Check out the archives for some discussion of John Hannah as
Rebus. Nobody much liked him in the part.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Rankin wasn't keen
on Hannah but he didn't say so outright. I also remember
reading somewhere that he said he liked Ken Stott better.
Sorry, no references.
The Scotsman (you may need to sign up; it's free) had an
interview last November with Stott, calling him the ideal
Rebus.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=810&id=2309132005
If you click on the Rankin & Rebus link at the bottom,
you'll get an eight-page list of other articles on the
subject.
Karin
At 10:31 AM 24/03/2006 -0500, Stewart wrote:
>On 3/24/06,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>> I just noticed that Koch has released three of
the British TV
>> adaptations of Rankin's Rebus on DVD. Anyone
seen these? How are they?
>
>A couple of them were aired a while back in Ontario.
I watched one
>(Black and Blue). It was a pretty faithful
adaptations of the book,
>plot-wise. I enjoyed it okay, but not enough to watch
another. I
>particularly didn't like the choice of actor for
Rebus. Although a
>good actor, Hannah wasn't at all what I imagined
Rebus should be, and
>it resulted in a serious toning-down of the
character. To me it would
>be like casting Kevin Spacey as Parker. I heard
Rankin had Hannah in
>mind as a perfect Rebus from very early on, but I
have no idea why.
>In any case, if you've read the books, I don't know
if the adaptations
>will do much for you.
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