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.
Universal made themselves rivals/enemies through their own actions. It isn't our fault that China was so terrefied of us they detonated their diplomatic coup for a slim chance to take us off the board. And now, it isn't our fault Sony tried to destroy our music player brand via lawsuit to make room for their own product. It's just coincidence we seemingly retaliated by completely blowing up their disk gamble.
things i suggest we distribute/bought this turn or very very soon:
Bought:
Stand by me and The Shawshank Redemption by stephen king they go out this year so need to hurry
Distribute:
inspector gadget same as down
The dead zone by stephen king the movie is alrady on the making and go out in 83
Pink Floyd The Wall alreadt made i think but we could gave it a better distribution than irl
WarGames
Asterix and Cleopatra and The Twelve Tasks of Asterix two great asterix movie already made and as far as i know never distribued in usa
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute a nice smurf movie and i didn't found that he was distribued in usa
Though initially developed as a place to focus on what he felt was truly important in life. These days, Skywalker Ranch was as much the Lucas' family home as a miniature movie studio.
When George was younger, he wanted a place where he could make movies, tinker with technology, and tell the stories he wanted to tell the way he wanted to tell them. To that end, the ranch had sound stages, recording booths, workshops, and all the other assorted facilities a filmmaker could want to make a film by himself.
As he got older, he found to his surprise his interests and concerns had changed, and his motives changed along with his dreams. A loving wife and a small child arrived and moved into George's heart. Movies, while still a close second, were no longer the most important thing. Family was, and the dream that was Skywalker Ranch changed to reflect that.
Once intended as a place to lay a head between feverish productions, the house became a proper home. Time was spent outside the various workshops, talking to people, maintaining relationships and being a father and husband, not just an overstressed filmmaker. Likewise, the change of focus of the ranch gave his wife Marcia the means and opportunity to truly connect with her husband and build on and maintain their relationship away from the pressure of the Main Lucasfilm campus.
So means motive and opportunity combined to make the place a happy home and a wonderful place for a specific type of small child to grow up in. The child in question answered to Wally.
Wally was an intelligent, if quiet, child who took after his parents in their love for movies and capacity for self-amusement. That was not to say he had no friends or disliked the company of others. He had a best friend in Mary O'Brain; she even had younger siblings and kittens who were included when they were around. He was somewhat jealous that Mary had siblings, who seemed to Wally like friends who never went home and asked if he could have some. Mommy and Daddy said that because of some medical things, it was unlikely that Mummy would get pregnant and have more children. Wally accepted the answer and asked if Indy or even Mummy could play with him if she wasn't too busy. She wasn't, that time. So, for the first part of Wally's childhood, his most often playmates were the Giant Alaskan Malamute Indy and his parents, who made a deliberate effort to spend time with him.
Wally was an early reader and loved watching movies, talking about stories, and discussing how and why certain things worked or didn't. Being a child, he also asked questions that many others would not think of or consider even needed asking. As so often in scientific discovery, the critical discoveries do not begin with "Eureka" but with "Huh, that's interesting."
So, one Saturday morning, when his father was home watching a classic movie with Wally, Wally made a simple observation about the film they had just finished watching together, which changed the world, at least a little.
"Daddy why Mary not have fuzzy blue or green on edges?"
"What do you mean, Wally?
"Star Wars lots of tiny fuzzy blue on edges. Star Wars 1977, Mary Poppins 1964. Why fuzzy blue?"
George paused and aborted tidying up the film, returning it to the player instead. "Um, one moment, Wally. Show me where you saw it."
"Dancing penguins", Nodded Wally authoritatively.
"The animated sequence where Jule Andrews and Dick Van Dyke are having that meal with the Penguin waiters?"
"'Yes."
"Well, let's see what we can see."
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"Daddy?"
They had rewatched the penguin dancing and the actors interacting with animated characters. Still, his father flicked back and forward on the tape to reach several other scenes and then watched them intensely. At Wally's voice, George immediately shifted from the scene he had rewound and watched several times to the small child rapidly getting bored.
"huh. That's interesting. Well, spotted, Wally. Um, and there is no blue or green spill nor any other colours I would expect. Um, I don't know the answer. Shall we see if we can find out Together?"
"Yes." The reply was all but automatic. Wally nodded and started towards the Door, leaving his father scrabbling to catch up. While Mary Poppins was good and fun, watching the film being sped up and rewound while whatever scene caught his father's eye was watched over and over was rapidly turning out not to be fun. Tinkering in one of the workshops with Dad sounded more interesting.
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Half an hour later, Wally was perched on a tall stool beside the bench in a soundstage / workshop on the property. In front of him was a mess of wires and parts, several TVs, and many panels and bolts that allowed for rapid jury-rigging or changes to the camera setup centrally located in the mess. Sitting on the soundstage itself was a bit of blue fabric and an X-wing toy
His father returned from where he had been adjusting a light to point at the toy.
"Um, okay, Wally. Let's start with how I make it look like X-wings can fly. If I just point the camera at the X-wing and move it like this, does it look like the X-wing is flying past?" George asked as he swung the camera past the toy, slowly at the starting and ending and quickly across the middle before fiddling with some settings on the machine.
Wally watched the lit screen. The Picture didn't look quite right, but if he squinted Juuust so, he almost couldn't see the blue fabric and ...
"Looks like aeroplane flying picture, Daddy," Wally said turning away from the Monitor that was playing the looped footage again and again.
"...but X-wing not fly. Camera moved. Movie magic?"
"Um, yes. That's right, Wally, it's a perspective trick. You can make something appear to move by having it move or having the camera move the right way. But it doesn't look quite right, does it , Wally?"
Wally shook his head. "Had to close eyes nearly all the way."
"That's because you could also see the blue fabric, which gave your eyes a reference, making you think the camera was moving and not the toy. So we need to remove the blue fabric. We could do that by getting a pair of Scissors and cutting out the bits on every fame we don't want, then carefully sticking them just right onto a new piece of film. This is a TV camera and takes 60 pictures a second. The camera took about ten seconds of footage. Do you know how many pictures it took?"
"No. But it big" said Wally a little sadly, then brightening, "Mary would. Mary is very good at Maffs."
George grinned, "Mary is indeed very good at maths, as if Bruce or even Mike would ever let me forget. But it is a lot, yes? Would it take a long time to do each one individually? Wally nodded as Geoge continued, "So we do a Movie magic trick and tell the camera that we don't want any blue. The important thing I use with physical film is a special Lens with all the parts together, but I want to show you how it works.
