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    • Magoose said:
    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
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    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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    • OldGlory76 said:
    I know that I discussed having Harrison play Boba Fett but I got arguably a better idea. Namely George Takei. Imagine Trekkies going mad over his distinctive voice coming from the Mandalorian's helmet. And it would open the role to Asian actors for the inevitable prequels.
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    I'm against it, mainly because I think Harrison Ford fits much better for the Boba Fett character, and also because we're already opening roles for asian actors with Toshiro Mifune. We're fine as it is.
     
    @Kaiser Chris
    I don't know what to tell you man, but, kinda...
    Can you please take a bit of a chill pill?
    You are way too into this, and being way too intense.

    This is a quest.
    Star Wars will inevitably look markedly different in this imaginary timeline, and holding up the O3 as some kind of golden ideal is not healthy.
    Don't get me wrong. It is, by far, my favorite media experience. But it has a lot of flaws. That is part of its charm.

    All that said, I very specifically never had her be Mara Jade.
    I gave a pitch for a bad-ass space ninja that can easily be slotted, and if it works can be, potentially expanded upon in future films. An interesting concept, but a minor role, all things considered.
    No more, no less.
    And I don't see how the concept of the emperor's hands in any way invalidates the impact of either Vader or Palpsy.
    From my point of view, it only adds to the emperor's menace.

    And, finally, the great arbiter in any quest, but one run by magoose especially, are not what I or you or anyone else thinks.
    It's dice rolls and the majority votes.

    So, excuse me, but I think I will propose interesting and cool concepts without any regard to your tender sensibilities, same as you or anyone else participating here is free to do.
     
    yannoshka said:
    Can you please take a bit of a chill pill?
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    No. (I'm answering as it can be applied to me due to my 52 Prompts and Omakes)

    yannoshka said:
    not healthy.
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    @Magoose hear that? We should roll Cold War Members next time to not keep the original timeline.

    Honestly though, From what I remember Magoose said that New Hope will be the closest one to its original counter part..of course with some changes due to us. But what happens after that is a shrug, Bruce can give George some ideas on what to do for the other two films..

    But I am not budging on the issue of the prequels (we can always improve it, after all. Not changing it too much.) And we need a way to keep Ahsoka from being a major Plot Hole for the Movies to the point she keeps popping out all over the place.
     
    RealOtto said:
    But I am not budging on the issue of the prequels (we can always improve it, after all. Not changing it too much.) And we need a way to keep Ahsoka from being a major Plot Hole for the Movies to the point she keeps popping out all over the place.
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    Do we? Do we really need to micromanage something that might or might not happen thirty years from now? The prequels might change completely in this timeline and that would completely change the background of a character that wasn't even in them.

    Shouldn't we more worried about making sure that the original trilogy doesn't bomb instead of about a character that won't be relevant for at least five/six movies? It is not like we would dedicate our whole lives to SW.
     
    So going back to the hypotheticals of Toshiro Mifune playing Obi-wan, if for some reason Mifune doesn't roll well enough, what do people think about Pat Morita playing Obi-wan? Since we're making Kung Fu kid we're kind of erasing Karate Kid from existence unless Robert Kamen approaches us for permission to make Karate Kid as a sort of spinoff. This leaves Pat with only Happy Days for mainstream work, but doing Star Wars could be just as, if not more vital than Mr. Miyagi. Pat's a martial artist and can handle choreography along with emotional scenes, and unlike Toshiro who has to phonetically say his lines cause he's not fluent in English (Though I guess Bruce can teach him), Pat is a native speaker. Only potential issue is that Pat is a bit short, but we can just handwave that away as Obi-wan not aging the best in height, though at least Pat is decently middle aged compared to Alec's senior appearence.
     
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    Kaiser Chris said:
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    I guess it's a fine choice, but I would like to point out that we've already been discussing Christopher Lee for a while and I know I would much prefer the triumvirate choice of Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, and Alec Guinness than to add in Pat Morira all of a sudden. Although I suppose we could replace the Alec Guinness choice with Morita, although I'm not really sold on that.
     
    So a quick look has left me uncertain about whether there is some kind of protocol about those movie pitch submissions, but I have a few things in mind.

    One of the first would be a comedy about the disastrous 1904 Saint Louis Marathon of the third Olympiad, because I just cannot believe that there isn't some kind of movie about that disaster out there.
     
