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The Lightshy Crow: John’s Casting Fantasy

  • Writer: john raymond
    john raymond
  • Jun 27
  • 3 min read

I write, fantasy, so here is my fantasy "dream-team" casting for The Lightshy Crow...


The three central characters of The Lightshy Crow—Tomrin, Robles, and Elisah—will require screen tests.
The three central characters of The Lightshy CrowTomrin, Robles, and Elisah—will require screen tests.

🔥 The Ice and the Ember

Margretta — Simone Missick

No one else will do. Missick carries authority without theatrics. She will make silence a weapon. Her Margretta is the mountain: cold, towering, unbending.


Marten — Brendan Gleeson

Strength wrapped in warmth, sorrow wrapped in bulk. Gleeson’s Marten feels like an aging ox who still knows how to gore. Loyal to a fault. Haunted by everything.


🥀 The Beautiful Betrayers

Rennly Rickot — Jonathan Daviss

Elegance with a serrated edge. Daviss has the kind of face that makes you believe—and then doubt. His villainy doesn’t scream. It smiles.


Fredick — Tyriq Withers

Earnest. Unsteady. Watchful. Withers will make Fredick feel like the one you wish you could root for...


🌊 The Watersipper Line

Dabel Watersipper — Willem Dafoe

Unhinged genius. Prophetic mischief. The line between madness and vision. Dafoe was born to walk barefoot through a dying village and tell you why it deserved to fall.


Janet Watersipper — Diane Guerrero

Grounded but burning. Guerrero’s Janet feels carved from memory and melancholy. She will carry the ancestral weight of the Peregrine legacy without ever asking your sympathy.


📖 The Voice of the Story

Hanya Corebana — To Be Screen Tested

She does not appear in Book One, but she tells it.


Hanya must be like Janet’s younger self and must match Guerrero in vocal tone, spirit, and emotional clarity. She is a young woman whose narration is not simply wistful—it is a dirge reframed as testimony.


🌑 The Men of Shadow

Jermey Raydal — Keith David

The voice of doom. Every word from him sounds like a warning the world chose to ignore. Gravitas in human form.


Master Lazoloth — Pedro Pascal

Complicated, magnetic, weary. Pascal will make Lazoloth unforgettable not through power, but through the quiet threat of knowing everything. His calm is the storm.


👁 The Institutions of Ice and Shadow

Mistress Fallon — Ann Dowd

Control wrapped in velvet. Dowd will make you obey without ever once raising her voice.


Mistress Gorkel — Cherry Jones

The face of bureaucracy gone brittle. But beneath that—perhaps—something still human.

Jones will wear that tension like armor.


Cordelia — Lorraine Toussaint

If wisdom had a voice, it would be hers. Toussaint will bring both regality and pain. When she speaks, you’ll listen—and remember.


Head Astronomer Pario — Mark Hamill

A flickering old light in a darkening world. Hamill will bring joy, sorrow, and wonder in equal measure.


🥀 The Next Generation

Calena — Bella Ramsey

Soft without being weak. Her Calena will smile just before shattering your assumptions. There is a blade inside her, but it hasn’t been drawn—yet.


🐂 The Bluff and the Blowhard

Stabtus — Timothy Spall

He’s the kind of man who believes volume equals authority. Spall will bring noise, bombast, and just enough cruelty to make him dangerous—especially when underestimated.


👑 The Comic Court

Lord Penn — Bill Murray

Wit and weary sorrow in a crown that never fit.


Companion 1 — Steve Martin

All sharpness and timing.


Companion 2 — Martin Short

Delightful chaos barely hiding a poet’s heart.


Together they are the court of ruin. Their humor might just be the last thing you hear before the world ends.


🦅 And the Monster in Their Midst

Seasargus — Andy Serkis

No arms. No armor. An avian face. Black wings, red-tipped, towering. Serkis will become the creature that speaks as if from another age—and judges as if from another world.


Final Notes

So much of The Lightshy Crow rests not in what is said, but in who says it.


This cast—the fantasy, the dream, the speculative chorus—is not a requirement. But it feels right. These are the voices that inhabit the corridors of the tale when I read it back to myself. These are the faces I see peering down from the heavens—or out from the flame-lit ruins.


The true trio will be found through testing: Tomrin, Robles, and Elisah. And they will shape the center.


But around them, I’ve already seen the dream assembled. And if the world ever calls it to screen, I am ready to believe.




 
 
 

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