George reached into a large case and pulled out several triangles of glass and a torch, some plates with a hole in them, an eyepiece and a series of clams and stands. Finally, after a few moments screwing things together under Wally's fascinated watch, he pulled out a simple piece of white paper and another covered in squares of different colours.
George waved at the setup, "The glass things are called prisms, Wally, and they split light. If I hold a piece of paper behind a prism and shine a white light just so through the Triangle, I get a …"
A gasp of delight was heard, "Rainbow."
"Indeed, and if I put this next triangle prism here alongside the first so the rainbow shines into it, the light coming out is …"
"Is white. White is rainbow when stretched."
A grin crossed Georges's face as he put down the torch and paper and picked up two pieces of metal with a slit in the middle. "That's a good way of looking at it, Wally. But here comes the clever trick. Now, blue is about 460 to 500 nanometres, so the aperture should be... About here..." George muttered as he adjusted the hole in the plate now between the two triangles.
"Now, Wally, look at the way the light comes back together. It is not white anymore. It's just blue."
Wally nodded, unsure where this was going.
"Now, look through the eyepiece while I hold these colours up."
Wally scrambles to obey.
"Colours funny. Only blue and black. Maby other colours a little?"
"So, would I see anything that wasn't blue if I looked through the prism?
"Nooo?" asked Wally
"You're right. And if I put a piece that covered the hole perfectly and then took the cover away, only the blue would stop. Would I be able to see anything blue?" George asked as he matched actions to words.
"No? No only not blue. Other colours not proper just not only black and blue."
"Exactly right, which is why it was so impressive in Mary Poppins when they didn't seem to have that problem. At Lucasfilm, we can use a camera to see and not see blue to do some tricks, as I did with Star Wars. Now, rather than messing with film because we would be here all week, I will use digital camera tricks and this computer to make things go faster. Is that ok?"
"Yes. Do faster Please Daddy."
George reached out and flicked some switches, and on one of the screens, the blue around the X Wing disappeared, replaced with black, strengthening the illusion of the toy flying past.
Wally, with a grin on his face, applauded. "Movie magic make stand go away."
The X-Wing had very slightly changed colour too but a black background made it look more like it was flying now he couldn't see the blue it was sitting on.
"Thank you, Wally. But we are still going. Wouldn't a cleverer background be good? Shall we make it look like the X-Wing is flying past something? How about the house?"
"Yeah."
"So, if I take this camera and instead of doing a funny shot of the model, I go over to the door and move it like I am seeing the X wing fly past…"
Another TV lit up this time with a shot that focused on the distance swung around quickly, and then focused in the other direction, bracketing their home on Skywalker Ranch.
"Now, if I adjust it a bit…"
The two Screens slowly synced as George adjusted some knobs , and soon, the X-Wing flew past on the top Monitor in sync with the camera movements on the bottom.
"Looks good, doesn't it? Shall we combine them? Do you want to do the honours? Press that button and…"
Wally reached out and pressed the indicated button. His grin faded as he saw the result.
"Not look right. X-Wing is see-through."
"Yes, it is. We removed the blue from behind the X-Wing so the stand disappeared, but we did the movie magic wrong, so the screen sees the house and the X-Wing. We need the house to go away from behind where the X wing is so it only sees the X wing."
Wally nodded. That made sense
"We could do it the hard way and carefully cut the right X-wing shaped hole with scissors for every Picture. And put it back into the machine. Sound like fun?"
Wally made a face," No. Do more Movie Magic, Daddy."
George chuckled, then continued, "Using this machine and a process called masking, we can do something similar to what we did with the X-Wing, only backwards to cut the hole."
George turned to the machine and started adjusting the controls as he continued speaking.
"So instead of asking the blue for the X-Wing to go away, we can make it look at only the blue so there is a hole where the X-Wing was and put it on another monitor. If we put it over the footage of the house, it makes the house look funny, and the only clear bit where the X-Wing was. Do we want that as a picture?
Wally shook his head, eyes wide, waiting for the trick he was sure this father was about to pull.
"So masking, this machine can also see where there is no colour and has a space. So if we tell the machine to look at the blue piece and anywhere there is no blue colour, put the same no colour in the matching Picture of the house, there is a …"
"Hole in house. And no scissors." Wally exclaimed.
"Um, in the image, but yes, the cut out of the Picture means that the Picture is not trying to be the X-wing and the house at the same time, so when we add the X-Wing this time. Digital magic. We can do some tricks with film to achieve the same result, but it takes much longer."
"X-Wing look Better. Not ghost. Good digit magic Daddy."
George chuckled, "Almost Wally DigitAL. Digit means Finger or toe. The machine is digitAL, like numbers. Let's slow the frame rate down and look closely at the edges. See, there is still some blue on the edges. Blue is not just one colour; it is lots of colours in a band in the visible spectrum and about 40 Nanometres wide. Some of the blue is actually a really blue green or a really blue viloet, so it doesn't get removed, and that is what we see on the edges.
Wally nodded
"But as we saw, when we remove too much blue, the X-Wing's colours look wrong, like those on that colour sheet looked. The colours are a little off with the blue we removed. But other things can go wrong. If we change the prism and go a little into the green and violet part of the rainbow to be sure we get all the blue…"
George tapped a button on the machine, and the X-Wing's colour changed and the edges of the toy dissapered like the toy had been dipped in acid and melted.
"Well, it's a post-production problem to adjust and get the balance right to get the best shot."
"Mummy fix?" Wally offered quietly as they both stared at the looping footage. Wally knew Mummy was very good at fixing movies after the film was finished. The Eddy Thing Wally thought it was called. A man named Eddy probably did it first. But whoever Eddy was, Eddy wasn't better than his Mommy. Mary also said that Eddy was a bad man because her Grandma had said so, and Marys' Mummy hadn't said him wasn't. Eddy Cat was nice to sit quietly with and pet if he wasn't scared because Mary had just chased him up a tree.
Wally was so lost in thought and George distracted by watching the footage again that they were startled by the new voice.
"And what am I fixing here?"
"Marcia!?" "Mummy!?"
George Jumped as Wally exclaimed in delight
"Mummy, Daddy is showing why X wings little bit blue but Mary not."
"George?"
"The bluescreen process." George stated, indicating the pile of electronics and cameras with a wave of his hand, "Or at least what I can emulate with a digital camera quickly. Wally was asking why there was a little bit of blue in the X-Wings but no colour bleed when Disney did Mary Poppins."
"Well, unless it has something to do with those sodium vapour lights and that old camera those Disney folks were Messing around with when we were helping them with Blackhole, I don't have any idea. Now it's time for lunch for all hungry people. George? George, why are you looking at me like that?"