    Thinker90 said:
    1904 Olympic Marathon, absolute bonkers. It's ridiculous. Appropriate for the first time America hosted the Olympics...
    Anyway
    TITLE: "Marathon Misadventures"
    GENRE: Comedy
    SUBGENRE: Sports Comedy
    FORMAT: Film
    BASIC PROMPT: The 1904 Olympic Marathon was full of unexpected and hilarious twists and turns. The film follows a cast of quirky characters as they compete in the grueling 24.85-mile race through the sweltering heat of St. Louis, facing obstacles such as wild dogs, rotten apples, and performance-enhancing strychnine. Join Félix Carbajal, the former mailman turned marathon runner, as he travels from Cuba to the States and faces off against a cast of oddballs and experienced runners, each with their own unique approach to the race.

    PLOT:
    With 32 entrants, over half of them do not make it to the finish line. The first "winner" of the marathon cheats by hitching a ride in a car and is pictured with the President's daughter, only for the truth to come out.

    The second "winner" is doped with rat poison and only makes it to the finish line with the help of his friends.

    Several runners, including past Boston Marathon winners, suffer lung injuries from the dust kicked up by race officials' cars.

    The fourth-place finisher gets sick from eating rotten apples he stole from an orchard and the ninth-place finisher is chased off course by wild dogs.

    The organizer, who believes "purposeful dehydration" is the key to success, deliberately limits the water sources available to the runners.

    The real highlight of the race is the fourth-place finisher, a 5-foot tall Cuban man who walks the entire length of his country to raise the funds to get to the race, blows all his money gambling, hitchhikes to St. Louis, and runs the marathon in dress shoes and formal pants that he cut off at the knee just before the start.

    Main Characters:
    • Félix Carbajal - The Cuben.
    • James Sullivan - the chief organizer of the games
    • William Garcia - the first (almost) fatality of an Olympic marathon
    • Len Tau - Evader of wild dogs
    • Fred Lorz - Marathoning in a automobile, winning and taking pics with the daughter of the president
    • Hicks - Rat poison connoisseur
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    Murazor said:
    So a quick look has left me uncertain about whether there is some kind of protocol about those movie pitch submissions, but I have a few things in mind.

    One of the first would be a comedy about the disastrous 1904 Saint Louis Marathon of the third Olympiad, because I just cannot believe that there isn't some kind of movie about that disaster out there.
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    You're the third person to suggest it become a movie after the Pitch was made and we technically have a first draft written, though it's a very shit quality. @Magoose You should probably subtitle the threadmark for the pitch "1904 Olympics" to prevent this mistake from happening again.
     
    Murazor said:
    Anything for the Russian fleet's Voyage of the Damned?
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    Nope, and I would very much love to see a film on that as both an absurdist comedy and a critique on Nationalism and Jingoism with most of the film being presented as a comedy and the audience growing close to the Rusisan characters, only for reality to sink in literally with the Battle of Tsushima showing most of the cast die, emphasizing that war is hell.
     
    Kaiser Chris said:
    Nope, and I would very much love to see a film on that as both an absurdist comedy and a critique on Nationalism and Jingoism with most of the film being presented as a comedy and the audience growing close to the Rusisan characters, only for reality to sink in literally with the Battle of Tsushima showing most of the cast die, emphasizing that war is hell.
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    Like the ending of Blackadder: World War I?
     
    Kaiser Chris said:
    So going back to the hypotheticals of Toshiro Mifune playing Obi-wan, if for some reason Mifune doesn't roll well enough, what do people think about Pat Morita playing Obi-wan? Since we're making Kung Fu kid we're kind of erasing Karate Kid from existence unless Robert Kamen approaches us for permission to make Karate Kid as a sort of spinoff. This leaves Pat with only Happy Days for mainstream work, but doing Star Wars could be just as, if not more vital than Mr. Miyagi. Pat's a martial artist and can handle choreography along with emotional scenes, and unlike Toshiro who has to phonetically say his lines cause he's not fluent in English (Though I guess Bruce can teach him), Pat is a native speaker. Only potential issue is that Pat is a bit short, but we can just handwave that away as Obi-wan not aging the best in height, though at least Pat is decently middle aged compared to Alec's senior appearence.
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    I have no problems with having Pat morita be one of our options, and the fact that he's a small person makes no problem as it is known that the older one gets the shorter the body becomes as well. So, there is a good chance for a funny moment if we have OBi Wan in the Prwquels be taller than usual.

    I will mention however that Toshiro Mifune, despite not being fluent in English, is still a consumate professional that would endeavor to make himself fluent if necessary. One only needs to see his role in the Mexican film Animas Trujano of 1961, where he studied tapes of mexican actors speaking in order to recite his loines in Spanish. Heck, those who met him on set said that he could pass for an Oaxacan speaker, so seamless was his accent and performance.
     
