I CALL ANGELINA JOLIE!
Definitely.
Carrie/Des
Yeah.. Much better..
Bah, leave me alone. I'm sick and stuck at work. :)
Carrie/Des
However, �I picture SinDome in my mind as traditional 2d animation mixed with 3d backdrops. But I'm just me, after all.
Ok, maybe he wouldn't, but it would fun to BE Derek Zoolander…
(Edited by Shadow at 4:15 pm on Feb. 27, 2002)
Maybe Tom Cruise? The whole MI thing... or better yet That guy from BlackHawk Down... the one who took the small group in to help Hartnett (Who'd play a mean Nic...).
He was the one who talked about honor at the end, and then left again. *nods* Thats Luc, right there.
(Nic should be Jack Hartnett... lol)
Chyna is just scary.
o/~situation critical, oh-oo-oh it's critical, yeah yeah, oh-oh o/~
Pitch Black all the way
Johnny Depp. Or Steve Buschimi? Or umm…err...some tall lanky actor.
<NOOCH!>
-Gunnar
Oh, and Van Dam would make a nice Luc if he had the longer hair like in his newest movie... what was it... Replicant or something?
I'd go either Winona Ryder;Jessica Alba;Rachael Leigh Cook; OR Zhang Ziyi.
That pick of Rachael causes me to lean more towards her though. rowr.
[Stonemonk: fixed it up for ya]
(Edited by Stonemonk at 7:28 pm on Feb. 28, 2002)
hehe, Bruce is the shit! Hail to the King Baby!!!!!!!
the laughing lamp kicks ass:)
This is my -BOOM- Stick!
Roy– Gods, it's been so long I dunno.
Flemings-- Patrick Stuart or Charlton Heston
Tanaka-- Chow Yun Fat
Cerberus-- CG/Animatronics with the voice of James Earl Jones
Cortez-- Vin Diesel or a dyed, pasty-white Edward Norton.
Hrm. Also considering.
Timmy-- Haley Joel Osment
Lucifer-- I'm sorry to say this but Kevin Bacon.
Nicadeamus-- A younger Michael Douglas.
Allandra-- (Jokingly) That chick from Deuce Bigalo-- with the gigantic feet-- but realistically I'd say Lucy Lawless gone blonde. She already has the blue eyes.
Tash-- Dunno.
:) You know you love me, Lucien, so don't even play.
Carrie/Des
Rychek: Christopher Walkin
Old Man Thompson: Ian McKellen
Tiny: Robbie Coltrane
Josh: Brad Pitt
Ranier: Rutger Hauer
Good Cop (Judge): Christian Bale
Bad Cop (Judge): Sean Bean
Doc Jones: Christopher Lloyd
Guy who gets killed in the first 5 minutes of the movie: Crispin Glover
Guy who kills Crispin Glover in the first 5 minutes of the movie: Thomas F. Wilson
Cheap whore at The Drome with the paint-stick on her face: Julia Roberts
WJF Guard 000: John Cleese
Yoshin: James Hong
Jamerson: M. Emmet Walsh
Music by: Prodigy, Astral Projection, Underworld, Rob Zombie, Infected Mushroom, Vangelis, Squarepusher
Who else am I forgetting?
And what about the screenplay? Anyone got anything to show besides a list of actors?
-Kevlar
Seven: Johnny Depp, or John Lengozamo.
If it was John L. He would be playing a serious part though, like he did in Empire.
Zach is of course Kenny Baker (He does R2-D2!)
But if John Cleese plays WJF Guard 000, then Eric Idle should play WJF Guard 999.
I mean, come on.
:beatnik:
Now, lets hit google and find out how you write a script…
Robbie Coltrane = Perfect for Tiny.
Aikon - Mark Walberg
Aikao - Jet Li with a voice over.
Brixton - Jason Statham
Jet Li might be good.. but he definately doesn't have the voice for it.
And NO JACKIE CHAN. ARUAHGUAHG. Dammit.
Any other ideas?
As for who would play Lillith hm… that's hard.. At first I was thinking Kate Beckinsale, but the only thing she's got is the hair... I really don't know.... Any ideas?
mmmm. �
heh!