"You are amazing, Marcia. That could be it! Wally, I said we would see if we could figure it out today , and I think we have. Now, where are my…"
"After lunch you two. I saw that pout Wally. You need to eat before you and your father can go back to playing."
"Mommy play too?"
"Sorry, Wally, I have some very important. …George, stop with that look… Well, only if you come and wash up for lunch now and only for a little bit."
A cheering Wally abandoned the strolling couple to run ahead back to the house.
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After being fed and watered, the trio returned to the space. George had the large case open again and some more tools. Marcia had come along with a sheet of white cloth and an old sodium vapour streetlamp from the prop shed that she had plugged in, and was watching carefully as it warmed up and shed A golden Glow.
George had assembled several prisms and a beam splitter into a strange lens attached to two cameras at the same time, He was just finishing calibrating it.
"Um. This is the same process as before, Wally, except for Gold instead of blue. Shall we see if it works?"
"YES" shouted Wally, almost vibrating in place with excitement. George gestured to the Frankenstein's monster of a camera and lens setup he had just finished putting together.
"so, we have our special camera lens set for seeing Sodium vapour Gold and for seeing everything but sodium vapour Gold.
Wally nodded excitedly
"There is a beam splitter in front, so half the light goes one way, and half the light goes the other. On one side, the light goes to a prism with a line blocking the specific Yellow and then back into a prism, putting the light back together. On the other hand, everything but Yellow is stopped, and the mask is created from that Yellow. Just like we did for the blue."
"Your wonderful mother has replaced the blue fabric under the X Wing with white. So if we shine a coloured light on it the fabric will turn will be the colour of the light. Sodium vapour lamps are special light. I have a light meter here.
"Dear, if you could turn off the other lights? Thank you"
"And what do you see now, Wally?
"Gold like C-3P0"
Without the other lights and with the doors and windows closed, the surroundings had taken on a rather particular shade of Golden Yellow.
"Yes, and if you look at the light reader, it is an exact colour too. Can you see the number on this? 589 nanometres. That is very specific. It also means all the light we can see now is the same. And that means something interesting. Can you see the red on the X-Wing? What about the rest of the sample colours on the test sheet?"
"Paint Broken?" Wally shook his head, looking around the room and blinking at the strange sight of it illuminated in a monochrome yellow.
"No, not broken. Just lit very specifically. If we shine a different light on the X-Wing like this sun lamp…"
"Fixed!"
"And that's how our eyes work. We didn't change the colours on the X=Wing, we changed the light. White light is all the colours. If a colour is missing from the light, things look a little weird, like the X-Wing did when we took out the blue to do the Bluescreen trick. With the sodium Vapor light, which makes only that Gold yellow, colours look, like you said, Broken."
"The blue we take out of the Picture was all the blues and was nearly forty times as wide. When we took that shade out, we could still see other colours. Um, what we are trying to do here is only take out that very specific gold and only that gold, so it is the only colour missing, leaving all the other yellows still there."
"So we have the White light on the model and the gold light on everything else, including the white fabric on the model stand. Ready to try the bluescreen Movie magic with it?"
"Yes. Daddy do movie magic Now. Then Wally and Mummy go. Wow."
"Lets see if I can then. If I swing the camera past again like I did when it was on the blue… And there we go, which should be close enough to the shot earlier for a comparison. Now your Mummy will turn the lights on and, dear, you were always better at editing than me, could you…?"
"Certainly, George", She replied from where she had been smiling at the interaction between George and Wally. She adjusted the studio lights and then the camera controls. In far less time than George had taken had the camera shots synchronised. A few more button presses had a screen with what looked like the silhouette of a black X-Wing flying through a yellow sky and another with the X-Wing flying on a pure black sky.
"It looks good, but we won't know until we combine it. Do you want to do the honours, Wally?" George said, gesturing toward a button Marcia was about to press. She stepped back and gestured to Wally, who eagerly pressed down.
"The yellow mask makes a hole in the background so the X-Wing fits in…"
"Much better, mummy. No blue. And can see through X-Wing window too. Daddy, Mummy?"
His parents were just staring at each other. His Mother shook it off faster and answered in a faint voice. "No Colour spill at all spill and Perfect transparencies, that's impossible with bluescreen, George. Well, test it a bit more, but that's the, Heh, Gold standard invented."
George nodded distractedly. "Um, it will be a bit of work with Polaroid to get the lenses properly sorted, and maybe it will take a few million and some workarounds to invent, but yes. Thank you, Wally, this will make filming a lot easier."
Wally turned and grinned at his Parents. "Thank you for playing moves. Potty now."
That very effectively broke the moment.
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Later that night, Wally was safely in bed with the family, and Giant Alaskan Malamute Indy was asleep on his bedroom floor. George and Marcia retired to the lounge to finish the work Maria had put off, and Mary Poppins played quietly on the TV again.
As the scene with the animated penguins came on again, Marcia broke the silence, gesturing towards the TV. "Well, congratulations, George. You reverse-engineered it, and you won another victory for Lucasfilm and movies. Did you have a good day today?" There was a slightly hard edge to Marcia's voice.
"Um, yes. Wally seemed to have a good time and wasn't just being polite." Came Georges's slightly confused reply.
"So, Today wasn't a movie thing?"
George turned to look at Marcia thoroughly, stopping pretending to even look at the TV. "Well, only sort of. Wally wanted to do it with me. Bluescreen improvements were not my plan for today, Not with Personal Digital Polaroids launching so soon."
"But you made time for Wally?"
"Yes. Him, you, me, Us is more important than Moves or business ventures… Wally just happens to like movies and tech, too."
A laugh as Marcia relaxed, the hard edge of her voice disappearing. "Who do you think he gets it from then, you or me?"
"US definitely both of US."
"You know I was afraid that you would get too involved with movie making, too focused on your dreams to have any time for a US?"
George relaxed. "Blame Bruce. He really helped. But his attitude. It's like he has twelve important things to do in a month, and half of them are about his family. Like acquiring the rights to a TV series that could potentially make billions over the next ten years is just as important as family dinner."
"Or he demands to shoot Batman in LA so he could go home every night. Carrie really needed that…are you going to do anything like that for Me?" she asked playfully.
A slightly hurt look on Georges's face was almost missed before she continued, "…or have you already? That's what Skywalker Ranch is meant to be? You are a wonderfully sweet man. Everything we love about moviemaking here on our own terms. At our own pace. In our own home."
"Well, yes."
A hug
"We have got to get better at communicating, especially considering…"
A file lay on the table in front of them. The name Amanda is prominently displayed on the front cover.
A look passed between them.
"I love you, George started..."
