Who Could Play The Animorphs?

[Gyt Kaliba]

If only Shia LaBeouf had some Hispanic in him, I think he'd by my pick for a great Marco.

I dunno who else I'd want yet though...other than, as long as we're talking a big film thing for it - Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort in Harry Potter) as the voice of Visser Three. I can smell the win from here!

[Red]

The idea of Zac Efron and Kristen Stewart playing Jake and Rachel could physically pain me. Unknown or Relatively Unknown characters for the win.

The actor who plays Sheldon in Big Bang Theory should be Ax in Human Morph.

[MoppingBear]

The idea of Zac Efron and Kristen Stewart playing Jake and Rachel could physically pain me. Unknown or Relatively Unknown characters for the win.

The actor who plays Sheldon in Big Bang Theory should be Ax in Human Morph.

a post grad playing a pre highschool student?

[Nar Klawip]

yeah , I almost agree with red except for actor Jim Parsons's obvious age difference, and the fact that human ax was supposed to be strangely attractive and well, Sheldon is just not attractive.

And there is no way Dylan or Cole sprouse from Zach and Cody could pull off Tobias! And Zac Efron and Kristen Stewart playing Jake and Rachel? UGH!!!

[Phoenix004]

In terms of personality, I would love to see Ax played by Sheldon! 

Generally speaking though, I agree that they should be played by relatively unknown actors.

[Aldrea Hammee]

I think a big problem with choosing a cast for the Animorphs is that the characters are sort of mature beyond their years. Everybody we can think of who would be the right age seems too immature! The trouble with casting the Animorphs actually reminds me of what some Broadway actress said about Shakespeare's Juliet: "As soon as an actress is old enough to understand the part, she's too old to play her."

[Alex Oiknine]

Ax would be really hard to place character-wise, 'cos getting someone that looks at all like him from the book description would be haaard. They didn't even try in the TV show XD

[LisaCharly]

If he were younger and you did stuff to his hair, Danny Pudi would probably make a good Ax. He plays Abed on Community, and has a good handle on the "inquisitive, detached observer" style.

[Red]

I've been thinking about this waaay too much. My brain is 40% screenplay.

Since the main cast would be from unknowns, the supporting cast would have to be famous types, to draw in an audience who have no idea (or possibly great interest) in the Animorph contempt. Think Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman in Juno or practically all the parents in Skins. Food for thought? I'm thinking Steve Buschemi as Chapman.

Brooke Nevin was annoyingly perfect for Rachel. Can we un-age her?

[LisaCharly]

Ack, I hated Brooke Nevin as Rachel. Somehow Rachel went from bold and sassy in the series to flakey and vacant on the screen. Ugh. Granted, the dialogue she was given didn't help.

[Red]

Yeah, I totally agree about her character. I just meant lookswise, she was pretty spot-on compared to the actor they got for Marco

[LisaCharly]

Boris Cabrera didn't match much lookwise, but at least he had some moments of decent acting; the Visser One arc moved me from "who IS this kid and where did he put Marco?" to "okay, fine, he needs to lay off on the hair gel but I can live with this". Compared to all the other kids, who ranged from having no screen presence at all like Nadia Nascimiento as Cassie to being some of the most wooden actors I've ever seen on television like Christopher Ralph as Tobias, Boris Cabrera was an okay pick. That said, it took him about ten episodes to realize how to deliver a comical line, so it's not like he didn't suck at the beginning. I'd much rather they go by acting ability than by "look", because Brooke Nevin is just an awful, awful Rachel to me.

I actually really liked the actors who played Peter Jeremy, Visser One and Cassie's mom. They still were dealing with an awful script, but it's kind of like they could turn garbage into gold. The scenes with them are easily some of the strongest in the series, and they tended to bring out better acting in the other actors too.

[Red]

Ah, I'm only four episodes into the tv series and going on that and my memories. I shall have to watch more for Marco moments! The script annoys me so much though, it's like they put barely any effort into it at all!

[Phoenix004]

Ugh, don't even get me started on all the things that were wrong with the TV show! The sad thing is that if they'd had a half decent budget and writers who had actually read the books, it could have been truly awesome.

[LisaCharly]

I'm up to the second season and oh, yeah, the script is terrible. And sometimes the delivery of lines that worked totally fine in the book series is just cringe-worthy when delivered by those actors. I mean, does Shawn Ashmore ever sound like he's not reading off a teleprompter? And can Christopher Ralph deliver anything without that weird botoxed-looking stare of his?

Boris Cabrera is never a good actor by any means, but there are moments where he's competent (mostly because he's the only one of the kid actors who understands the importance of facial expressions besides "mildly slackjawed"), which puts him leagues ahead of Ashmore, Nevin and Ralph. I really like the scene at the beginning of episode fourteen and he gets his moments where he gives a really cutting death glare or a a good suspicion-face.

And oh God, Eugene Lipinski as Visser Three. My friend and I have taken to imitating Eugene Lipinski at random, because he's either just scraping the level of passable actor and then he'll bust out with some really, really bizarre, over-the-top delivery of a line. "NO! MORE! FAILURES!"