found her voice with the WIP I posted a while back where she sees and reacts to Arya’s scars. She’s complicated and difficult for me to write, and I’m still learning more about her character every time I write about/for her. In some ways, I can see her wanting for a relationship again, but her love for Evandar is always going to tether her to solitude in that regard. And I think, maybe after the war, she could possibly find a way around it, but again, she stops. Iz in MIC accepts the throne back from Arya after Arya is first Keeper, then queen for a little while (still not sure on this, I might swap back to just Keeper), a period of co-rule while Arya and Firnen are out dealing with MIC Dreamer stuff and transitioning to their Rider roles, and then finally back to full ruler. If she took a mate, it would definitely be a political maelstrom, and it’s going to take a lot of time for the elves to heal and regain strength from the dragons return before she’s ready to cause quite as much chaos as she used to.

Heh. Just realized a new thing. Arya does take after her mum in causing trouble, just that Arya causes trouble of the battlefield sabotage/violence/unexpected feral ferocity type, and Iz cause political shit shows that she sometimes likes to just start and maybe watch to see how it all plays out with popcorn and a soda.

Anyway. Thank you for the ask! Islanzadi is definitely a character I’ve taken a lot of time to get to know and she’s finally showing up in my head from time to time (and spraying the two dorks with the emergency horny spray with poorly disguised expressions of panic and occasionally getting into worse knockdown drag out fights than Arya does when Durza pokes his head in) so maybe we will see more of here in the future. This was a wonderful exercise for thinking more about her emotional and romantic ideas and ideals, something I don’t touch on at all really beyond her panic around Arya in general.

Cheers anon! Hope you have a good day!!

PS: just saying, if she were taller and maybe the age she was when she did Ghost Ship, Julianna Margulies when she has that wild curly hair and that amazing spicy snippy attitude I feel would have been a PERFECT Islanzadi.

[theironeinparticular]

So a few years back I saw someone fancast Chris Evans as Roran Stronghammer and I 100% approve of this

[anhufflepuffhobbit]

Inheritance Cycle fan cast (1/?)

Lupita Nyong’o as Nasuada

[alagaesia-enthusiast]

I’m curious! What’s your ideal fancast for the Inheritance Cycle? Reply to this post or put it in my askbox, I want to know what everyone thinks.

[margridarnauds]

Okay! This just came to mind BUT...fancast for Bres/Sreng, and your favorites of the Fomorians, TDD, and Fir Bolg, also, fan cast your favorite Ulster Cycle characters! :D

GOD I’ve thought of it a lot, and I’ve never quite come up with someone who FITS. 

Sreng-

He isn’t QUITE as beefy as Sreng should be, and I’d actually rather Sreng not be conventionally attractive. (Personally, my take on Bres/Sreng is Bres doing a Fleur Delacour and being like “I AM GOOD LOOKING ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US, I THINK.” Personally, I’d LOVE to have it be more region-accurate, as far as getting actors from the relevant regions of Ireland to be them (so, someone from Munster for Sreng, possibly Northern Ireland for Bres, etc.) and I would genuinely love to see someone who’s not white as Sreng, provided it was done well. (Emphasis on ‘well.’) For centuries now, the Fir Bolg have been coded as POC, as writers used them and twisted them into a pro-colonization narrative (”The Tuatha dé were totally right to eradicate this primitive people”), and I would love to see a triumphant reclamation of that, especially since to this day, there’s this idea that Ireland is all white (Hint: It’s not.) But again. It’d have to be done well, and I’m not sure that would be MY take on it to tell because, as is well known and documented, I’m very, very white. 

But, Aidan Turner’s Black Irish, which fits some of the later descriptions of the Fir Bolg, I think he could do a really good job capturing the different dynamics of Sreng’s personality and his development. I think he could REALLY nail Sreng at the beginning, where he’s this young guy in a family that’s tearing itself apart but who is still devoted to his king as he develops into the king of a conquered people. 

