# Goblet of Fire: who would you cast?

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**Created:** [January 9, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goblet-of-fire-who-would-you-cast/223621 "2004-01-09T11:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goblet-of-fire-who-would-you-cast/223621/1 "2004-01-09T11:26:10Z")

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OK, so according to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=233640), Rowan Atkinson will not be playing Voldemort in the film adaptation of the Goblet of Fire, which I personally think is a shame. I would never have considered him before I heard the rumors, but I would have loved to see him do it. That said, I have no idea who else could play Voldemort.

What I’m interested in more, however, is the casting of Mad-Eye Moody. This is mainly because I’ve already cast the part in my mind, and I really can’t see it going to anyone else.

Are you sitting down?  
[Christopher Lloyd](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000502/). Seriously. C’mon, Moody is a man with a withered, contorted face, a raving lunatic (or so it seems) and ultimately a really dark character. If Lloyd plays it as a cross between Judge Doom in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ and his Ignatowski character from _Taxi_, he’ll be perfect. I read the book and I just had visions of him all the time.

Only problem is, he’s not British, so Rowling won’t allow it. A crying shame, because Lloyd’s career has been going downhill for the last ten years or so, and I’d love to see him in an A-list film again.

But that’s just my choice. Who would you pick?

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**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goblet-of-fire-who-would-you-cast/223621/2 "2004-01-09T12:42:58Z")

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In my imagination, Mad-Eye looks like a skinnier version of character actor [Jack Elam](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/22/obit.elam.ap/). But he couldn’t be in the movie because he is too old, too American and too dead.

Christopher Lloyd would do, though, now that you mention it.