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Casting Call: Who Should Play Heather in Silent Hill: Revelation
Whether or not you’re looking forward to the film, the original remains as of the few video game adaptations that stayed remarkably close to its source material. Yes, the story was outlandish and more than a little difficult to follow and the real scares were essentially nonexistent. It’s amazing recreation of the atmosphere, aided by the use of the games’ soundtracks, that made the franchise stand out was certainly one of the film’s strongest assets.
So you’ve probably decided on your top choice for Claudia in the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation and now it’s time to pick out the ideal actress to portray arguably the most important role: Heather. This is tough as there’s no shortage of options out there but I feel I’ve trimmed the list to a select few I feel would make kickass Heathers, hopefully you’ll concur.
This is, without a doubt, my top choice for Heather since she’s proven herself to be an incredibly talented actress with experience in the genre (Sam Raimi’s incredible Drag Me to Hell), and certainly looks the part. Honestly, there’s not much more to say, but don’t let that keep you from checking out the rest of the candidates.
Alright, I might’ve lied a bit because Ellen Page has everything Lohman has with the added bonus of being an incredibly diverse actress. Her work in films like Hard Candy, Juno and Inception has demonstrated her ability to fill essentially every role she’s given.
If anything, Saoirse’s giant blue eyes and remarkable ability to look well beyond her years should translate well to a young girl trying to escape Pyramid Head’s rapey tendencies. She’s only 16 but I’m sure she could add on two years for the role, don’t you?
This is the only one I’m not entirely sure about because looking at her body of work, with the exception of The Reaping, she tends to stick pretty close to Disney roles. However, with a tiny bit of work she could definitely look the part and there’s a good chance after being in Race to Witch Mountain and a Tinker Bell flick she might be eager to do something a little more interesting.
Mia’s another girl that looks very much like Heather and she recently had her first major role in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, where she did an excellent job. She’s fairly new to the industry having only started in 2006 but since then Mia’s managed to go from a name no one knows to one people should watch. And for that I think she’d make for a mighty good Heather.
For a 16 year-old Dakota has done a lot. Looking at her filmography I found myself wondering just what the fuck have I done with my life? Then I remembered I have 30 followers on Twitter and I felt alight again. Dakota has some experience with thrillers having been in Hide and Seek and War of the Worlds, both would certainly help her pull off a believable ‘girl being chased by nameless monsters’.
So that as they say, is that. Well, I’m not sure who ‘they’ is and what they meant by ‘that’, but that’s a discussion for another time. Instead why don’t you trot on over to the comments and let me know who I missed.
Only one episode remains in Season 3 of “Chucky,” and what a bloody road it’s been so far, especially for actor Devon Sawa. The actor has now officially died twice on screen this season, pulling double duty as President James Collins and body double Randall Jenkins.
If you thought Chucky’s ruthless eye-gouging of the President was bloody, this week’s Episode 7 traps Randall Jenkins in an elevator that feels straight out of an iconic horror classic.
Bloody Disgusting spoke with series creator Don Mancini and actor Devon Sawa about that ultra-bloody death sequence and how the actor inspires Mancini’s writing on the series.
Mancini explains, “Devon’s a bit of a muse. Idle Hands and Final Destination is where my Devon Sawa fandom started, like a lot of people; although yours may have started with Casper. I was a bit too old for that. But it’s really just about how I love writing for actors that I respect and then know. So, it’s like having worked with Devon for three years now, I’m just always thinking, ‘Oh, what would be a fun thing to throw his way that would be unexpected and different that he hasn’t done?’ That’s really what motivates me.”
For Sawa, “Chucky“ is an actor’s dream in that the series gives him not one but multiple roles to sink his teeth into, often within the same season. But the actor is also a huge horror fan, and Season 3: Part 2 gives him the opportunity to pay homage to a classic: Kubrick’s The Shining.
CHUCKY — “There Will Be Blood” Episode 307 — Pictured in this screengrab: (l-r) Devon Sawa as President James Collins, K.C. Collins as Coop — (Photo by: SYFY)
“Collectively, it’s just amazing to put on the different outfits, to do the hair differently, to get different types of dialogue,“ Sawa says of working on the series. “The elevator scene, it’s like being a kid again. I was up to my eyeballs in blood, and it felt very Kubrick. Everybody there was having such a good time, and we were all doing this cool horror stuff, and it felt amazing. It really was a good day.”
Sawa elaborates on being submerged in so much blood, “It was uncomfortable, cold, and sticky, and it got in my ears and my nose. But it was well worth it. I didn’t complain once. I was like, ‘This is why I do what I do, to do scenes like this,‘ the scenes that I grew up watching on VHS cassette, and now we’re doing it in HD, and it’s all so cool.“
It’s always the characters and the actors behind them that matter most to Mancini, even when he delights in coming up with inventive kills and incorporating horror references. And he’s killed Devon Sawa’s characters often. Could future seasons top the record of on-screen Sawa deaths?
“Well, I guess we did it twice in season one and once in season two,“ Mancini counts. “So yeah, I guess I would have to up the ante next season. I’ll really be juggling a lot of falls. But I think it’s hopefully as much about quality as quantity. I want to give him a good role that he’s going to enjoy sinking his teeth into as an actor. It’s not just about the deaths.”
Sawa adds, “Don’s never really talked about how many times could we kill you. He’s always talking about, ‘How can I make this death better,’ and that’s what I think excites him is how he can top each death. The electricity, to me blowing up to, obviously in this season, the eyes and with the elevator, which was my favorite one to shoot. So if it goes on, we’ll see if he could top the deaths.”
CHUCKY — “Death Becomes Her” Episode 305 — Pictured in this screengrab: Devon Sawa as James Collins — (Photo by: SYFY)
The actor has played a handful of distinctly different characters since the series launch, each one meeting a grisly end thanks to Chucky. And Season 3 gave Sawa his favorite characters yet.
“I would say the second one was a lot of fun to shoot,“ the actor says of Randall Jenkins. “The President was great. I liked playing the President. He was the most grounded, I hope, of all the characters. I did like playing him a lot.” Mancini adds, “He’s grounded, but he’s also really traumatized, and I thought you did that really well, too.”
The series creator also reveals a surprise correlation between President James Collins’ character arc and a ’90s horror favorite.
“I saw Devon’s role as the president in Season 3; he’s very Kennedy-esque,“ Mancini explains. “But then given the supernatural plot turns that happen, to me, the analogy is Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath, the character that is seeing these weird little things happening around the house that is starting to screw with his sanity and he starts to insist, ‘I’m seeing a ghost,‘ and his spouse thinks he’s nuts. So I always like that. That’s Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath, which is a movie I love.”
The finale of “Chucky” Season 3: Part 2 airs Wednesday, May 1 on USA & SYFY.
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