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Mar. 8th, 2011 09:46 pmRight, booked tickets for Vernon God Little at the Young Vic, which I've been gradually coming round to the idea of from initial disinterest (and really fucking stupid disinterest during the original run, which was Colin Morgan's first starring role - but of course then no-one knew who he was since he was still in drama school and it was one of the Young Vic's strange plays). I'd first booked a ticket on monday when the young vic went 'last week left!' on twitter, mentioned it when i got home, and mum went 'hmmmm' and made enquiring noises about what tickets were left - so made a pact to go saturday matinee instead. I was vaguely worried about cancelling mine for tonight as several places have 24 hour 'fuck-off' rules unless the play's sold out, but on ringing the box office, they had no problems about exchanging one for three. a matinee at that. heh.
have been pancaked. Only three, but the important thing is the fact that the ritual has been done. with sugar and lemon. :burp:
Daniel Craig and Judi Dench break down why International Womens Day is important
Last few days, most I've been doing of significance (aside from freezing my tits off in the morning due to the steadily falling morning temperatures - it was bloody -4 degrees at 7:15 this morning! MINUS FUCKING FOUR!) is a writing exercise. One of the ongoing original 'verses I write is the Angel Harker actress verse, where I get to write tv/film/theatre stuff but from behind the scenes too. It kind of started off as 'convention fangirl becomes convention guest and the shit she pulls off' stuff but it's been a fun exercise. For instance, writing Robin Hood as a tv series how I'd always seen it. Wrote the basic plot of five Bond films. (Harker becomes Agent 0013, has variously minor or major roles and ramping up with story arc during one 007's time) had fun with her fucking with interviewers, especially the geek sites. Fan meetups. LJ and twitter. Auditions. Media. Her ongoing relationship with the Guy of Gisbourne from the Robin Hood series.
One random thing for her to do I'd always had in hindbrain was Jenny Sparks in Authority/Stormwatch as a three-series tv show. (as anyone who's read Warren Ellis' run on those knows, that entire run functions as 3 12-issue arcs, Jenny dying at the end of his run. which fits tv series perfectly) Stormwatch being a UN-run superhero enforcement team, Jenny Sparks being the burnout electricity-wielding Londoner who's the same age as the century (born 1900) brought on to run the Black ops team when they go through a reboot. Stormwatch implodes at the end of the second arc of the Ellis issues, he put together The Authority as the team Jenny creates from the Black Ops team and others she's picked up along the way. The Authority still goes down in comics history (aside from being utterly glorious full-on widescreen comics) as having the first gay superhero couple in a mainstream comic. say hello to Apollo and Midnighter.
So Monday, i'd started writing it. However, considering how much more I know about writing and so on than when i first started this years ago, especially tv writing, I've been going 'argh. How would you open this? What's the CGI stuff? one issue of a comic, no matter how actiony, is barely going to be fifteen minutes of actual script, even with the massive action scenes The Authority has.' (ditched the idea of starting with Stormwatch for this due to the sheer bloody complexity of it) With my usual behind the scenes/auditions/interviews/media stuff. Treating it as more an exercise in complexity and breakdowns of 'how'. been some fun changes - for example, Apollo and Midnighter, as they're the only ones who're a solid couple from the start, how you'd write their relationship in those days as the comic only has snippets of everyone's domestic lives. How much you'd show of Jenny and Shen. (a later miniseries not written by Ellis which explored Jenny's life over the 20th century had them as a couple in the later days of the Authority) Whether Apollo would keep his spandex. (only character in Authority who does - Shen is basically wearing leggings and a sports bra) How you'd do Angie's outfit, since Angie is naked with a headdress, wrist guards and a nano-thin layer of liquid machinery. If she changes, it is canon that her knickers would be on over the machinery. :muses: still unsure of whether you'd start the series with the image of Jenny the day before she dies checking herself in the mirror, clearly not well, or whether you'd wait until the pre-titles scene of the last episode. Oh, and spent the train ride home tonight trying to figure out who Drew (Guy of Gisbourne) would be. Eventually figured out he'd be best as Jack Hawksmoor. Re-read the comics this evening to remind self of storylines etc, and good lord Apollo's suit got shredded a lot. I will now amuse myself with the actor groaning 'and it's another shirtless scene today...'
Was mentally casting this as I occasionally do.