(Edited by Jotun at 3:59 pm on June 12, 2004)
Switch - Kirsten Dunst
Ayame - Yumiko Shaku (The Princess Blade)
Priss - Daveigh Chase
as for what i kinda thought would work for other characters..
Desolate - Catherina Zeta-jones
Allandra - Uma Thurman, maybe? With pumps.
Nicadeamus - Colin Farrel
Navarre - Millia Jovovich
Bias - a grim Audrey Tautao
that's all i can think of right now...
Oh, and Aikao.
I totally seeing Ike as Cher. She fits the role perfectly.
If I could tuuurn back tiiime..
If a Sindome movie were to be made, it would be -very- long with multiple titles, becuase so much has gone down.
quoted from Razmo
Allandra - Uma Thurman, maybe? With pumps.
nofuckinway man. what are you smokin…. Lucy Lawless, or maybe one of those "world's strongest women" Uma is -WAY- to thin and femine.
:biggrin:
and miranda should be.. a lucy liu looking actress.. sorry dont know many asian actresses... :(
and Valentino should be played by the man who was Bill in "kill bill"
I could see Moss as Liam Neeson... unless i'm forgeting Moss's nationality.
Tash - a cloned Anita Mui, or Chiaki Kuriyama
Movie? ... I think it would have to be a long running series at this point. Someone should call HBO ;)
Razmo:"First off, I've always thought if Sindome were ever to be a movie, it'd be animated. " Yes! A nice mixture of styles. Harsh lines, dark pallet maybe?
Audrey Tautou ... I like it.
Mica as Uma Thurman?
Or maybe she could be a head ganger that moves the plot along.
And by the way, I got dibs on John Leguisamo. Sorry Nemissis. But I'd be willing to give him up if someone can think of a better person for dear ol Luci... John's Pureto Rican anyways, not Mexican.
I've started on a little something something to hopefully get people's immigination flowing. I'de love contributions and suggestions, but for now I'm going to retain editorial control (untill someone more qualified asks for it).
Please note that I am not a screenplay writer, nor do I have any idea at all how to actually write a screen play. I'm just going off what I've seen for an example.
What follows is the first 6-10 minutes of Season 1, Episode 1: Immigrant. I thought 'Immigrant' would be a perfect way to introduce some of the characters and the concept of Sindome itself because the main character (in this episode) is also new to it.
It's a work in progress, hacked up while I was sitting on the crapper, so go easy on it… and if you want to add to it, or make some changes, feel free and if I like em I'll stick them into the orinigal.
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Sindome Season 1, Episode 1: Immigrant
Synopsis: A young man makes his way to the Dome, full of ambition and hoping to make a better life for himself. Immideately the harsh reality that is Withmore city sets in, and by the end, he's just another street thug preying on other immigrants.
FADE IN:
EXT. HARSH DESERT - AFTERNOON
MOVING TOWARDS SHROUDED FIGURE, SHROUDED FIGURE pulls GPS device out of pocket, presses a few buttons on it, and studies the resulting display. Replacing GPS device, SHROUDED FIGURE trudges TOWARDS AND PAST camera, revealing long line of footprints disapearing into the distance.
PAN to wide angle shot of desert with SHROUDED FIGURE's back to CAMERA. On the far horizion, a massive geodesic Dome glistens in the sunlight with a broken highway extending out from it, the close end terminating in sand. Two massive humanoid robots (Mechs) patrol the area outside the Dome near the highway.
FADE to SHROUDED FIGURE approaching DOME from the highway, and entering through huge doors into Dome.
INT. EMBARKATION AREA
FACING SHROUDED FIGURE with huge gates behind him with sunlight pouring through creating sillouette. GUARD in radiation suit waves a rod at shrouded figgure.
GUARD (To SHROUDED FIGURE)
Rad levels within acceptable levels. Got a pass?
SHROUDED FIGURE (To GUARD)
(In a gruff voice) No.
GUARD (To SHROUDED FIGURE)
Immigrant, huh? (Motions to side door) Through there.
SHROUDED FIGURE turns and walks through side door. CAMERA MOVES WITH SHROUDED FIGURE through side door.
INT. IMMIGRATION ENTRANCE
People standing in line for their turn at a counter. Armed guards watch carefully, making sure no one steps out of line. SHROUDED FIGURE waits in line, the approaches counter.
