Sentinels Movie Casting

So, I asked the GTG guys at PAX Aus (just this weekend passed) "Who would you get to play Baron Blade in a SOTM movie?", and they suggested I ask here on the forums.

So I'm expanding the question.

Which actors/actresses would you cast to play various characters in a SOTM movie?

Now, I'm going to seperate this into two answers:

Current Day Casting - i.e. actors/actresses who are alive and current today.

Dream Casting - i.e. any actor/actress from any era/history.

I've been thinking about this but really haven't a clue, so just seeing what the SOTM ciommunity out there thinks.

Conveniently, this was started in a previous thread!  That one is old enough, though, we could probably use a more current conversation…

I hope you had a great time at PAX Aus!

The only one I could think of right now would be Nathan Fillion - if he'd get back into shape - as Legacy.

Had an awesome time at PAX Aus and got to play Sentinel Tactics for the frist time (Kicxkstarted it, but haven't had a chance to play it yet).

I need to learn to play and get Galactic Strike Force as well.

Nathan Fillion as Legacy - I could see that.

Then I'd vote for Burt Lancaster as America's Greatest Legacy (in the sepia toned flashbacks).

If he wasn't so dead, I mean.

Without looking at the other thread, my immediate thoughts are:

• Absolute Zero - John Cusack
• Argent Adept - one of the Phelps twins
• Beacon - overdone maybe, but Hayden Panietierre
• Bunker - Mark Wahlberg
• Captain Cosmic
• Chrono-Ranger - Clint Eastwood, duh
• Expatriette - Angie Harmon
• Fanatic - Kristin Stewart, believe it or not
• Guise - Matt Bomer
• Haka - Lawrence Makoare
• KNYFE -Miranda Otto
• Legacy - Jeremy Renner
• Mr. Fixer - Djimon Hounsou
• Naturalist - Idris Elba. Failing that, Aldis Hodge
• Nightmist - Sandra Bullock
• Omnitron-X - voice by Brian Blessed
• Parse - Frema Agyamen
• Ra - Ioan Gryffydd
• The Scholar - Jeff Bridges, of course
• The Sentinels - Dr. Medico = Matthew Lewis, Idealist = Christina Ricci c. 1992,  Mainstay = Vin Diesel, Writhe = Tony Shalhoub
• Setback - Anton Yelchin (aka Odd Thomas)
• Tachyon - Emily Bett Rickards
• Tempest - Noah Wyle
• Unity - Alexandra Daddario
• Visionary - Karen Gillan
• Wraith - Gina Bellman

Villains:

• Akash'bhuta - voice by Tilda Swinton
• Ambuscade - Vincent Cassel
• Apostate - John Barrowman
• Baron Blade - David Tennant
• Chairman Pike & the Operative
• Citizen Dawn - Kate Beckinsale
• Dreamer - Elle Fanning c. 2005

• Ennead (skipping this one, as I don't want to make THAT many decisions)
• Ermine - Beth Riesgraf
• Friction - Joanne Kelly
• Fright Train - your choice of pro wrestler-turned-actor
• Gloomweaver - Malik Yoba. Failing that, Sharif Atkins
• Iron Legacy - Jeremy Renner, in keeping with the above
• Kismet - Azita Ghanizada
• La Capitan Maria Helena... - Anne Hathaway
• Matriarch - Emma Watson
• Miss Information/Aminia Twain
• Omnitron-I/II/V - voice by Brendan Fraser
• Plague Rat - Brad Pitt
• Proletariat - Sebastian Stan
• Spite - Simon Vance
• Voss - probably overdone, but Benedict Cumberbatch

I reserve the right to come back in and edit this as I remember the names that go with some of the faces I can see in my head or to correct spelling.

Updated filling in some of the gaps.

Mainstay has to be Terry Crews. Why? BLOCK! BLOCK!

Also Fright Train. I have more, actually, but I have to go to work now. I’ll come back to it later.

