Tropical Island Make-Your-Own-Movie Draft
Welcome to the Tropical Island Make-Your-Own-Movie Draft. Actually, this draft doesn't have much to do with tropical islands. Although it could, if for instance you wanted to make a sequel to Castaway or a movie version of Lost or some such. But in any case I just decided to call it the Tropical Island Make-Your-Own-Movie Draft so that people would instantly know that yes, its another one of these pass the time drafts, with a similar format. What format? This one:
The Rules
The Task: draft the actors, director and genre of your very own movie! Use lots of exclamation points!! Yay!!!
The Flourish: in the final round, give your movie a name, a plot, brief character descriptions, and an MPAA rating. Anything else you want as well. You want to make a trailer, feel free. You want to describe it via a faux review, feel free. You want to submit a 200 page footnoted script...eh, ok, knock yourself out.
Overview: This will basically be a 12 round draft, consisting of the drafting of 1 director, 8-9 actors, and possibly 1 other crewmember (optional, teams with the crewmember will have 8 actors, those without will have 9). In addition, Rnd 9 will consist of a short 1-2 line description or tagline of the movie in progress (consider it a trailer), and Rnd 12 will consist of a full name, description, MPAA rating, etc. as you introduce your movie. Before the first round each player will pick a genre from the genre list below (see genre section). See Draft Chart below for overview.
The Actors: as with the Hot Babes draft last year, the actors/actresses here are timeless -- you can choose any actor/actress from any era (including animal actors if you want), and you can specify them from any point in their careers. You want young badass Clint, or old grizzled Clint? Your choice, and maybe largely dependent on the role you have in mind for them. You want to create a movie starring nothing but the hottest babes (or dudes) of all time, well, they can all be in their prime. In order to qualify any actor/actress must have a page at imdb.com with at least one acting credit.
Note: One actor and one actress will be designated leads (assuming that there are both men and women in the movie). But this can be done at any time, and changed at will.
The Director: self explanatory I think, although they too can be at any point in their careers if its significant.
The Genre Requirement: Players will declare a genre from the genre list below before the draft begins. At any point before Round 7 (i.e. during their first 6 picks) a player may use one of his picks to switch to a different genre rather than on an actor/director/specialist. After Rnd 6 whatever genre has been declared is immutable.
Other Crew: in place of any one actor a player may (it is optional -- they may take an additional actor instead) substitute one movie specialist -- i.e. a writer, a composer, a special effects guy etc. For these purposes a musical group or duo will count as a single person, as will a well known special effects company.
Genres:
Action/Adventure (includes Kung fu etc.)
Comedy (includes rom coms)
Thriller
Mystery
War
Western
Drama
Romance
Sci Fi
Fantasy
Musical
Horror
1) generally things that legitimately straddle two genres can qualify as either one -- its a guide to your endeavors, not that strict. Not buying a musical horror mystery western though.
2) if you have a more specific genre and a specific idea -- i.e. Historical Epic, feel free
Original rules/signup:
Welcome to the Tropical Island Make-Your-Own-Movie Draft. Actually, this draft doesn't have much to do with tropical islands. Although it could, if for instance you wanted to make a sequel to Castaway or a movie version of Lost or some such. But in any case I just decided to call it the Tropical Island Make-Your-Own-Movie Draft so that people would instantly know that yes, its another one of these pass the time drafts, with a similar format. What format? This one:
The Rules
The Task: draft the actors, director and genre of your very own movie! Use lots of exclamation points!! Yay!!!
The Flourish: in the final round, give your movie a name, a plot, brief character descriptions, and an MPAA rating. Anything else you want as well. You want to make a trailer, feel free. You want to describe it via a faux review, feel free. You want to submit a 200 page footnoted script...eh, ok, knock yourself out.
Overview: This will basically be a 12 round draft, consisting of the drafting of 1 director, 8-9 actors, and possibly 1 other crewmember (optional, teams with the crewmember will have 8 actors, those without will have 9). In addition, Rnd 9 will consist of a short 1-2 line description or tagline of the movie in progress (consider it a trailer), and Rnd 12 will consist of a full name, description, MPAA rating, etc. as you introduce your movie. Before the first round each player will pick a genre from the genre list below (see genre section). See Draft Chart below for overview.
The Actors: as with the Hot Babes draft last year, the actors/actresses here are timeless -- you can choose any actor/actress from any era (including animal actors if you want), and you can specify them from any point in their careers. You want young badass Clint, or old grizzled Clint? Your choice, and maybe largely dependent on the role you have in mind for them. You want to create a movie starring nothing but the hottest babes (or dudes) of all time, well, they can all be in their prime. In order to qualify any actor/actress must have a page at imdb.com with at least one acting credit.
