Studo Draft Spreedsheet

detailed rules @ http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/63...thread-999969/

Basically draft whatever actors, directors, writers, composers, etc... you want to make a movie making studio with and write a little why you are picking them. All the people from the beginning of the 20th century are eligible. Anyone from any country and language can be drafted, just assume that everyone speaks the same language in the ulterior universe where this draft takes place.

(you don't get the entire body of work of the person you are drafting, it just serves as an indicator of their talent)
(if someone had their career shortened due to bad lifestyle choices, you can assume they will have similar problems in your studio as well)


will try making a spreadsheet later, if no one else who knows how makes it.

uh need to fix the draft order, list in the thread was not correct...sorry

There were 14 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Dominic
D1iabol1cal
hikeeba
nyc999/pvt joker
John Cole
vixticator
kudzudemon
MSchu18
CIncyHR
Enrique
hotdogfallacy
Nicholasp27
Bo Goldman
BrokeDonk

new draft order.... hopefully the list is correct this time...

the time limit is 4 hours, until stated otherwise. it is on Dominic

so if I take undrafted director I can assume that before he makes a movie for me he'll die in a car crash while trying to suck a boy's dick?

he will make movies for a solid decade or more, but the fact that he was so reckless in his personal life, probably means that he won't have a very long career

Wow, I'm first?

Okay...uh....I'll take:

Billy Wilder

Write-up will have to wait a bit, i'm at work.

My studio is called Gargoyle Studios. Here is my logo:

was wondering who would go first, Wilder is a great choice

I'm not gonna get my first choice, but hopefully can grab 2 of my top choices
I'm pretty certain at least my top choice and almost def my 2nd will be gone

Get Hikeeba going. Geez, four hours is too long to wait, especially when somebody misses a turn.

I don't have time to do a write-up at the moment, but I'll do one later today. In the interest of keeping this moving, I'll take Martin Scorsese.

nice, that's nice

2 down, 9 to go

both great guys so far, tho

Wilder I figure is probably the consensus #1 pick. Great writer and director and basically everything he turned out was gold. Plus, he was a workhorse and turned out an impressive amount of films.

i figured he would be one of the top ones to go, he was just great all around director and was pretty dark and cynical to boot. but there are a couple more prolific directors, who i figured might have went first as well, including scorsese

write up:

Billy Wilder



My all-time favorite filmmaker. His writing is razor sharp, his directing never less than exactly what the scene demands, and his career spans six decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment).

Nominated an astounding 8 times for Best Director and 11 times for Best Screenplay.

Wilder's directing style always put the writing and the story first, and he usually eschewed directing flourished and Hitchcockian-style camerawork.

As just a writer:

1939 Ninotchka
1940 Rhythm on the River
1940 Arise, My Love
1941 Hold Back the Dawn
1941 Ball of Fire Writer
1947 The Bishop's Wife
1948 A Song Is Born
1960 Ocean's Eleven
1967 Casino Royale

A partial list of his films he both wrote and directed and sometimes produced:

1934 Mauvaise Graine (also known as Bad Seed)
1942 The Major and the Minor
1943 Five Graves to Cairo
1944 Double Indemnity
1945 The Lost Weekend
1945 Death Mills Director
1948 The Emperor Waltz
1948 A Foreign Affair
1950 Sunset Boulevard
1951 Ace in the Hole
1953 Stalag 17
1954 Sabrina
1955 The Seven Year Itch
1957 The Spirit of St. Louis
1957 Love in the Afternoon
1957 Witness for the Prosecution
1959 Some Like It Hot
1960 The Apartment
1961 One, Two, Three
1963 Irma la Douce
1964 Kiss Me, Stupid
1966 The Fortune Cookie
1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1972 Avanti!
1974 The Front Page
1978 Fedora
1981 Buddy Buddy


Bill Wilder is the perfect person to anchor my studio. He can write, he can direct, he can produce, and he can do all of these with exceptional quality and on a lower budget.

Wilder may not produce that one tent-pole blockbuster that every studio is hungry for, but he will produce picture-after-picture of high-quality, award-bait material that will have great rewatchability and attract many of the industry's best talent. Wilder doesn't make art films; he makes adult, highly entertaining comedies and dramas that rarely fail to make a decent profit.

Billy Wilder is my clear Number One.