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In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen but gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. But Frollo was forced by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own. Now a young man, Quasimodo is hidden from the world by Frollo in the belltower of the cathedral. But during the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo, cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lovely gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves ranged against Frollo's cruelty and his attempts to destroy the home of the gypsies, the Court of Miracles. And Quasimodo must desperately defend both Esmeralda and the very cathedral of Notre Dame.
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Fan Casting Frollo

Role added by darthjoker01 on June 11, 2017

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"AND HE SHALL SMITE THE WICKED AND PLUNGE THEM INTO THE FIERY PIT!!!" Frollo's last words before his death

 

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6 comments on Frollo

  • tatianaoliveira I chose Michael Fassbender, because I would like to see a Frollo version closer to the book version of Victor Hugo. In the book, Frollo is in his 30s

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    • edmarx88   @tatianaoliveira Fassbender is a good call - especially if he incorporates a mix of his work in Shame (a yuppie struggling with sex addiction) and 12 Years A Slave (a sadistic plantation owner with a taste for his female slaves). I like the idea of a handsomer, somewhat younger Frollo too; there’s a greater threat there than just as some frail old man.

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  • samanthaa As much as I appreciate Victor Hugos original story, the unsettling obsession would make more sense with the older character that Disney had portrayed. The Lannister King himself , Charles Dance, would be my first choice. Christoph Waltz being a close 2nd! One of my favorite actors. Bill Nighy is a lose 3rd simply because he can definitely look the part and play serious; can he sing though???

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  • edmarx88 I always thought a live-action Frollo would be best suited by some great Shakespearean British theatre vet, not known to the common American moviegoer. Similar to how they cast Alan Rickman in Die Hard. Frollo is so evil on such a grand scale, that I think he needs an aura of mystery and unpredictability to fully come to life and remind us what a nightmare he is, out of the shadows of Tony Jay. Hence, an actor we’re not so familiar with, whose presence we can’t trust, because we’ve never seen him before - or even whose we can, because we’ve never seen him play a villain. We all kinda know, more or less, how Lithgow, Irons, or Dance would be in the role - and all of them would crush it. But that unknowability, that we experienced when we first saw Rickman in Die Hard or Waltz in Inglourious Basterds, would hit so much harder. I just don’t know who it is yet

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