Tropical Island Make-Your-Own-Movie Draft (Round 16)

Movies in Production:

  • Action: (Mr. Slim Citrus)

    Votes: 7 35.0%

  • Comedy: (SacKings7, kingsnation, Bricklayer)

    Votes: 4 20.0%

  • Historical Epic: (Lowenherz, Dime Dropper)

    Votes: 8 40.0%

  • Drama: (Capt. Factorial, VF21)

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Mystery: (MontysBiggestFan)

    Votes: 8 40.0%

  • Western: (NME)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Thriller: (venom_7, Superman)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • B-Movie/Exploitation: (GoGoGadget)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • [b]Musical[/b] [size=1](Spike)[/size]

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Sci-Fi: (Jespher, Bozzwell)

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Total voters
    20
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Amanda Peet

Amanda Peet will be by channeling her alarmingly cold blooded character from the The Whole Nine Yards in a smaller role as the older sister who already knows and sees no problem with it.
 
The Nation proudly presents, playing a young Matthew Perry...

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Cole Sprouse

as Mark Hendricks (14 year old)

Most Notable
Big Daddy
Friends (TV)
Eight Crazy Nights (Voice)
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (TV)
The Suite Life on Deck (TV)
 
Here's my character update information:


Rnd 1: Antonio Banderas -- Lead Actor - Ricardo Carlos "Ranger" Mañoso
Rnd 2: Queen Latifah -- Actress - Lula
Rnd 3: Sandra Bullock -- Lead Actress - Stephanie Plum
Rnd 4: Brad Pitt -- Actor - Joe Morelli
Rnd 5: Danny DeVito -- Actor - cousin Vinnie Plum
Rnd 6: Billy Wilder -- Director
Rnd 7: Janet Evanovich - Screenwriter
Rnd 8: Estelle Getty - Actress - Grandma Edna Mazur
Rnd 10: Eliza Dushku - Actress - Joyce Barnhardt
Rnd 11: Henry Mancini - Musician - Score
Rnd 12: Conchata Ferrell - Cameo actress - Connie Rosolli
 
Superman's Movie: Nothing Doesn't Matter
Dark Thriller

Cast Overview:
Rnd 1: Joaquin Phoenix -- Actor
Rnd 2: Kate Winslet -- Lead Actress
Rnd 3: Geena Davis -- Actress
Rnd 4: Kathy Bates -- Actress
Rnd 5: Sigourney Weaver -- Actress
Rnd 6: Wes Craven -- Director
Rnd 7: Michael Emerson -- Actor
Rnd 8: James Newton Howard -- Composer
Rnd 9: You can choose to deny it, or you can embrace it. Either way, this is your life. -- Tag
Rnd 10: Will Smith -- Lead Actor
Rnd 11: Shia LaBeouf -- Actor
Rnd 12: Rose Byrne -- Actress
 
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With the extra picks in the draft, I have room to bring in a famous face to merely provide a cameo. And who better to have in a cameo appearance than the King of Cameos? I select Alfred Hitchcock to play Man In Park.

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Wow. Talk about diabolical. I had thought at one point of picking Hitchcock for my director. Had I stayed with that thought, I'd be hunting you down and hurting you ...
 
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Wow. Talk about diabolical. I had thought at one point of picking Hitchcock for my director. Had I stayed with that thought, I'd be hunting you down and hurting you ...
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Yeah, I even looked when I first had the idea to see if anybody might get screwed over, but I didn't see anybody who I thought might use Hitchcock who didn't already have a director. (Or I'd have picked him sooner! ;))
 
My pick:

Adam McKay - Director

Directed Talladega Nights, Anchorman and Step Brothers, as well as some SNL stuff, so he and Ferrell are very familiar with each other
 
And now to round out the Wiggin family, I'll need the father too. This man is an accomplished actor, academy award winner, and as versatile as they come. With my 12th pick, I select:

Sean Penn
John Paul Wiggin (American)/Major Anderson (American)