Note: One actor and one actress will be designated leads (assuming that there are both men and women in the movie). But this can be done at any time, and changed at will.
The Director: self explanatory I think, although they too can be at any point in their careers if its significant.
The Genre Requirement: Players will declare a genre from the genre list below before the draft begins. At any point before Round 7 (i.e. during their first 6 picks) a player may use one of his picks to switch to a different genre rather than on an actor/director/specialist. After Rnd 6 whatever genre has been declared is immutable.
Other Crew: in place of any one actor a player may (it is optional -- they may take an additional actor instead) substitute one movie specialist -- i.e. a writer, a composer, a special effects guy etc. For these purposes a musical group or duo will count as a single person, as will a well known special effects company.
Genres:
Action/Adventure (includes Kung fu etc.)
Comedy (includes rom coms)
Thriller
Mystery
War
Western
Drama
Romance
Sci Fi
Fantasy
Musical
Horror
1) generally things that legitimately straddle two genres can qualify as either one -- its a guide to your endeavors, not that strict. Not buying a musical horror mystery western though.
2) if you have a more specific genre and a specific idea -- i.e. Historical Epic, feel free
Original rules/signup:
The Rules
The Task: draft the actors, director and genre of your very own movie
The Flourish: in the final round, give your movie a name, a plot, brief character descriptions, and an MPAA rating. Anything else you want as well. You want to make a trailer, feel free. You want to describe it via a faux review, feel free. You want to submit a 200 page footnoted script...eh, ok, knock yourself out.
Overview: I am thinking of a 12 round draft -- 9 actors, 1 director, 1 genre, and the final round for the naming/descriptions. We could go more. We could go less as well, although I think there is more amusement in drafting almost all of the characters -- people can travel down to grab favorite character actors, bit parts, cameos etc. as well as the main roles.
The Actors: as with the Hot Babes draft last year, the actors/actresses here are timeless -- you can choose any actor/actress from any era (including animal actors if you want), and you can specify them from any point in their careers. You want young badass Clint, or old grizzled Clint? Your choice, and maybe largely dependent on the role you have in mind for them. You want to create a movie starring nothing but the hottest babes (or dudes) of all time, well, they can all be in their prime.
The Director: self explanatory I think, although they too can be at any point in their careers if its significant. *Ahem* John Carpenter *ahem*.
The Genre Requirement: I think it will add a bit of spice if people have to draft their genres as well as their actors -- do you nab the favorite actor first? Or do you secure a preferred genre for your vision and then add actors around it. After we know how many people will be in the draft, we then have a list of that same number of genres (or maybe a few spares just so that the last person isn't forced into a genre they loathe). I am thinking that the more popular genre's (action, comedy, etc.) should have multiple genre's available -- will also create some nice head to head competition for the best personnel for those areas. So if there are 12 people, maybe you have available 2 action, 2 comedy, 2 drama, 2 fantasy/scifi, 2 horror, 1 musical, 1 kung fu, or whatever. We can discuss genre's etc. if this gets going.
Additional possibilites: if people think there is any other aspect of the movie which would be amusing to draft rather than just come up with at the end, we can do that too. Perhaps there might be only a certian number of R ratings available, a certian number of PG-13s, a certain number of PGs etc. Perhaps we could draft budgets, adding some strategy whether to take the $200million budget in the early rounds, or take the Oscar winning actor instead and risk ending up with only $30mil to spend on the movie. Whatever -- lots of possibilities as long as people are interested.
If there's enough interest this one will be all about originality. You want to remake a classic with a better cast? Go for it. You want to make an Oscar winner? You've got 80 years of Oscar winners to play with. You want to make the ultimate kung fu flick? A teen sex comedy (no porn though -- sorry)? You want to make a movie that should have been made but was not? A sequel to a popular franchise? Are you upset there was no sequel to Serenity? You can change that. You want to boot Lucas from the Star Wars franchise and take over the helm for a 7th film? Its all possible.
Potential Starting Time: after the Heroes/Villains playoffs are completed, and once we have a good load of participants.