CLERK
Name?
SHROUDED FIGURE
Max.
CLERK
(Impaitently) Your full name.
SHROUDED FIGURE
Max Renton.
CLERK
Any currency to exchange?
SHROUDED FIGURE
Yes.
SHROUDED FIGURE removes his backpack and digs into it, producing a wad of Yen. He places the wad of Yen on the counter. CLERK counts the wad of Yen, and types something into her terminal.
CLERK
That comes out to thrity thousand in Chyen. You'll pick it up with the rest of your stuff. Any personal items to declare?
SHROUDED FIGURE
Declare?
CLERK
(sighs impaitently) Immigrants arn't allowed to take anything with them into Withmore City unless it's been declared and screened. Anything which is deemed inappropiate will be confenscated.
SHROUDED FIGURE
Oh. Yes then.
SHROUDED FIGURE removes backpack and places it on the counter. SHROUDED FIGURE then remove .357 Magnum from belt, and places it on the counter.
CLERK
Weapons arn't allowed in Withmore City.
CLERK takes the GPS device and weapon, and places them under the counter.
CLERK
(Hands SHROUDED FIGURE a small piece of orange plastic) Take this and report to Stall 36. When the guard asks for your pass, show him this. NEXT!
SHROUDED FIGURE accepts pass and proceeds towards far end of IMMIGRATION ENTRANCE. GUARD stops him at the doors.
GUARD
Your pass?
SHROUDED FIGURE holds up orange pass, and GUARD allows him through. CAMERA FOLLOWS SHROUDED FIGURE into IMMIGRATION SHOWERS.
INT. IMMIGRATION SHOWERS HALLWAY
CAMERA FOLLOWS SHROUDED FIGURE down hallway filled with numbered doors. Near the end of the hallyway, SHROUDED FIGURE finds stall 36. He slots his pass into the card reader next to the door, and the door opens. SHROUDED FIGURE enters stall, with CAMERA FOLLOWING.
INT. IMMIGRATION SHOWERS
A small cramped tiled room with a single showerhead protruding from above small chute set into the wall, and a small shelf with a folded article of clothing on it.
DISEMBODIED VOICE
Remove your clothes and place them in the chute.
SHROUDED FIGURE strips and places his dirty clothes in the cute, revealing MAX.
DISEMBODIED VOICE
Stand on the X.
MAX stands on the X painted on the floor. The showerhead turns on, and water courses over his naked body. After a minute the water turns off.
DISEMBODIED VOICE
Get dressed and move out.
MAX takes the folded article of clothing from the shelf and let's it fall open, revealing a one piece jumpsuit which zips up in the front. He steps into it, and zips it up. The door opposite where MAX entered now opens, and MAX steps through, CAMERA FOLLOWING.
INT. SIC IMPLANT AREA
The IMMIGRATION SHOWERS exit to a large area with several cordoned off lines, in which people dressed in identical jumpsuits wait impaitently. Suddenly one of the jumpsuited figures breaks out of line, and makes a run for the far door.
ARMED GUARD #1
We got a runner!
ARMED GUARD #2
(calmly, almost bored) I got 'em.
ARMED GUARD #2 slowly raises his weapon, takes aim, and fires. The running man's head explodes, sending up a spray of blood and brains.
ARMED GUARD #1
Nice! Right between the eyes!
ARMED GUARD #1 slaps ARMED GUARD #2 a high-five.
PAN back to MAX, who is now standing in line with a few people behind him, watching this scene with a horrified look on his face. He's jolted back to reality as the CLERK at the head of the line says, "NEXT!"
CLERK
Your pass.
MAX hands the CLERK his orange pass. The CLERK slots it in her terminal. MAX's backpack and a crisp stack of Chyen rise from the delivery hatch next to her terminal. She hands them to MAX, and motions to the large machine behind her, which a few people are standing in line for. MAX wears the backpack and stuffs the Chyen into a pocket in the jumpsuit.
CLERK
Wait in line for your SIC. NEXT!
MAX
My what?
CLERK
Your identification and communication implant. NEXT!
