Casting Characters for "The Sparrow"

While we were discussing the book in our last class we were told about a possible movie in the works and thought it would be interesting if we gave our recommendations on what actors should play some of our favourite characters in the novel.

Emilio Sandoz- Benicio del Toro
I think that Benicio del Toro would be a great choice for Emilio Sandoz because he is in his forties and is Spanish and Pureto Rican. He has acted in the movies: Sin City, The Unusual Suspects, Licence to Kill and many more. He has also acted in the television series Miami Vice, Private Eye, Drug wars, Tales from the Crypt, Fallen Angels and Todos Contra Juan. He is a great actor who won an Oscar in 2001.

Sofia Mendes- Eva Mendes
I thought Eva Mendes would be an excellent choice for this character because she has the look of Sofia, being only 5'6" she is short like Sofia and has slight draker skin and looks exotic like I pictured Sofia. She is also a good actor and will be able to do justice for the amazing character Sofia is.

D.W. Yarbrough-Richard Kiel
I chose Richard Kiel as the best fit actor to portray D.W.'s character. Just as described, Kiel is a big man (tall and stocky) and is very, very unfortunate looking. I tried to find someone with unsymbetrical eyes, and even though his aren't, they are still not at all nice to look at...

Anne Edwards- Helen Mirren

I definitely think that Helen Mirren would be a good choice to play Anne Edwards in a movie verion of The Sparrow. Dame Helen is incredibly talented and adventurous in the projects she undertakes (i.e. The Queen, The Debt, The Temptress), and so she wouldn't be daunted by a very involved script and a complicated cast of characters. She's also got chemistry with just about everything and everyone, which would make it easy to cast George.

Jimmy Quinn- Daniel Cudmore
I think Daniel Cudmore has very good potential to play Jimmy Quinn well. He has the size, being 6'6" and he also has been in big movies before such as 2 of the X-men movies and 2 twilight movies which proves that he is a good (and marketable) actor as well.