Lights... Camera... ACTION!!: A Hollywood Quest

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hi Magoose here one of the guys helping Duke.

So we have some bad news.

The quest has been canceled as duke does not want to write it anymore.

I'm going to ask if I can take over for it, because I like this quest, and it would be a shame to kill it
TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands. :)

To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.

I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.

I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.

I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all. :D

I'll see you all around.

With so many regards, Duke William Of.
 
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Going to be weird for the Future generations when they realized that three of the most insane and greatest people in the 21st Century are related and siblings by being the Children of one the Greatest Actors in Hollywood. If this isn't considered a Golden Family Tree then I don't know what is.
 
Billie might just decide to work with Daddy to make sure she can do the one thing her siblings don't seem to have any interest in.

Actually working in the film industry
Well, that is if Big Sis Mary does not decide to give it a try after her experience with Voice Acting.

Regardless, is it wrong that the moment I heard about Sarah's achievement, all I could think of was "Bluth's new apprentice"?
 
Going to be weird for the Future generations when they realized that three of the most insane and greatest people in the 21st Century are related and siblings by being the Children of one the Greatest Actors in Hollywood. If this isn't considered a Golden Family Tree then I don't know what is.
That's not that weird actually and happens more often than you'd think or to greater extents than you'd imagine. A lot of these sorts of circles are rather incestuous, in that they all know each other and have ties to one another in some manner. IIRC, I think it was George Carlin who said it best, "It's one big club and you're not in it."
 
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...Billie is going to have an incredible inferirority complex regarding her siblings, isn't she?
Billie might just decide to work with Daddy to make sure she can do the one thing her siblings don't seem to have any interest in.

Actually working in the film industry

That's if Sarah isn't inspired to go into Dreamworks or Hanna-Barbera with her love of animation. Or if little George decides to copy his dad or follow in his namesake's footsteps. Plus decent chance we have a fifth Gosling before Billie.

But yeah, even being a great actress, it would be rough for Billie to be the youngest and have such gifted older siblings. Then again, she's got half of Bruce's genes here and some Irish luck, who knows what will happen.

It's also kind of funny that Joseph is a bit of a daddy's boy considering if he's a super athlete, he'll be the first choice to take over the Lakers and Geese.

Going to be weird for the Future generations when they realized that three of the most insane and greatest people in the 21st Century are related and siblings by being the Children of one the Greatest Actors in Hollywood. If this isn't considered a Golden Family Tree then I don't know what is.

Don't forget Cat is an accomplished children's author and screenwriter and Gavin came in clutch to push Apple into the dominant corporation it shall likely be. Plus we have what their children will go up to, O'Brian blood really has something.

Of Course Carrie is successful in her own right, Debbie is a great actress and Todd might do something. Eddie has no idea what he missed out on by not even trying to be a decent father.



While on topic, if Succession is made ITTL, I imagine that there might be some side characters who are a parody of the O'Brian family and are noted rivals to the Roys, with all of the Roy children being especially peeved on how the faux O'Brians are all super successful and managed to break out into lots of different fields while they are just nepo babies, and this further reinforcing Logan's disappointment and frustration with his children, another reason not to settle the Succession.

One episode, one of the Roys heads over to the faux O'Brians and is absolutely astonished that they're a loving and tight knit family who don't obsess about the family business and are pretty chill about who inherits it. They think it's because of the kids geniuses, but really a great deal of their success comes from having happy and healthy childhoods with strong support networks that just enhanced their talents. Thus it further reinforces themes of cycles of abuse and how rich families can be set up to fail by their coldness and obsession for wealth and power.
 
So, apparently you buy debt. For pennies on the dollar. Like actual debts. Let's buy and forgive 1 billion dollars in medical and student debt. It's an excellent PR move.

I recall that Magoose had stated that the top uppercrust was getting nervous about Bruce's overwhelming charity...

Let's do it. It's an on-brand move that will definitely cause some ripples.
 
It's also kind of funny that Joseph is a bit of a daddy's boy considering if he's a super athlete, he'll be the first choice to take over the Lakers and Geese.
You know the funny thing is, at least with that: he might just play in the nfl. Not out of any disdain for the family buissness, but because he can play baseball at the same time without any conflict of interest for his team like Bo Jackson.

That's if Sarah isn't inspired to go into Dreamworks or Hanna-Barbera with her love of animation. Or if little George decides to copy his dad or follow in his namesake's footsteps. Plus decent chance we have a fifth Gosling before Billie.

But yeah, even being a great actress, it would be rough for Billie to be the youngest and have such gifted older siblings. Then again, she's got half of Bruce's genes here and some Irish luck, who knows what will happen
Well with her family name and talent from learning under Carrie and Bruce she might do fine.

Or she might be a Nepo baby and it bothers her a lot who knows.
That's not that weird actually and happens more often than you'd think or to greater extents than you'd imagine. A lot of these sorts of circles are rather incestuous, in that they all know each other and have ties to one another in some manner. IIRC, I think it was George Carlin who said it best, "It's one big club and you're not in it."
Well then Bruce wasn't part of the club either… he just got incredibly lucky , that fate went his way.

I recall that Magoose had stated that the top uppercrust was getting nervous about Bruce's overwhelming charity...

Let's do it. It's an on-brand move that will definitely cause some ripples.
I did say that people were getting very nervous for different reasons.

Old money America think that Bruce is just going to give all his cash away because they wrongfully and stupidly think: he's a Catholic zealot who will give his wealth to the pope.

