Cedric Diggory cast!

[Lolua]

I'm a bit behind on other casting threads here, but I thought I'd get this up.... Cedric Diggory has been cast. The BBC reports that London teen Robert Pattinson, according to his casting agency, will be playing Cedric.

CBBC Newsround article:
news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_3795000/3795855.stm

So who is this guy?

IMDb entry:
us.imdb.com/name/nm1500155/

Upcoming films:

Kingdom in Twilight/Das Nibelungenlied (2004) as Giselher
us.imdb.com/title/tt0387541/
Giselher - The youngest (I think) brother of Kriemhild, wife of Attila the Hun. Giselher's not too bad a guy, as I remember, but his sister plots his death at the hands of her husband's men just the same. But then, Kriemhild is just kind of a vicious person (and played, as Big Brother will be happy to note, by Alicia Witt).

Vanity Fair (2004) as Rawdy Crawley
us.imdb.com/title/tt0241025/fullcredits
Rawdy Crawley - Rawdon and Becky Crawley's athletic but sensitive son and heir. The object of his father's pride, and his mother's disdain. (summary adapted from www.collegeclub.com/servlet/novelnotes.CharactersServlet?note=vanity)

Stage:

Macbeth (as Fleance, maybe?)
Anything Goes as ??
Tess of the D'Urbervilles as ??

Well, if anything, he'll have experience doing what Cedric does.

[Big Brother]

Good Lord, a Ring Cycle movie? Live-action? Hopefully they did the SFX well, and avoided any Wagnerian singing. As a language, German is much more suited for military orders shouted in a commanding tone than it is for singing. On the other hand, this might be a chance for the best use of "Ride of the Valkyries" since The Blues Brothers.

Hmmm...Alicia Witt, her Dune costar Max Von Sydow, AND Kristianna Loken from T3? I might have to get off my buttocks and actually go see this one.

[Big Brother]

Oh, that reminds me...

From Martin's Big Vault o' Internet Humor, The Order of Cerulean Fowl proudly presents:

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S RING CYCLE
(by Richard Wilson, originally posted in
the USENET newsgroup rec.humor.oracle.d)

We start off with the Rhinemaidens who laugh and dance and sing all day,
Until they're rude the Alberich, who steals all of their gold away.
But he in turn is robbed by Wotan, who needs lots of cash in hand
With which to pay his builders the outrageous fees that they demand.
(Not only that, they asked to have the love goddess as surety -
He must have used the same lot who extended my conservatory.)
It all ends up in tears with neither gods nor giants having fun -
What can I say? A Nibelung's lot is surely not a happy one.

Now Wotan fathers lots of kids and acts just like a perfect creep;
He kills Siegmund without a qualm and has Brunnhilde put to sleep.
The moral is, don't mess with gods - you'll wind up with some injury;
Which brings us to the end of both Das Rheingold and Die Walkure.

The scene now shifts to Siegfried who is big and tough and fighting fit,
Just like a terminator only lacking all that charm and wit.
He seeks out dragons left and right, and with his sword he runs them through,
Then goes and wakes Brunnhilde when a little birdie tells him to.
Oh Siegfried, we have no idea just what that valk'rie sees in ya:
As soon as she is out of sight you promptly catch amnesia.
And Hagen and King Gunther aren't such good friends, you must admit:
For when you turn your back on them, they stick a great big spear in it.

With Siegfried's funeral march we get a chance to briefly catch our breath,
Then everybody still alive is either drowned or burnt to death.
And now the cycle's over 'cause the fat lady has been and sung;
This was the very model of a modern Gotterdammerung.

[Lolua]

Big said:

Hmmm...Alicia Witt, her Dune costar Max Von Sydow, AND Kristianna Loken from T3? I might have to get off my buttocks and actually go see this one.

I just poked around on IMDb and some German-language sites looking for more info on this Kingdom in Twilight deal. The official English site only says "Coming Soon" and has no links off the main page. German movie news sites state that the film is a made-for-German-satellite-TV movie (I guess like an HBO Original Picture would be in this country). The only release date IMDb indicates is a cryptic "2004" for the USA.

Let's hope some US cable network picks it up, or BB will never get to see Alicia Witt in medieval armor. :-P Or the part where she dukes it out with Kristiana Loken's character.

From the looks of it, they're chopping out the entire third act or so of the original Nibelungenlied, where Alicia Witt's character marries Attila the Hun and becomes a very, very evil person with her schemes of revenge on her family. Unfortunately, that's my favorite part of the whole thing. Who wouldn't love Huns and a bloodbath? :-P And Rodiger rocks. He and his wife are possibly the only really decent characters in the whole dang thing.

That said, I'm not even sure this Robert Pattinson fellow's part of Giselher is going to be a speaking role. Giselher is something of a spear-carrier anyway in the early parts of the Nibelungenlied.