The Professors' Wives' Club by Joanne Rendell

If I were casting the roles of Trystan and Isolde for a movie, one of my first choices for Trystan would be Matt Bomer, currently starring on the hit TV show White Collar. Using Isolde's wit and talent for healing and Trystan's strength and bravery, they must act as diplomats, persuading the rulers of the smaller kingdoms, from Ireland to Cornwall, that their allegiance to the High King is needed to keep Britain from a despot's hands. In Dark Moon of Avalon, the young former High Queen Isolde and her friend and protector Trystan are reunited in a new and dangerous quest to keep the usurper Lord Marche and his Saxon allies from the throne of Britain.

Here she lays out her actor preferences for the lead roles in an adaptation of Dark Moon of Avalon: The trilogy comprises Twilight of Avalon, Dark Moon of Avalon, and the upcoming Sunrise of Avalon. The hallway scenes in The Shining could easily be translated to Puskis in The Vaults.Visit Toby Ball's website and blog.Īnna Elliott is the author of the Twilight of Avalon Trilogy from Simon & Schuster's Touchstone imprint. I'm a big Stanley Kubrick fan and think he would do a great job directing. Red Henry would be played by Alec Baldwin who doesn't have the size to play the hulking mayor, but can convey the outsize personality necessary to capture the essence of a bully. Nora Aspen would be played by Scarlett Johansson.Ĭarla would be played by a mid-twenties Nastassja Kinski or a big money producer's girlfriend if we have to go that route. No one else will do.Įthan Poole would be played by either a mid-twenties Mark Wahlberg or seventies icon, John Saxon. That said, casting the film had become a popular conversation topic, generally over drinks.įrank Frings would be played by Ed Norton of ten years ago or possibly George Clooney.Īrthur Puskis would be played by a sixty-year-old Bruce Dern.

I definitely did not write The Vaults with any particular actors in mind, though the sensibility of gangster movies from the 1930s and 40s was very much an influence. Here he shares his preferences for the above-the-line talent for a cinematic adaptation of the novel: The Vaults, his first novel, was published in September by St. Toby Ball works at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.

The Professors' Wives' Club by Joanne Rendell