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.
 
Last edited:
Do people think we should let Don Bluth become head of Dreamworks? I like the guy but he's always given off the vibe of the best of the old rather than a master of the new.
Since we would still have Pixar because they have no reason to split/be sold off in this TL, we can probably have Dreamworks be 2D animation under Bluth and Pixar can eventually be 3D animation under whoever we end up picking.
 
Do people think we should let Don Bluth become head of Dreamworks? I like the guy but he's always given off the vibe of the best of the old rather than a master of the new.
I'm not sure. When discussing about the Animation Department I always felt it would be better to give the animators their work, and have an outside guy manage their budgets in order to keep the peace between them. Besides, I think Bluth would be happy just doing movies as he wants them to instead of having to look over everyone's shoulders to make sure they're doing it right.
 
I guess it all depends if the board sees Lucasfilms or Universal as a threat and if they care about animation or live action more
There's one thing Disney cares about more than anything that we haven't even touched. Theme parks. Selling them the rights to Star Wars theme park stuff (maybe after the sequel proves it isn't a one-off) might be a decent peace offering that we don't actually care that much about.
 
If we own the mineral rights of the area in the studio lot, we should do a mineral survey and see if there's oil, Los Angeles has oil all around it.
 
That moment when your biggest gamble is not spending over half a billion in borrowed money but letting some 23 year old secretary in on the creative process and production staff, lol. Although in saying that, getting Kennedy isn't bad at this point as her track record points that she can work good when in a subordinate position and having firm boundaries to where her innovations can be accepted but she doesn't go overboard without anyone telling her no.
Well the thing is, she got lucky. And by Lucky, I mean everyone else deciding to write off Superman as something that cannot be done.

No one wants to do Superman as they view it as unlucky and tainted by Warners destruction, and anyone who works on it will be cursed.

That and Christopher Reeves is very much someone they do not want for the role, but they are stuck with him, because damn Warners ironclad contracts.
I think Superman will be a success, it just depends if it's quiet, decent, great or Star Wars level. Honestly kind of rooting for Columbia, they seem to be just as much the underdogs as us and at the end of the day we need some competition to prevent Anti-trust laws from breaking us up, lol.
Well it needs to be a Great or Star Wars Level success if Alan wants any hope of remaining in Hollywood and not being bought out or thrown out.
Poor Roy. My man just wants to make cartoons and honor his dad and uncle but everyone wants Disney to be a horror company. Would be absolutely hillarious if Black Hole bombs as OTL but War of the Worlds manages to be a smash success. So far it seems even with Chuck and the Looney Tunes things will go slightly as OTL for Disney. Just have to wait for Carpenter stuff and War of the Worlds to see the company's definitive future. Roy still has potential to take control, but he's got no Mike to sit on the throne this time.
Its less they want to turn it into a horror company, and more that they really really dont want the animation department.

They view it as a relic and a money sink that does not pay itself.

But since Roy managed to get Loony Tunes and Warners Animation department, they are stuck with it.
Wonder if ILM is gonna be doing Black Hole.
Its going to be near the exact same film.... except it might become better.
Huh, neat. Did Paramount have a high roll or is the board more willing to take a gamble in this new Wild West era of Hollywood and knows that they can't compete with Universal or Lucasfilms in movies so they gotta dominate TV before the others make their own network? Hopefully we can still get TNG as a natural transition once Phase II ends and ILM can do the SFX. Also some good news is that Gene Roddenberry is canonically a fan of Star Wars so no need to do blood feuds.
Oh no, they just know that they are losing and trying their best to actually... branch out into areas we aren't cornering.

Besides, if PTS works... well you'll see.
Gotta say I love the irony of Paramount calling us reckless kids when they are literally spending hundreds of millions on a new fourth network.
We spent nearly a billion dollars to revolutionize the entire film industry and move it forward after decades of stagnation, they only spend a few hundred million to get a TV station up and running

We are not the same.
To be 20th Century Fox is to suffer. Are they making Alien or is that up in the air?
They are.
I think Alan is just blowing smoke out of his ass to try and downplay Lucasfilms' moves and prevent the board from taking action against him when he's made such a huge gamble and doesn't have immediate returns.
Very true. He's trying to give his people reasons not to fire him and, when things succeed, take all the credit.
If we own the mineral rights of the area in the studio lot, we should do a mineral survey and see if there's oil, Los Angeles has oil all around it.
No we do not own mineral rights. Unfortunatly.
 
Y'know, it'd be funny if we could land a role in Kubrick's movie as well. :lol: Perhaps as the Duke of Wellington or something, I dunno.
The funny thing is, Kuberik does want us to be in a role as young Wellington.

But Universal said no because they don't want to pay us.
Since Kubrick is making a Napleonic epic about... well, Napoleon, I figured I might as well post this. :V
Just watched it...

Well, it seems we live in the Timeline where Ridley Scott makes Stanley Kubrick's unmade masterpiece.

At least it finally got made.
 
But Universal said no because they don't want to pay us.
Dammit...
@Magoose If we accepted to worj for 1$ (or for free) Could be possible to act on that movie?

Because it would be worth it if only to spite Universal a little more...
Well it needs to be a Great or Star Wars Level success if Alan wants any hope of remaining in Hollywood and not being bought out or thrown out.
Well, I kind of wish them luck on that... But if they don't manage to pull it off we can always buy them before Sony does (and we would end up with DC at the end of this)...
 
Last edited:
Probobly the American revolution… or the civil war.

No the civil war.
...The American Revolution...The War of 1812...The Mexican-American War...The Civil War...

We shall call it: "An American Saga". And we'll use historical characters passing the baton to diferent historical characters as we see politics and society change theough the American experiment.
 
...The American Revolution...The War of 1812...The Mexican-American War...The Civil War...

We shall call it: "An American Saga". And we'll use historical characters passing the baton to diferent historical characters as we see politics and society change theough the American experiment.
It will be our jojos bizzare adventures!

Yes.
 
There's multiple ideas for films/shows rattling around in my brain.

One being a more gritty and "realistic" sci-fi movie. I'm imagining it having a bit of a "NASA-punk" aesthetic. Like the ships being designed to look like what real world NASA spaceships would evolve into after a century or two more development.

Second being an adaptation of Blake's 7 as a dark counter to Star Trek.

And third being a film about the creation and destruction of the first iteration of the KKK. With a time-skip epilogue about the creation of the infamous film The Birth of a Nation and the revival of the KKK.

EDIT: And I just got an idea for a show about the secret supernatural history of America. Like Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter but not focused on either Lincoln or vampires.
 
Last edited:
One being a more gritty and "realistic" sci-fi movie. I'm imagining it having a bit of a "NASA-punk" aesthetic. Like the ships being designed to look like what real world NASA spaceships would evolve into after a century or two more development.
Nice.
Second being an adaptation of Blake's 7 as a dark counter to Star Trek.
TOS or NG Star Trek, because those are two different things.
And third being a film about the creation and destruction of the first iteration of the KKK. With a time-skip epilogue about the creation of the infamous film The Birth of a Nation and the revival of the KKK.
Didn't they get snuffed in the crib in this timeline, or am I mixing something up.
 
Nice.

TOS or NG Star Trek, because those are two different things.

Didn't they get snuffed in the crib in this timeline, or am I mixing something up.

It'd be to show that we can do relatively grounded hard sci-fi as well as our patented brand of science-fantasy.

Blake's 7 premiered in 1978 in OTL and, presumably, will still do so in TTL. That's before the TOS movies we made, much less TNG.
 
Back
Top