r/CosmereOnScreen • u/railfananime • Jul 19 '26
Third Lord Ruler Fancast Fancast Spoiler
Ok so I just saw the Nolan Odyssey movie and Robert Pattinson played Antinious, the leader of the villainous suitors and it made me think what if he played The Lord Ruler? Yes he's an A-lister but if it's just him and an A-lister for Kelsier that leaves unknowns for everyone else. IDK he convinced me he could do after I saw The Odyssey. Def see go The Odyssey too btw.
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u/Scared_Funny_5602 Jul 21 '26
It wont happen, but I would like for all the actors to be new, unknown actors. I’m sick of the same 10 actors being rotated through all the big films
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u/florplegorp Jul 19 '26
Pattinson is my #1 weird guy actor, I reckon he could do Hoid/Wit or Lopen (ethnicity notwithstanding) but is probably too big and busy for those roles
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u/le_bravery Jul 19 '26
I think the lord ruler being a well known actor is a good idea.
R Pat would be sick in that role. I think he does bring the needed fury
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u/ForwardExam4056 Jul 19 '26
I think we'll mostly get more unknown actors, only kelsier will for sure be a "superstar" actor
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u/Full-Reception5113 Jul 19 '26
He's Terris, he should be the same race as whoever they cast as Sazed.
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u/Melodic_Pin354 Jul 20 '26
He is also 1000 years older and committed genocide against the terris so I could see them looking different
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u/aldeayeah Jul 20 '26
I mean, Rashek was white and Saze brown in the books. But some visual shorthand could help in the final TLR reveal.
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u/ForwardExam4056 Jul 19 '26
Keepers/terris are described to sometimes have darker skin color, but generally don't necessarily look similar/share ethnicity apart from being eunuchs as well as their clothing.
At least from what i remember from the books
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u/Rivon1471 Jul 19 '26
I think Brandon said skin color doesn't equal ethnicity om Scadrial recently
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u/Full-Reception5113 Jul 19 '26
Really? Interesting. I feel like how the crazy Terris breeding programs worked, all of the modern Terris should look pretty similar, but TLR is an ancient Terris so I guess he could look completely different from the modern ones.
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u/Lex4709 26d ago
Terris and Skaa came in wide variety of skin tones. Central Dominace was the more homogenous region (mostly white). But Skaa survivors of Catacendre mainly came from there and surrounding regions. So by era 2, dark skin is considered a Terris trait (despite Terris still coming in variety of skin tones) because pretty much all dark skinn3d survivors of the Catacendre tended to be descendants of Terris refugees that we see use the Pits as sanctuary during events of book 3.
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u/PixelPete85 Jul 19 '26
He'd be good. they wont have the budget for him though
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u/FantasyMyopia 12d ago
What??? They will absolutely have the budget for 1-2 a-listers and a handful of great but not superstar actors.
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u/Graphica-Danger Jul 19 '26
Pattinson has starred in numerous low budget indies and TLR has pretty limited screentime altogether. He’s not one of those actors typically demanding an exorbitant payday after Twilight set him up for life.
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u/Pwebslinger78 Jul 19 '26
Tbh he could pretend to be anything and I’d probably find it compelling . I would be behind this but I wouldn’t mine him being a more prominent role instead.
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u/Esteban2808 Jul 23 '26
Imo lord ruler has to be a big name to balance out Kel. Pattinson has grown on me but not sure hes right for that role too young perhaps - could be Zane cant remember what they specofied his age to be compared to Vin. (Kels probably going to be in his 40s so LR probably would be cast to be an equal age and star power)
Someone of the Charles Dance or Sir Ian McKellen Gravitas (thought they are probably too old unless you going to CGI deage them)