Mona Lisa Overdrive
Book Character Casting
Bobby Newmark aka Count Zero = Charlie from ‘Lost’
Angie Mitchell = Starlight from ‘The Boys’
Mona = Claire from ‘Lost’
Eddy = Dickie Bennett from ‘Justified’
Slick Henry = Will Patton
Gentry = Cillian Murphy
Little Bird = Tim Cookey (played by actor Danny Cooksey) who was the mulleted ginger friend of John Connor in 1995 in ‘Terminator 2’
Kid Afrika = Leon Black from ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Kumiko Yanaka = Creepy little girl in ‘Severance’ season 2 named Miss Huang (real name Sarah Bock)
Colin = Tom Holland
Sally Shears aka Molly Millions = O-Ren Ishii in ‘Kill Bill’
Prior = Dylan McDermott
Gerald = Duffy from ‘Justified’
Petal = Vinnie Jones
Cherry Chesterfield = Courtney Love
Lady 3Jane = Famke Janssen
Turner = Nathan Fillion as Captain Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds ‘Firefly’
“But did it wake, Kumiko wondered, when the alley was empty? Did its laser vision scan the silent fall of midnight snow?” 

― Mona Lisa Overdrive <William Gibson>
“He couldn’t remember when he hadn’t been able to remember, but sometimes he almost could. That was why he had built the Judge, because he’d done something—it hadn’t been anything much, but he’d been caught doing it, twice—and been judged for it, and sentenced, and then the sentence was carried out and he hadn’t been able to remember, not anything, not for more than five minutes at a stretch. Stealing cars. Stealing rich people’s cars. They made sure you remembered what you did.” 

― Mona Lisa Overdrive <William Gibson>
“How were they weird?” “Hoodoos. Thought the matrix was full of mambos ’n’ shit. Wanna know something, Moll?” “What?” “They’re right.” 

― Mona Lisa Overdrive <William Gibson>

Responses to “Mona Lisa Overdrive – Book Character Casting”

  1. Solid casting choices. Little Bird played by the ginger from Terminator 2 is spot on, exactly who I had pictured haha. I think Dominic Monaghan is an appropriate Hollywood-castable Bobby Newmark. I think I was picturing Machine Gun Kelly when I read Count Zero..maybe because I initially thought Bobby was an annoying twerp.

    I’m stumped on who would play Tick. Maybe Danny Devito?

    -CW

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    1. Or maybe Jeff Garlin, with a wig resembling “a greasy spill of curls”

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