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Filmography:
Actor Credits
Director Credits
Producer Credits
Writing Credits
Other Credits
Being John Malkovich (1999) Special Thanks
John Paul Wiggin - The father of Peter, Valentine and Ender Wiggin, and the husband of Theresa Wiggin. He is named after "the great Pope, Saint John Paul II".
More:
John Paul was the seventh child born to a family of nine in Poland, which at the time, during the Formic Wars, was against the Hegemony's overpopulation control laws. This caused his family to be labeled non-compliants, because they had more than the maximum of two children. However, they felt that staying true to their Catholic faith, which stated that each child sent to them was a gift from God, was more important than listening to any government, including the international Hegemon. In spite of this noncompliance, he was tested and considered for Battle School.

After being tested, he was introduced to then-Captain Graff as a leading candidate for the role which Ender would later play, but his personality was judged too set in anti-authority patterns. He arranged a deal through which his family would be moved to America and given exemption from the population laws in exchange for a modicum of guaranteed service, which both he and Graff knew he had no intention of fulfilling.

John Paul came to the United States and lived there as a student, separating from his family. He changed his last name to "Wiggin" and his academic background states that he graduated with valedictorian honors. In his classes, he meets Theresa Brown, a teacher. He successfully courts her and they later marry.

It is implied that the Wiggin children acquired their aptitude for understanding human nature from John Paul in Graff's original assessment of his capabilities, while their logistical brilliance likely came from Theresa Wiggin, whose father was a renowned military genius, as told in "Teacher's Pest".
Major Anderson - Second in command only to Colonel Graff at the Battle School, Major Anderson is in charge of setting up battleroom scenarios. He stacks the odds against Ender, and Ender views him almost as an enemy, but, like Graff, Anderson feels for Ender. He questions some of Graff's actions but stands by him during his trial.

More:
Major Anderson was Graff's second-in-command at Battle School, generally seen in the epistolary conversations from Ender's Game attempting to moderate his superior's unorthodox training of Ender. His passion is the Battle Room; after the war's end, he accepts the post of commissioner for an American football league, and does not appear in the latter three books of either the Ender or Bean quartets.
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More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Penn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Wiggin
 
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And for my next pick in this musical:

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Hank Azaria

Well known for his voice-overs on The Simpsons, Azaria has most recently appeared in the musical, Spamalot.

Actor roles to come later tonight.
 
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So I just got Lowenherz' pick via PM. Here's his choice:

Cinematographer - Vittorio Storaro

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His credits include 1900, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart, Reds, Bulworth, The Sheltering Sky, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Ladyhawke and Tango.

Storaro’s first mainstream American film was Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 for which he won his first Oscar (Academy Award). Coppola gave Storaro free rein on the film's visual look and it is regarded by many critics as one of the most visually spectacular films of all time. He has also received Oscars for Reds (1981) and The Last Emperor (1987). He received a fourth Oscar nomination with Dick Tracy (1990).

Storaro is widely regarded as a master cinematographer with a sophisticated philosophy largely inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's theory of colors, which focuses in part on the psychological effects different colors have and the way in which colors influence our perceptions of different situations. With his son, Fabrizio Storaro, he created the Univisium format system to unify all future theatrical and television movies into one respective aspect ratio of 2.00:1. In 2002, Storaro completed the first in a series of books that attempt to more substantively articulate his philosophy of cinematography.

And yes Brick, he went with a "greased up Italian" just like you suggested :).
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More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Storaro
 
I can't imagine my last "key" cast member being in danger, so it's time to select another specialist: my score composer...



















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Danny Elfman
 
Okay, time for a writer.

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Robert Rodriguez -- I'd wanted his partner in crime as my writer originally, but not surprisingly he was snagged as someone else's director. For this genre, though, I think I can handle the cheesiness of his dialog. Looks like he gets along pretty well with one of my actors, too.
 
My Pick:
Kerry Washington
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Role:Cheyenne Wallace/Agent Whisper (bit role)

Kind of a fluff pick at this point, and I need some more beauties.
 
