The other night I watched the TV adaptation of Mark Billingham’s Sleepyhead. Although I enjoyed it, I was amazed at how the characters from the book had been translated to the small screen. David Morrissey was good as DI Thorne, but he’s far too good looking to play the role and some of the rest of the cast could have come straight from Hollywood
I was also interested to read how an actor of Morrissey’s involvement with the show came about. He read the novels and wrote to Billingham saying he wanted to play the part. Budding authors like me can only dream about that happening.
If your novel was published, who would you like to play your lead character? I’d love it if Journeyman star Kevin Mckidd played my DI Waddell or David Tennant.
