Ben Barnes is Dorian Gray

DORIAN GRAY HAD BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES, producing idiots! Jude Law (who, ironically, played Lord Douglas in a film on Wilde) would have been the perfect choice IF he hadn’t grown old. Chase Crawford has the looks but not the talent. They should have researched further.

They did Oscar the Great quite wrong.

Cute guy. And a good story, although it has been put on film before, but that doesn’t matter. I like it a lot.

ben please marry me <3

Omg he’s to die for.

He looks fabulous. I like it when films give an old theme (and amazing book) a new twist. I love the dark look. Ben has the intensity. He’s gorgeous AND he can act. Loads of talent here. Can’t wait to see this film.

#21 - did you meet him ? Lucky girl, I meet a lot jerk guys but no one sooo hot like ben. LOL

Guys, please stop complaining. I’m a Wilde aficionado and though it’s a shame they didn’t have Ben Barnes dye his hair and put in some blue contacts to fit the book, it really does not matter. The original film with Angela Landsbury and George Sanders made in 1945 starred Hurd Hattfield in the title role, who had black hair and eyes– darker than Ben (especially in black and white but in color too). The movie is a classic and the only great fault with it was how it changed the plot a bit– but the coloring of the lead actor was certainly no fault. That doesn’t matter. Daniel Radcliffe doesn’t match the Harry Potter of the book in hair or eye coloring and trust me, if it that were really a problem, I doubt the studio would let him star in all seven movies in their multi-billion dollar franchise (and don’t tell me about studios not understanding because it doesn’t work in this case– those movie kick ass). I doubt you all have noticed much on Radcliffe’s account. Anyways, back to Ben Barnes. My guess is in his case the coloring seemed to visually suit a movie built around a novel with such heavily dark, gothic themes. And it’s not like it’s a film based on an Anne Rice novel– those books celebrates sinister beauty while Dorian Gray does just the opposite. While I think Arian coloring might accentuate the contrast between the character’s outward appearance and the ugliness of his soul, I don’t think it matters much. As far as I’m concerned, Barnes fits the part pretty damn well— young, exquisite features, British, and pulls off the impulsive-act pretty damn well if you’ve seen Caspian (It’s pretty sad about how much he struggled with that accent though. It threw the whole thing off). He’s also fairly new so he’ll probably be even more convincing playing the fresh-faced naive kid Dorian is at the beginning, which will probably make the whole descent into evil thing pretty interesting. I think it’s sad that a novel with such layered emotional, philosophical, and moral themes like Dorian Gray is being made into a movie and all anyone can do is ***** about the lead actor’s hair.

Still want to know if dorian gray is coming to the U.S. and Ben is a good actor. I just want to see this movie.

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I agree with you. I think Ben is a great choice for this movie .He is gorgeous, frigging hot and dark. I cannot wait for this new Dorian Gray s version !!

I agree Stuart Townsend was a fabulous Dorian Gray..
I’m curious to see how Ben Barnes does..
Hope the movie turns out great, Dorian Gray is a fascinating character.

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