Dreamcasting Nancy Drew Part 1

AnnaSophia Robb as Nancy Drew.

She'd probably have to dye her hair reddish.

Daryl Sabara as Ned Nickerson, Nancy's boyfriend.

In the game series, he's a phone-a-friend character, but maybe the phone calls with him could be done as a split screen thing like they used to do on "Lizzie McGuire."

Chloe Moretz as George Fayne, one of Nancy's best friends.

Ditto the split screen phone conversations. Not present in the remake.

Bridgit Mendler as Bess Marvin, one of Nancy's best friends, and George's cousin.

Ditto the split screen conversations. Not present in the remake.

Liam Aiken as Daryl Gray, the student council president at Paseo Del Mar High School.




He works at the local diner, Maxine's. He's the one that found the murder victim, Jake Rogers, one morning before school. His dad is a former US Senator. It turns out, Jake had been blackmailing him after finding out he was a drug runner. In the remake, he was stealing and selling government secrets instead of being a drug runner.

He'd probably have to dye his hair to make it medium-blond like in the game.

Miguel Castro as Hector "Hulk" Sanchez, the star football player at Paseo Del Mar High School.




It turns out, Jake was blackmailing him after finding out he's the one that stole steroids from the pharmacy after getting a serious injury in a game.

Kyla Pratt as Connie Watson.




She's very secretive. She has a huge crush on Daryl. It turns out, Jake was blackmailing her after finding out she was the mysterious winner of a men's judo competition.

Harry Shum, Jr. as Hal Tanaka, basically your stereotypical smart Asian kid.




He's a foreign exchange student from Japan and wants to go to college to be a doctor. It turns out, Jake was blackmailing him after finding out he plagiarized an essay.

Taylor Lautner as Mitch Dillon, a local HVAC maintenance guy. It turns out, he murdered Jake for catching him doing a drug deal with Daryl (in the original). In the remake, he was just the hit man.

Cameo appearance, at the end in the original and on the phone in the remake.

Ellen DeGeneres as Maxine, the owner of the local diner.

Voice-over telephone cameo.

Johnny Depp as Detective Debronski, a local police officer.

Voice-over telephone cameo, original game. Although, in the game, I'm not sure how he knew for sure Nancy would be the one calling him.

Kevin McHale as the Vandelay Guy, someone who works at the local pharmacy.

Voice-over telephone cameo, original game.

Jackie Chan as the owner of the Crane Judo Dojo.

Voice-over telephone cameo, original game.

Jonathan Groff as the Tony's Pizza guy.

Voice-over telephone cameo, original game.

Seamus Patterson as Jake Rogers, the murder victim. In the original version, he was killed for blackmailing Mitch Dillon. In the remake, he was killed for stealing Detective Beech's notebook, which held unknown secrets.

Voice-over telephone cameo in the original game and the remake. In the remake, he also narrated the final video tape.

Tina Fey as Eloise Drew, Nancy's aunt. She's the librarian at Paseo Del Mar High School. In the original game, she's the one who asked for Nancy to come investigate Jake's murder.

Voice-over telephone cameo, original game.

Directed by Andrew Adamson.

Music by Kevin Manthei. This one's a no-brainer, seeing as how he already did the music for the game.

Steven Weber as Detective Beech, Nancy's contact, only in the remake.



He hangs out at Maxine's Diner. It turns out, he had Mitch kill Jake over a notebook containing an important (unknown) secret.