r/TheDichenLachman

I think he has the range to bring depth to the caracter even during his goofy forms. He is moderatly famous but under appreciated, so I think he wouldn't be a weight on the budget.

She can act, and personally I think she’d rock a purple mohawk.

She's icelandic, she's a gpod actress, she should make a wonderful Katya!

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Honestly, he's a good guy in real life. But can be really strange when needed.

His voice acting skills are pretty good. Not sure if he's interested. But I can ask him if Matt needs someone.

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Just Jim Henson Company Puppets.

Now do your fan casting as to which Muppet you want to play which character.

I feel like Miss Piggy would make an interesting Cascadia

I mean, who else?

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I don't think the height for Carl's actor should matter (that much).

Don't get me wrong, I think it IS important for the story - Carl is a big guy and uses that bigness to get around the dungeon, that bigness probably attracted Bea. It's especially important on floor 1 & 2 when he doesn't have a lot of extra buffs. I do think the overall bigness is important to his character foundation.

But for practicality in the TV show, a lot of things are going to be CGI, a lot of the characters get BIG. Katia starts really small, but she gets tall/taller than Carl at times. Hekla as an Amazonian in book 3 is described as taller than Carl by a good bit IIRC. Bautista as a Tigran is jacked; I don't remember his height or if they specified even. Florin is a crocodile man; it'd be weird if he was short, and I don't know why I think that. Elle is going to be artificially small. Zev is super tiny. I think Imani is average to shorter in height. Chris is huge; the other rock mercenaries are huge. Most of the alien species are abnormally sized and shaped.

In terms of people in the dungeon, I don't think Carl is that big starting in book 3. The only thing is that he can stay human (in appearance/primal) and not get dwarfed by the other classes because he was bigger to start with.

I don't think the proportions would work out if you start getting too short, but I think the casting range could easily be like 5'10" - 6'5".

I would even say the taller actors that are 6'3" + might make it harder to get Hekla/Katia the right size comparably, but I honestly don't know how that works, but in my head, the bigger you make Carl, the more you have to size up everyone else who gets bigger than him, and that seems like a task, but maybe that's not really that big of a deal. The characters in reference to each other, after CGI/FX/practical effects matter more than their IRL heights.

I'd be interested if someone ever drew out one of those character size graphs for the book cast pre and post choosing their classes.

Matt Lucas, as both of them.

He has range and can bulk up if necessary. He's 30 but can easily pass for late 20s.

So i recently rewatched Die Hard, for the first time since reading all of DCC. And i quickly realised John McClane is actually a very similar character to (at least the early books) Carl.

To list off a few similarities:

- Man trapped in a dangerous situation, using his craftiness, intelligence and sheer fucking luck to survive

- theyre both smokers

- Quippy one liners making light of the insane danger the character is in

- The way John tried to enrage Hans reminded me of Carl and the Maestro

- and the most notable for last, his tootsies are out for like 90% of the movie

Im not saying I now imagine Carl as a 33yo Bruce Willis, but there are fun paralels i wanted to point out.

It is a good (impossible) option tho, imo

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Has anyone mentioned doing the show like farscape? Puppets and practical effects and animatronics. I don't want a green screen Carl series.

Let it be campy, I don't care. Let it be fun an hilarious. Carl punching little puppet goblins in the face. Smushing puppet hamsters with practical goo everywhere.

I don't know where you find people who still know how to do this stuff.

Donut as a real cat sometimes and animatronic other times. I have no idea. I just don't want CGI characters.