Signup Status (not draft order -- just who is in):
1. Bricklayer
2. Jespher
3. Gogogadget
4) Kings Faithful
5) Dime Dropper
6) kingsnation
7) Mr. Slim Citrus
8) VF21
9) Gary
10) venom_7
11) Lowenherz
12) NME
13) Spike
14) SacKings7
15) Bozzwell
16) Monty'sBiggestFan
Poll results
Rules Preferences (check all that apply)
Draft genre any round. 4 40.00%
Draft genre, mandatory first round. 3 30.00%
Pick genre secretly before draft. 6 60.00%
Draft MPAA ratings (R, PG-13 etc.) 2 20.00%
Don't Draft MPAA Ratings 8 80.00%
Draft Budgets ($100mil, $50mil, $20mil etc.) 1 10.00%
Don't Draft Budgets 9 90.00%
Draft additional personnel slot? (writer, special effects guy, composer etc.) 6 60.00%
Don't Draft Additional Personnel 4 40.00%
Declare Bricklayer Global Emperor (mandatory) 2 20.00%
The Task: draft the actors, director and genre of your very own movie
The Flourish: in the final round, give your movie a name, a plot, brief character descriptions, and an MPAA rating. Anything else you want as well. You want to make a trailer, feel free. You want to describe it via a faux review, feel free. You want to submit a 200 page footnoted script...eh, ok, knock yourself out.
Overview: I am thinking of a 12 round draft -- 9 actors, 1 director, 1 genre, and the final round for the naming/descriptions. We could go more. We could go less as well, although I think there is more amusement in drafting almost all of the characters -- people can travel down to grab favorite character actors, bit parts, cameos etc. as well as the main roles.
The Actors: as with the Hot Babes draft last year, the actors/actresses here are timeless -- you can choose any actor/actress from any era (including animal actors if you want), and you can specify them from any point in their careers. You want young badass Clint, or old grizzled Clint? Your choice, and maybe largely dependent on the role you have in mind for them. You want to create a movie starring nothing but the hottest babes (or dudes) of all time, well, they can all be in their prime.
The Director: self explanatory I think, although they too can be at any point in their careers if its significant. *Ahem* John Carpenter *ahem*.
The Genre Requirement: I think it will add a bit of spice if people have to draft their genres as well as their actors -- do you nab the favorite actor first? Or do you secure a preferred genre for your vision and then add actors around it. After we know how many people will be in the draft, we then have a list of that same number of genres (or maybe a few spares just so that the last person isn't forced into a genre they loathe). I am thinking that the more popular genre's (action, comedy, etc.) should have multiple genre's available -- will also create some nice head to head competition for the best personnel for those areas. So if there are 12 people, maybe you have available 2 action, 2 comedy, 2 drama, 2 fantasy/scifi, 2 horror, 1 musical, 1 kung fu, or whatever. We can discuss genre's etc. if this gets going.
Additional possibilites: if people think there is any other aspect of the movie which would be amusing to draft rather than just come up with at the end, we can do that too. Perhaps there might be only a certian number of R ratings available, a certian number of PG-13s, a certain number of PGs etc. Perhaps we could draft budgets, adding some strategy whether to take the $200million budget in the early rounds, or take the Oscar winning actor instead and risk ending up with only $30mil to spend on the movie. Whatever -- lots of possibilities as long as people are interested.
If there's enough interest this one will be all about originality. You want to remake a classic with a better cast? Go for it. You want to make an Oscar winner? You've got 80 years of Oscar winners to play with. You want to make the ultimate kung fu flick? A teen sex comedy (no porn though -- sorry)? You want to make a movie that should have been made but was not? A sequel to a popular franchise? Are you upset there was no sequel to Serenity? You can change that. You want to boot Lucas from the Star Wars franchise and take over the helm for a 7th film? Its all possible.
Potential Starting Time: after the Heroes/Villains playoffs are completed, and once we have a good load of participants.
Signup Status (not draft order -- just who is in):
1. Bricklayer
2. Jespher
3. Gogogadget
4) Kings Faithful
5) Dime Dropper
6) kingsnation
7) Mr. Slim Citrus
8) VF21
9) Gary
10) venom_7
11) Lowenherz
12) NME
13) Spike
14) SacKings7
15) Bozzwell
16) Monty'sBiggestFan
Poll results
Rules Preferences (check all that apply)
Draft genre any round. 4 40.00%
Draft genre, mandatory first round. 3 30.00%
Pick genre secretly before draft. 6 60.00%
Draft MPAA ratings (R, PG-13 etc.) 2 20.00%
Don't Draft MPAA Ratings 8 80.00%
Draft Budgets ($100mil, $50mil, $20mil etc.) 1 10.00%
Don't Draft Budgets 9 90.00%
Draft additional personnel slot? (writer, special effects guy, composer etc.) 6 60.00%
Don't Draft Additional Personnel 4 40.00%
Declare Bricklayer Global Emperor (mandatory) 2 20.00%
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