Looking confused as ever, MAX walks over to a short line in front of one of the implant machines. The person in front of him steps up to the machine, and the operator presses a button. A large robotic armichure decends from the machine, and pushes up against the back of the man's neck. A loud crunching noise is heard, and the man winces in pain briefly, then moves on, leaving MAX the next in line.
OPERATOR
Move along now. I ain't got all day.
P.O.V MAX, FACING THE MACHINE
MAX steps up to the implant machine, and the operator presses a button. The robotic armitchure decends, wires dangling from it, and moves around behind the camera. A louder CRUNCH is heard, and the P.O.V. goes out of focus for a second. MAX screams in pain.
PAN OUT to face MAX, who is still screaming and stumbling away from the machine. An ARMED GUARD grabs him roughly and points him towards the exit, then plants the bottom of his boot in his back and gives him a good hard shove, causing MAX to stumble and trip out of the door. PAN back to ARMED GUARD.
ARMED GUARD
(With a mean sneer) Welcome to Withmore City.
EXT. SINN STREET, NEAR THE DOORS TO THE DOME - DAYTIME
A crowded and very dirty street. Neon lights in various states of disrepair advertise the various slum shops. Enter stage center MAX, stumbling through the door leading to the Immigration Center. MAX bursts throught the doors, stumbles, recovers, and stands upright for a second, before swooning again, and falling to the ground unconcious.
Enter a BUM with dirty clothes and a long unkept beard from STAGE RIGHT. He glances around for a second, before walking over to MAX.
BUM
(speech slured) Hey man, you ok?
Recieving no response from MAX, BUM relieves MAX of his backpack and puts it on his own shoulder. He frisks MAX's pockets, and takes his stack of chyen. He then scurries off, and exits stage right.
After a moment, MAX comes to.
MAX
(groaning) Ooooohhhhh.
MAX opens his eyes and blinks rapidly. Still laying on the ground, he brings his hand up to rub the back of his neck. After a moment he sits up, and it's then that he notices his backpack is missing.
MAX
(Looking around confusedly) What the fuck? Where's my backpack?
An idea, each season could have different main character, with the main character dieing at the end of the season as the new one is introduced.
(Edited by Hirononbu at 7:25 pm on June 14, 2004)
Luc - Who said Seven was mexican?!
*Eyes*
Growing up I loved Amazing Stories… it was the best Fiction/Fantasy series on TV at the time. It of course stole it's format from Twillight Zone. I'm sure there's great examples of series which didn't have a persistent main character... or even a repeating character at all.
I think the format works well in this endevor for a lot of reasons:
The main character needs to die sometimes, or become otherwise uninteresting. That isn't to say we'll never hear from him again...
The characters can literally be created on demand for the demand, and ignored or even forgotten when their usefullness is exhaused. You can use Rychek as many times as you need, but he can easily be replaced by any mixer bartender in any hole in the wall bar.
The locations can vary wildly. For instance, my vision for s1e2 is based entirely within the corperations of Withmore, centered around a corpie. You have a limitless suply of locations to 'visit' from the Red/Gold/Green/Blue combo alone. Throw the badlands in there, and you could go 30 seasons and never run out of plausable locations.
You can preserve the CP attitude while still squeezing it into an hour long 'story'. If your main character isn't expendable, sooner or later your going to have to deviate from 'CP'. But if you can literally kill ANYONE at will, the hour long format is ideal.
It can still be persistent. Stories can overlap. Characters can return, and play roles in other episodes. The world -can- be forever changed as the result of one man's action.
See what I'm screamin?
-Kevlar
-Kevlar
A main character is there so you feel an afinity towards them… If theres small characters that you still know enough about... then thats sorta the same thing. �IMHO anyways.
Havn't you ever seen a Twillight Zone? This is Twillight Zone 2089! The characters come out of the experience (episode) a little wiser and a lot worse off, and the attraction of the show is that there's a situtation so fluid and dynamic that anything can happen, but the end result is shocking and thought provoking, and a reflection on our own reality.
The parallels literally stretch into parallax from where I'm sitting.
-Kevlar
oh by the way:
The parallels literally stretch into parallax from where I'm sitting
Where is that in relationship to where I'm sitting? :)
*Ahem*
I'm still trying to figgure out that edge… the amazing quality that sets it apart from a Fox show (besides the strippers and exploding heads) that all HBO shows have (6 feet under, sapranos, etc). More to come.
