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Dresden Kerfuffle is finally over:
http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?showtopic=33323
Okay, I usually don't comment on casting specifics beyond "We just cast ------- and he's great!"
But I do feel people deserve an explanation on the James Marsters thing. So here it is:
James Marsters passed on the part in the very first week of casting.
James was not alone in this. It's a normal part of the process. We made a list of several dozen guys and checked their availabilities. About half of them dropped out at that point because they weren't interested or weren't available. We contacted James' agent and he told us James was passing because he didn't want to move to Toronto for five years.
No harm, no foul. Like I said, this is a normal part of the process.
But then, surprisingly, James' manager posted on his official website and asked the fans to write to SciFi to try to get James the job. Which was mystifying to me, considering that at this point, James had already passed.
I don't know why this happened. The most innocent explanation is that there was a communications failure between James' manager and his agent. But it did mean that many devoted fans spent a lot of time writing letters and postcards that weren't going to do any good because James wasn't interested in the job.
To make things worse, that same person recently posted an update implying that James didn't get the job because we picked someone else. Now I'm not saying James would've gotten the job if he'd thrown his hat in the ring. He might've. He might not've. But the reason James didn't get the job is because James didn't want the job.
Let me reiterate. We were interested in James as one of our candidates. James passed. James passed before the pilot was even officially announced, before the story appeared on his website, before we held a single audition.
Our final candidates emerged from a long process of auditions and test deals. We narrowed over fifty interested actors down to eight or so very talented finalists. The person who will emerge from this group will do so because he is the most talented guy we could find after a long and arduous process.
And we'll tell you who is it as soon as it's officially released to the press. Because that's how things are supposed to be done.
K. End of rant.
Robert
PS: Just so everyone knows, I've got no hard feelings toward James. I enjoyed working with James before and I look forward to doing so again. But I can't put a gun to his head and frogmarch him to Toronto if he doesn't want to go.
Right now, I am just happy that it's over. I wish it would never ever come to this. I can move on now. *takes a deep breath*
http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?showtopic=33323
Okay, I usually don't comment on casting specifics beyond "We just cast ------- and he's great!"
But I do feel people deserve an explanation on the James Marsters thing. So here it is:
James Marsters passed on the part in the very first week of casting.
James was not alone in this. It's a normal part of the process. We made a list of several dozen guys and checked their availabilities. About half of them dropped out at that point because they weren't interested or weren't available. We contacted James' agent and he told us James was passing because he didn't want to move to Toronto for five years.
No harm, no foul. Like I said, this is a normal part of the process.
But then, surprisingly, James' manager posted on his official website and asked the fans to write to SciFi to try to get James the job. Which was mystifying to me, considering that at this point, James had already passed.
I don't know why this happened. The most innocent explanation is that there was a communications failure between James' manager and his agent. But it did mean that many devoted fans spent a lot of time writing letters and postcards that weren't going to do any good because James wasn't interested in the job.
To make things worse, that same person recently posted an update implying that James didn't get the job because we picked someone else. Now I'm not saying James would've gotten the job if he'd thrown his hat in the ring. He might've. He might not've. But the reason James didn't get the job is because James didn't want the job.
Let me reiterate. We were interested in James as one of our candidates. James passed. James passed before the pilot was even officially announced, before the story appeared on his website, before we held a single audition.
Our final candidates emerged from a long process of auditions and test deals. We narrowed over fifty interested actors down to eight or so very talented finalists. The person who will emerge from this group will do so because he is the most talented guy we could find after a long and arduous process.
And we'll tell you who is it as soon as it's officially released to the press. Because that's how things are supposed to be done.
K. End of rant.
Robert
PS: Just so everyone knows, I've got no hard feelings toward James. I enjoyed working with James before and I look forward to doing so again. But I can't put a gun to his head and frogmarch him to Toronto if he doesn't want to go.
Right now, I am just happy that it's over. I wish it would never ever come to this. I can move on now. *takes a deep breath*