"I know" Marcia continued. "But I am not Carrie, and you are not Bruce, so we have to talk to each other, no matter how hard it is. We are not alone in this after all," A picture of Wally smiling looked back at them from the far wall.
"Do you want to get Bruce to help?"
"No, not yet. We managed to talk today. Let's plan to talk tomorrow and the day after, too. If we start having trouble, then let's go to Bruce for advice. I am sure he will be willing to give it, probably while beating up the most recent Chinese assassin. " Laughter followed.
here is one that has been kicking around since I saw this video by Corridor Crew.
Remember all those actions that helped George and his relationship? With less stress, a healthier relationship, and no divorce, George can do things like reinventing a piece of technology that was more or less lost.
This technology, which won the 1965 OTL Academy Award for Disney and Mary Poppins, offers another incremental improvement to the film industry and gives ILM another process that will be reusable on multiple movies. It's not essential, but it could save a lot of time and frustration in the editing department and provide more flexibility in filming. It also means that any movie that does not use ILM will have its special effects look slighty wrong, another reminder why paying people what they are worth is a good idea.
Overall, it's about George Lucas having a healthy marriage, being happy as a father and husband, and doing something he likes, which is the real prize.
[]George Lucas and Wally Deciding that Fun to be had (There is a deepening relationship between father and son)
[]Communication is the Key (The final obstacles to an unhappy marriage will come to an end)
[]And Oh Boy... wait Wally did it? (Wally gets a roll)
I love Corridor Digital, they're great guys. I've been a fan of them and Node for years. It's a shame that the core group of D, Brandon, Sam, and Niko don't really make content together anymore(aside from Sam and Niko), but I'm always happy when I can check on their channels and see how they're all coming along.
Dear God...we can recrreate the Sodium Vapor Process?!?! Disney should not have the patent either since they can't recreate it (and lost it!) so we get to be the one proprietors of Yeloowscreen now!
We are going to make such good movies in all the colors of the spectrum!
Moonlight Diner Directed by: Bruce O'Brian
Written by: Carrie O'Brian and Bruce O'Brian
Produced by: Bruce O'Brian
Production and Distribution Studio: Lucasfilms
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Bruce O'Brian, Joseph O'Brian, Sean Young, George Kennedy, Diana Muldaur
Quality: D100 + 200 => 263
Audience: D100 + 200 => 220
Critics: D100 + 200 => 252
It was rather fortunate that Disney was releasing Black Cauldron towards the end of the month so that way you wouldn't have conflicting showtimes, although it seemed like Cat for some reason wanted to go to the premiere with her husband William alone. Though on the plus side, it meant she could babysit the goslings tonight in return for you taking Sarah and Bruce on her big night.
Thus, tonight's red carpet was an O'Brian family showing with you and Carrie attending the red carpet with not only both your parents, but also Debbie who invigorated by her performance on set wanted to attend a premiere instead of playing babysitter again.
It made for a very happy, group, you Carrie and your parents all Hollywood stars at the premiere of another great O'Brian collaboration. Well, all save for mom who had yet to make her film debut, but you were determined to find her a good part one day.
It also made for a nice media package with every photographer present trying to snap group photos or different pairings like you and Carrie with your birth parents or in-laws. Debbie especially received a fair amount of attention as the announcement of Killer Queen's production had her fanbase hyped that their beloved starlet was going to stay on the big screen after many believed Five Dates to be her last hurrah.
Speaking of stars, "Dad, how's your movie been? Universal treating you decently?" It still shocked you to your core that he was working for the enemy, even if you technically buried the hatchet with Universal. A shame really as you were hoping for him to play a part in Killer Queen, though maybe you can convince Steve for a cameo in Return.
"We're actually wrapping up soon so I should be free for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I really have to thank you son for the free pass to the Bruce Lee gym, really helped me to lose the post-war fat."
"Oh I bet Mom is really happy to see that soldier body again." You joke, to which you receive a wack on the head from your mother.
"Bruce O'Brian, you kiss Carrie with that kind of mouth?" Sarah chastises.
"Says the woman who told my wife and I to give her some grandkids on our wedding night." You countered, only to receive another wack.
"I'm just happy that Dad has his own starring role, 30 years too late." Carrie complimented.
"How's Killer Queen going? I hear you hired some bum to direct for a dollar." Dad joked, making you roll your eyes.
"It's going pretty great, a bit of a rough start as we tried to find our groove, but everything is coming together wonderfully. You two should stop by the set sometime, especially when the kids are on screen, they're adorable and Mary is every bit her mother's daughter. Even the twins have some natural screen presence."
"Looks like you got tough competition on being the best Joseph O'Brian in Hollywood." Mom joked, making Dad playfully roll his eyes.
You then turned your head and saw Sean arriving on the red carpet, "Oh hey, there's Sean. You know, I think I should do a couple of interviews with her."
"Nope, we gotta head inside!" Carrie protested, dragging you by the tie inside of the theater rather strongly thanks to her recent gains.
Huh, apparently Blade Runner stars had a knack for crafting jealous O'Brians.
You wish you could say that Moonlight Diner was created out of some brilliant stroke of inspiration or something deep and personal, but really it was just born out of an attempt by you to do a horror film as either a writer or director simply so you could get experience and having played your hand in it at least once. Your choice of the monster being a werewolf mainly boiled down to turning on a showing of American Graffiti on the TV one night and Wolfman Jack reminding you that there hadn't really been any good werewolf movies since the famous Wolfman so you thought that would be something neat to insert your take, at least before that British werewolf film.
While you had the overall plot written down in a strong outline and some really cool scenes in detail, you found yourself lacking in making some really good dialogue, finding some way to fill the runtime, and doing some good character relationships. Thank the Lord that you were married to the best writer in Hollywood cause Carrie's draft really made everything come together perfectly with her doing a top notch job of bringing the characters to life, making them so relatable and realistic while at the same time iconic for their personalities.
It was a shame that you couldn't do the film with Carrie as Raven, but being the father to Sarah and Joseph was more than worth it. Plus it was kind of funny seeing Carrie get a little bit jealous whenever you and Sean spent time together. Now she knew how you felt whenever Harrison Ford strutted onto the scene.
In your totally unbiased opinion, Moonlight Diner was one of the best horror films ever made. A fantastic cast at the top of the game. A soundtrack and script created by the genius that was Carrie O'Brian. A story that was an interesting dissection of the werewolf in a urban horror setting and exploring the capabilities of ordinary people. One of the scariest monsters in cinema that gave the xenomorph a run for its money. Badass action and cool character moments under your bread and butter of directing. Moonlight Dinner had it all.
So just why the hell did it have the success of your average Lucas release on not on the same tier as Star Wars, Batman and Conan?