When I think super hero/villian, I would have to say that Bruce Campbell deserve a role somewhere. Be it as a villian or a super hero, I think he would be great in this sort of movie.

I could see Bruce Campbell as a older version of Setback bookending the film as a narrator.

For Setback it's a tie between Aaron Johnson and Donald Glover.

Who would Tom Hardy play? Let's face it Reckless, if you cast a Sentinels movie you would try to get Tom Hardy involved.

Tom Hardy would make an excellent Chairman Pike.

Bruce Campbell would make a pretty good Deadline, maybe.

I was gonna say, Fright Train definitely. But Mainstay?

Can you imagine a white Terry Crews…

I'd cast Wraith as Mila Kunis. She's got the eye shape.

I keep going thinking about these. I still need:

• Argent Adept

• Dr. Medico
• Writhe
• Tempest
• the various members of the Ennead
• Proletariat
• The Wrath of the Cosmos-related characters

On some consideration, I think I'd put Matthew Lewis in as Dr. Medico, and one of the Phelps twins (Fred & George Weasley from the Harry Potter films) in as the Argent Adept since I can't quickly think of any red-headed male actors & am trying to not have to do wig/makeup jobs except where required.

Tempest and Writhe feel older-ish to me -- i.e., closer to my age than to the ages of a lot of the actors already mentioned, who are in their late 20s and early 30s. Maybe take Noah Wyle and Tony Shalhoub, respectively?

Splicing these into my original post, and updating one other.

Wager Master - Warwick Davis

definatly.

Jason Momoa as Haka. He looks the part, and his audition tape for Game of Thrones was him PERFORMING A HAKA. if that isn’t perfect casting, then I don’t know what is.

I've heard that same statement (maybe after I went to read the other thread). The guy I suggested for Haka is one of the Maori extras from the LotR movies.

I don't know about actors, but I am tempted to put together a dream voice actor casting, for an animated Sentinels.

HEROES

Legacy - Nathan Filion

Wraith - Emilia Clarke

Tachyon - Gillian Jacobs

Bunker - Aaron Paul

Fanatic - Michelle Rodriguez

Argent Adept - Nickoaj Coster-Waldau

Haka - Lawrence Makoare

Expat - Karen Gillan

Chrono-Ranger - Josh Holloway

Visionary - Irene Choi

Mr. Fixer - Ron Glass

Nightmist - Natalie Dormer

Unity - Maisie Williams

Scholar - John Goodman

Omnitron X (voice) - Brent Spiner, for old times' sake

KNYFE - Rose Leslie

Setback - Chris Pratt

Parse - Everlyn Sampi

Guise - If it was still 1995, Chris Tucker

VILLAINS

Baron Blade - Hugh Laurie

Omnitron (voice) - Brent Spiner

Grand Warlord Voss - Vin Diesel

Citizen Dawn - Jeri Ryan

Chairman - Michael Emerson

Matriarch - Sophie Turner

Spite - Adam Baldwin

Apostate - Christopher Ecclestone

Gloomweaver (voice) - Tony Todd

Ambuscade - Georges St. Pierre

Miss Information - Jewel Staite

Nah, Omnitron has to be James Spader. Just LISTEN to his Ultron voice (basically Omnitron, but Marvel):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNzvRv8q1HI

This would be so much better than a movie, especially since we’re in this weird tv golden age. It would be like an awesome JLU, not that JLU wasn’t awesome.

I’m really curious to see who people would cast for Con.

All I know is if anything sentinels ever got made I would want Steven Blum to be his voice.

The solution is obvious. Brent Spiner as Omni-X and James Spader as non Omni-X.

Get a bunch of Sentinels and animation geeks together and get them to make a list. The results are entertaining.

Here is our list. There are a lot of casting jokes in there, and I hope you find it as fun as we did!

