The Great Catsby, casting list. The deadline is Monday, 36 hours remain.

[noirlueur]

I'm working on an English project at the minute to cast The Great Gatsby. Due to my usual tendency to make everything as difficult for myself as possible, I've decided to instead cast The Great Catsby, where each character from the book is played by a fictional cat.

I've kind of run into a bit of a stand still with at the minute, so I came to the wonderful people of online literature to bounce some ideas off of.

Here's a rough casting I came up with during the early hours of the morning.

Nick Carraway – Top Cat
Gatsby – Snagglepuss
Tom – Panthro (Thundercats)
Daisy – Penelope Pussycat
Jordan – ???
Myrtle – Cheshire cat

That's pretty rough and needs work, so any ideas would be really cool.

One last selfish request: I wouldn't expect people to go this far, but if you could include a small (literally just a couple of sentences) explanation as to how any of the cat cast you've chosen relates to the Gatsby character's role it would be awesome. If you don't want to do this though it's absolutely fine.

So, who would be your ideal Catsby cast?

[Emil Miller]

Well I would cast my own cat Milly as the lead female because I love her almost as much as Gatsby loved Daisy Buchanan.
Here's a picture of Milly.



Who are you going to get to play Wilson?

[noirlueur]

Milly would make a wonderful Daisy, unfortunately she was born into the unfortunate reality of not being fictional, and so I am unable to cast her.

The assignment only asks for the six leading characters, so Wilson isn't completely necessary. I was thinking of doing him as well as some extras for fun though, like the catbus from My Neighbour Totoro as Gatsby's car.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Well I would cast my own cat Milly as the lead female because I love her almost as much as Gatsby loved Daisy Buchanan.
Here's a picture of Milly.



Who are you going to get to play Wilson?

That is a great pick, BB.