Melissa Bourbon Ramirez | It's all about Visualizing

June 2, 2012

I'm all about the visual. I make Dream Boards about my fictional worlds, including who would play my characters in the TV or movie versions of my stories. This is not so farfetched as it may sound. Several people in Jennifer Lopez's production company have read the Lola Cruz novels, and who knows, maybe one day it really will become the TV series that's been talked about.

The fact that more than one person in J.Lo's crew read it is apparently a big deal, and like I said, several of her peeps read it.  I get excited about the fact that people who know J.Lo know about Lola Cruz!

BARE-NAKED LOLA, the 3rd Lola Cruz Mystery was released a few weeks ago and I've finally figured out who would play Jack Callaghan on film.

Timothy Olyphant.

I first met saw Timothy in Damages which my hubby and I streamed on the Wii through Netflix. Then we watched the first couple of episodes of Justified.

It didn't take me long to realize that heis Jack. He's got the rugged good looks that make him so appealing as a bad boy, but he's got an inherent amiability about him that makes him accessible. He's intriguing and sexy, but I can see him settling down and being true to Lola.

Why? Because Jack's wanted Lola since he was a teenager...pretty much as long as she's wanted him (a realization she had after she started surveilling him and snapped some good shots of him just after doing the horizontal salsa with Greta Pritchard in the backseat of a car).

Now, years later, he's come back to her and sticks by her side, come hell or high water. He took a bullet for her in Living the Vida Lola. He danced with her at Club Ambrosia, Lola's favorite salsa club. He held her hand at that tattoo shop (you have to read LIVING THE VIDA LOLA to find out what happened there...suffice it to say that it's one of my favorite scenes in book 1). And he helped take down the bad guy in HASTA LA VISTA, LOLA!.

Timothy is the perfect Jack Callghan. He's on my Dream Board and will fill me with constant inspiration as I write his scenes with Lola.

It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.

And now for a question: Who's the most perfectly cast hero from book to screen?  I still love Clark Gable as Rhett Butler.

For information on the first two books in the series, check out below:

Living the Vida Lola Lola Cruz Mystery #1.0 February 2009

Hasta La Vista, Lola! Lola Cruz Mystery #2.0 February 2010

Bare-Naked Lola Lola Cruz Mystery #3.0 May 2012

Living the Vida Lola

Hasta la Vista, Lola!

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11 comments posted.

Re: Melissa Bourbon Ramirez | It's all about Visualizing

I'm a big Rhett Butler fan, too, but I think that Sean Connery will always be the best James Bond of them all. He always had that smoothness about him, and just seemed to mold into that part so completely, without any effort. I'm not a big movie buff, so heroes don't pop into my head very easily, especially when you're comparing them to books. Yours sound very good, and I'll have to put them on my TBR list. Thank you for the great heads' up about them!!
(Peggy Roberson 9:42am June 2, 2012)

I'd suggest Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan. An Olympic champion swimmer, he had the physique, athletic ability and confidence to carry off the part of Lord of the Jungle.
(Clare O'Beara 10:21am June 2, 2012)

I loved Cary Grant in "An Affair to Remember"! And I too loved Sean Connery as James Bond and who can forget Clint Eastwood in Hang them High and Dirty Harry!
(Ann Thaxton 10:33am June 2, 2012)

Seab Connery as James Bond--absolutely perfect.
(Sue Farrell 10:57am June 2, 2012)

I AGREE..CLARK GABLE AS RHETT BUTLER...SUBLIME!
(Silvana Moscato 11:27am June 2, 2012)

I have to second both Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Sean Connery as James Bond. In a totally different way, I thought Daniel Radcliffe made an excellent Harry Potter in the movies. The movies themselves weren't always equally fabulous - though most of them were fun - but I can't read about Harry without seeing Radcliffe, and that clinches it for me.

On a side note, I finally got around to watching One For The Money yesterday - missed it when it was in the movies theatres earlier this year - and I thought Jason O'Mara did a great job as Joe Morelli. He didn't quite look like the Morelli in my head, but he became Morelli on screen. And stole the movie, too. At least IMHO. :)
(Jennie Bentley 11:31am June 2, 2012)

I like Nathan Fillian as Castle from the book in the crime series. Also Sean Connery seems to be the classiest James Bond.
(Alyson Widen 12:19pm June 2, 2012)

Matt Bomer as Neil Caffery in the USA tv show "White Collar" is yummy as can be!
(Joanne Hicks 6:15pm June 2, 2012)

Two of my favorite from book to the screen are Matt Damon in the Bourne
series, and josh hartnett in Blackhawks Down. (although the real life men
in that story will forever hold a special place in my heart.)
(Kym Roberts 12:05pm June 3, 2012)

It would be hard to beat Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind. That movie is simply unforgettable.
(Marilyn Nowlin 1:46am June 4, 2012)

I agree about Rhett Butler, er, Clark Gable, especially his somewhat crooked smiles. And I definitely like Nathan Filion and Sean Connery, though I'm not sure I've even seen him as James Bond. Though I like Matt Damon, I find him a little too boyish--though I must admit the last of his films I've seen is probably 6 or 7 years old. He may have matured.
(Sigrun Schulz 2:56am June 4, 2012)

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