Okay, so 126 million off of a budget of 10 mil was a pretty good box office run all things considered which most directors and producers would kill for and already put Moonlight Diner on the top tier of horror films, just below the performance of Evil Dead, Halloween and Alien. Of course it being a rated R horror film would turn away a lot of potential audiences even if you were the Director and star. Although that certainly didn't stop the scores of stories of kids and teens sneaking en on masse, especially Halloween to see another Bruce O'Brian movie. Still, this was a Carrie movie, it should have been a contender for top 5 movies of the year and easily cross the half a billion mark.
Performance across the globe was pretty even although with a slightly higher than average in Japan thanks to its love of horror and O'Brians with a 31 million return. While Moonlight Diner was at the top for most of October, after Halloween it's steady weekly decline turned into a plummet as The Black Cauldron became the new box office darling and the holiday season became focused on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
At the very least you can take some comfort in Moonlight being a strong box office hit, and like many of Lucasfilms' latest releases, it would have a very strong shelf life through VHS. It was inevitable that people would want to purchase Moonlight Diner simply to to expand their collection of Bruce O'Brian material, but it also being an overall great film featuring one of the most iconic horror monsters made it a staple for the Halloween season where rental stores would make sure to stock up heavily to meet the demand.
Ultimately, the financial performance was something that you could be proud of, but the reception frustrated you to no end. This was the second O'Brian film, and like the first with Five Dates it was met with middling reception, the only positives being that everyone agreed that it was better than Five Dates (Once again, a film that was mischaracterized to no end) and the critics this time didn't outright hate it as one of the worst romance movies in their point of view.
Audiences for the most part enjoyed it, but you could easily tell through going out in public or conversing with fans it didn't have the same enthusiasm and staying power as the likes of Star Wars, Some Nights or Batman. Most audiences could agree it was a good film, though there were some who just weren't a fan or couldn't get attached and there was a never ending onslaught of comparisons to your other films, as if Moonlight Diner couldn't stand on its own. The most common praises seem to be focused around all of the actors, especially you, both Seans, Jennifer and Dad. Lots of praise for the werewolf with some comparisons to the xenomorph and many saying its the proper modern take on the werewolf, although the explosion scene for some reason had plenty who saw it as goofy instead of badass. Overall the main complaints seem to be pacing, setting and some of the overarching narrative, that it was too long and stationary versus say the more gigantic Nostromo which had more room to play for horror.
Crirtics were surprisingly more supportive with roughly the same compliments and criticisms. Some of the positive highlights were praise for Jennifer Beals as a strong and endearing protagonist, you for being a scene stealer and giving a very high quality "Travolta-esque" performance along with you and Sean Young having a "Bruce-Carrie like romance". Dad was given a fair amount of praise for cementing himself as going beyond a bit actor, some even arguing he should get an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actor. Some appreciated the portrayal of the missionaries as a clever usage of religion in horror as an actual asset rather than bashing on it like so many. And the thriller action scenes were said to be top notch.
However, for every compliment there were strong criticisms. The pacing too slow with many filler moments that are only held together and don't drag the movie by strong dialogue and chemistry. The Diner was seen as boring and restrictive and there was an intense debate over whether or not the movie as a whole could be seen as innovative or tropey and playing it safe. This could be seen on the latest episode of Siskel and Ebert where the two debated rather vigorously on Midnight Diner with Siskel giving it two thumbs up and Ebert a single thumb up. Siskel said that Moonlight Diner was a masterclass in horror and the perfect reboot of a classic tale in modern film through character-driven storytelling. Ebert said it was a sloggy and tropeish film held up solely by the high performances and the novelty of there not being a mainstream werewolf movie in decades.
Overall, it seems that there's this narrative going around that as a filmmaker, you have "Serious projects" where you give it your all and make high art like Empire Strikes Back or Batman, and then you have "Wife projects" where you and Carrie just did personal stuff for fun and didn't really try and break into greatness. You honestly couldn't believe the gall of some people, Five Dates and Moonlight Diner were some of the best films ever made and they were just being perfectionist snobs.
Seeing the draw of reviews put you in a rather sour mood the Monday morning following the premiere, where you got back to work on Killer Queen and were doing some of the domestic scenes. Returning to set only made you more apprehensive because if Moonlight Diner was lumped together with a same level of mixed reception as Five Dates, then how would this latest film, the movie that was supposed to be Debbie's great return be received?
So caught up were you in your brooding that your normally trained peak senses missed a sneak attack where a toddler's rear was planted in your face as you were sitting on the director's chair, followed by the sound of a loud fart.
Judging by the context clues of Joseph's laughing, Carrie's perfect hands holding him up, and the lack of any foul odor when you took an adventurous breath, you could guess that this was Carrie trying to distract you with a little silly humor. Well, it worked.
"What's this? A member of my cast deploying gas on his producer and director?" You say with exaggerated scandal, "Well Mr., I am going to have to dock your pay and give you a tickle punishment." You say sternly, taking Joe from Carrie and unleashing a wild torrent of tickles on his belly which had your only son laughing in a hysterical fit, his joy and earnest innocent smile washing away a lot of the negativity you were experiencing.
"Thanks Carebear." You say as you give Joseph a reprieve, the red faced gosling doing his best to end his laughter, then burrowing his face into your chest with a happy hug.
"There you are, I was expecting Bruce O'Brian to be our director today, not Batman." Carrie said smiling, in a tone that was both playful and earnest chiding.
You turned your head away with a slightly bashful look, "I'm sorry, I was just reading the reviews for Moonlight Diner, and it got me in a bad mood."
Carrie developed a look of slight disappointment at the information, "Bruce, please for the love of God don't tell me you're turning into some perfectionist ego-driven filmmaker. You got plenty of good reviews and already made back the budget."
"I know, I know." You said. You then got flashbacks of multiple talks with Carrie on how she didn't want Hollywood to turn you both into rotten people, and it was obvious you were putting some fears into her that shouldn't be present. "It's not like I need every release to be perfect and break box office records. It's just that, so many people are being harsh and heavy or just aren't enthusiastic, and it's not right."
"Why?" Carrie questioned.
"Because it's a Carrie O'Brian film and if people don't like it then that means I screwed up and failed you as a Director." You say, getting to the heart of the matter. If it had been just a Bruce O'Brian film then the reception would have been met with thick skin and you wouldn't have minded at all. But it was a Carrie movie and you felt like you failed her two for two.
"I feel like I didn't do my best and give you what you deserve again, and I really don't want to do it again for Mom." You say with a sigh. In the grand scheme of Hollywood careers, Five Dates and Moonlight Diners were great spots on Carrie's filmography, but this was Debbie's glorious return, it had to be perfect.