-Kevlar
The 'edge' is good character developement and 'quirk'. We are talking about scifi here, and the best damn way to make it work in an HBO hit series sense is to make it not feel like scifi. Scifi is overt, it is typically blatant and over the head. It is geekware flashing around yowling 'I AM THE FUTURE!'
That's not edge, that's not wit.
Having a book within the series called 'Charolotte Light and Dark' that seems -SO- real that people go onto amazon looking for it, THAT is edge.
What does that mean? It means the 'glowing matrix interface' needs to be done in a manner that makes people want to go out and buy it. Make em think it is -REAL-. Which means: No SciFi geeks doing the design and writting of those parts, hire artists.
:)
Oh, and also all the character which are in the scene at the beginnning need to be in the first description. Like so:
The IMMIGRATION SHOWERS exit to a large area with several cordoned off lines, in which people dressed in identical jumpsuits wait impaitently. ARMED GUARD #1 and ARMED GUARD #2 stand near the door watching the line. (Or where ever you had them) Suddenly one of the jumpsuited figures breaks out of line, and makes a run for the far door.
ARMED GUARD #1
We got a runner!
ARMED GUARD #2
(calmly, almost bored) I got 'em.
That way the director knows where they are supposed to go, and the people, who initially read the screenplay so that it will become a series, don't get confused or frustrated. There's all sorts of little things like that which make one screenplay stand out from the next.
And I forgot that Kate Beckinsale was in Underworld. The character of Seline is very similar to Lillith. THANKS
Aim for a 40 minute run time.
Aim for a general viewing audiance of 18+
Write it in what ever scripting style you as the writter preffers.
Send it to an admin in a plain or rich text format.
Entries must be recived by 11:59PM, August 31, 2004
All contestants will be posted to a web page, and winners will get…ummm... something cool. Like a pair of Sindome Underwear. Express and show how you view the world of Sindome in a piolot 40 minute episode format. Winners will be selected to participate in the final drafting and creative process of writting a full 40 minute piolot episode to be pitched to HBO.
That'd be neat. I WANT SINDOME UNDERWEAR!!
So does the winner get full rights to writing the scripts for the show?
(edit after here)
Keep in mind that the Sindome Group owns the copy right and intellectual property of the Sindome world and concept, but within that context the winner or winners would be involved in creating the script, and then as a group we would attempt to pitch it to someone at HBO.
Legalities would have to be worked out I am sure.
Damn lawyers…
I have 3 weeks on the road to try and cook something up.
Sindome bra and undies and bat cape!
(Edited by Bias at 1:07 pm on June 15, 2004)
After reading this thread, I now have about as much chance of sleeping tonight as I do of winning a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chyen lottery.
I -love- the idea of this, and really hope that everyone interested writes a script.
A couple of thoughts:
I can see this as a 30 minute show only. For most mixers, life and death happen too fast in Withmore to be able to fill an hour show with top quality stuff. Hard, fast, gritty, edgy. For corpies, a picture is worth a thousand words. Compare an apartment in Krakeon with the coffins and you've made the point.
I can see the beginning being done 'Six Feet Under' style (not that I'm a fan of the show, but I like the concept behind the beginning.). Each episode would start with the 'main character for that episode' being 'processed' by Withmore Immigration. The same basic things would happen as Kevlar so vividly described, but each show, something different would happen during the process to immediately show the harshness of the city.
Occasionally, a corpie enters and has a comparatively blissful entry as he or she is expidited in a seperate location to persue thier corporate or governmental position and begin subjugation of the masses.
The 'first' character (in the pilot) to immigrate, lives, and makes apperances here and there, as do the occasional other immigrants. Most die abruptly at the end of thier episode.
The more famous (or infamous) residents of Withmore should all be known, and continue on from episode to episode, as should some of those who burned brightly for a short time.
The 'story' is the city itself. It's personality, and how the city tries to take care of itself. The characters that appear from episode to episode all share a single trait - they perform some key function, knowingly or otherwise in keeping Withmore the gritty, dark, dichotomy of a city it is.
