Now as much as I adore Geoffrey Rush (I loved Quills even if the critics didn't! and yes I know that Jasper worked on that particular film) and think that he would make an excellent Emperor Zhark, I can not see how Thursday would know of his existence in 1988 (Chapter 17 - Emperor Zhark).

Rush made a couple of Australian films in the early 1980s (Hoodwink in 1981 and Starstruck in 1982) but didn't hit the big time until Shine in 1995 (this is in no way disparaging of his multiple stage works in Australia from the mid 1970s.)

So has Jasper rigged the release date of Shine by 7 years as well as Mel Gibson's Hamlet by 4 years? I think we should be told.

ah, the joys of the alternate universe...LOL

I absolutely loved that line about Geoffrey Rush - but really because I'm a HUGE Geoffrey Rush fan (Quills, especially!) - truthfully, I wasn't bothered by the issue of the release of the films in regards to the timeperiod of the book. I didn't even notice it until reading the credits at the end of the book and learning about Gibson's Hamlet. Actually, it *could* be argued that in this "alternate universe" certain films were released years before they were in *our* universe...that's what's great about creative licsense :)

Well, my knowledge of Celebrity is precious little, but actors who do classics would be much more in the limelight, and if he was in a classic which noone watched here, it could well still get critical aclaim in thursday's world.

What has he been in other than quills by the way? I can't remember actors very well, but if you say "he played ABC in XYz", then there's a chance I'll go "AaH!"



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Turn the silliness to eleven!

He played David Helfgott in "Shine" and was the theatre owner who bought "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" in Shakespeare in Love" - if that helps!

And he was the evil pirate in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'

Don't forget Walsingham in Elizabeth an excellent assassin

.... and Francis Hare in Ned Kelly last year and Nigel in Finding Nemo.

And he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscar (copyright thingy that the American Film bods like to do so much....) both Walsingham and the theatre owner in Shakespeare in Love (can't remember the character because didn't think much of the film) in the same year. Should have won it for Walsingham, one of the greatest Englishmen that have ever lived!

Maybe in the Nextian Universe, Australia; and particularly Australian actors; are in an excelerated timeline (the Mel Gibson "Hamlet" did not appear until 1991).
I like the Rush reference- I had thought Acheron Hades was like Casanova Frankenstein, the villain he played in "Mystery Men"

Don't worry about it, Sweetpea. (It bothered me too, but I decided that Thursday's dad would find some completely illogical convoluated explanation fo the time gaffes.)

Don't forget his GREATEST PORTRAYAL OF INSPECTOR JAVERT EVER (well... maybe tied with Philip Quast... mmmmm... Quast-alicious...) in the '95 Liam Neeson/Claire Danes/Uma Thurman version of "Les Miserables". Surely the incredible performances of Neeson and Rush would earn some respect in Thursday's classics adoring world, though the rest of the movie would've been burned. (And rightfully so - Marius led the revolution? Valjean hit Cosette? Cosette held Javert at gunpoint? No Eponine? What the ?!) Maybe in Thursday's world, the movie had been made several years earlier, and had been made *accurately* to the book (and was, therefore, powerful, moving, and over 12 hours long - like movies should be *grin*)

As a aussie, it made me proud that Fforde had used two actors of ours in the book, more so when he used Rush as it is far from known compared to Gibson. Its the little things that make us aussies proud!!!!

I don't know, I think he makes his films to quickly. It's always Geoffrey Rush this and Geoffrey Rush that; I think he should slow down a bit.