Fan cast: Knights of the Old Republic (2015)

Suppose that, for some reason (perhaps the original trilogy's cast being unwilling and/or unable to return), the notion of making Star Wars sequels for release as of 2015 had become less appealing. Suppose that instead of ditching the whole Expanded Universe, Disney/Lucasfilm had decide to mine it for material that could be adapted into feature films. Suppose that they'd opted to release an adaptation of the commercially and critically acclaimed 2003 game Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR). Who could they have cast?

I've discussed the general fan casting preferences of the fan-base already, and I've also observed that the perennial favourite to play Revan (Keanu Reeves) was already too old for the art by that time. Therefore, we're going with Christian Bale. This allows for Jaimie Alexander as Bastila, Manu Bennett as Canderous, and Elodie Yung as Yuhani. For the rest of the cast, we'll have to broaden our search. No reason to despair: there has been plenty of fan-casting for KotOR over the years, with lots of great choices. It's mostly a matter of assembling a cast of people whose ages match up, relative to each other.

For a film in 2015, my choices would be:

Revan — Christian Bale

Bastila Shan — Jaimie Alexander

Darth Malak — Michael Shannon

Carth Onasi — Sam Worthington or Antony Starr

Canderous Ordo — Manu Bennett

Jolee Bindo — Danny Glover

Juhani — Elodie Yung

Mission Vao — Naomi Scott

Darth Bandon — Damien Walters

Saul Karath — Neal McDonough

Calo Nord — Paul Ben-Victor

Zaalbar — Conan Stevens

HK-47 — Kristoffer Tabori (voice)