Bres - 

I’ll be honest, I’ve NEVER seen anyone who quite fits into my image of Bres. Bres is just…TOO pretty. There’s no one who’s pretty enough to be him. Like, I’ll search for “Hollywood’s Prettiest Actors” and get “Hollywood’s handsomest actors” and see Chris Hemsworth’s face and I’m just like NO. DON’T YOU SEE? If you can picture him cutting wood outside a log cabin, that’s not BRES. 

Personally, I see Lee Pace MORE as Elatha (and again, I’d rather someone actually FROM Ireland play Bres), but he’s also the closest I can come to Bres. On one hand, he’s 40 while Bres is…young when everything begins, but I think he could really sell the snark factor, and come the actual time period for CMT…he would be about the right age, even though Tuatha dé…aging…it’s complicated. But still. Closest thing. And it wouldn’t be the first time we got someone playing a character half their age. 

Fomoire - 

Indech-

Look. I tried to resist it. I really did. Especially given that he looks next to nothing like the actress I’ve ALREADY cast as his daughter. But like. MADS MIKKELSEN AS INDECH. I REPEAT: MADS MIKKELSEN BEING PROBABLY THE MAJOR VILLAIN OF THE TEXT, NEXT TO BRES AND ELATHA.He was going to either HAVE to be either Balor or Indech, and Balor’s…actually not that bad a guy, all things taken into account. Indech, though? Holy SHIT. And he could be BONE-CHILLING. Imagine him saying Indech’s line about grinding the Tuatha dé’s bones to dust, while Bres kind of just looks at him like “This is what I signed up for.” Him killing Duirgen as in the Dindsenchas poem, but doing it almost casually, the same as him swatting a fly. 

Indech’s Daughter-

I will give you a hint to how MUCH I want Katie McGrath as Indech’s Daughter (who I have many, many feelings about at any time of the day despite her brief appearance): There have been times that the only reason I keep on with my WIP is JUST because I know she’s not getting any younger and I NEED to see her there. THE SNARK. THE SCHEMING. And, in my ideal adaption of CMT, we’d see more of her relationship with her brother(s), father, etc., and I think that she could sell it. Do I think her acting is always the best? …Not really, BUT at the same time…KATIE MCGRATH AS INDECH’S DAUGHTER. PLEASE. 

Ochtriallach - 

It is surprisingly hard to find a Scandinavian actor under 40. HOWEVER, I think he could do a good job, even if most of the Vikings style decisions make me want to pull my hair out. We KNOW he can play brutal characters, and Och is…brutal, though I would also want to show a softer side when it comes to his sister/Ruadan. I’m just going to have to accept that the Indechson family is one of those families where no one looks like each other (and where one of them is slightly more…Irish than the other two).

Tethra- Gerard Butler 

Tfw your sister wants to marry some random ass mortal from Ireland, aka the country that you tried to invade, like, two thousand years ago, and Bres is on his bullshit and all you want to do is go fishing. 

Balor - 

Because redheaded Balor IS a hill I’m willing to die on. Just give Kristofer Hivjuan eyepatch and we’re good to go. 

Cethlenn -  

Look, I KNOW “I think you’d do a good job playing a character named ‘Cethlenn of the Crooked Teeth’ who is also the grandmother of one of the main characters in the story” isn’t what EVERYONE would want to hear, especially when she’s not THAT much older than her prospective grandson, but…I think Myanna Buring could do it. (And anyway, aging is fucky with immortals, so)

Indusa - 

Can anyone ELSE play Bres’ only daughter? 

Ruadan - 

Because I’m almost out of young, ginger Irish actors. 

