Making it a slide-show would be terrible...
However, if there were live-action battle scenes, it would make things a bit more interesting.
Have the actual BD map be an overview for the movie... and say the 'movie' choses to build a building... It would do the choices as though in game, and it could fade into a live-scene of our cast working on the buildings. It could show from scratch... The characters talk and develop, and talk of how they are glad that they are only construction workers, but they get worried because so many workers are becoming soldiers. Eventually, the focus shifts from the character structure (the building scene), to the troop scene when our characters are conscripted.
but as time goes on, and the radar buildings upgrade, it is found that there are mysterious relics on planet Mars. You send forth scouting parties, only for them to be destroyed, sending back data that they are being guarded by ancient gods.
Essentially, the story would focus on the workers of your colony (development of characters would come from a select few of them). Because, in real BD, you DO work on buildings first, with a solid troop structure, and as time goes on, you focus more on troops, and most of your population is used for troops

As for havoc, i think that a crazy twist could be made, that there was a reason the relics were separated by the admins/gods.... and it is because it causes a massive time wave, which in turn launches you thousands of years to the future, and HAVOC ensues. The gods/admins have launched a full-scale assult on earth from mars, while earth has gained a benefit from the relics and is booming with resources and population. It would be the Epic 3rd movie

Now that i think about it... it IS sort of LotR style XD First movie builds the scene and character development.... second movie is the petty fighting, and leaves off with acquiring what is needed... and the final movie is closing down the story with epic battles... probably having to destroy the relic XD
Actually would be a pretty decent movie... if we could pay for the special effects XD