Red Faction: Origins - Mother Nature Network: Stars of 'Red Faction: Origins' are green on and off set

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RED FACTION: ORIGINS - MOTHER NATURE NETWORK: Stars of 'Red Faction: Origins' are green on and off set

Brian J. Smith and Kate Vernon topline Syfy movie.

by Gerri Miller
Wed, Jun 01 2011

Brian J. Smith, star of the Syfy movie "Red Faction: Origins," says that efforts were made to reduce waste on the set. "Instead of using paper plates at lunch, they had china," he says. Set on Mars in the future, the movie, based on the "Red Faction" video game series, was shot in Bulgaria, utilizing a rusted-out Soviet-era steel mill for some of the settings. "You don't have to know the video game to enjoy the story or get into it," says Smith, who's best known for the sci-fi series "Stargate Universe." He finds his "Origins" character very different. "He's much more self confident, much more grounded as far as his emotional life, and he doesn't have girl problems. He's much more proactive than Scott was. Scott was a paper pusher. This character is a doer." In the story, his mother has been killed, his sister is kidnapped, and he has "survivor's guilt, that he should have done more to save his sister. He's trying to redeem himself in his father's eyes..."

Red Faction: Origins premieres on Syfy Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 9/8C.