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Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Calax posted:

Have them both play the Big E. It's been stated that he looks like a giant warrior in gold to some, while to others (particularly the Sisters of Silence) he looks like just a man. So have him appear different between scenes for fun.

I love it!

# ? Oct 4, 2022 20:38

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 19:57

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

schwarzenegger himself is too old to look all ubermenschy anymore

maybe see if the gigachad guy can act

# ? Oct 4, 2022 20:39

Chemtrailologist: Jul 8, 2007

Badly Jester posted:

With his performance as a jovial supervillain, I'm thinking Death Guard.

'Jovial' is one of the last words that come to mind when I think of the Death Guard.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 20:46

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Chemtrailologist posted:

'Jovial' is one of the last words that come to mind when I think of the Death Guard.

Papa Nurgle loves a good joke

# ? Oct 4, 2022 20:50

Brendan Rodgers: Jun 11, 2014

Guilliman I see as Kevin McKidd, as Centurion Lucius Vorenus from HBO's Rome:

Angron is Manu Benett playing Crixus in Spartacus:

# ? Oct 4, 2022 20:51

0konner: Nov 17, 2016; I WAS THERE
WHEN CODY RHODES
FINISHED THE STORY

Oh and my best headcanon casting: Fulgrim is Kelsey Grammer

# ? Oct 4, 2022 20:52

Badly Jester: Apr 9, 2010; Bitches!

Chemtrailologist posted:

'Jovial' is one of the last words that come to mind when I think of the Death Guard.

You might be equating the entire Death Guard with notable sourpuss Mortarion. Other DG characters lean into the whackiness of jolly old Nurgle and his demons.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 20:57

Chemtrailologist: Jul 8, 2007

Any specific names or books? The stuff I've read they are almost always very serious and thoughtful.

They don't come across as outwardly happy.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 21:02

Brendan Rodgers: Jun 11, 2014

0konner posted:

Oh and my best headcanon casting: Fulgrim is Kelsey Grammer

He would be better as Malcador imo

# ? Oct 4, 2022 21:02

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

Brendan Rodgers posted:

Guilliman I see as Kevin McKidd, as Centurion Lucius Vorenus from HBO's Rome:

Angron is Manu Benett playing Crixus in Spartacus:

this guy budgets better lol

# ? Oct 4, 2022 21:07

Calax: Oct 5, 2011

Udo Keir under CGI as Magnus?

# ? Oct 4, 2022 21:13

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

Chemtrailologist posted:

Any specific names or books? The stuff I've read they are almost always very serious and thoughtful.

They don't come across as outwardly happy.

Lords of Silence. It's the best DG novel and one of the best 40k books IMO. It's Chris Wraight too!

# ? Oct 4, 2022 21:39

Chemtrailologist: Jul 8, 2007

I've read it, one of my favourites.

I was asking if there were any books that make the DG seem like a happy bunch of marines. Their portrayal in LoS is that they're a pretty dour group.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 21:43

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Ian McKellen as Malcador or Patrick Stewart.

Hell I think Crispin Glover is still around.

James Earl Jones to ferret out fascists and because he�s awesome.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 21:47

Badly Jester: Apr 9, 2010; Bitches!

Chemtrailologist posted:

Any specific names or books? The stuff I've read they are almost always very serious and thoughtful.

They don't come across as outwardly happy.

Sure, there's a lot of plague marines that similar to Mortarion in disposition, but Nurgle himself has always been depicted as jovial, with nurglings providing slapstick comedy. Some marines in the DG keep nurglings as pets.

From The Lords of Silence (not actually plot spoilers):
He works his way down a long spiral stair, wheezing as he goes. His lungs are half full of fluid, and he cannot help but think it a poor Gift. Then again, he has thought other Gifts were poor in the past, only to discover their genius much later. �Forgive,� he says, speaking softly to the Little Lord at his elbow. The tiny daemon giggles, then farts liquidly into the crook of his armour. That counts as forgiveness, probably.