Heroes

• Legacy - Brian Bloom
• Tachyon -Vanessa Marshall
• The Wraith - Melissa Gilbert
• Bunker - Troy Baker
• Absolute Zero - Jeff Bennett*
• Haka - Jay Laga'aia
• Fanatic - Maria Canals-Barrera
• Ra - David Kaye
• Tempest - Jason Marsden
• The Visionary - Summer Glau
• Mr Fixer - Sab Shimono
• Expatriette - Claudia Black
• NightMist - Kelly Hu
• The Argent Adept - Neil Patrick Harris
• Chrono-Ranger - Adam Baldwin
• Omnitron-X - Jason Spisak
• The Scholar - Stephen Fry
• Unity - Kari Wahlgren
• K.N.Y.F.E - Jennifer Hale
• Mainstay - Paul Eiding
• Dr Medico - Alan Tudyk
• The  Idealist - Kristen Schaal
• Writhe - Wally Wingert
• The Naturalist - James C. Mathis
• Setback - Josh Keaton
• Parse - Cree Summer
• Beacon - Janet Varney
• Captain Cosmic - Deidrich Bader
• Sky-Scraper - Colleen O'Shaughnessey
• Guise - Christopher Badell

• Baron Blade - Liam O'Brien
• Citizen Dawn - Susan Sarandon
• Voss - Michael Ironside
• Omnitron - Frank Welker
• Plague Rat - Mark Hamill
• Spite - John DiMaggio
• The Chairman - Jonathan Frakes
• The Operative - Sumalee Montano
• The Matriarch - Tara Strong
• Akash-Bhuta
• Apostate - Ron Perlman
• GloomWeaver - Jeffrey Combs
• Iron Legacy - Roger Craig Smith
• Kismet - Grey DeLisle
• La Capitan - Gina Torres
• The Dreamer - Summer Glau
• Ambuscade - Georges St-Pierre
• Miss Information - Arleen Sorkin
• Fright Train - Kevin Michael Richardson
• Friction - Lauren Tom
• Ermine  - Diane Pershing
• Proletariat - Jim Cummings
• Wager Master - Alex Hirsch

If another black female hero shows up in the multiverse, she will also probably be voiced by Cree Summers.

Assuming this is still dream casting, she might also be voiced by  Masasa Moyo, Miss Kittie, CCH Pounder, or many others.

Depends on her character, of course.

I'm glad NPH has shown up. It would be a shame, otherwise.

For an animated series, could we have Phil Lamarr do Mr. Fixer. He already voiced a Japanese samurai. Mr. Fixer couldn't be that much of a stress for him. I'll also put in a vote for John DiMaggio as the Scholar because...John DiMaggio.

Well, he does sing the song that the world wants to hear.

Lots of names I recognize, but also lots I need to go learn about.

I suppose I should clarify that my list was for a live-action film/s, thus my specification of voices where appropriate.

Yes! My job here is done!

(Of course, I am happy to clarify with people if they want to discuss any choices)

And people are yet to mention my choice for Guise…

Actually, John DiMaggio would make a great Mainstay.

I, uh…  I appreciated that reference. 

Tara Strong for Wraith or Nightmist.

Katherine Kelgrine for Tach.

Mark Hamil (dropping Joker-voice for something closer to his own) for AZ?

*shakes head*

We made the best casting ever, and if anyone has noticed, they have not mentioned it yet. The one character that when listed, a name was said, and everyone agreed that it was perfect.

But then, there are a lot of names in that list.

Robin Williams as Guise?

Now I'll have to look through the whole forum to find it... I remember it happening, but I don't remember who it was.

Are you, perhaps, referring to Alexis Denisof as Spite?

Ahh…the feels, man…

yeah, I know, but... that's basically who Guise is. Deadpool, as played by Robin Williams's Genie.

I've gotta cast my vote for Jim Carrey as Guise.

Sorry, but I gave an involuntary shudder at the thought of that.

Agreed. Jim Carrey is one of the unholy trinity whose movies I will not watch. The others are Will Farrell and Adam Sandler.

WELL.

