Alright gonna skip his second pick to keep this moving. round 4, pick 38:



Leonardo DiCaprio as the kid, the teenage protagonist of Blood Meridian. Need someone with a young look that would have the acting chops to pull the role off. He did some damn good acting as a teenager.

The kid is complex...there's a bit of moral ambiguity to him. He seems to be on the one hand a violent ruffian like the rest of the world he lives in, but also shows glimmers of goodness that one could interpret to be redeeming. Carried around a Bible towards the end of the book, even though he was illiterate. He certainly seems to be unlike Judge Holden and the rest of the company at the very least:

What age are you taking DiCaprio at? I assume we will judge him based on his acting at that point in his career.

I'd take him during his Growing Pains heyday

I think it's crazy to expect Malick and Kubrick to work together.

Leo circa ~95 is about right. He's 21 but can still pass for 16.

A possibility we have considered, but ultimately we feel like the payoff - if we're successful - is well worth the risk. Adapting a book of this magnitude requires extraordinary measures. We'll see how it goes on the set. As the rest of the cast and crew gels, perhaps concerns will be allayed.

I hope you get super meta with the production and have to scrap the entire project due to creative differences

It's alright, his next pick is gonna be Dr. Phil.

Round 4

Costume Designer / Production Designer : Mark Bridges











Since my adaptation takes place in the 70s and my setting has a very unique vibe, I need everything to look perfect. Why not draft the designer who has done a bunch of great work with period specific movies. Mark Bridges has done the production and costume design on a number of movies that fit my time period: Boogie Nights, Inherent Vice, and Blow. He's also worked on: The Fighter, There Will Be Blood, The Artist, The Master, and 8 Mile. All of those movies have exceptional costume design and certainly feel authentic to the time period they are set within.

A big part of making a movie enjoyable is being able to immerse yourself in what you're watching. So Mark Bridges will make sure everything looks correct for my adaptation of The Wrong Case.

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Book: The Wrong Case by James Crumley
Director: Jeff Nichols
Screenplay Adaptation: Coen Brothers
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
Composer: Carter Burwell
Costume Design/Production Design: Mark Bridges

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PM'ing RBK who is up next.

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I'm still working on my write-ups for Nichols and Elswit and a better one for Burwell. They'll be up soon, I'm trying to make them interesting and most importantly give more information about my adaptation. As I said yesterday though, I'm super busy with work.

i'm not going to do some big write up on the character as domer already did a great one.

but the judge is pure evil personified and i can't think of anyone better to pull that off than:






he will be hairless.

blood meridian
director- andrew dominik
DP - roger deakins
the judge - javier bardem

solid choice

Do you think Javier could have played a good Native American? Might have unwittingly sniped me.

Round 4

For the role of Dagny Taggart I am choosing Natalie Wood



I am choosing Ms. Wood not only for the fact that I have had a life long crush on her but because I believe she has the chops to pull off this role. She also has the look I am going for. This has been my toughest choice so far.

Dagny Taggart is definitely the central character of our story. Everything revolves around her life and is pretty much told through her experience. She is a bright and ambitious railroad executive who loves her job at the railroad her grandfather founded.

She has been romantically involved with our 3 main male characters (Hank, John and Francisco). They are all on the same wavelength but John is her true love. She resists The Strike that John Galt has organized of all the best and brightest businessmen leaving the bureaucracy to rot from within and die it's natural death. She loves her railroad too much to leave it even though the massive gubmint interference and policy makes it impossible to run correctly.

so far:
Atlas Shrugged - Novel
Clint Eastwood - Director
Paul Newman - Actor (Hank Reardon)
Ronald Reagan - Actor (John Galt)
Natalie Wood - Actor (Dagny Taggart)

javier plays whatever javier wants.
could def pull off native american.

ty sir, we have very similar views on this film.
both actors you've chosen were on my short list of candidates for same roles.

she's smoking mrbaseball.

great pic selection.

For my cinematographer: John Alonzo

That leaves me at:

Appointment in Samarra - Novel
Lawrence Kasdan - Director
James Spader - Actor for the role of Julian English
Caroline English: Kathleen Turner
Cinematographer: John Alonzo

and I'll pm jipster.

jipster owes 4 picks and can be auto-skipped....PMing lyco

he has a cool book so hopefully jipster comes back at some point

Bardem so unique. Not how I pictured the Judge but that's not really important. More I think about it, the more I like it.

I know i owe a pick, but I'm not worried about getting sniped so I'll just post it sometime tomorrow.

Who up

For costume design, I take Elsa Zamparelli, the person responsible for the costumes seen in Dances with Wolves and Last of the Mohicans. Her later output was perhaps not as impressive, but man, her work for those two period films is spectacular.



Book: The Holy Road
Director: John Hillcoat
Composer: Warren Ellis
Principle actor: Viggo Mortsensen
Costume designer: Elsa Zamparelli

On the clock in bold:
II.II.II
judgeholdem
senorkeed
bustorhymes
lycosid
jipster
gioco
mrbaseball
rbk
ahutz
domer2
quinn warren

So, who is Pham Nuwen plotting against? The emergent leader is Thomas Nau, a charming, sophisticated, and monstrous leader. The Emergents have a technology called Focus, which changes people into what seems to be extreme Assburger cases that can become extremely skilled in a single discipline. These people are owned by the upper class caste, of which there are two. Nau is one of these aristocrats, called Podmasters.

He seduces a crucial Queng Ho crew member, who I will discuss later, and lies monstrously to her, constantly manipulating her for his own mission-critical purposes. Oh god it is soooooo gross my skin crawls just thinking about it. He is a master manipulator and only Pham is on his level. Above it, possibly, but for now Nau has the upper hand. Total control. For now....

So who will play this role opposite Cranston? Sorry for no dramatic videos or spoilers, on my phone. I pick an early forties Patrick Stewart. Right before he started TNG.

Book: A Deepness in the Sky
Director: James Cameron
Pham Nuwen: Bryan Cranston
Score: Aaron Copland
Thomas Nau: 40-ish Patrick Stewart

Out of curiosity what books were on your guys cut list? My runners up were strange angel by George pendle (nonfiction, about Jack Parsons the rocket scientist/occultist, cast would include Robert Heinlein, L Ron Hubbard, and Aleister Crowley) and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (this would be an awesome movie)

Mine were Fire Upon the Deep and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

My 4th round pick is supporting actor

In the role of Dane, who plays another public defender, and brings up the idea for "the perfect crime" to Casi



Robert Downey Jr

A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
Richard Linklater, director
Oscar Isaac, lead
Vampire Weekend, soundtrack
Robert Downey Jr, supporting

Oops I PMed the wrong guy...stupid snake draft

The Bible

Director: Luis Buñuel

Mary: Jodie Foster

Joseph: Sir Ian McKellen

Eve: Katharine Hepburn

Jesus: Brad Pitt