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PrairieGirlWpg t1_je0kcix wrote

I still envision Megan Follows when I think of Anne Shirley even though I loved Anne with an E and thought the role was also perfectly cast

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violetmemphisblue t1_je3awnm wrote

Megan Follows as Anne Shirley and Winona Ryder as Jo March! I know there are other great versions of those stories, but they seem like separate/totally different things, if that makes sense (it probably doesn't, lol)

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PeterchuMC t1_je0ms20 wrote

Whenever I read Discworld, I always picture Vetinari as Roger Delgado.

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Molwar t1_je0kyq9 wrote

When reading the Twin series (dragonlance) I was always picturing Arnold Schwarzenegger as Caramon and Willem Dafoe as Raistlin

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windingtime t1_je0dnd5 wrote

I was reading James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss and watching the first season of HBO’s Perry Mason contemporaneously, and Matthew Rhys just kind of became CW Sughrue in the process. Paul Giamatti was once linked to a film adaptation of the character, if that gives you any indication.

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MyOwnRobot t1_je0otpa wrote

I read that recently as well. I pictured younger Jeff Bridges as Sughrue and Orson Welles as Trahearne, probably because it was written in 1978.

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windingtime t1_je0pbt4 wrote

I feel like real-life young Jeff Bridges was a bit too clean cut, but a young version of old Jeff Bridges would be perfect, if that makes sense.

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MyOwnRobot t1_je0utml wrote

It does! That's probably what I was thinking, too. He plays "grizzled" so well now it's easy to forget he was such a pretty-boy.

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AlwaysBoooked t1_je0gyql wrote

Different but similar issue… I read the Harry Potter books before the movies came out, and the name “Hermione” was not at all something I had heard of, so I made my best guess and moved on. I was so mad when the first movie came out because her name was “Her-mee-on” in my head, and they kept messing it up.

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Exploding_Antelope t1_je0zyu6 wrote

Well Goblet of Fire was out before the first movie (I think?) and had a scene specifically written for Hermione to explain how to pronounce her name. So that’s on you.

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AlwaysBoooked t1_je1n7ck wrote

I think by the time I got there, I just had it totally stuck in my head the wrong way. Also, it probably didn’t help that I read that whole book in one weekend because the only copy in my house technically “belonged to my brother,” so I had to wait until he went camping.

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boysen_bean t1_je15jpf wrote

I definitely flagged that scene and had to keep going back to remember how to pronounce it.

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bros402 t1_je0gzbd wrote

when I read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, I kept picturing Rose McIver as Addie.

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OhioBricker t1_je0kgnd wrote

I always felt like Mike Hagerty, who played the super, Mr. Treeger, on Friends would have made a great Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces.

Probably would have needed to do this in the late-80s or early-90s.

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VrinTheTerrible t1_je0ol8o wrote

I've read most of the Reacher books long before Tom Cruise and was stunned when he played the giant. Thankfully, I've got Alan Ritchson to replace him in my envisioning and will always picture him as Reacher.

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MyOwnRobot t1_je0pdq6 wrote

When I reread the Kenzie and Gennaro series by Dennis Lehane recently I couldn't help seeing Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie because of Gone Baby Gone (the movie), even though I had read the original five books before the movie came out.

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Eire_Banshee t1_je0vain wrote

Vin from Mistborn is Felicity Jones with dyed black hair.

Elend is John Kransinski in a white imperial officers uniform.

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thehazz t1_je109za wrote

In The Dark Tower series, in my head, the Gunslinger is a younger Clint Eastwood. I can't shake it.

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mikevago t1_je14m6m wrote

In fairness, the book even says he looks like Clint.

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thehazz t1_je22w7v wrote

Makes sense, but it stuck with me the whole series haha.

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HellOrHighWalters t1_je0n8ow wrote

Read Doctor Sleep after watching the movie, I could only see Ewan McGregor as Danny and Rebecca Ferguson as Rose.

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Ghola_Mentat t1_je18m5l wrote

I always imagined Duncan Idaho as Chris Cornell. The description of Duncan with goat black hair made me think of Cornell. Even though he wasn’t an actor, I think he could of looked the part with a couple of months in the gym.

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Vermille t1_je1gotr wrote

I always imagine Tom Holland as The Kid from Blood Meridian. Looks too young and harmless from outside, but really good at battering the shit out of you if provoked enough.

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SproutsMexicane48 t1_je1zr34 wrote

I tend to latch onto an actor, and then they become the face-cast for whatever I'm reading at the time.

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Pumpkin_698 t1_je0w77v wrote

When I read the Stormligth Archive books I always picture Sadie Sink as Shallan Davar

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mikevago t1_je14ssz wrote

When I read The Martian, for whatever reason I pictured Donald Glover as Mark Watley (the nerdy, sarcastic stranded astronaut). And then they cast him in the movie... in a small supporting role.

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random0900100 t1_je25qve wrote

Josh Gad as ignatius reilly...I don't want Josh to die

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zealousGreenery t1_je2i2df wrote

I just read The Maid by Nita Prose and for some reason Molly's mannerisms and description just put Ana de Armas in my mind's eye.

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Unnecessaryloongname t1_je2s9hq wrote

So it's a book but I saw Kevin Smith as Bob from the whole bobiverse series. If I had a billion dollars he would play the Bobs in the movie.

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Hells_Kitchener t1_je2y9p9 wrote

In Joe Keenan's hilarious 'Putting On The Ritz', I always picture a young John Cusack (around the time of 'Bullets Over Broadway' in the role of Philip.

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Tne328 t1_je30f7a wrote

Bombur from The Hobbit looks just like the Spirit of Christmas Present from Muppet Christmas Carol, just dwarf-sized. Which is less far-fetched than you might think, because SCP shifts size from too large for a room to comfortably in the room, to at one point the size of a mouse.

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violetmemphisblue t1_je3b9f0 wrote

Any time a male character is described as being ridiculously super handsome, I always think of Manny Jacintol and then get confused if/when later they refer to blond hair or whatever.

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