Goggles .................. Jason Statham
Janice Polito ............ Kate Mulgrew
Anatoly Korenchkin ... Anthony Hopkins
William B Diego ......... Clint Eastwood
Marie Delacroix ......... Audrey Tautou
Melanie Bronson ........ Halle Berry
Rebecca Siddons ...... Naomi Watts
Tommy Suarez ......... John Cusack
Enrique Cortez ......... Ben Kingsley
Voice of SHODAN ..... Terri Brosius
Budget: $300,000,000
Bronson always reminded of Pam Grier for some reason. Naomi Watts,
John Cusack, Ben Kingsley are good choices not necessarily for the characters you have chosen but they are good actors that I could see fitting into the SS2 universe.
A big hell no to Jason Statham though and thats a very optimistic budget.
Feel free to modify the cast list.
I would cast the crew from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Goggles ..................Keanu Reeves
All he has to do is walk along looking cool and be able to say "naahhh" convincingly
Gee, thanks.Originally Posted by sacolton
Feel free to modify the cast list.
Should all be talented but unknown actors. It should be a System Shock film, not a Jack Nicholson/Keanu Reeves/Anthony Hopkins film.
But it's never going to happen anyway...
Not only is it just not going to happen, I don't see why it even should. I mean, how entertaining is a film about a character who doesn't say a damn thing throughout the entire length of the piece (except for maybe 'naah'). I can not see a script like that working.
Now a novel would be a different case altogether. This could be a really great horror-oriented science fiction novel. That I would certainly settle for. Don't have King write it though, he'd screw it up. He hasn't written a good story in years.
If it were made into a film obviously they would take a different approach. Have multiple story lines simultaneously or maybe a bit of jumping around a timeline. Just keep the universe, characters and general plot. Something like 'Traffic' perhaps in story construction.
sigourney weaver as delacroix or polito? shes got plenty of experience in space ; )
i love anthony hopkins and i would love to see him in the role of korenchkin
halle berry as bronson?? nahh, id prefer to have someone i could take more seriously as an actress. charlize theron is a really good actress, as is ashley judd.
When I think about Polito, I think about the actress that plays Dr. Weaver on E.R. (Laura Innes) ... I just have the same image of barking orders under high pressure, technically complex situations -- "Move, dammit! We need to get power to the centrifuges to isolate the protein to... Come on, people, move!"
For Korenchkin, I'm getting an image more like Ed Harris. I guess he's more of a character actor than Hopkins, who would be a little over-kill I feel like, over-playing Korenchkin's going crazy and skimping on how bossy and military-like K could be (whenever Hopkins plays like a Senator or boss-type, it doesn't feel as right as when he's more like a brilliant, cracking genius/loner-type). Korenchkin is like an elder military leader type that's losing his marbles but sticking to his guns and trying to assert his authority throughout. Also, Ed Harris is more like the Nasa control guy, so it fits Korenchkin who is originally something like the authoritative star ship commander. And he can handle cracking-under-pressure / alien-possession, I think.
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Why the hell would you want Statham, he played the poisoned dude in two movies, what the hell is he doing?
Besides The transporter 2 and the other movie with the almost the same plot (oh noes someone poisoned meeeaaahh!), Crank is not really great either.
i wouldnt mind ed harris
i thought about stratham to play goggles for a sec, but it just wouldnt fit.
but please, no one bring up any names like the rock or john cena....ugh. we have no good action heroes anymore..
I don't think you should go for an "actiony" movie star with Goggles, but rather someone slightly more subtle. Christian Bale or maybe Ethan Hawke might be good.
I think Gary Oldman could make a great Korenchkin.
Damn, I didn't even think of Gary Oldman, but you're totally right ... few if any can break into pieces better than he does. And he can still be a bossy type, a la 5th Element.
