Only the edition with the double cover. Later reprints omitted the colour Sarah and Robert illo. I think he looks rather Leslie Nielsen with his TAS white hair.
Captain April novel?
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Only the edition with the double cover. Later reprints omitted the colour Sarah and Robert illo. I think he looks rather Leslie Nielsen with his TAS white hair.
I love it!
I used to imagine Sam Waterston as April. Just something about him seemed to "fit."
'My' April when reading the Carey novels was Charles Dance. I don't remember ever seeing TAS ep he was in (though odds are I did see it many, many years ago), so I don't know if the animated version was anything like him, but for some reason Dance came to mind when reading the novels.
Tom Wilkinson is a suggestion that pops up here now and again.
Tom Wilkinson is a suggestion that pops up here now and again.
I'm excited about this, I'll definitely be picking it up.
Rabittooth at the Star Trek Photo Manipulation Archive was kind enough to create this image for me of what Cary Grant might have looked like playing Captain Robert April.
Ya know when I read Final Frontier, I also pictured Cary Grant because of his performance in Operation: Petticoat.
Oh, yeah, I can see that.
Semi-related anecdote. Years ago, my comics dealer and I were having a conversation about Doctor Who. "Hear who's been cast as the new Doctor?" he said.
I shook my head. I wasn't plugged into fandom in those days.
"That guy from Alien 3," he said.
Obviously, it wasn't Charles S. Dutton, so it had to be Charles Dance. "That works," I said. "Charles Dance will make an awesome Doctor."
So, I was disappointed when I found out it was Paul McGann, but mostly because I couldn't even remember who he was in Alien 3. And given that it's my favorite of the quadrilogy, that says a great deal.
I can't remember who any of the characters in "Alien 3" are, except boss guy, deputy guy and preacher guy - even as I'm watching it! Too interchangeable, too dark to even get a good look at their features often...
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I think that's the point, that these characters are faceless drones confronting a faceless enemy in the form of the xenomorph. It's the bleak nihilism of the film given form.
Paul McGann played Golic, the one who survived the xenomorph's first attack and was taken to the Infirmary, where the xenomorph then attacks Clemens, the doctor, and nearly kills Ripley. In the released film, we're to assume that Golic dies in the infirmary. In the extended workprint, Golic survives, and then frees the xenomorph when Ripley's plan to capture it succeeds. Golic is the story's Renfield in a way.
^ Renfield, eh? Well, you've obviously given this film far more thought than I ever have. Glad somebody enjoyed it.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Hunh. I thought McGann played Clemens. I guess it really is hard to tell the actors apart in that movie.
Clemens, the Doctor, was Charles Dance. Which is who I thought, back in '95, had been cast as the eighth Doctor.
Hm. I recognize the name Charles Dance, I know I've seen him in at least a couple of things, but he hasn't left much of an imprint in my memory. I mainly remember his name because it's a distinctive name. (The first thing I saw him in, IIRC, was a TV adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera co-starring Teri Polo, another distinctively-named performer. The only reason I remember that at all is because the names caught my attention.)
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