A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Netflix adaptation of novel series

I feel like it might work similarly to the casting of David Tennant as Killgrave in Jessica Jones. He's so damn lovable and charismatic that it might be difficult to connect that to all of the awful things his character does.

Or, it might just be to give the series a bit of a lighter tone? Who knows.

I can't think of him playing an outright bad person before, always there's been a heart of gold buried deep, deep down inside and/or some past trauma. Then again I don't know if totally evil is what they're going with for the Count so it could work.

i'm looking forward to it

As am I, just to see him play a truly vile villain.

Me too.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/26/series-unfortunate-events-lemony-snicket-casts-violet-klaus

Klaus and Violet have been cast for the series.

Violet is played by the child actress who plays young Kara in flashbacks on Supergirl.

I. Er.

Hrm.

I am somewhat concerned that, following Handler making a big stink about how he wanted to make sure the show was diverse, all three of the series leads have been cast as white people.

Like, normally I'd just roll my eyes and move on—unambitious casting choices are not an uncommon sin—but announcing that you're trying to be above this sort of thing and then making these casting choices irks me.

Actually, I think Handler said in the DVD commentary for the movie that he hoped it would be more diverse.

I mean, hopefully there will be more characters in the series that aren't white, hopefully, but yeah. :|

edited 27th Jan '16 2:21:29 PM by higherbrainpattern

I could've sworn that last year Handler issued a statement saying that he was working with Netflix to make the series itself more diverse, but of course it's now impossible to Google under the pile of casting announcement articles we've gotten this month.

Here we go: these statements on Twitter are what I was thinking of.

edited 27th Jan '16 2:26:48 PM by Wackd

Interesting, considering he implies throughout the series that most of the characters are Jewish.

Implication isn't confirmation and Jewish isn't exactly a racial distinction.

In my opinion, I'm guessing that the rest of the cast might be more diverse. For one, I wouldn't cast Count Olaf as a black guy or something if just I worry that might end up falling under unfortunate implications in some ways (thought that may just be my over thinking things or there could be ways to write around those).

It'll be REALLY cool if every member of the family; Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine and everyone else were always a different race to just hammer home 'Holy shit, this is a great family with diverse interests and histories'

Yeah—I was hoping Violet, Klaus, and Sunny would be mixed-race or something, and that there'd be a lot of diversity internal to the Baudelaire family.

The problem now is that everyone else dies horribly except the folks they've already cast with white people (and Sunny, I guess.)

That's... A fair point.

Well, Mr. Poe? But he's basically useless so that could end up being a caricature by accident.

The Quagmire Triplets? Esme Squaller? Carmelita Spatz? I-... Hmmmm...

If someone doesn't die in the book they're introduced, they either die in the hotel in book twelve, die on the island in book thirteen, or simply vanish from the narrative altogether.

I... wasn't aware that this was an issue.

Again, were this anything else, I'd roll my eyes and move on. But Handler put the diversity stuff out there, and now it's on him to live up to it.

I suppose in this kind of series, the important fact is less if they survive or not and more the impact they leave on the time that they're there.

Though, I wonder what kind of subtext the series might provide if almost everyone who is a villain or antagonist of some kind is white (And the Boudelairs are white too) mean while EVERYONE else who is a victim or dies at some point is a minority of some kind; Sir and Charles are gay, Aunt Josephine is played by an Indian actress, Uncle Monty is black, the Quagmire Triplets are Hispanic, and Kit Snicket is Asian?

I'm not sure if that would be a GOOD thing, but it'd create interesting subtext.

Patrick Warburton will be playing Lemony Snicket.

Hey, I'm a big Patrick Warburton fan as much as the next guy and he is the best as Kronk and Brock but...

...Huh.

And you guys thought NPH as Count Olaf was a big case of WTH, Casting Agency?...

Seriously though, this cast is starting to look more and more...curious.

I...um...huh.

Snicket always struck me as the quiet type, to be honest. Don't know if Warburton works for this.

He does have a magnificent voice. Though I agree, he's far from the guy imagined when thinking about Lemony Snicket.

Patrick Warburton is playing Lemony Snicket?

What.

Maybe they're trying to go for someone closer in look to Daniel Handler?

Is this more or less WTF-ey than Jude Law as Snicket though?

Funny enough, Law in the first movie was at least half responsible for me assuming Snicket and the series was British for the longest time...