Winter's Tale (novel) - Film Adaption Cast

Film Adaption Cast

• Peter Lake. Colin Farrell will play Peter Lake, a character in the book that gets help from a white horse (Athansor) with supernatural running and jumping ability. Other candidates for this part included Aaron Johnson, Benjamin Walker, Luke Evans, Garrett Hedlund, Liam Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston.

• Peter Lake's parents. Matt Bomer and Lucy Griffiths will reportedly play Peter Lake's parents. In the book, the parents travel with Peter on a boat from a foreign country to New York City. Upon arrival, New York officials brutally decide who can enter the city and who has to go back to the country they came from. Denied entry into the city, and forced to stay on their boat in the New York City harbor, the parents put infant Peter Lake in a small model boat and let him drift away in the currents so he can strive for a presumably better life in New York City. The book covers these events in a few pages, but maybe the movie devotes more time to profiling the journey, and the decisions, of Peter Lake's parents.

• Pearly Soames. Russell Crowe will play Pearly Soames, a character in the book that leads a group of feared criminals and who wants to kill Peter Lake. At no point in the book did Soames directly interact with Beverly Penn or threaten her, so some shots from filming may indicate some sort of heroine in distress angle.

• Romeo Tan. Kevin Corrigan will play Romeo Tan, described as Pearly Soames' right-hand man (a small character in the book), but maybe one with an expanded role in the movie.

• Beverly Penn. Jessica Brown Findlay will play Beverly Penn, a character in the book that falls in love with Peter Lake and has a fever that makes her comfortable in extremely cold weather. One of Ms. Findlay's first acting roles was in the television series Downton Abbey. Other candidates for this part included Bella Heathcote, Elizabeth Olsen, Gabriella Wilde, Lily Collins, Margot Robbie and Sarah Gadon.

• Beverly's mother. Jennifer Connelly will play Beverly's mother, according to some media reports. This was not a character in the book. If this report for Connelly's role is incorrect, then a possible other role for Connelly is Virginia Gamely, or possibly Virginia Gamely's mother. Connelly has worked in the past with both Mr. Crowe and Mr. Goldsman in A Beautiful Mind. She recently worked with Mr. Crowe again in Noah, another movie partly filmed in the New York City area.

• Judge. Will Smith

• Isaac Penn. William Hurt

• Hardesty Marratta. No reports yet of who hired for this role, if this character made it the screenplay.

• Virginia Gamely. No reports yet of who hired for this role, if this character made it the screenplay.
• Virginia Gamely's mother. This character possibly isn't in the movie, or it could be played by Eva Marie Saint, although there is no verification of this. In the book, Virginia Gamely's mother has a flair for vocabulary and is much older than Hardesty Marratta, who she houses after he and approximately 200 other people are rescued from freezing in a stuck train.