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My Pick:
Roger Deakins
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Cinematographer

Hos work speaks for itself.

Notables:
No Country For Old Men
In The Valley of Elah
Jarhead
The Village
A Beautiful Mind
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
The Hurricane


I really suggest that you check out his list though before you say "Impressive!"
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Ok commence with the "Impressive!"
 
I'd be a damn liar if I claimed to have a part figured out for my next actress.

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Sarah Shahi -- I just think she'd be a good addition to a movie about go-go dancers from hell. Maybe I'll go for one of the genre's most tried and true gimmicks and give Jenny "Boom Boom" Jackal a girlfriend. Who knows? I'll figure it out eventually.
 
You know how with a lot of those big Hollywood productions, they have an original score and an original soundtrack? Well, the score is the responsibility of Danny Elfman. The soundtrack is the responsibility of...



















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The RZA
 
OK, time to add another young, ambitious conquistador to Cortes' crew.

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Diego Luna

I'll add specifically which conquistador he is later, as soon as I figure out what Garcia is going to do.
 
and now for a little of the unexpected:

“I’m taking some acting courses to brush up on my skills. They are going well, but the thought of going in front of an audition panel again scares the life out of me,”

“I think it would be fun to do a Bollywood movie,” she added.
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Well, Kylie Minogue tried out for the part, but unfortunately, this ain't a Bollywood movie. That being said, my next pick is:


Aishwarya Rai


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The Queen of Bollywood!

One of Time's 100 Most Influential People
The world's most beautiful woman, according to Julia Roberts, and now, starring in Space Nuts!
 
With the Wiggin family now complete I can now turn my attention to addressing the battle school character assignments. I need a Korean actor, and while he is technically American, this guy will do nicely. He can do action, he can do comedy, he can be a lead, he can be a secondary character. He'll fit in great :). With my 13th pick I select:

John Cho
(Han Tzu (Korean)/Shen (Japanese))

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Filmography:
Actor Credits
Han Tzu - Han Tzu is another of Ender's toon leader from Dragon Army. He works again with his commander in the war with the buggers.

More:
Han Tzu (nicknamed Hot Soup) was a veteran soldier from Korea who commanded D Toon in Ender's Dragon Army. Eventually, he was shipped to Command School to become a member of Ender's jeesh, and was one of the commanders that served under him during the end of the Formic War. After the war Han Tzu returned to Korea before being kidnapped by Achilles. He later returned and became involved in military planning; however, the Korean military's unwillingness to accept hard truths (such as the fact that The Middle Kingdom was not actually the center of the universe, and should act accordingly) led them to despise him for his practicality. In Shadow of the Giant, he leads a single-handed military coup and becomes Emperor of China, before eventually departing on an interstellar colony ship.
Shen - A small recruit in Ender's launch group who becomes a friend of Ender's through their mutual dislike of Bernard. Shen is one of Ender's commanders in the battles with the buggers.

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Shen is a Japanese student who is part of Ender's group of launchies. He is introduced as the kid who has a big butt that wriggles when he walks and is constantly mocked by Bernard and his gang. Ender steps in and sends a number of messages under pseudonyms (such as "Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. - God") to break Bernard's control over the room. He becomes Ender's first friend in Battle School. He later guides Bean and tells him why the students love Ender.
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More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Tzu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Battle_School_students#Shen
 
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I wish I had put some thought into my idea before I started this draft, because I recently thought of another idea that I'd have a lot of fun with, and it certainly isn't a comedy. Oh well, maybe we'll do another one of these sometime..

I wasn't gonna draft this guy initially, but the extra rounds allows me to grab some extra "competition". And this guy just looks like a bowler :p

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Kevin James - The other rival
 
I don't have my pick ready, so I'm going to let the draft continue. I don't want to hold this up. Capt. Fact can go ahead. I'll be back at some stage tomorrow for my make-up pick.
 
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