Not to be negative, but this show will never see air time. Why? To truly portray Withmore in all it's sleaze and glory would require a level of intensity and harshness that would make the first season of Sopranos look like Sesame Street, and I'm just not sure American TV is ready for that.
That said, I'd love to see it.
This message brought to you by the letters ZMI and the number 830.
God, Satan, Fate, Time, Death, Nature, War …
Incarnations of Immortality .. great series.
Jinkorei is played by a guest voiceover each episode it appears in, and usually waffles between brilliance and jibberish, regardless of the position it holds.
Good to be back-ish.
For those who don't know …
A change over the winter at work prevents me from being able to connect to the moo from the office and other R/L issues have me extremely busy until at least mid-October.
When I get a chance, I'll be stopping by for a bit just to say Hi and make some character's lives miserable. :)
I'm still monitoring e-mail so drop a note to [email protected] if you're so inclined.
And to answer Tool's question .. Think about it -BOOM-
Quote: from Tool on 7:39 pm on June 17, 2004[br]why 830?
If I'm not wrong the ZMI 830 has a market name and Iga's signature aludes to it's type of weapon.
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cackle
cackle
boom
And I dunno…I think America is ready for it. Look at what has paved the way for Sindome the TV series:
The Swan (where being sculpted to beauty is still not enough)
For Love Or Money (Where you take money over a relationship)
Survivor (where you back stab everyone around you to get money)
Sopranos (Violence and Mob mentality)
Sindome is just mashing all the nasty bits of Reality TV and HBO violence into one gritty, colourful mass of seathing humanity. And I can all ready hear the outcries of horror from parents groups!
(We can just yell back 'you got the v-chip, you got parental control, you got a voice, tell your damn kids not to watch this shit, it will rot there minds and fuck them up. It isn't sane, it isn't clean, and it is not for kids. Be a damn parent for once.')
40 minutes Jink, HBO.
Um… hello? HBO is NOT 40 minutes. FOX is 40 mintes. NBC, CBS, ABC, UPN, USA, MTV... they're all 40-45 minutes.
HBO is 58 minutes.
Broadcast tv series:
18-24 shows per season, 40-45 minutes per show.
Cable series:
14 shows per season, 58 minutes per show, including the opening and closing credits.
-Kevlar
Noel Gugliemi would be good for Seven. He was the hispanic guy in fast and the furious, and the one in Training Day, and SWAT too. He would need to lose alot of weight, but he would sound like him right off the bat!
some others I thought of…
Franco: Bruce Willis w/French accent
Random: Nick Cage
Warren: that guy that plays Debo in Friday and Next Friday
Grey: Val Kilmer
Seven: bobo the clown :-D
and the role of Iga shall be played by….*drum roll*
A claymation raven with a bright pink halo!
:)
man, how did I go from joker to concilliatory to caustic so fast… getting old here.
He was Raziel in Soul Reaver, and also did some work in Metal Gear Solid 3, and a shitload of other things.
Also, Jason Scott Lee might be able to do a decent job as Aikao, though his acting skills may be questionable..
http://www.cypresshill.org/gallery/dj_muggs_01.html
<edit> wait dammit Bias already called Audrey? Shoot....m'bad ya'll </>
yuppp.
looks nothing like Milla Jovovich, but thanks to the dude who posted that about a million years back, anyways.
(Edited by Lena at 8:00 pm on Feb. 2, 2005)
I came across a bunch of likely candidates, and finaly after a long time, I picked one. I wanted to see what he would look like 'as seven' so I used photoshop to the best of my abilities, and I gave him a katana and a trenchcoat. It came out really well. I think even Bio will agree, that this guy if fucking perfect, for the role. He can do accents amazingly, he has the training/backround in combat that would be needed to be in a movie like Sindome.. he's a hard working actor.. and he's not really in 'role lock'. He hasn't worked in awhile, so I think it would be good for him to get back into the swing of things.
He also, like Seven, has a Number as part of his name, which I think is cool. I put the picture of him on the web for you all too check out. Tell me what you think.
http://www.straylightrun.org/nemisis/Johnny%207.JPG
(Edited by Nemisis at 11:50 pm on Feb. 10, 2005)