He reaches his destination. He is a long way down now, buried within the folded heart of Solace�s central chamber-core. It smells rich here, like old soil. He sees pale worms wriggling through the mouldering metalwork, each barely longer than his fingernail. They glow. They have many eyes. And long teeth. Why does a worm need teeth? He�s doing it again. Too curious�� that�s always been his problem.

Once within, he climbs the interior stairs, treading paths that he built himself. Every worn stone is familiar, every smell is comforting. Once he would have scorned such notions, having been made immune to all calls of family or community. Now he values these things. He tends to his herds and his slaves, seeing what can be made of them and taking pleasure in their successes.

The protagonist of that book (a plague marine) is such a likable doofus.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 22:00

Telsa Cola: Aug 19, 2011; No... this is all wrong... this whole operation has just gone completely sidewaysface

I thought Lord's of Silence illustrated that Plague Marines were like a knife edge away from acknowledging the horror of the their existence and its only by embracing the humor or inescapablility of their life that they remain saneish.

Or was that the other plague marine book.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 22:03

0konner: Nov 17, 2016; I WAS THERE
WHEN CODY RHODES
FINISHED THE STORY

Brendan Rodgers posted:

He would be better as Malcador imo

Counterpoint: old grizzled Mark Hammil

# ? Oct 4, 2022 22:12

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Badly Jester posted:

Sure, there's a lot of plague marines that similar to Mortarion in disposition, but Nurgle himself has always been depicted as jovial, with nurglings providing slapstick comedy. Some marines in the DG keep nurglings as pets.

From The Lords of Silence (not actually plot spoilers):
He works his way down a long spiral stair, wheezing as he goes. His lungs are half full of fluid, and he cannot help but think it a poor Gift. Then again, he has thought other Gifts were poor in the past, only to discover their genius much later. �Forgive,� he says, speaking softly to the Little Lord at his elbow. The tiny daemon giggles, then farts liquidly into the crook of his armour. That counts as forgiveness, probably.

He reaches his destination. He is a long way down now, buried within the folded heart of Solace�s central chamber-core. It smells rich here, like old soil. He sees pale worms wriggling through the mouldering metalwork, each barely longer than his fingernail. They glow. They have many eyes. And long teeth. Why does a worm need teeth? He�s doing it again. Too curious�� that�s always been his problem.

Once within, he climbs the interior stairs, treading paths that he built himself. Every worn stone is familiar, every smell is comforting. Once he would have scorned such notions, having been made immune to all calls of family or community. Now he values these things. He tends to his herds and his slaves, seeing what can be made of them and taking pleasure in their successes.

The protagonist of that book (a plague marine) is such a likable doofus.

i love that they are a bunch of goons.

Telsa Cola posted:

I thought Lord's of Silence illustrated that Plague Marines were like a knife edge away from acknowledging the horror of the their existence and its only by embracing the humor or inescapablility of their life that they remain saneish.

Or was that the other plague marine book.

so they are something awful?

# ? Oct 4, 2022 23:45

MrNemo: Aug 26, 2010; "I just love beeting off"

0konner posted:

Counterpoint: old grizzled Mark Hammil

That is the Emperor when Malcador meets him in the Empyrean.

# ? Oct 4, 2022 23:55

Shroud: May 11, 2009

Christopher Walken for Emperor, but he's Jason Momoa when he's got his glamour on.

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IshmaelZarkov: Jun 20, 2013

Zahn McClarnon is my choice for Emps. Just CG him so he's huge when he needs to be.

I'm also partial to Cavill as Valdor and I'm pretty sure he's said Valdor is his dream role anyhows.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 01:03

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

Shroud posted:

Christopher Walken for Emperor, but he's Jason Momoa when he's got his glamour on.

Christopher Walken us already playing Emperor Shaddam IV in Dune Part 2.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 01:21

Sephyr: Aug 28, 2012

Jeff Goldblum for Lorgar.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 01:33

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

See I would characterize the DG as jolly, even the ones in LoS, it's just a different sort of jolly. Not a Tom Bombadil but rather someone in a horrible depressive episode who nevertheless is having a happy experience. A kind of gritty acceptance that the world is hell but the current moment is enough. As someone who has gone through some really bad bouts of depression I liken it to when the depressive episodes were really bad but I was playing with my kids and had some happiness in the moment but still felt like poo poo on the whole. Probably a better word for it but there is definitely some jolly there with all the other poo poo.

