RShara Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 Yeah the age worries me for John Cho. He's adorable but Adolin is only about 27 (earth years)? I don't know very many younger Asian actors, though so I'm a bit stymied there. Chow Yun Fat actually looks a lot like how I imagine Alethi. The hair and eyes (shape, not color) and skin tone are perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llarimar Posted December 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 Hiroyuki Sanada as Zahel/Vasher? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 (edited) I could see it. He'd need some gray, is all. Though...we should probably make this a separate thread and stop hijacking. I think there's a movie thread already somewhere... But I did find the perfect Sadeas... Edited December 9, 2017 by RShara 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabiyume Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 ItActually, East Indians, the race that Brandon mentioned in the last WoB here with seemingly more confidence, make sense to me. They have East Asian eyes but are tan and have sharper features as well. An example could be: I would imagine these features but tanner too. Omg forevermore this is how I see shallan, but with red hair. I don't know how the casting will go. That will be one complicated ish to be accurate about. I think they'll have to settle for different known Earth races for different nations, because established awesome actors would be easier to get. And I think in this instance, the demands of acting chops will have to take precedence over the aesthetic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthexile Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 Another thing to keep in mind is that genetics don't express on Roshar the way they do on Earth, or apparently any other Cosmere worlds. The patch-and-stitch nature of genes on Roshar is bizarre, there are people like the Iriali and Herdazians with weird metallic body parts, and when couples with different hair colors have a child, the child just has both hair colors in patches. These people probably look a lot stranger than most of us are imagining, most of the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster Retribution Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 Huh, I would personally cast Chow Yun Fat as Sadeas... that said, fan-casting Stormlight with exact likeness to the books is incredibly hard. When I do it, not nearly everyone has the required eyes, and some of those who have lack the proper skin tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raykoda Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 Since we're doing this: here's my Szeth: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straits Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 19 hours ago, Raykoda said: Here we have the #1 thing I think preventing SA from getting filmed. No Rosharan ethnicity has a on-to-one correspondence with earth ethnicities. Some may line up better (Shin to Caucasian), but some are just weird (Alethi, as you mentioned). Some WoB's of note: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/120-warsaw-signing/#e7912 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/131-general-reddit-2016/#e3932 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/162-steelheart-portland-signing/#e2985 TL;DR: Sorta. That makes perfect sense. I kind of imagined the Alethi to be of Arab complexion, with east-Asiatic eyes and bone structure of something in between. Of course, no 1:1 mapping between them and our world. What puzzles me is the Iriali. Metallic golden hair, yellow eyes, but what do their faces look like really? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llarimar Posted December 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 7 hours ago, straits said: What puzzles me is the Iriali. Metallic golden hair, yellow eyes, but what do their faces look like really? I imagine them as Scandinavian in appearance, with fair skin and pale blonde hair. They always seemed like the most Caucasian race in the book - although apparently as I've learned from this thread, Brandon sees the Shin as the most Caucasian race, so I'm not really sure what he intends with the Iriali. Whenever Evi talked in the book, I imagined her voice with a poised French accent, very delicate and nasal. So I see the Iriali as fair skinned, blonde-haired, French-speaking, ethnic Scandinavians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straits Posted December 10, 2017 Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 4 hours ago, Llarimar said: I imagine them as Scandinavian in appearance, with fair skin and pale blonde hair. They always seemed like the most Caucasian race in the book - although apparently as I've learned from this thread, Brandon sees the Shin as the most Caucasian race, so I'm not really sure what he intends with the Iriali. Whenever Evi talked in the book, I imagined her voice with a poised French accent, very delicate and nasal. So I see the Iriali as fair skinned, blonde-haired, French-speaking, ethnic Scandinavians. Maybe, with a metallic spin on blonde hair. But with somewhat Asiatic eyes? Actually, that sounds a bit like east Finland/Karelia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USS bridge four Posted December 10, 2017 Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 I am mixed Chinese but I’m not Han Chinese my family tends to have darker skin and are short so I guess my family looks like reshi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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