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**Mark123jansen** · December 10, 2004, 04:45

your example of Santiago just walking around the command nexus is very flawed. if ANY faction leader were to be out on the frontlines leading her troops personally, it would be Santiago. Havent you read Centauri Dawn?

**Sikander** · December 10, 2004, 05:08

There have been at least three "who would play whom in the SMAC movies" threads here over the years. Too bad they're gone, some of them were pretty good.

Some of my nominations:

Sven - Brad Pitt

Domai - Gary Oldman

Miriam - Cate Blanchett

Yang - Chow Yun Fat (the guy from Crouching Tiger)

**WotanAnubis** · December 10, 2004, 07:15

Originally posted by Mark123jansen
your example of Santiago just walking around the command nexus is very flawed. if ANY faction leader were to be out on the frontlines leading her troops personally, it would be Santiago. Havent you read Centauri Dawn?

Nope. I'm not big on internet buying and in any case, I've heard that book 2 of that series has the Hive working together with the Gaians (WTF?), so I'm not taking it as completely canon.
Anyway, having the commander of the entire faction and not just the military forces right up there on the front lines is just damn *stupid* (even though with the Spartans, the difference between the faction and the army may be small). If Santiago dies (and dying is a very regular occurance on the front lines) the Spartan Federation will probably go down with her. I can't believe that even that right-wing loonie would endanger everything she's worked so hard for just to be close to the killing or to lead a small fraction of her entire military into battle.

**Chaos Theory** · December 10, 2004, 10:37

In fiction, to improve the story, hero shielding happens. It doesn't have to be entirely plausible, but it avoids the problem of having main characters either repeatedly die or be in uninteresting places.

In the SMAC world, the Spartans lose. At some point Santiago would be on the front lines anyway in a desperate attempt to improve morale even further.

**Modo44** · December 10, 2004, 10:45

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
In fiction, to improve the story, hero shielding happens. It doesn't have to be entirely plausible, but it avoids the problem of having main characters either repeatedly die or be in uninteresting places.

Except in good fiction...

What can a Spartan give to Morgan... you don't want to know what we gave.

**livid imp** · December 10, 2004, 18:30

Originally posted by Dissident
Morgan would be played by Morgan Freeman of course. There is no disputing this.

Yea there is. I think Morgan Freeman is a horrible choice.... to old and weathered looking. Think Richard Brooks (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1444462/). Young and actually looks likes the image in the game.

Originally posted by Dissident
Zak would be played by Anonthy Hopkins.

Anonthy Hopkins is not a bad choice, but I think I'd like to see David Carradine in the role.

Originally posted by Dissident
Nicole Kidman would play Dierdre.

**livid imp** · December 10, 2004, 20:48

Originally posted by Sikander
Sven - Brad Pitt

Oh lord no! Brad Pitt is such a damn wimp, there is no way I'd make em Sven. Sven needs to be a man's man, not a girl's man.

Originally posted by Sikander
Domai - Gary Oldman

Not "meathead" enough. I think you'd do better fish'n through any old construction site and find a better fitting canidate

Originally posted by Sikander
Miriam - Cate Blanchett

Miriam=Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched)

Originally posted by Sikander
Yang - Chow Yun Fat (the guy from Crouching Tiger)

Seems too young and nothing about him screams "Yang"

To be honest I think the majority of the cast would need to be unknow, or little known actors while being anchored by a few box office drawing stars to bring in the big bucks.