Board Thread:Casting/@comment-25375217-20150219211439/@comment-25375217-20150220024443

I feel the need to constantly defend myself, don't ask it's a personal tick.

Stuart - He isn't exactly supposed to be brave and heroic, that's why I was looking at Calum Worthy. He's kind of a wimp, and he wants to prove that he's as good as his grandpa because his entire life he's been on his own, unable to hold his own. His own dad ignores him and when he brings up the idea that he wants to go on an adventure, his dad flat-out states that he's too weak to handle it. That's why Barry's really an important character, to be the muscle. And that's why Stuart goes by Guy Dangerous, because it makes him sound more dangerous, even though he isn't. Not to mention Alan Hall was really the only person besides Kevin Douglas to be signed up that looked at all like Guy Dangerous. Every character has a "signature", and for Guy it's his red hair. I don't really have any good pictures of Cody Newman (i don't even know who his lookalike is), but the pictures on his page don't have red hair.

Scarlett - She isn't supposed to be mysterious always, and definitely not dark. She's supposed to look mysterious in a more attractive manner. The mystery isn't behind her appearance, it's behind the fact that she looks like a nice girl but she avoids everyone. I think Debby Ryan/Maddie Roller can easily pull that off. Throughout the movie, as she warms up to Stuart and Barry, she's actually kind of goofy. Not total Paisley goofy, but not "dark and mysterious" by far. Also, she was, again, the only person that actually looked like Scarlett. Scarlett's "signature" is, again, red hair.

Karma - This would be because I completely rewrote Karma. She's no longer supposed to be asian, I actually went for South American, because that's where the temple is. Her name is Karma Lee solely as a reference to the character in the game. Lots of movies do stuff like that, so I decided it'd work. Karma was actually a role I kind of had to think really hard about casting for.

Young Stuart - Literally my only option.

Donny - I think this is a character thing more than an actor thing, seeing as I've never watched How to Rock and I actually think Jake D. could be intimidating. He isn't necessarily in that pic, but I think he could be.

Also, I'd like to point out that I had the casting open for over a week and only seven people signed up their actors. Of these people, one only signed up one actor, one signed up a bunch of actors who wouldn't take any role except Stuart but looked nothing like Guy Dangerous, and one had to withdraw two actors. (No offense to the people who did this, it's completely understandable, but it still messes with casting.) I posted multiple times trying to get people to sign up more actors (generally disguised as a comment or a thank you, but it's there), and I didn't get enough to cast it perfectly. I think these actors are going to work very well, though, don't get me wrong, but I still was envisioning John Brenton growing up into Kevin Douglas, and that didn't work for me. I think this cast is fine, if not perfect.