If the film is indeed going to start shooting in April (and we have only a rumor to say that is so) then yes, a decision will have to be made soon. OTOH, things sometimes go down to the wire. Viggo M. ended up in
The Lord of the Rings after they had begun shooting with another actor.
"if the casting calls are true"
THEY AREN'T.
Let's try this again. Repeat after me:
THERE ARE NO "CASTING CALLS"
THERE ARE NO "CASTING CALLS"
THERE ARE NO "CASTING CALLS"
Everybody got that?
(UK) - Send pictures & resume ASAP to: Details Are only Available By Subscription.
NO LEGITIMATE CASTING AGENCY SELLS CONTACT INFORMATION BY SUBSCRIPTION OR IN ANY OTHER WAY. NONE. EVER. PERIOD. END-OF-STORY. THE ONLY WAY A LEGITIMATE CASTING (OR LITERARY OR MUSIC) AGENT MAKES MONEY IS BY COLLECTING A PERCENTAGE OF THE MONEY THE CLIENT EARNS WHEN THE AGENT GETS THAT CLIENT A JOB
No one who charges an upfront fee to an actor or a reading fee to a writer is acting as a legitimate agent. That simply is not how it works in the industry. But there are plenty of parasites hanging around the fringes of the business to fleece the unwary. As a bonus they get to fool even non-actors who stumble across their crap, although that doesn't mean much to them since they don't make money off those folks.
This stuff did not come from the horse's mouth, people, it came from the other end of the horse. The people who run these sites are
LIARS and CROOKS who STEAL FROM GULLIBLE WOULD-BE ACTORS. Do I need to post the links to the actor bulletin boards complaining about these site AGAIN?
Major Hollywood studios to NOT cast major roles in the movies by running want ads on the internet. They call established agents and say, "I need a male in this 30s who can play a space marine. Send over your best five clients, here's the place and time." That way they're dealing with
professionals who understand who the business works and who don't have to be trained on the job - something no prodcuer or director wants to be saddled with. (Unless the point is to cast complete unknowns, which no one is suggesting is the case here.)
Look, all these sites have done is copy the
rumored information from
Hollywood North and cobbled it into something resembling a casting notice so they can sign up new marks for their worthless subscriptions. (On the rare ocassions when the studios do genuinely open casting calls - usually for extras or bit players - they are advertised in the trades and the information is available
for free at libraries and the like or for the cost of a copy of
Variety. And anybody can get it. You don't have to join some bogus website. Probably the reason this outfit added the "extras casting line" is either to make themselves look more legitimate or because casting for extras in the U.K. has actually started - something they would have learned by reading the
British industry press. But that doesn't mean anything else in that notice is true.)
Real actors - the kind WB would consider for roles in the movie - have advanced to the point of having agents at the very least. So they hear about open calls from their agents. Those who have a credit or two are members of either the Screen Actors Guild or the Screen Extras Guild. (Or their British equivalents, or both.) They could also find out about open casting opportunities through their unions. Getting members work is one of the things that unions are
for.
With all these ways of contacted agent-represented, professional, experienced actors and extras who can do the job, why in the world would Warner Bros. post a want ad on the freaking
internet inviting every nutjob who forgot to take his meds to show up at their casting session and explain why he should get the role of G'Kar because he actually
is a Narn? Lift your eyes away from the so-called "clues" for a second and try to see the big picture. How likely is it that this is the way a giant Hollywood studio would hire someone for a pivitol role in a multi-million dollar project?
These "casting call" sites don't remotely pass the
giggle test, much less offer any reason for taking them seriously. Why are we still talking about them?
Regards,
Joe
