40K Casting Call/Scoring

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2006-02-27 12:49pm

Who would want a movie in the POV of aliens? That'd suck!

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-02-27 12:54pm

All 40K material is presented from an Imperial perspective anyway, so I don't see why a movie, miniseries, or show would be any different.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-02-27 10:32pm

Natillie Portman with her post V for Vendetta haircut as a sister repentia....

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-02-27 11:03pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Natillie Portman with her post V for Vendetta haircut as a sister repentia....

Repentia indeed, after that RotS performance...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-02-27 11:19pm

hey she was in Leon she's shown that she can be a psycho with lots of guns and knives...

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2006-02-28 12:32am

I think Natalie Portman would make a charming servitor.

And how can we not put four metal studs on Vin Diesel's forehead and call him "Brother Captain"?

Also, Jurgen Prochnow would make a great commissar, as would Lawrence Fishburn. Edward James Olmos could pull off Imperial Guardsmen of just about any rank.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-02-28 12:34am

Bob the Gunslinger wrote:And how can we not put four metal studs on Vin Diesel's forehead and call him "Brother Captain"?

Also, Jurgen Prochnow would make a great commissar, as would Lawrence Fishburn. Edward James Olmos could pull off Imperial Guardsmen of just about any rank.

Vin Diesel doesn't have the right build, for one thing.

And yes, Fishburne and Olmos are excellent Guard officers. I could definitely see the latter as a general officer.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2006-02-28 03:27am

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote: Vin Diesel doesn't have the right build, for one thing.

No one in the fething world has the right build.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2006-03-01 10:59am

Setzer wrote:The good thing about Slaanesh is you can cast pretty much any hot guy or girl as a scantily clad cultist.

Only if the person in question is pretty in an eerily androgynous way. As a matter of fact, I would cast Eve Salvail as a Slaanesh cultist on the basis of her appearance alone.

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-03-01 11:25am

NecronLord wrote:I suspect if they ever did make a 40K film, they'd want most of their - usually young - fans watching legally, and so make it really much tamer than that.

Have you watched Final Destination 3 yet? That got a 15 rating with people being burnt alive, body parts smashed and cut up and all sorts of other nastiness which a few years ago would have been made an 18. I believe the standards are such that you could do a very bloody and gory film yet still get a 15.

Ford Prefect wrote:No one in the fething world has the right build.

Micheal Clark Duncan
Paul "Big Show" White (Yes I know, I'm weary about wrestlers and acting as well)

white_rabbit · Post by **white_rabbit** » 2006-03-02 05:16pm

That Marius chap, who thrashed everyone in that Strong Man competition that was on UK television a few weeks or so ago.

Bald, blunt headed, guy, strips like he's made of iron, contemptously performs feats of strength that make others quail.

My brother and I looked at him and thought, " Space marine, right there."

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2006-03-02 06:06pm

Marius Pudinowski (SP?) is actually still way too small to be a Space Marine, he is just rather close in the general proportion. Add two and a half feet and about 600lbs and you would have a Space Marine.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-03-02 06:10pm

I don't know about you but I can definitely see it...

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2006-03-02 06:39pm

His major problem is he is short (5'10"), and would have to have a lot of CG/special camera angles to make him look like a 7 and a half to 8 foot Space marine. Proportionwise he is perfect, i was just thinking of the technical aspects of filming him.

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-03-02 06:53pm

Really I think they'd have to CG all Space Marines anyway. Not just because of the casting problems but I'm willing to bet that manufacturing a couple dozen suits of power armour that look convincing, have the range of movement needed and don't weigh a ton would cause some problems.
Mind saying that CG'd huminoids always seem to stand out and scream FAKE. COMPUTER.
They just don't seem to blend with the surroundings.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-03-02 07:49pm

Oh, that they would be largely CGI is a given, really...

The idea is: don't use these bodybuilders or whatever around ordinary humans out of their armour. They're practically never out of it anyway; instead, do what they did with Temura Morrison for RotS, and put a blue jumpsuit on them, leaving only the head uncovered. Use visual tricks a la Lord of the Rings films to increase their apparent 'size', and then CG in the armour around them. Poof, they're there.

As for that guy I posted: Imagine him as a Marines trainee, stretched out on the table in the apothecarium as they install the power armour interfaces through Black Carapace'd skin... now, the servitors and techpriests, they're actually shorter than regular humans and proportionally smaller. But that's not what we see... we see a giant there on that table, because everything else is on the scale of the servitors/techpriests...

white_rabbit · Post by **white_rabbit** » 2006-03-03 07:17am

Obviously the guy is a touch short, but there literally is no-one on the planet who would be able to play one without some CGI/padding stuff.

Although the Inquisitor collection of short videos was cool to watch

I think that Marius guy is cool, if only for the fact that most of the others are big fat gits, and he kicks the shite out of them while grinning madly.

Space Wolf incarnated..

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2006-03-03 08:41am

Hmmm... Harrison Ford as some kind of cultist? Maybe even a Machine Priest?

And of course, you have to have someone as a squat. All hail the Squats!

Falkenhayn · Post by **Falkenhayn** » 2006-03-03 09:58am

Bob the Gunslinger wrote:I think Natalie Portman would make a charming servitor.

And how can we not put four metal studs on Vin Diesel's forehead and call him "Brother Captain"?

Also, Jurgen Prochnow would make a great commissar, as would Lawrence Fishburn. Edward James Olmos could pull off Imperial Guardsmen of just about any rank.

Daniel Day Lewis as Gregor Eisenhorn.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2006-03-03 10:08am

I actually think you could cast ANYONE as a Space Marine, and then create the sets, costumes (that bulky armor makes it especially easy) and cast other characters to make the stars look a fuckload bigger than they really are.

Worked in Lord of the Rings in reverse with the Hobbits and that big fucking guy who they cast convincingly as a dwarf.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2006-03-03 10:21am

Final Liberation had a decent looking ultramarine captain. Not film quality, but he was sufficiently big and massive.

And yes, anyone could play a convincing marine. They have their very personalities psycho-conditioned away in some chapters, even.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2006-03-03 09:31pm

Peregrin Toker wrote: Only if the person in question is pretty in an eerily androgynous way. As a matter of fact, I would cast Eve Salvail as a Slaanesh cultist on the basis of her appearance alone.

I take it you've never seen a Daemonette then.

And I was wrong. There really is a man with the build (if not the height) to play a Space Marine. I'm impressed.