Fan Casting Chairman Emmerson in Len Wiseman's Gears of War

The tormented political leader of the Coalition of Ordered Governments, a brilliant statesman forced to authorize the unthinkable: the Hammer of Dawn strikes that incinerate millions of his own citizens to halt the Locust advance. Beneath his stately, composed exterior lies a man being consumed by guilt, a razor-sharp intellect who has coldly calculated the necessity of genocide and accepted his own damnation. His haunting address to the world is not a speech but a funeral oration for his own soul, delivered with the brittle, desperate energy of a man holding civilization together through sheer terrified will.