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From the start I wanted The Ishtar Deception to be a James Bond adventure in the Tenth Millennium. So of course I daydreamed about the movie version.Visit James L. Cambias's website.
The Cast: The main role is Sabbath Okada, the greatest secret agent in the Billion Worlds of the far-future Solar System. Sabbath, as I've mentioned before, is very hard to cast because he is genetically engineered to be the most average-looking, unmemorable person possible. Of course, 8000 years in the future, bland average looks would seem supernaturally attractive to us crude primitives, but that's kind of true about actors already — even the "ugly" ones are good-looking. I think I'd go with a Hispanic actor like Manuel Garcia-Rulfo or Hunter Gomez, to give a better sense of what an average human in the far future might look like.
Sabbath's deadliest enemy — and the love of his life — is Meili Tewa, a spy-for-hire. She can't be just an ornamental "Bond Girl." Meili's actress needs to be athletic, fearless, beautiful, and convey a sense of roguish amorality. I think...[read on]
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