What actors should play as book characters?

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Re: What actors should play as book characters?

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This is a subject I love so I'm bumping it. Hopefully someone(s) will agree.

On topic...
When I read the Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr I always pictures one of the Olsen twins as Donia.
I have since changed my mind.
Donia is one of my favorite characters in the books and I've found her.
Chloe Grace Morets is the only Donia for me.

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Also...Jenks from The Hollows by Kim Harrison

I now see Hunter Hayes as Jenks. I can't help it.
I can see the pixy pose and everything.
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I'd like to see Sanderson's Mistborn series made into movies. As for actors... I always saw Nathan Fillion as Kelsier, Michael Caine as Breeze, Ellen Page as Vin, and Jason Statham as Ham.
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I once read a book called "This Is What Happy Looks Like" and personally believe that Graham Phillips would make a good Graham from the book. So I just had to look up the name of the guy in the book because it's been awhile and I had forgotten. How ironic that the character's name is literally the same as the guy I suggested play him if it were ever made into a movie.
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I would love to have seen helena bonham carter be miss peregrine
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I know it is a little bit off-topic, but while thinking of "Pride and Prejudice", I realized that the perfect casting does exist. In BBC's adaptation, all of the characters are played by the perfect actors, in my opinion.
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I would really like them to re-do the The Gunsliger ( or do a mini-series or something better) with Josh Brolin as Roland and Lupita Nyong as Susannah...
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I would love itif The Stormlight Archive became a tv series. I could see a young Jim Caviezel playing Cal, one of the main characters.
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