My reps are working on a deal with Hollywood. Very exciting! So I’ve started playing the game: cast the movie…. But my first consideration was the score, and naturally, the great Ennio Morricone came to mind. Yep, he’s getting old, but wouldn’t it be great…. The soundtrack to the motion picture The Mission has to be one of the top 10 most beautiful pieces of music ever. It’s just unearthly gorgeous. I think IMMORTAL is worthy of Morricone’s prodigious talent. And he’s worthy of it.
Casting: Brad Pitt is too old. Sorry, sir; you have the acting chops and the beauty to play Luca, but Luca looks like he’s 28 or so for over a hundred years, and you’ve matured past that. To your credit. My daughters, who have an opinion about everything, mention Hayden Christensen. I don’t know him as an actor. Ryan Phillipe maybe? Someone with the reach to play Luca’s humility as well as his dogged persistence in seeking love and questioning God.
How about it? Any readers out there with opinions? Who plays Luca, Giotto, Silvano, Maddalena, Caterina, the young Leonardo, Lorenzo de Medici?
Daniel Radcliff comes to mind quickly as Luca. Just lighten his hair and put a few extra pounds on him, and he’d look very much like the cover image. 🙂 In another couple of years, he’d pass for mid-twenties, I’m sure–he has a sort of ageless face.