No, really not, There are lots of stars but few actors. Stars can't pull of seven roles in a movie. I would add Geoffrey Rush to the list of people who could though.

I suppose I was thinking of the likes of Michael Sheen, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent and even the late lamented Peter Postlethwaite from this side of the pond.

Animations and actors
It is an interesting concept.
First we had the Silents - Actors (actresses included) became famous for their looks, and acting ability.
Then came talkies and many top actors disappeared because their voices were not acceptable.
Now comes the Animation where voice and acting ability* is all.

* It is interesting just how much of the voice artist's mannerisms and posture are drawn (pun intended) the characterisation.

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It is all fascinating. Sound is a far more primal sense than sight and we connect to people via voice more easily than expression. Indeed, it is practically inconceivable that voice actors would ever phase out in favour of computer generated voices while animation has been eliminating sight actors since the very beginnings of cinema.

You mean that Buzz isn't real??!??

I enjoyed the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" (movie,less than I hoped, better than I expected) but perhaps Tim Powers' "On Stranger Shores" should join the unfilmable list?

Anything by Wiliam Ashbless is, almost by definition, unfilmable.

I am currently reading John Brunner's 'The Sheep Look Up' and wondering if it could be made into a movie.

I think that with currently available technology almost any novel could be made into a movie. The question is: how well would it be done?

By the time the scriptwriters/executives of the film company/advertisers/ government and others have had their say in bowdlerising, etc., the original idea would probably be lost.

Just like the American proposal to make a US version of 'Fawlty Towers" where they wrote the character of Basil Fawlty out of the script.