TDD - 

Eriu- 

Alyssa Sutherland. I could REALLY see her rocking it, just from what I’ve seen in Vikings. Eriu’s an interesting figure, and I don’t think she gets enough credit for being the equivalent of a single mother in a society that…while you have different types of marriage, so Bres STILL has inheritance rights with Elatha…there was definitely a stigma. Especially for raising a son who NO ONE knew the father to. (It’s left ambiguous, but my personal read on the text is that Bres was raised by all the women and that Bres was kept out of the loop as far as who his real father was, hence why he asks Eriu later on.) I also would LOVE to see her as the years go on, watching as Bres and Elatha’s relationship breaks down and being in the state of not being able to help her son, because it seems like any choice she makes just drags him closer to his doom, and I think she could really show that, and really give us an Eriu with spirit. 

Bríg-

Look, I’ll be honest here: Bríg is NOT my favorite character. It’s not that I HATE her per se, it’s just that I get rather sick of hearing about her all the time and about how she was SO OPPRESSED by her TERRIBLE ARRANGED MARRIAGE to Bres. (Note: We have NO IDEA why they married, when they married, or how long they were married. There’s a LOT of info you can fill in the blanks on. People take a lot for granted, not least being that Bríg would be the ONLY one who hated being married to someone she didn’t love and was vastly incompatible with.) Like, she has VERY LITTLE to do in terms of the actual myths, she’s not as well-documented as Bres, she doesn’t have as much of a PERSONALITY as Bres, and yet I have to hear about the self-insert version of her 24/7 while people trash my son. 

BUT MY BITTERNESS ASIDE: Bríg…we get very little on her, and so I’m not going to fill in more than needed, but she’s highly associated with the aristocracy of skill. Think of it: Doctors, poets, smiths, ALL of them are the top, top, top of the social ladder in terms of skills, and she’s patroness of all of them. It’s not said whether she dabbles in them herself or not, but she’s obviously interested, and I think Eleanor Tomlinson is very good at being upperclass when needed, even though people most know her as Demelza from Poldark. I also think that, judging from the rest of her career, she could do a very good job showing that kind of gut wrenching grief she shows at Ruadan’s death. (The way I picture that scene going down, it’s BRUTAL, with Bríg being devastated for this boy she’s never really known and furious at Bres for his role in it, furious at the Tuatha dé and the Fomoire alike for their role in bringing it about.) She wouldn’t be a passive Bríg, I think she’d play a Bríg with a little more agency and spark while hopefully not veering into anachronistic territory. 

I don’t necessarily like casting Bríg in particular with an English actress, but…well…she’s a good fit. 

Airmed - 

HELL YEAH SARAH BOLGER. Airmed is…a delicate figure. Like, think of it: She loses two brothers close together (Cian and Miach), the latter of whom she was prevented from even MOURNING because her father was still so insecure and bitter. She’s as brilliant as anyone in her family (keeping in mind that she’s the aunt of LUGH), but…realistically, you’d have to be TERRIFIED of being too smart, after seeing what happened to Miach. Like, the text itself doesn’t do much in terms of giving her a sense of interiority, but I like to imagine that, when her father says “And Airmed shall remain,” he leans over, gives her a fatherly kiss on the forehead, and she tries to repress a shudder. And Sarah Bolger is very, very good at playing aristocratic ladies with that sense of vulnerability while still being poised and elegant. 

Ogma - 

Doesn’t look QUITE as strong as Ogma needs to be, but I think he could sell it. He tends to do a really good job with the “second in command standing loyally by” type of roles, and I think that works really well with what we get of Ogma. 

Lugh - 

Look….Jamie Campbell Bower could rock it. I know, ANOTHER Brit, BUT…he could rock it. He has that kind of androgynous pretty boyness that’s kind of a main thing with Bres, Lugh, and Cú Chulainn, and I think he could portray Lugh as the bitch that he needs to be. Someone dedicated to the Tuatha dé, yes, but also brutally determined to do whatever it takes to make sure that he ends up on top. (Personally, I think he could be utterly terrifying during the scene at Carn úi Neit with Bres.) 

