We start with Mo. Mo was raised by hippies, tried to become a yuppie, and now has moved herself to Alaska to try and figure out who she really is. She's in her early thirties, tall, pretty and has a tiny bit of a temper problem. She has to look like she has an outdoorsy-nature-loving side, but also like she's at home in a big city, too. In the instant that Mo's face was described, I saw Liv Tyler and never looked back.
Evie is Mo's first friend (and boss) in Grundy, AK. She's a little bit older, obviously small town, and just the sweetest little thing ever. I couldn't get Connie Ray out of my head. This is a really old picture, but it gives you a better idea of the back-woods-small-town-darling look:
Buzz is Evie's husband, and he's a bit older than she is, he's gruff, prideful and has a trademark buzz-cut. I don't know a lot of guys that can pull off gruff and prideful quite as well as Brian Dennehy
Cooper is the super-hot jerk that Mo (of course) falls in love with immediately. The fact that he's a werewolf is just a non-issue. He's animalistic, with severe territory issues, super-sex-skills and a weirdly attractive body odor. He's a jerk most of the time, and Mo is completely turned on by the bad-boy vibe that he's constantly throwing off. He actually picks her up and slings her over his shoulder, cave-man style, and she loves it. I can't think of anybody more suited to a bad-boy-werewolf than Colin Farrell
Seriously. Is there anybody hotter who looks like he could just wind up in a fight on any given day?
OK. Well... yes. But that's already been done.
(And yes, I will find just about any excuse to put a Hugh Jackman Wolverine pic up. Rawr.)
Maggie is Cooper's little sister. She's also inherited the family traits: anger issues, territorialness, and the ability to morph into a wolf at will. Somebody like Cobie Smulders looks like she could tear your head off, but then be sweet baby sister, too, yes?
Now, one of the two following characters (Samson or Eli) was so minor that I almost thought he could have been discarded entirely. I figured he was the all too common novel-to-movie castoff. When whittling down the cast to those most memorable for viewing purposes, somebody gets cut, and any lines they had get divvied up between the remaining characters or lost completely.
I'm not going to tell you which one it was I thought could be cut... I'll just tell you that he turns out to be really, really important. Really.
Samson is one of Cooper's brothers. He's big and smiley and one of those guys who thinks he's God's gift to women. He's charming and a bit on the smarmy side, but funny and easy to hang around anyway. Somebody like Alan Ritchson (Just color his hair dark... it will be fine. Don't worry)
Eli is another of Cooper's brothers. He's the sweet one, the one who wants to help Mo be part of the family, but also realizes that sometimes Cooper is a giant jerk-face and that maybe she'd be better of without him. Somebody you kind of wish was your best friend. Like Jake Gyllenhaal
And, just because it's funny: Leonard is this pervy guy in town who keeps asking Mo to come over and hang out in his "home rigged hot tub" I can't help but picture Steve Buscemi
sitting in one of these:
How's that for a mental picture??? You wish I had ended on Colin Farrell, eh? Well, here's a palette-cleanser:
