Rhine Ellery is the main protagonist. She has long blond hair, one green eye and one blue eye. She's a beaut. No really. Everybody thinks this two-different-eye-color thing is gorgeous. She's the "hero" in this story and would be required to look really scared a lot. Somebody young, pretty and scared looking... there are a plethora of actresses in Hollywood that fit that bill. How about Kate Melton?
Linden is Rhine's husband. He was born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, and he has absolutely no idea that his four wives were all kidnapped for his pleasure. He's a nice enough guy, and it's just really too bad that he was born wealthy and has been kept ignorant of Rhine's plight, because she just can't stand him based on those two things that he totally could have changed about himself. In my head, this part was filled by Hans Matheson, but he is just too old to pull off barely-twenty-years-old.
The whole point of this story is how terrifying it is to be an adult when you are considered a child by today's standards, so this actor would have to be very young in order to convey the "terror" these characters are living in. So, we'd have to look at somebody more like Ryan Pinkston.
Gabriel is a servant in Linden's home. Rhine met him and about four seconds later kissed him and decided that she would "save" him from this hellhole and take him out into the big, wide world, where they don't know where they are going, how to get there, how to protect themselves or what they are hoping to find. She's going to take him away from a place where he has to work for his daily bread and make him a fugitive. If that ain't love, I don't know what is. Lucky for him, she succeeds. He's a typical, blond, moody heartthrob-type. Kind of like Lucas Till.
Cecily is another of Linden's wives. She's thirteen, was raised in an orphanage and is more than willing to become the perfect baby-maker. Can we say... abandonment issues? She's a spitfire; tempestuous and headstrong, but she's also desperately eager to please and childishly devoted to her husband/captor. I pick Rachel G. Fox.
Jenna is the third of Linden's current wives (his first died already). She's an ex-prostitute who is inexplicably barren. She's cold and distant, but not cruel. She just doesn't care. She knows her days are numbered and has decided that dying in the lap of luxury with a nice husband who is sweet to her is better than dying cold and hungry on the streets. She's described as being tall and impossibly thin with dark hair and a blank, numb look on her face. I see Mackenzie Rosman.
Housemaster Vaughn is the definition of Creepy McCreeperson. He's a doctor who believes this virus can be turned back with a little medical know-how. When people in his house die, he experiments on their bodies, trying to find a cure for this virus. (sidenote: when Will Smith does this EXACT thing in I Am Legend, he's a hero... this guy is a psycho?) He also arranged for the kidnapping of Linden's brides and has equipped his house with the best security to keep them prisoner (OK- that is creepy and psycho, I admit it). He's supposedly around seventy years old or so, and a real meanie. You know, underneath. We never really see the meani-ness, but you just know it's there. I would give almost anything to see Burt Reynolds in this part.
