Casting line-up: Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn
on February 18th, 2010, by Ton
Two of Netherland’s best and most renowned actors have accepted to be voicing Sintel and “the Shaman”. I’m very happy to announce to have Halina Reijn and Thom Hoffman at our disposal next monday afternoon to record the voices, and help us to bring alive the main characters in our short film.
Halina and Thom both starred in Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book (2006), Halina acted with Tom Cruise in Valkyrie in 2008. Both are known to be excellent character performers.
Director Colin Levy is already nervously excited to work with them, he saw some of their work and was totally impressed! Apart from the audio recording, we’ll make videos of the facials and expressions for the animation crew.
Recording will be in studio Cinemeta Digital, Amsterdam. Special thanks to Kemna Casting: Betty Post & Arnost Kraus, for finding us the actors.
-Ton-
February 18th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
This is fantastic news! This project just looks to keep getting better and better.
February 18th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
MAN! that is awesome! great to see that you already have voice actors/actresses!!!
February 18th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Samuel L. Jackson does not have time?
February 18th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Awesome! 😀
February 18th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
in the immortal words of Johnny Bravo “Woah, momma”
February 18th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
WHoa. nice new. nice cast. but… will they do dutch or english? what about other languages like spanish or french? will do you lip sync in english or dutch?
February 18th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
can we see how look Sintel and the Shaman at this time?
I hope they are far better than the guardians.
February 18th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
They will do english only, we especially were looking for actors with international experience. Dub versions of the film you can expect after the dvds were spread. Subtitles we should have on the dvds. 🙂
February 18th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I’m exited for you guys. The project will seriously take off once the voices are done. With such an experienced cast, the characters will really start to take shape.
February 18th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Whohooo…! Welcome (another) stars to this beautiful project! 🙂 That’s fortunate all over…
February 18th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
That’s AWESEOME! I never expected to have this kind of cast! I’m getting twenty double excited right now!
Are you sure that you’re not kidding us?
February 18th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
*trembles of excitement* 😀
February 18th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Thank you guys so much for getting experienced actors for this film. I can tell you from working with unexperienced actors on current projects, this is a really big deal! You guys rock! 😀
February 18th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Wow. that are very nice news! Hope this time you will have a *very Big* breakthrough!!!
February 18th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
How much money are you gonna pay her ?.
I suppose she is not work FREE 🙂
February 18th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I hope you include some videos of the audio recording on the DVDs. I was so fascinated to watch the voice recording of Elephants Dream. These tow guys had been an excellent choice too.
February 18th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
awesome!!!!!!
February 18th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Hey they look familiar! I seee, Zwartboek, yes that movie I saw.
Terrific to have such experienced actors acting in this movie, I really can’t wait to experience their play 🙂
@SebastianErler – I agree, Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen did a fantastic job in Elephants Dream.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
*says ‘What!’ again*
Awesome! Too bad Samuel couldn’t make it. :p
February 18th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
pretty cool 😀
February 18th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
First the sprint, now this? 😀 This is too exciting!
The cast is looking very fitting. I even pitched Halina’s voice a smidge in Praat (the scientific voice analysis program) to an easily doable pitch, and I think she will suit Sintel hugely! 😀
February 18th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Yay 😀
Great Actors 🙂
February 18th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
What subtitle languages will be in DVD? Is there way to guarantee that my language is included? Can community contribute for translations? How many lines of dialogue there will be?
February 18th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
This is great news! So who has the connections? Will you be paying them in dvds? lol.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Nice to see, good actors! (I’ve Black Book in my Blu-ray collection)
Couldn’t you cast Waldemar Kobus (also a Black Book actor) as a guard? 😀
@Luz_y_Sombra:
Good point!
As this is a ”open” movie, we have the full right to know it! 😉 😀
February 19th, 2010 at 1:28 am
She has a very expressive face. That’ll sure be good for Sintel’s expressions.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:41 am
@Ton:
Black Book is from 2006, not 2008.
Specially for you, Ton, as a fellow Dutchman: 😉
Zwartboek is uit 2006, niet 2008.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:48 am
What SebastianErler said! Behind the Scenes on Voice Recording is a MUST!!!
And yeah, a bummer ’bout good ol’ Samuel. :'(
February 19th, 2010 at 4:52 am
Ok.. good so you don’t need me to do the voice acting then.. ya, I’m so busy anyway. I would have barely had the time.. uuhm.. ya..
February 19th, 2010 at 5:17 am
Hey. Using this cast, that would bring the team’s bacon number down to three.
February 19th, 2010 at 5:35 am
Awesome, this will help with future projects to, looking forward to the animation part !Does anyone think they’d make a good couple ha ha ha.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Really awesome. Hope that all the recording goes well. One thing has been on my mind. How about the music of the film?
February 19th, 2010 at 10:46 am
GREAT NEWS!
February 19th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Oops. Black Book is from 2006 yes. Fixed it!
The music will be composed by Jan Morgenstern, of ED & BBB fame. 🙂
February 19th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
This is really great news.
What about the music and the entire production of movie sounds?
February 19th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
I think YOU can have better use of the money instead TO PAY to Halina
Reijn and Thom Hoffman.
BLENDER USER must put their voice in the movie .
In that would be almost FREE
YOU SHOULD HAVE A BETTER USE OF THE MONEY
February 19th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
See Ton’s aswer.
Almost the whole sound thing will be done by Jan Morgenstern, JAWOHL! 😀
I hope he will make a very epic score, LotR/King Arthur-like. 😀
@Ton:
I expect there will be a few 35mm prints being produced, like BBB?