I think Rhys Ifans would make a very good Vetinari. He's tall, thin and can do twisted very well!

howz about mr kidby as that is who the drawings of vetinari are based upon. you never know give him a few acting lessons and set him away he might even be half decent cant be any worse than joss akland as ridcully.

Hm. Mr Kidby? That is who the drawings are by. Some of the Clarecraft figurines etc are based on Steen Briggs (sp?) I believe, but he again looks only vaguely like Paul Kidby's interpretation, exceot for fitting the universal description everybody can agree upon.

Scroll down this site, and you can see what Mr Kidby looks like.
The Paul Kidby Biography

so sorry iam a plum next time i'll try to remember articles ive read before quoting them feel free to lambast me to the rest of the site for being a dumbass!

I like the actor who plays Snape in Harry Potter

That would be Alan Rickman.

Ooh,i like Rickman for it!

I think Charles Dance would be purrrfect! he even has the widows peak...

I thought so too! I was imagining him the way he looked in "The Golden Child", though - only with a different colour scheme, of course. The way he looks now, he might also play Downey...

After reading all of your choices I started thinking about actors I know who would fit the description. And I came up with Anthony Cistaro.

OK, new rule:

If you mention an actor who you think would be perfect for a certain role:

Please Link To a Picture!

It's not fair having me do all the searching on Google and IMDB... ;-)

Okay, you are right.

Here he is in films where he would have fit into this casting thread, hair colour put aside...



If his looks had developed more continually, that is...

In this picture, he looks rather Downey-ish to me:

dont you think jeremy Irons would be good as Vetinari?

Possibly, though seeing who they got to play Rincewind and Twoflower for the new Sky version of Colour of Magic that's out at Easter, they could just pluck a name out of a hat and call him Vetinari. It seems to me like they haven't really taken any of TP'S visions (Take a look at The Last Hero) into account.

And yet Pterry seems to be quite happy with those choices... I don't really get it, but hey, who are we to question the Marthter ?