Props & Actors

Props

We need a book to use for when the main character discovers the book left on the seat next to him. We have discussed what book we are going to use and we have decided on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. There needs to be a note put inside it and placed in such a way that it will easily fall out when the main character picks up the book. It should be a second-hand, somewhat tattered copy of the book and not brand-new looking.

Actors

If we could get anybody for the role of the main character, my first choice would be Ryan Gosling. This is because he is a versatile actor who can play gritty roles and yet demand sympathy from the audience in the role of the protagonist. Of course, our film is set in England, and I don't know if Gosling would be able to affect an accent but I think he would fit the role well otherwise. Here is a picture of him in one of his latest roles in Drive:

For the role of the murderer we have chosen Callum as we believe he could portray his character very well.

For the role of the man who sits down next to the main character briefly on the DLR, I think an actor like  Anton Yelchin would be good because I think that the character should look young and quite innocent from what little we see of him - as if he is an young man with potential who has just entered into a world of crime.

For the part of the mysterious man on the train, we have chosen Ollie Brenmann because he has acting experience with roles such as this one.

For the role of the man in the suit who tells the main character who the a target is, I think an actor such as George Clooney would be perfect. It's not a big role so I don't imagine that he would accept the role but it would be good to have someone that, in a suit, would look strangely suave and handsome yet also like he could be dangerous and could be quite ruthless.

For the role of the man on the platform, we have chosen Gus Grant, due to the fact that he will physically resemble the character we had in mind a lot.

I would ideally cast Chloe Grace Moretz in the role of the young girl who is killed by the main character.  She looks young and innocent which would emphasise the emotional conflict that the main character has to surmount in order to carry out his hit.

The character of the young teenage girl will be played by Alice Alphonse. We have chosen her because we believe that she has the most physical resemblance to the character we imagined in our heads.