Carrie smiled kindly and walked over and gave you a kiss on the cheek, "Bruce, I appreciate that you're such a sweet man who wants the best for me and mom, but don't get all defensive and mopey on our behalf. I'm happy with Moonlight Diner's performance. So long as our films don't bomb and have people who enjoy it, that's all the success I'll need. Besides, it was always more your film than mine, I just wanted to help the world see more of your ideas."
At Carrie's words you felt a great deal of pressure leave your body, as if a heavy burden was now as light as a feather.
"Don't you start being all fussy on mom's part either. She told me the other day that this was one of her favorite productions in her entire career and she's just happy to do a great film with her family."
Carrie then nodded her head to where you saw Debbie sitting on a couch with Mary and Sarah, your eldest holding up a script and reading lines with Debbie that made the grandmother smile thanks to the gosling's infectious enthusiasm and love for acting which made her part such a fun debut. All the while Sarah sat with rapt attention at what she most likely assumed was her sister and grandmother playing storyteller.
"We have good lives and work together doing what we love. Nothing bad is happening and everything will be alright." Carrie assured.
You smiled gratefully and pulled your wife in for a deep kiss, "It will be, and thanks for reminding me. I love you."
"Mommy know." Joseph interrupted, making you both laugh at the innocence and how your special phrase was being learned by your kids so quickly.
"Yes I do, and I love you too." Carrie said with a boop to Joseph's nose, making him giggle.
"Daddy happy?" Joseph asked, looking towards you for confirmation.
Overall solid film that'll probably be a staple for Lucas TV's October lineup. It probably could have been better but we we're never going to get the next star wars out of it.
This was amazing, and the last part is just adorable! Carrie is right in a way, we might be forgetting how originally we wanted to do movies just for the sake of doing good movies, not for the sake of money or recognition (though the latter is something expected from good films). It's so good to see that we have her and the children to keep us grounded, and be reminded just what is truly important.
Yes, content, but only situationally, graphics and complexity.
Our hypothetical console is probably a multimedia machine like the PS1 capable of playing music and DVD equivalents process and, with appropriate peripherals, print digital camera footage and may be able to act as a word processor. What it probably won't be is a significantly better game machine unless the dice are really nice.
Thanks to Gavin, games can be bigger and more complex, but graphics and processing power remain unaffected. The machine is almost guaranteed to run on the 6502 processor like the Apple 2, NES, Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 as it was the most popular chipset due to price point and performance.
So our hypothetical games can benefit from more variety of sprites, not more sprites on screen, more environments and props, not better graphics, more basic music, not better music and more maps and levels, not larger levels. What it should be able to do well is store and playback pre-rendered cutscenes and significantly more of them. Quicktime games similar to Dragon's Dungeon are likely to be the era's graphical masterpieces, and visual novels can likewise take advantage of the increased graphics storage.
In other words, a console is almost perfect for a movie studio to do tie-in games using official footage.
[]George Lucas and Wally Deciding that Fun to be had (There is a deepening relationship between father and son)
[]Communication is the Key (The final obstacles to an unhappy marriage will come to an end)
[]And Oh Boy... wait Wally did it? (Wally gets a roll)
A roll for Wally to potentially help him keep up with Mary, a better relationship with his dad to ward off future angst or Finally giving George and Marcia closure? You are very generous, and I want them all.
Watto: We'll let fate decide
D3 => 2
[]Communication is the Key (The final obstacles to an unhappy marriage will come to an end)
It fits that when OTL giving it one last try before breaking up ITL they have finally settled it
and are now ready for wholesome Lucas family Shennanagins.
The Black Cauldron: Directed by: Ted Berman. Richard Rich
Written by: Ted Berman, Cathrine Powell
Produced by: Joe Hale
Production and Distribution Studio: Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista
Starring: Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Arthur Malet, John Byner, Phil Fondacaro, John Hurt
Audience:D100 + 200 =>297
Critics:D100 + 200 =>250
Domestic: 342,981,017
International:173,581,156
Mike was crossing his arms at the news, how this film, somehow, beat the odds against the indiana jones juggernaut.
"I will admit, mistakes were made." You finally stated as Mike seemed ready to scream like a madman. "But you must admit… damn, that is a good-looking film."
But Mike only shook his head and screamed into his hands. "You're not taking this seriously!"
"Is it produced by universal?" You asked
"No."
"Then I won't." You said. "Just give them credit, they did a good job."
Wow, when Disney fights back they can deliver some nasty sucker punches. Seems like Black Cauldron is going to be one of the most beloved and iconic Disney movies of all time and I have no doubt they'll make a trilogy adapting the rest of the books with Cat on board to write the rest of them. Will definitely be a major contender for Dreamworks to have to face off against for the rest of the decade, but this is good competition. At the very least, John Henry still wears his crown as the king of theatrical animation.
So considering that Disney got half a billion dollars after Roy made his big gambit, it looks like the cousins leadership is firmly set in place and there's nothing Card and the conservatives can do. The money boost is also good because it gives Disney more leeway to be bold and take risks. Also it looks like Cat has firmly cemented herself as part of the magic kingdom. I hope we can do at least one film with her before the end of the game, but at least she has vindication.
Now as for the plan, sorry I didn't post anything, but I was busy with the Moonlight Diner sidestory and to be honest I didn't know how to react since we don't have a lot of mandatory stuff.
[X] Plan Geese Fluff and Fun
-[X]Solomon Kane: And the Shadows of Africa: Martin was proud of this one. Like insanely proud of it. He wouldn't say it's the highlight of his career, but more, the one that he felt had to be made to make it better. DC:0
-[X]Investing in the Future: You want to Spend some of that money you made into the company and make the whole thing better DC: ??? (Linetail what you want to invest in, and how much money you want to invest in it)
--[X] You've been reading the Cam Jensen books with Mary and fell in love with the general concept and story. Buy adaptational rights from David Adler for $10 million.
-[X]Importing Foreign Films: So… you may have a way to get some films showing in American Theaters. Maybe you can go to other foreign film industries and… well, ask to distribute their films. Sure many of those foreign film companies never expected an American company to distribute their films in the US… but maybe you can get money without producing them. (Linetail where you try to get films from, and if there are any specific films, line tail them below) DC: ???
--[X] Belgium. The Smurfs and the Magic Flute. Right now The Smurfs are a major hit on television, Hanna-Barbera's best performing cartoon since Scooby-Doo. With such popularity and you already negotiating for Johan and Pewitt, ask the owner of the Smurfs comic, Dupuis if you can distribute the Belgian film, "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute" in the US with a Dub from the Hanna-Barbera cast.