No Punch Drunk Love, The Cable Guy, or Stranger Than Fiction?  Kick-Ass 2 was a lovely film!  Just don't ask Jim Carrey.  He can't stand that Colonel Stars and Stripes fella…

I was gonna say, Kick-Ass 2 was a pleasant surprise from his usual dumb and dumberer gimmick.

Once bitten, twice shy, baby.

The Truman Show is one of my favorite movies.

Well to be fair Kick-Ass 2 isn’t really a Jim Carrey movie, he just happens to be there.

Exactly, and likewise Sentinels: The Movie wouldn't be a Guise movie, he just…

Oh. Nevermind.

I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Admittedly, I did enjoy this movie. Didn't expect to, but it was alright.

Liar, Liar  Had the ex thinking that she was going to go into premature labor from laughing.

Also The Truman Show. Yeah, I know Christopher already mentioned it, but that IS a brilliant movie.

The Mask is cool too. In fact, I think that was the idea behind him as Guise, yes?

As for Adam Sandler… They didn’t USED to all be terrible. Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison were awesome, and I at least liked Anger Management… Although, Jack Nicholson had a lot to do with that…

Ooh, Jack Nicholson as the Scholar!

I saw that one against my better judgement, and it was okay until about 3/4 of the way through when Jim Carrey couldn't help but slip back into being Jim Carrey.

With another actor, I'd have thought it was a great film, but he completely ruined it for me and made it extremely hard to empathise with the character.

Cant stand that smug showing-off-y catchphrase-y LOOK AT ME I'M BEING FUNNY thing he does. The Mask is probably my idea of movie hell.

Also I can totally see Julia Stiles as Tachyon.

Until you said that, I had no idea how much I wanted Portia de Rossi as Tachyon.

Will Farrell and Jim Carrey are outstanding at playing the one-dimensional comic character, but when you try to make that character carry a movie it doesn't work.

The Truman Show (which I don't like at all) was really well acted by Carrey, and it wasn't a sketch comedy character turned into a leading role.  Most of Will Farrell, Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey's films are a sketch stretched out into a movie, and those suck.

They typically are at their most impressive when they attempt more dramatic or dark roles, which they don't often do.

That being said, I'm a nut for The Mask (got me to read the drastically darker and very loosely adapted from comic book) and grew up with The Truman Show.  I've just heard Eternal Sunshine... or Cable Guy/Stranger Than.../Punch Drunk Love as exceptions for most people who cannot stand those three actors.

Another Jim Carrey exception is Man on the Moon. Fantastic portrayal of Andy Kaufman.

I was going to suggest Manu Bennett for Haka, but you're right, Momoa would be great too.

The thing I think is great is that all the Haka suggestions have been Maori actors.

I was giong to suggest Sean Connery, I think he'd make a great Haka, but he might be too old.

He wouldn’t take the role, since he won’t understand the story.

Also, I have come to the conclusion that Wager Master should be played by Alex Hirsch. And this is why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlwqST8p70k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWFY6mJpWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEiC1qUhbH8

Exactly the reason he was on my list 

Totally didn't see him on there. Or I did, but didn't recognize him. I just started watching Gravity falls like 4 days ago; it was so good I marathoned it all in just a couple sittings. Fantastic show, and Bill Cipher is one of the best villains ever.

For a while I was doing Wager Master with Heath Ledger's Joker voice, but Bill Cipher (similar to Claptrap from Borderlands, for those of you who don't feel like watching those awesome links I posted up there) just fits him so well.

It's a pretty great show.

Really tempted to break down the list to give people reasons and possibly clips to show each actor.

Kristen Schaal as Mable should be reason enough to watch it. In fact, let's take out the "as Mabel" part and just say that you should watch it because Kristen Schaal is in it.

Also, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a voice role in one episode. So there’s that.

A voice role, as a pig. It's adorable.

Hooray, thread necromancy!

The other day, my friends and I were joking around about the Game Grumps being replaced by various Sentinels characters, when it hit me that actually, JonTron would make a pretty good Guise. Also, Ross as Setback and Danny as Argent Adept.

Baron Blade played by Vladimir Putin