Who would you like to see portray the Devil on screen?

[DotCommunist]

I just caught Ian McShane in Sexy Beast and thought he would make an excellent Satan.


Any one you'd think would portray the Prince of Lies well?

DC/Vertigo fave Preacher is in production so we will be seeing that version of Lucifer soon, the cherubic suave wine bar owner inna armani suit.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

eta: that is Tilda Swinton btw

 

[skyscraper101]

I just caught Ian McShane in Sexy Beast and thought he would make an excellent Satan.

McShane has form for biblical stuff. He played Judas Iscariot in the 1977 tv miniseries Jesus of Nazareth - I remember watching it at school when the RE teacher couldn't be arsed to do anything else. Robert Powell of The Detectives fame was Jesus, which was a bit wtf.

Personally, I'd quite like to see Ice-T do it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Michael Byrne. (Gail's dad from Corrie).

 

[skyscraper101]

Grace Jones would be a good satan too I reckon. She was proper menacing in A View To A Kill.

Pop fact... Ian McShane is the intro voice on Grace Jones' - Slave To The Rhythm.

 

[Limerick Red]

Robert deniro is a pretty crap devil in angelhart - banging flick - he just camps it up a bit too much

 

[Orang Utan]

Pee Wee Herman

 

[DotCommunist]

Jude Law might be able to pull off the cherubic suited manifestation. I need someone more dark and brooding for the role though. I think de niro shouted his way through the role once

 

[skyscraper101]

Charles Dance would be good, he played Sardo Numspaa who was some kind of satanic disciple in The Golden Child.

 

[Athos]

Christopher Biggins

 

[Espresso]

Jason Isaacs would be my pick. Or Colin Salmon. Or Alan Rickman.
Hmm. Sexy devils are what I seem to be going for here.

 

[weltweit]

 

[DotCommunist]

If we want Coronation Street candidates David Platt pretty much is the Devil. Last time I saw him he was at some anger managment thing with the father of the kid he has been raising and his comments, attitude and effect were supremely satanish

 

[Orang Utan]

winona ryder

 

[DotCommunist]

eta: that is Tilda Swinton btw

Played Gabriel once already- a falling gabriel too. Doable. She'd making a convincing devil also because of the posh. I expect the Evil One to speak RP or else its not my hell.

 

[hot air baboon]

...sort of going with the saturnine McShane vibe but as the more insidiously attractive and spiritually-corrupting Lucifer is my diabolic entity of choice then I'd go Performance era Jagger....

...Oliver Reed for the full=on smouldering sulphur breathing nun-screwing old nick himself...

 

[DotCommunist]

Walken was practically born for the role but he too has already played a fallen/falling Gabriel

 

[Puddy_Tat]

ian duncan smith

 

[Casually Red]

That baldy dude...mark strong. He's usually a good baddie. Or wotsername from prisoner cell block h...vinegar tits.

 

[Santino]

Tom Hardy

 

[DotCommunist]

Ken Stott would make a good Devil as well. He's that capable when he broods, storm clouds form behind him

 

[weltweit]

 

[Pickman's model]

i would like to see binka portray the devil on screen.

 

[pennimania]

if he was still alive, I'd nominate Ian Richardson.

A chillingly, budget depiction of diabolic stuff - The Devil's Business.

Check it out.

 

[clicker]

Keith Richards or Jack Dee.

 

[Pickman's model]

... or bobby beausoleil.

 

[weltweit]

I like the idea of Jack Dee

 

[Pickman's model]

I like the idea of Jack Dee

binka would be cheaper.

 

[DotCommunist]

needs bluer contacts for it to work though.

To my mind the horns an hooves are bollocks nowadays. You want a figure who will offer you the earth in a suave way- and maybe not even the earth. Just this thing, a little thing. In exhange for, oh a token of respect. Nobody is scared by comedy demons no more you need the subverter side of Old Nick to come out now. The blue eye'd devil who walks away from a burning town whistling 'Time is on my side' by the Stones

 

[weltweit]

Extra points to anyone who can name that actor and the film ..