-[X] Best Friends: So Mary has lots of friends, and she wants them to come over. You need to prepare for that. Carrie, get the cookies.
-[X]The Family Time: You need a night out with the family dammit! No more drama, no more work, just you and Carrie and the Kids!
-[X]Hanging out with the Friends: It's been far to long since you, John, and Robin hung out, so you will go out for some drinks and have some fun. DC: 45
-[X]A Well-Known Fan: So some really famous person is a fan of yours. Maybe you'll learn who they actually are. DC???
-[X]Investments: You want to invest your hard-earned cash into something that you feel will be a good return on investment. And as well as diversify your assets DC: 0 (Linetail what you wish to invest in below this action, and the amount of money you want to invest in)
--[X] Oatfield. $2 Million. Ireland's oldest confectionary manufacturer and a personal favorite of your sweet tooth growing up. You want to share with the world the greatness of Oatfield and wish to become a co-owner with the Mckinney family, still keeping management under them but helping it to thrive into a great business with your patronage.
-[X]Networking: Well time to start finding out who might actually be interested in meeting you. (Write-in what you want to try and network with)
--[X] Peyo. Pierre Culliford as he's really called has created amazing characters and comics in Belgium. The Smurfs are currently making a splash with Hannah-Barbera, but you know that his previous work, Johan and Pewitt, is just as good if not better. Make an offer for the rights with $5,000,000 in order to make a TV Adaptation of their adventures.
--[X] Peter Shaffer. His theater play Amadeus has made a sensation both abroad and more recently in the U.S.A. You would not be surprised if offers to make a screen adaptation are already in the works. Offer him $25,000,000 for the rights of a movie adaptation, as well as to get him to write it as well.
-[X]Modeling (Advertisements): Thankfully another Call Came in, one from an ad firm. They need you to have some pictures taken so that they are used for saner things. Like selling cars, or ice cream. DC: 40
-[X]Game Shows: You want to go on a Game show and have some fun. DC: 40
-[X] Date Night: Carrie did an amazing job in Killer Queen and last month was pretty hectic. With Star Wars coming soon, you want to treat Carrie to a nice night of romance and show your love.
Didn't really know what to do cause we can't be too ambitious with Star Wars around the corner and we don't have any mandatory actions really so here's just some nice fluff and fun.
Copied my plan with @overmind With the addition of the networking actions cause I wanted people to vote for Overmind but for him to take out Scum, but more people are voting for mine so I'll just take out Scum so Overmind's plan still wins mostly.
Wow, when Disney fights back they can deliver some nasty sucker punches. Seems like Black Cauldron is going to be one of the most beloved and iconic Disney movies of all time and I have no doubt they'll make a trilogy adapting the rest of the books with Cat on board to write the rest of them. Will definitely be a major contender for Dreamworks to have to face off against for the rest of the decade, but this is good competition. At the very least, John Henry still wears his crown as the king of theatrical animation.
So considering that Disney got half a billion dollars after Roy made his big gambit, it looks like the cousins leadership is firmly set in place and there's nothing Card and the conservatives can do. The money boost is also good because it gives Disney more leeway to be bold and take risks. Also it looks like Cat has firmly cemented herself as part of the magic kingdom. I hope we can do at least one film with her before the end of the game, but at least she has vindication.
Now as for the plan, sorry I didn't post anything, but I was busy with the Moonlight Diner sidestory and to be honest I didn't know how to react since we don't have a lot of mandatory stuff.
[X] Plan Geese Fluff and Fun
-[X]Solomon Kane: And the Shadows of Africa: Martin was proud of this one. Like insanely proud of it. He wouldn't say it's the highlight of his career, but more, the one that he felt had to be made to make it better. DC:0
-[X]Investing in the Future: You want to Spend some of that money you made into the company and make the whole thing better DC: ??? (Linetail what you want to invest in, and how much money you want to invest in it)
--[X] You've been reading the Cam Jensen books with Mary and fell in love with the general concept and story. Buy adaptational rights from David Adler for $10 million.
-[X] Best Friends: So Mary has lots of friends, and she wants them to come over. You need to prepare for that. Carrie, get the cookies.
-[X]The Family Time: You need a night out with the family dammit! No more drama, no more work, just you and Carrie and the Kids!
-[X]Hanging out with the Friends: It's been far to long since you, John, and Robin hung out, so you will go out for some drinks and have some fun. DC: 45
-[X]A Well-Known Fan: So some really famous person is a fan of yours. Maybe you'll learn who they actually are. DC???
-[X]Investments: You want to invest your hard-earned cash into something that you feel will be a good return on investment. And as well as diversify your assets DC: 0 (Linetail what you wish to invest in below this action, and the amount of money you want to invest in)
--[X] Oatfield. $2 Million. Ireland's oldest confectionary manufacturer and a personal favorite of your sweet tooth growing up. You want to share with the world the greatness of Oatfield and wish to become a co-owner with the Mckinney family, still keeping management under them but helping it to thrive into a great business with your patronage.
-[X]Modeling (Advertisements): Thankfully another Call Came in, one from an ad firm. They need you to have some pictures taken so that they are used for saner things. Like selling cars, or ice cream. DC: 40
-[X]Game Shows: You want to go on a Game show and have some fun. DC: 40
-[X] Date Night: Carrie did an amazing job in Killer Queen and last month was pretty hectic. With Star Wars coming soon, you want to treat Carrie to a nice night of romance and show your love.
Didn't really know what to do cause we can't be too ambitious with Star Wars around the corner and we don't have any mandatory actions really so here's just some nice fluff and fun.
[X] Plan Geese Fluff and Fun
-[X]Solomon Kane: And the Shadows of Africa: Martin was proud of this one. Like insanely proud of it. He wouldn't say it's the highlight of his career, but more, the one that he felt had to be made to make it better. DC:0
-[X]Investing in the Future: You want to Spend some of that money you made into the company and make the whole thing better DC: ??? (Linetail what you want to invest in, and how much money you want to invest in it)
--[X] You've been reading the Cam Jensen books with Mary and fell in love with the general concept and story. Buy adaptational rights from David Adler for $10 million.
-[X] Best Friends: So Mary has lots of friends, and she wants them to come over. You need to prepare for that. Carrie, get the cookies.
-[X]The Family Time: You need a night out with the family dammit! No more drama, no more work, just you and Carrie and the Kids!
-[X]Hanging out with the Friends: It's been far to long since you, John, and Robin hung out, so you will go out for some drinks and have some fun. DC: 45
-[X]A Well-Known Fan: So some really famous person is a fan of yours. Maybe you'll learn who they actually are. DC???
