Robert Carlyle on Stargate Universe, Take Two

[wraithfodder]

Hmm, yanked this off Mallozzi's blog tonight (12/15/2008) ... "As some of you may have heard, the wonderfully talented Robert Carlyle has signed on to join the crew of the Destiny in the upcoming Stargate: Universe series. The award-winning actor - Begbie from Trainspotting to some, Hamish Macbeth to others - will be playing the role of Dr. David Rush, the ship’s brilliant Machiavellian scientist. I see a lot of myself in Rush and, next to yours truly of course, I can’t imagine anyone better for the part. Contrary to initial reports, the Rush character is not the leader of the unplanned expedition. That honor falls to Colonel Everett Young. For now. But things could have a way of changing on board a ship manned by a disparate group with very different agendas…

hmm, hmmm, uh....

Somehow a character which is a lot of Joe Mallozzi DOES NOT inspire me to watch..

Comments

[nialla]

Somehow a character which is a lot of Joe Mallozzi DOES NOT inspire me to watch.

It inspires me to vomit.

I find it interesting how so many Brits are excited about the casting of Carlyle, while most American viewers are saying they've never heard of him or only vaguely know of some of his works once they look him up at IMDB.

He's not a "name actor" in the American market. That's not anything against those in other countries, but it is a fact that North America is the primary market as far as Sci Fi is concerned.

They'll be ponying up quite a bit of dough for this, so I can't see them really caring if foreign viewers recognize the "name actor" though MGM might have bigger vision about that aspect since they're aware of the worldwide fanbase and can market there.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

He might be a name actor in some genres. He did "28 weeks later" (or was it days?) anyway, he was in that zombie horror flick. It does make you wonder about the 'name actor' because, well, most US fans will go 'who' but over in Europe, it might be a different thing altogether.