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FPyat: Jan 17, 2020

Marshal Prolapse posted:

James Earl Jones to ferret out fascists and because he�s awesome.

Only the top 1% most brokenbrained pundits are going to stir poo poo up about JEJ voicing a white guy because... you know.

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bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

isnt he like 90 or some poo poo

the series is 9 books they gotta have like a 40yo or something

# ? Oct 5, 2022 03:56

Hot Dog Day #82: Jul 5, 2003; Soiled Meat

I may have read this here years back� but in my dream world there is a Ciaphas Cain mini series. Mr. Bean would play Cain in his day-today life, and Henry Cavill would play him as he is depicted by the Imperial propaganda machine.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 05:27

Deptfordx: Dec 23, 2013

JEJ is pretty much retired now. He even let them digitally recreate his voice for that Kenobi tv show rather than do it himself.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 09:13

Chemtrailologist: Jul 8, 2007

If I had Bezos money I'd fund my own Eisenhorn series. I'd tell Henry Cavill in person that he gets to play Gideon Ravenor just to see the look on his face.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 09:32

Demiurge4: Aug 10, 2011

Chemtrailologist posted:

If I had Bezos money I'd fund my own Eisenhorn series. I'd tell Henry Cavill in person that he gets to play Gideon Ravenor just to see the look on his face.

For me it would be the Vervunhive defense as a 3 hour movie. I'd get Bryan Cranston to play Larkin.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 09:39

Fellblade: Apr 28, 2009

Chemtrailologist posted:

If I had Bezos money I'd fund my own Eisenhorn series. I'd tell Henry Cavill in person that he gets to play Gideon Ravenor just to see the look on his face.

That�s good because once he�s in the box nobody else is gonna see it.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 09:44

NihilCredo: Jun 6, 2011; iram omni possibili modo preme:
plus una illa te diffamabit, quam multæ virtutes commendabunt

Chemtrailologist posted:

If I had Bezos money I'd fund my own Eisenhorn series. I'd tell Henry Cavill in person that he gets to play Gideon Ravenor just to see the look on his face.

He actually looks a bit like pre-chair Gideon.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 11:16

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

Telsa Cola posted:

I thought Lord's of Silence illustrated that Plague Marines were like a knife edge away from acknowledging the horror of the their existence and its only by embracing the humor or inescapablility of their life that they remain saneish.

Or was that the other plague marine book.

Isn't that just the human condition?

# ? Oct 5, 2022 12:33

IshmaelZarkov: Jun 20, 2013

Chemtrailologist posted:

If I had Bezos money I'd fund my own Eisenhorn series. I'd tell Henry Cavill in person that he gets to play Gideon Ravenor just to see the look on his face.

Same, but a five season retelling of the Gothic War, because spaceships are great and there aren't enough spaceship tv shows.

Too many people think the Millenium Falcon is the coolest spaceship, cause they've never seen a flying cathedral that has a half-kilometer high statue of an angel on top of it.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 13:05

Gravitas Shortfall: Jul 17, 2007; Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.

Telsa Cola posted:

I thought Lord's of Silence illustrated that Plague Marines were like a knife edge away from acknowledging the horror of the their existence and its only by embracing the humor or inescapablility of their life that they remain saneish.

Or was that the other plague marine book.

One thing I liked about Echoes of Eternity is that a lot of the human Chaos forces could only operate by being in complete denial of the literal monsters they'd become. The titan crew in particular is just horrible..

# ? Oct 5, 2022 13:57

Biplane: Jul 18, 2005

Chemtrailologist posted:

If I had Bezos money I'd fund my own Eisenhorn series. I'd tell Henry Cavill in person that he gets to play Gideon Ravenor just to see the look on his face.

I would kiss his face

# ? Oct 5, 2022 14:02