The Sword and Laser discussion

I actually think of him with at least a mustache if not a beard, like a Gandalf, even if that's not the description in the book. Maybe I'm subconsciously thinking of Jose Ferrer, because he played a Dreyfus character in "I, Accuse". Actually, in the book, he seems to have a bulge of neck fat over the back of his collar, but I've put that out of my mind.

William Conrad

Mark wrote: "William Conrad"

YES!

"Cannon" TV Intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRo7P... (a Quinn Martin production copyright mcmlxxiii) (Nice graphics for the 70s)

Cannon pilot, seems epic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_bH...

According to the Revelation Space wiki, Alistair Reynolds has visualized Dreyfus as Forrest Whittaker's world-weary character in the film Phone Booth.

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Very plausible, and unlike William Conrad, alive to star in a film or tv adaptation.

Update: Added link to the Reynolds blog entry discussing Dreyfus, race, and more.

I Imagine him as Brendan Gleeson.

FW is an even better choice!

Since the Revelation Space universe is full of mashup languages like Canasian and Russlish, I figure every group got off Earth and mixed a lot in the 400 years of future history. "Dreyfus" is a Western name but he needn't be so. I took him to be a mix of several races, like Louis Wu of Niven's Known Space. China has a whole lot of population to send to space, so I figured he'd be plurality Chinese with a mix of other races. The obsessive nature reminds me of John Wick and Keanu Reeves is part Chinese (along with native Hawaiian, English, Irish, and Portuguese), so about like Reeves with perhaps slightly more prominent Asian features.

Aurora (this is a Norwegian singer named Aurora)

The Clockmaker (I was hoping he'd be more steampunky like Malcom McDowell in Time After Time:



Sparver (Porco Rosso anime)

I am trying my best to reimagine Dreyfus has Forrest W, but I’m past the halfway mark and I’m kind of in love with my Brendan Greeson version of him. FW would make a great Dreyfus though.

I do have a hard time imagining FW as fat.

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Tamahome wrote: ""Cannon" TV Intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRo7P... (a Quinn Martin production copyright mcmlxxiii) (Nice graphics for the 70s)

Cannon pilot, seems epic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l..."

Currently showing on MeTV if you get that station. I have been watching them off and on as I like the way he looks like a regular guy you would run into in a bar instead of a glamourous actor.

https://www.metv.com/shows/cannon

Now I've got the Cannon theme song stuck in my head. Do do do do do do do do...

Tamahome wrote: "I like the way he looks like a regular guy you would run into in a bar instead of a glamourous actor."

He's America's version of Bargearse 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fahf7...

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I agree with Felipe: Brendan Gleeson all the way. Tho with a hint of Charles Bukowski.

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T.T. wrote: "I agree with Felipe: Brendan Gleeson all the way. Tho with a hint of Charles Bukowski.

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Yes!

I don't know if I see him this way, but he felt to me a lot like Philip Seymour Hoffman in A Most Wanted Man.

Hmm nice trailer, it's a John le Carré adaption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUyYB...

Ooh yes. Philip Seymour Hoffman. But from something darker like Love Liza.

PS Haven't seen A Most Wanted Man.

He's always looked like Stephen Rea to me.

Def Stephen Rea too. Something world-weary and beaten down but forceful and also charming on occasion.

I reckon Reynolds lifted DI Rebus for inspiration.

Ken Stott would do a very good job of this.