For Goggles, it'd have to be somebody comfortable in that kind of get-up. Except for the final cut-scene, we don't actually get much of his personality out of the game, though. Someone younger that can do action. Who played Batman in Batman Begins again? (A little Googling later). Ah-ha, Christian Bale ... yeah, I guess he would be a good choice.
Character actors like Oldman and Harris are good choices. They are very good actors but not movie stars whose very presence can be distracting. That can disappear into their roles.
I personally love the acting performance made by Denzel Washington in movies, just a for a change.
There is a general "flaw" with most Game - Film conversions.
Most games are ment for a single person, apart from the odd quest giver you only tend to meet enemies that "dissapear" quickly. The problem with that is that movies don't work too well when there's no interaction with other characters. The most difficult part of a film is the exposition, Sci-Fi films are the worst ones for this.
You end up either with a beginning / ending monologue or a character that spends time explaining the plot. If its done well its great, if you get it wrong it becomes boring a ruins the pace of the film.
The one that got this right is the original Terminator. You don't even realise that you are being told the storyline because it fits in so well with the action.
The problem with SS2 is that "Everbody's dead (dave)", well almost. Our hero has a single line and no help. So the whitty banter you get with most squad based action films won't work.
The only real way to do it would be to leave Goggles with a few major plot scenes so we can see him talk to Polito, Shodan, Many and see how he rescues the ship. Mix in flash back sequences to add the main character logs, but elongate them so we see the whole "story" of what happened and who the characters were / are. Almost approach it like 2 films. One showing what happened when goggles was out and one showing what goggles did. If you add in some 2 way conversations between goggles / SHODAN / Many / Survivors and some cuts to Tommy Rebekkas story.
You would just need one heck of a writer / director
Thats why I used the 'Traffic' example. It has multiple storylines that don't directly connect but do have an effect on each other. You could do the same with SS, maybe change the story a bit so other crewmembers are still alive and simultaneously doing their thing at the same time as Googles. Or the flashback thing could work too.
Googles not talking in the game doesn't mean he can't in a film. Why cant those transmissons be 2-way? When he encounters the doctor (I cant remember his name!) he could talk to him a bit before he dies maybe. The film doesn't have to simulate the game experience completely. Googles didn't talk in the game I'm guessing for the same reason Gordon Freeman doesn't talk: they didn't want the character to conform to some archtype so they could create a more immersive experience. A film does not have these concerns. They could make Googles into some defined character. Maybe part of Googles quest in the film could be to find out just who the hell he is.
Jake Gyllenhaal would make a good Goggles. After seeing him in Jarhead - he makes a conviencing soldier - plus he has that nerd quality and he's likeable.
MEMENTO!!
anybody else see what I see here?
I always thought that a sci fi film for ss1 would work pretty good. the battle for citadel station. It would make a great thriller. The movie would start with the hacker in the intro but you wouldn't have the 6 month gap inbetween. Make it shorter for the films sake and have the hacker wake up before everyone dies. It could be done.
If you tried to do the same thing with SS2 i think the exposition might be just a little bit too.. Species 2... *shudders*
And I think Kate Mulgrew would be perfect for Politio. Sigourney Weaver might be good for the movie, but she'd never do it. She hates how type cast she's become because of Alien.
I always liked Karl Urban for a protagonist.
You could even have Goggles be unable to speak because of the shock of the surgery, or turn him kind of autistic until he more fully "wakes up" at some point in the film.
Last edited by Volitions Advocate; 23rd Sep 2007 at 16:28.
I like that idea, as it also helps to give a reason for the title other than it being the name the games were under. Also helps in giving reason behind a few of polito's early logs.
*cough*Doom?*cough*
I agree with everything else you said though. Filming it in a style similar to Memento is almost certainly the way to go.
Forget Doom. I'm thinking Lotr or Pathfinder (eh.. pathfinder sucked) Or Bourne Supremacy, he wasn't a protagonist but he is a good actor for the part.
He was good in Riddick
Y'know, that reminds me. I still havn't seen the Fifth Element.
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