Nuada - 

I’ll be honest, my gut response was “Colin Farrell” but…I already called him for King Eochaid. And John Lynch is a good actor with a long filmography under his belt. And Nuada…he’s a tragic character, but there’s also a dark edge to him. A dark edge to all the TDD, really, and I think he could do it, as well as show Nuada’s vulnerabilities after losing the arm. (Though I’d also be willing to switch Nuada and Eochaid out.)

Uaithne, the Dagda’s harper- 

Look, it was only a matter of time before I cast Hozier as ONE of the immortals; I just thought it would be HILARIOUS if, after the battle, the Dagda is FREAKING OUT because his harpist has been stolen, and then we cut to fucking Hozier strumming out a song while even Bres looks to be having a good time, and then the Dagda, Ogma, and Lugh BURST in and there’s this “Oh shit” moment. I for one think Hozier would make a very good damsel in distress. 

Fir Bolg - 

On one hand, it would almost be a waste given how little he actually gets, but Colin Farrell would make a DEVASTATING King Eochaid. 

Tfw the TDD arrive out of nowhere and try to threaten you at swordpoint and you probably spent your younger days/your father DEFINITELY spent his younger days enslaved in Greece and so you’re sick to death of colonizers and their bullshit and then they kill you in a three on one battle but not before you leave the throne to your cousin whose brother you killed as part of a generations long feud and who is also disturbingly hot for the champion on the other side and OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE. 

Tailtiu- 

Actually had a devil of a time, coming down to Marie Doyle Kennedy or Elena Anaya (the latter of whom had a slight leg up for actually being Spanish), and then I remembered Ruth Negga’s existence and I was like “OH.” I’m not AS familiar with her work on other things, but from what I’ve seen, I think she could do a really dignified take on Tailtiu, where she mourns, but she has to pick herself up off the ground. Tailtiu is a survivor, she’s a woman who left Spain to be with the Fir Bolg (and Eochaid), and then was left a widow, yet managed to become a fixture by being the foster mother to Lugh. (And, ultimately, by marrying Bres’ grandson, which never ceases to be hilarious to me.) I think that we could get a multi-facetted side to her, dealing with her in issues of state as well as her personal life. (I would KILL for some Tailtiu VS Sreng arguments when they’re making the decision to leave or stay.) 

Ulster Cycle:

This will be considerably quicker given I’m not as attached to it as my mythological peeps. 

Blathnat - Evanna Lynch 

My girl. My angel who deserved so much better. Personally, I think Evanna has this…kind of distant, “out there” vibe, which is probably mostly because of knowing her as Luna, and I think that really suits Blathnat. 

Emer- Tamsin Egerton

And yes, ANOTHER English actress. For an Irish/distantly Scandinavian noblewoman. know. I know. But LOOK, she looks very…Emer-ish to me.  

Aiden Gillan - Bricrui or Forgal the Wily 

The man’s made a career being devious and cunning on TV. This is perfect. 

Uathach - Freya Mavor

Aífe - Eva Green

In all fairness, THIS time I didn’t cast an Irish character with a Brit. I just…cast a Scottish character with a French actress. But look, my girl deserves JUSTICE. And I believe Eva Green could give it to her. 

[paarthursass]

thinking about restarting my inheritance cycle fancast series (which only had one entry in it anyways lmao) with an actor actually in the 15-18 years old range to play Eragon and...man that’s just one more reason i can’t get behind Eragon/Arya

Like she is consistently described as a woman in the books.  I know she’s young “for an elf” but she’s still over a century old and Eragon is still a kid when they meet.  I know he grows over the course of the series but man Arya/Eragon is Not Good.  Thank God nothing happens.  

I hope when Arya says “maybe in time” in the last book she means “in a few decades” because alsjdflsdjfkdsl he’s UNDER TWENTY and she is OVER A HUNDRED i know this takes place in medieval times but that doesn’t make it OKAY

Eragon/Arya is at its best when it’s just awkward Eragon crushing on a cooler older woman okay.