They are clearly misreading the room on that front.
 
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Well then Bruce wasn't part of the club either… he just got incredibly lucky , that fate went his way.
He was though. We started out the quest with a connection to Clint Eastwood through our dad which we leveraged to start out in Hollywood. Similar thing happened with us meeting Bruce Lee. I don't mean a club as in they're all trying to consciously exclude people or whatever, I mean that they all have connections to one another in some form or another and they pick from and elevate their own to the detriment of "outsiders."
 
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Conan The Destroyer Production Part 4 New
Conan The Destroyer Production Part 4:

You were enjoying the change of scenery, and it wasn't just because you didn't have to deal with the Italian government's bullshit.

Really, you actually had to do a double-take with the fact you had extras now. You had a space in the harbor that wasn't going to be replaced by someone else while you were gone and had to repay the damn fee again just so you could secure the ship for repairs.

Why the hell did you have to do a damn negotiation with some tv producer that was worried about a name when you were supposed to working on this damn film!

Take a deep breath, you are fine. You just have to finish this damn film, because you are two months behind schedule, you have to rebuild entire sets on the Croatian coast… and had to reshoot scenes… Again.

This was going to be hell. You just wished you had listened to Steve, rewrote the script, and was able to work in America.

Cause you were starting to think doing location shoots in foreign countries was not going to be a good idea without another producer who could help you with the drudge work. How the hell were you sleeping…

Terribly.


You have 4 Actions:

[]A Return to Form: Christopher and Jackie were almost entirely happy to be back, and they want to see what you could do for making things both entertaining in the film, and on set. DC: ???

[]The Giant and You: So Andre is apparently a big fan, and huge joker. You want to see what he means by that. Hopefully, he dosen't challenge you to a drinking contest, you heard stories about that. DC: 10

[]The Criminal and the Strange: Danny Trejo is one of those actors you never heard of, but has a menace you want to use, so… you are going to try to find out how he will use it. DC: 40

[]The Song of the Sea: Well you have one shot at this crap, so you are best not going to waste it. DC: 30

[]The Wonders of Modern travel: Everyone on the crew is starting to get worried that you were going to have a breakdown. So Carrie had been called and she is coming to Croatia for a few days to make sure everything is alright. DC: 0

[]A Swimming idea: So, the crew had an idea. To film you swimming in the conan costume, for the opening idea… and it was genius. DC: 30
 
While this isn't really something I'm going to commit to, I just want to have a little plan for once.

[X] Plan Actors and Homesickness
-[X]A Return to Form: Christopher and Jackie were almost entirely happy to be back, and they want to see what you could do for making things both entertaining in the film, and on set. DC: ???
-[X]The Giant and You: So Andre is apparently a big fan, and huge joker. You want to see what he means by that. Hopefully, he dosen't challenge you to a drinking contest, you heard stories about that. DC: 10
-[X]The Criminal and the Strange: Danny Trejo is one of those actors you never heard of, but has a menace you want to use, so… you are going to try to find out how he will use it. DC: 40
-[X]The Wonders of Modern travel: Everyone on the crew is starting to get worried that you were going to have a breakdown. So Carrie had been called and she is coming to Croatia for a few days to make sure everything is alright. DC: 0

While I want to just shoot the ship scenes and be done with it, I like the idea of making a synergy with us swimming in the Conan outfit.
 
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[X] Plan Let's Get This Rolling
-[X]A Return to Form: Christopher and Jackie were almost entirely happy to be back, and they want to see what you could do for making things both entertaining in the film, and on set. DC: ???
-[X]The Giant and You: So Andre is apparently a big fan, and huge joker. You want to see what he means by that. Hopefully, he dosen't challenge you to a drinking contest, you heard stories about that. DC: 10
-[X]The Criminal and the Strange: Danny Trejo is one of those actors you never heard of, but has a menace you want to use, so… you are going to try to find out how he will use it. DC: 40
-[X]A Swimming idea: So, the crew had an idea. To film you swimming in the conan costume, for the opening idea… and it was genius. DC: 30

My idea for a plan. It's not that different from Qudrim, but I make it so that we do the scene for swimming in the water instead of calling for Carrie. We are so close guys, we do this and then there's only one shot left... supposedly. I'm not sure if it means one shot left for the first act or the entire film. But I want to do as many options as possible before we finish.
 
[X] Plan Let's Get This Rolling

I hope to god there are no more roadblocks in this movie. We should also consider getting a on-set lawyer just incase this BS happens in our other movies.
 
[X] Plan Croatia Clutch
-[X]A Return to Form: Christopher and Jackie were almost entirely happy to be back, and they want to see what you could do for making things both entertaining in the film, and on set. DC: ???
-[X]The Song of the Sea: Well you have one shot at this crap, so you are best not going to waste it. DC: 30
-[X]The Wonders of Modern travel: Everyone on the crew is starting to get worried that you were going to have a breakdown. So Carrie had been called and she is coming to Croatia for a few days to make sure everything is alright. DC: 0
-[X]A Swimming idea: So, the crew had an idea. To film you swimming in the conan costume, for the opening idea… and it was genius. DC: 30

My idea was we do a mix of easy actions as well as stuff that Bruce can come out better from like some much needed time with Carrie and the kids which would really lift his morale. Let's get things down with Christopher and Jackie, and make sure that stupid Trireme actually works.

Really hope this doesn't mess up as Bruce might just be completely done and jaded with Conan if Croatia also fails.
 
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