-[X]Investments: You want to invest your hard-earned cash into something that you feel will be a good return on investment. And as well as diversify your assets DC: 0 (Linetail what you wish to invest in below this action, and the amount of money you want to invest in)
--[X] Oatfield. $2 Million. Ireland's oldest confectionary manufacturer and a personal favorite of your sweet tooth growing up. You want to share with the world the greatness of Oatfield and wish to become a co-owner with the Mckinney family, still keeping management under them but helping it to thrive into a great business with your patronage.
-[X]Modeling (Advertisements): Thankfully another Call Came in, one from an ad firm. They need you to have some pictures taken so that they are used for saner things. Like selling cars, or ice cream. DC: 40
-[X]Game Shows: You want to go on a Game show and have some fun. DC: 40
-[X] Date Night: Carrie did an amazing job in Killer Queen and last month was pretty hectic. With Star Wars coming soon, you want to treat Carrie to a nice night of romance and show your love.
Didn't really know what to do cause we can't be too ambitious with Star Wars around the corner and we don't have any mandatory actions really so here's just some nice fluff and fun.
If there's space, I do hope we can try and get sme movies to distribute and/or produce; Scum was an excellent movie that does deserve to be distributed, Amadeus and Places in the Heart can hopefully be produced by us and they would make an excellent feather in the cap of Lucasfilms.
Huh, it hadn't even registered to me that it was a voting turn. I'm very happy with this plan though.
[X] Plan Geese Fluff and Fun
As an aside, I'm a little disappointed that Black Cauldron didn't get it's own Sidestory since it would have been really nice to see Bruce's thoughts on Cat's work, but them's the breaks. I assume either Magoose just wanted the update out without waiting for a Sidestory or no one volunteered to make one, which doesn't actually particularly surprise me, seeing as how I don't think I've actually met a single person who's actually seen The Black Cauldron? Can't imagine it's a particularly stand out film in the Disney catalogue.
Edit: I'm confused as to why they have different amounts of voted items, but just so I don't forget about it...
[X] Plan Geese Fluff and Fun: Overmind Edition
[X] Plan Geese Fluff and Fun: Overmind Edition -[X]Solomon Kane: And the Shadows of Africa: Martin was proud of this one. Like insanely proud of it. He wouldn't say it's the highlight of his career, but more, the one that he felt had to be made to make it better. DC:0
-[X]Investing in the Future: You want to Spend some of that money you made into the company and make the whole thing better DC: ??? (Linetail what you want to invest in, and how much money you want to invest in it)
--[X] You've been reading the Cam Jensen books with Mary and fell in love with the general concept and story. Buy adaptational rights from David Adler for $10 million.
-[X]Distributing Deals: Since you have a Distribution Company, or rather, are one… You can meet the major movie theater companies and strike a Deal with them. Even when you had nothing to offer them. DC: ???
--[X] Scum. This British film was banned from being shown in its homecountry, yet despite its graphic show of brutal violence, there is amessage there that deserves to be shown. Get in contact with those who filmed it and see if you can distribute it.
-[X] Best Friends: So Mary has lots of friends, and she wants them to come over. You need to prepare for that. Carrie, get the cookies.
-[X]The Family Time: You need a night out with the family dammit! No more drama, no more work, just you and Carrie and the Kids!
-[X]Hanging out with the Friends: It's been far to long since you, John, and Robin hung out, so you will go out for some drinks and have some fun. DC: 45
-[X]A Well-Known Fan: So some really famous person is a fan of yours. Maybe you'll learn who they actually are. DC???
-[X]Investments: You want to invest your hard-earned cash into something that you feel will be a good return on investment. And as well as diversify your assets DC: 0 (Linetail what you wish to invest in below this action, and the amount of money you want to invest in)
--[X] Oatfield. $2 Million. Ireland's oldest confectionary manufacturer and a personal favorite of your sweet tooth growing up. You want to share with the world the greatness of Oatfield and wish to become a co-owner with the Mckinney family, still keeping management under them but helping it to thrive into a great business with your patronage.
-[X]Networking: Well time to start finding out who might actually be interested in meeting you. (Write-in what you want to try and network with)
--[X] Peyo. Pierre Culliford as he's really called has created amazing characters and comics in Belgium. The Smurfs are currently making a splash with Hannah-Barbera, but you know that his previous work, Johan and Pewitt, is just as good if not better. Make an offer for the rights with $5,000,000 in order to make a TV Adaptation of their adventures.
--[X] Peter Shaffer. His theater play Amadeus has made a sensation both abroad and more recently in the U.S.A. You would not be surprised if offers to make a screen adaptation are already in the works. Offer him $25,000,000 for the rights of a movie adaptation, as well as to get him to write it as well.
-[X]Modeling (Advertisements): Thankfully another Call Came in, one from an ad firm. They need you to have some pictures taken so that they are used for saner things. Like selling cars, or ice cream. DC: 40
-[X]Game Shows: You want to go on a Game show and have some fun. DC: 40
-[X] Date Night: Carrie did an amazing job in Killer Queen and last month was pretty hectic. With Star Wars coming soon, you want to treat Carrie to a nice night of romance and show your love.
I'm putting a plan here. It's bascially Kaiser's plan, but I've also added some new stuff; trying to network with Peyo in order to get the rights for Johan and Pewitt in order to make a series out of their adventures, which can run concurrently with the Smurfs, and have fun corssovers as well. I've also added speaking to Peter Shaffer since his play, Amadeus, should have just debuted in the U.S.A after a succesful run through Euroope, and is due a Tony. I feel that getting the rights to make a movie adaptation before it can go to others.
Aside from that, I've also added so that we can distribute the movie Scum, which from what I've seen, does have an amazing story to tell in between the bouts of brutal violence, with the latter serving as a vehicle to deliver it.
Edit: I'm cancelling my plan since Kaiser Chris made changes to his that pretty much align with mine. @BT14 , @Dom Dom , if you want you can change plans as well.
-[X]Distributing Deals: Since you have a Distribution Company, or rather, are one… You can meet the major movie theater companies and strike a Deal with them. Even when you had nothing to offer them. DC: ???
--[X] Scum. This British film was banned from being shown in its homecountry, yet despite its graphic show of brutal violence, there is amessage there that deserves to be shown. Get in contact with those who filmed it and see if you can distribute it.
Would you mind taking off this Overmind? I'm fine with the rest of the plan, but I don't really see much value in this movie and think it would generate too much controversy for the moment when we should be supporting the release of Solomon Kane and laying the groundwork for Tron. It's a TV movie anyways and I don't see much reason for Bruce to be aware of it.