For those not too familar with the Authority:
Jenny Sparks - blonde, short-ish, comes off as common as muck on occasion but was born posh. early-mid 20s
Jack Hawksmoor - black hair, pale-ish skin, born American but lived everywhere. Engineered by aliens to being joined to the cities. late 20s-30s
Shen Li-Min - Tibetan, bloody great wings. early 20s
Apollo - basically Superman. American. Mid/late 20s-30s
Midnighter - Basically Batman but more violent. Ex special-ops. American. mid/late 20s-30s
Angie, the Engineer - Hispanic New Yorker. late 20s-30s
The Doctor - Red hair, Dutch, completely away with the birdies or stoned most of the time. late 20s-30s
Casting we did way back when was *always* Alan Tudyk as the Doctor, with a possibility of Grace Park as Shen - but she's Korean, not Tibetan. Any ideas?
have been pancaked. Only three, but the important thing is the fact that the ritual has been done. with sugar and lemon. :burp:
Daniel Craig and Judi Dench break down why International Womens Day is important
Last few days, most I've been doing of significance (aside from freezing my tits off in the morning due to the steadily falling morning temperatures - it was bloody -4 degrees at 7:15 this morning! MINUS FUCKING FOUR!) is a writing exercise. One of the ongoing original 'verses I write is the Angel Harker actress verse, where I get to write tv/film/theatre stuff but from behind the scenes too. It kind of started off as 'convention fangirl becomes convention guest and the shit she pulls off' stuff but it's been a fun exercise. For instance, writing Robin Hood as a tv series how I'd always seen it. Wrote the basic plot of five Bond films. (Harker becomes Agent 0013, has variously minor or major roles and ramping up with story arc during one 007's time) had fun with her fucking with interviewers, especially the geek sites. Fan meetups. LJ and twitter. Auditions. Media. Her ongoing relationship with the Guy of Gisbourne from the Robin Hood series.
One random thing for her to do I'd always had in hindbrain was Jenny Sparks in Authority/Stormwatch as a three-series tv show. (as anyone who's read Warren Ellis' run on those knows, that entire run functions as 3 12-issue arcs, Jenny dying at the end of his run. which fits tv series perfectly) Stormwatch being a UN-run superhero enforcement team, Jenny Sparks being the burnout electricity-wielding Londoner who's the same age as the century (born 1900) brought on to run the Black ops team when they go through a reboot. Stormwatch implodes at the end of the second arc of the Ellis issues, he put together The Authority as the team Jenny creates from the Black Ops team and others she's picked up along the way. The Authority still goes down in comics history (aside from being utterly glorious full-on widescreen comics) as having the first gay superhero couple in a mainstream comic. say hello to Apollo and Midnighter.
So Monday, i'd started writing it. However, considering how much more I know about writing and so on than when i first started this years ago, especially tv writing, I've been going 'argh. How would you open this? What's the CGI stuff? one issue of a comic, no matter how actiony, is barely going to be fifteen minutes of actual script, even with the massive action scenes The Authority has.' (ditched the idea of starting with Stormwatch for this due to the sheer bloody complexity of it) With my usual behind the scenes/auditions/interviews/media stuff. Treating it as more an exercise in complexity and breakdowns of 'how'. been some fun changes - for example, Apollo and Midnighter, as they're the only ones who're a solid couple from the start, how you'd write their relationship in those days as the comic only has snippets of everyone's domestic lives. How much you'd show of Jenny and Shen. (a later miniseries not written by Ellis which explored Jenny's life over the 20th century had them as a couple in the later days of the Authority) Whether Apollo would keep his spandex. (only character in Authority who does - Shen is basically wearing leggings and a sports bra) How you'd do Angie's outfit, since Angie is naked with a headdress, wrist guards and a nano-thin layer of liquid machinery. If she changes, it is canon that her knickers would be on over the machinery. :muses: still unsure of whether you'd start the series with the image of Jenny the day before she dies checking herself in the mirror, clearly not well, or whether you'd wait until the pre-titles scene of the last episode. Oh, and spent the train ride home tonight trying to figure out who Drew (Guy of Gisbourne) would be. Eventually figured out he'd be best as Jack Hawksmoor. Re-read the comics this evening to remind self of storylines etc, and good lord Apollo's suit got shredded a lot. I will now amuse myself with the actor groaning 'and it's another shirtless scene today...'
Was mentally casting this as I occasionally do.
For those not too familar with the Authority:
Jenny Sparks - blonde, short-ish, comes off as common as muck on occasion but was born posh. early-mid 20s
Jack Hawksmoor - black hair, pale-ish skin, born American but lived everywhere. Engineered by aliens to being joined to the cities. late 20s-30s
Shen Li-Min - Tibetan, bloody great wings. early 20s
Apollo - basically Superman. American. Mid/late 20s-30s
Midnighter - Basically Batman but more violent. Ex special-ops. American. mid/late 20s-30s
Angie, the Engineer - Hispanic New Yorker. late 20s-30s
The Doctor - Red hair, Dutch, completely away with the birdies or stoned most of the time. late 20s-30s
Casting we did way back when was *always* Alan Tudyk as the Doctor, with a possibility of Grace Park as Shen - but she's Korean, not Tibetan. Any ideas?