    Kaiser Chris said:
    Nope, and I would very much love to see a film on that as both an absurdist comedy and a critique on Nationalism and Jingoism with most of the film being presented as a comedy and the audience growing close to the Rusisan characters, only for reality to sink in literally with the Battle of Tsushima showing most of the cast die, emphasizing that war is hell.
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    Well, if we want a critique of nationalism and jingoism I can think of something that would be very powerful, but would need to be treated as seriously as a heart attack. I mean Schindler's List level treatment.

    A movie about the Rape of Nanking, perhaps timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the massacre in 1977.

    Could serve as a flashpoint to the broader politics involved in the anti-Japanese sentiments seen in the USA of the late 70s and 80s, though.

    Likely to go over poorly among the Japanese and, to a lesser extent, the Japanese americans, though.
     
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    RealOtto said:
    Honestly though, From what I remember Magoose said that New Hope will be the closest one to its original counter part..of course with some changes due to us. But what happens after that is a shrug, Bruce can give George some ideas on what to do for the other two films..
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    You would be correct. Besides some minor dialogue changes and potentially different cast, the films entire structure and plot are exactly the same.

    However as said before, the sequels that George has written a rough draft for are subject to a lot more change.
    RealOtto said:
    @Magoose hear that? We should roll Cold War Members next time to not keep the original timeline
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    No.

    Sweet god no.
    Moon said:
    I am so happy right now.
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    At least in death he found peace, and screws over Bob in the end.
    Kaiser Chris said:
    So going back to the hypotheticals of Toshiro Mifune playing Obi-wan, if for some reason Mifune doesn't roll well enough, what do people think about Pat Morita playing Obi-wan? Since we're making Kung Fu kid we're kind of erasing Karate Kid from existence unless Robert Kamen approaches us for permission to make Karate Kid as a sort of spinoff. This leaves Pat with only Happy Days for mainstream work, but doing Star Wars could be just as, if not more vital than Mr. Miyagi. Pat's a martial artist and can handle choreography along with emotional scenes, and unlike Toshiro who has to phonetically say his lines cause he's not fluent in English (Though I guess Bruce can teach him), Pat is a native speaker. Only potential issue is that Pat is a bit short, but we can just handwave that away as Obi-wan not aging the best in height, though at least Pat is decently middle aged compared to Alec's senior appearence.
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    Is it wrong that I'm just making a list of canon and non canon people now for you all to cast.
    Schehera Zade said:
    I guess it's a fine choice, but I would like to point out that we've already been discussing Christopher Lee for a while and I know I would much prefer the triumvirate choice of Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, and Alec Guinness than to add in Pat Morira all of a sudden. Although I suppose we could replace the Alec Guinness choice with Morita, although I'm not really sold on that.
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    Again you will make some… choices.
    Kaiser Chris said:
    Nope, and I would very much love to see a film on that as both an absurdist comedy and a critique on Nationalism and Jingoism with most of the film being presented as a comedy and the audience growing close to the Rusisan characters, only for reality to sink in literally with the Battle of Tsushima showing most of the cast die, emphasizing that war is hell.
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    I will die on a hill saying that the Fleet of the Dammed has both comedy and tragedy that can be made
     
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    • Magoose said:
    Is it wrong that I'm just making a list of canon and non canon people now for you all to cast.

    Again you will make some… choices.
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    Speaking of, if we want to pursue Han, do we just chose the Han Solo option in the turn and Linetail that we want it or would George give us the option like with Graffiti? I imagine as Executive Producer and Co-Owner of Lucasfilms the DC would be pretty low, if there is one at all since George knows that Bruce is an actor First and he gave the best performance of the main four in Graffiti.
     
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    Kaiser Chris said:
    Speaking of, if we want to pursue Han, do we just chose the Han Solo option in the turn and Linetail that we want it or would George give us the option like with Graffiti? I imagine as Executive Producer and Co-Owner of Lucasfilms the DC would be pretty low, if there is one at all since George knows that Bruce is an actor First and he gave the best performance of the main four in Graffiti.
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    Yes, but it will be actually a flat 50 dc. Unless you butter George up with an incentive or two, like waving the actor fee and stuff, that normally he would have to do.

    Edit: I have no idea what happened but a few words were spelled wrong.
     
    Magoose said:
    Yes, but it will be actually a flat 50 dc. Unless you butter George up with an incentive or two, like waving the actor fee and stuff, that normally he would have to do.

    Edit: I have no idea what happened but a few words were spelled wrong.
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    What other incentives besides the fee could Bruce give? Because I'm definitely down for anything to secure the spot.
     
    Also to anyone who might be asking…

    Yes Bruce and Carrie did the Sex before getting caught by the O'Brian family
     
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