So, Ridley Scott and Company have hinted that Leonardo DiCaprio is pretty much a lock for any role he wants in the Brave New World adaptation. Word on the street is that he wants Bernard. I talk about how the casting might go down over on Tor.com.

I didn’t mention my ideal cast in the post, so I’ll do it here, and then play a quick game of Awesome British Actor Camp*:

Bernard: Damian Lewis
Lenina: Nina Sosanya
Mustapha: Ian McKellen
John: James McAvoy
Linda: Julie Walters

It will be interesting to see how much the studio will actually influence the movie. On one hand, Ridley Scott has a decent track record and is also a man, so maybe the studio will let him do what he wants. On the other hand, studios tend to get skittish around thinky sci-fi, especially sci-fi that critiques anything Hollywood itself loves. It will maybe surprise them at some point that the constant availability of mind-numbing entertainment is one of the things Huxley demonizes most in Brave New World. I’m sure they’ll just blow up that bridge when they get to it. Literally. (Watch out for a huge helicopter chase! Through a volcano!)

* ABAC: Damian Lewis and Nina Sosanya worked together in a BBC adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing; James McAvoy and Damian Lewis worked together in Band of Brothers; shockingly, I don’t think Julie Walters and Ian McKellen have ever been in a movie together.