I like Roger Cross for Bowers myself, but I could see Terrence Howard as a pretty good runner up. I liked him in the first Iron Man. What do you guys think of Tzi Ma for Admr. Nogura?
Hmm, maybe, except he's Chinese instead of Japanese. And in the Vanguard novels, the authors have definitely written Nogura as though he were being played by the late Mako -- particularly in Storming Heaven, where there are repeated, colorful references to his gravelly voice.
Quite right. "Sulu" isn't even a Japanese name; it's the name of a sea in the Philippines. Sulu was meant to represent a "pan-Asian" heritage. (The name "Sulu" is so un-Japanese, in fact, that in the Japanese dub they renamed him Kato.)
not to mention a canadian playing an american, another canadian playing a scot, an american playing a russian and an American playing someone from Luna.
Anyone else think Michael Ironside would do good in Star Trek? I can't decide who he'd play, maybe a Romulan?
I knew about Mako for Nogura, but I was trying to go with someone who's still alive. I know this is fantasy casting, so we don't have to stick with living people, but I was trying to treat this like I was actually casting this as a TV show that would be possible to make now. And there have been plenty of situations where people of one nationality were played a character who was another.