Casting Galactica 03

[Hito]

I think Jim Byrnes would be a great Adama except the description calls for a taller person.
http://www.highlander-official.com/tv/images/dawson1.jpg

John Shea would make a good baltar if he wernt already doing Mutant X.
Or even Peter Wingfield
http://www.highlander-official.com/tv/images/methos1.jpg

But I also think I'd go for a little ethnic diversity and cast
Daniel Dae Kim.
http://www.danieldaekim.org/graphics/newhp/csi.jpg

I could see Michael T. Weiss as Apollo
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue242/weiss1.jpg

[Apothis]

Interesting choices Hito

[michaelfaries]

Try "Stargate SG-1" actors (at least one) for the younger cast under consideration.

Michael

[Thomas P]

When presented with real casting choices the brief descriptions of characters found in scripts are often thrown out altogether -- so there's no reason to be concerned with height requirements for Adama.

Other than the Nigel Bennett suggestion for Baltar, I can't think of any others just now. Except... what about Nathan Fillion as Lee Adama/"Apollo"?

[Thomas P]

I assume that a certain percentage of the cast have to be Canadian nationals, right?

[Hito]

Yeah Fillion would be awesome as Apollo.
http://www.nathan-fillion.de/pic_fillion.jpg

And it is funny you should pick him too becasue i was just about to suggest Gina Torres
http://www.xenaville.com/cast/gina.jpg
as StarBuck.

[guittarjedi]

Hito, you're not accepting the Starbuck as a woman crap are you? We as fans have to fight tooth and nail untill Moore decides to keep Starbuck's genitalia.

[Hito]

Nah I dont have a problem with it especially since I started reading the script.

It turns out Starbuck is one of the cooler characters in the piece.

And she has genetalia as well.

[Thomas P]

Torres would be good as either Kara/Starbuck or Sharon/Boomer, actually.

[guittarjedi]

The whole Starbuck debacle is the only thing keeping me from giving the remake a chance. If I hear that the remake is going forward with a female Starbuck, I will definitely send letters and e-mails to Sci Fi Channels sponsors. All they have to do is change the girls name and add a guy named Starbuck. All I ask is to not contradict the original show in a major way.

[Hito]

I dunno
THere is a plot point that might necessitate him being Homosexual if it were a male.

Best to just leave it as it is since that would really piss peope off :D

[Thomas P]

I don't think fans would like the practical alternative, which would be to introduce a female character as a viper pilot to be one of the leads in the show and then to relegate Starbuck himself to status as a background character on the level of, say, Jolly.

The original BSG cast was simply too male-dominated for contemporary television (for the comfort of the sponsors, anyway). The female characters who were originally part of the show -- Cassiopeia, Athena -- were second-tier characters at best where their importance to the stories was concerned. Even after Sheba was brought onto the series the stars remained Greene, Hatch and Benedict. Now, to satisfy demographic concerns one of those three needs to be a young woman -- which means that if Starbuck, Apollo and Adama are all men, then one of them has to be considerably reduced in importance as a character in favor of a female.

[Micheleh]

Why can't they just rename all these charachters, then they can do what they please without destroying the original charachters? It's like RDM and company are *determined* to use this new production as a vehicle to completely and utterly obliterate any remnant of the old show.

It would be one thing to do a remake with new charachters. it is another altogether to force people to accept new charachters wearing the old charachters names. I never will. Never, never.

[Micheleh]

PS- if this new production can't get by without using the reputation of the original as a crutch, then it deserves to fail. Remaking a show while keeping the integrity of reincarnated charachters (Lost in Space, for example) is one thing. Making up entirely new and dissocated charachters and slapping old names on them as an excuse to hook people's curiosity or get their hopes up is weak writing and poor production. IMO.

[Thomas P]

Well, IMAO this script is not "weak writing" in any way, shape or form. It is certainly not the version of Galactica that fans have been saying that they want, though.