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The FRC Fantasy Studio League
Okay, here's the challenge. It works pretty much like the idea of fantasy football: You are to assemble a crack team from all over to make your imaginary animated feature film. They can be Japanese or American, or from any other country. You can choose to adapt a work or choose a screenwriter/author you think would make the kind of story you want. I'm going to avoid using Miyazaki, because everything they would make would be awesome.
I'll start -
Original Concept/Script: (or the work it was adapted from) "The Thief Lord" - set in Venice, this is a young adult novel of runaway children and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord.
Studio: 4C - This studio in general makes really great 2D/3D films, and even though they produce mainly shorts, they are some of the best in Digital 2D around, in my opinion.
Director: Brad Bird - I'd go with him on this one, rather than a Japanese director, because I feel that he'd stay fairly close to the original material, and also he's a good one for children, because though he he makes things emotional and easy to understand, he doesn't speak down to his audience and makes a more sophisticated children's film.
Character Designer/Lead Concept artist: Takeshi Honda/Mitsuo Ito - Dennou Coil. They do great children characters. The designs are kind of Ghibli-esque but a little less old fashioned.
Mechanical or Environment Designer: Makoto Shinkai - I'd like to see the blue twilights and soft glows typical of his work applied to the night scenes set amongst the crumbling architecture and canals of Venice. He can do night/evening/dawn really well.
Music: Danny Elfman - his spooky tunes for many of Tim Burton's films could be lightened up a touch to fit the mystery and magic of the story and the rusting charm of the rundown environments the children inhabit.
I'll start -
Original Concept/Script: (or the work it was adapted from) "The Thief Lord" - set in Venice, this is a young adult novel of runaway children and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord.
Studio: 4C - This studio in general makes really great 2D/3D films, and even though they produce mainly shorts, they are some of the best in Digital 2D around, in my opinion.
Director: Brad Bird - I'd go with him on this one, rather than a Japanese director, because I feel that he'd stay fairly close to the original material, and also he's a good one for children, because though he he makes things emotional and easy to understand, he doesn't speak down to his audience and makes a more sophisticated children's film.
Character Designer/Lead Concept artist: Takeshi Honda/Mitsuo Ito - Dennou Coil. They do great children characters. The designs are kind of Ghibli-esque but a little less old fashioned.
Mechanical or Environment Designer: Makoto Shinkai - I'd like to see the blue twilights and soft glows typical of his work applied to the night scenes set amongst the crumbling architecture and canals of Venice. He can do night/evening/dawn really well.
Music: Danny Elfman - his spooky tunes for many of Tim Burton's films could be lightened up a touch to fit the mystery and magic of the story and the rusting charm of the rundown environments the children inhabit.
Comments
-Fine, you can do live action. *sigh* This was more about artistic styles coming together, and live action is more about the chemistry between director and cast. That's not to say production design is not important, but it seems that you would want to do animation because of the distinctive art styles. You can choose comic book artists or any visual artist for the character designer, say.
-Bah, actors, I do not feel like writing a cast list right now. That's for another time. I want to think about the arting!
-There is? When the heck did that come out, or is it still in production? I liked the book, and I read movie reviews in the New Yorker each week. One would think I would have noticed.
-Yes, rotoscoping counts, if you think that that would produce a better movie.
Nobody is going to play? Pah.
"The Book of Three" - Based on a young adult fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, about a boy who wants to live his dreams and fantasies of glory and grandeur until one day he gets his wish when a very important and oracular pig named Hen Wen escapes from her pen and his quest begins. This was already adapted by Disney into an animated film called "The Black Cauldron", but it bears no resemblance to the series as it is a bastardized copy of the entire series (The Chronicles of Prydain) and generally unfaithful to the source material on which it is based.
Studio: Without question I would choose Albion based Cosgrove Hall in Mahchester for rotoscoping animation on this film because their previous work on animating a couple Doctor Who episodes in a sort of rotoscope-esque style just amazes and I think would suit the film adaptation very well.
Director - Myself (Matthew J. Geoffino) - Some of you might say that that might be an ego-stroke, but I honestly do think I am the only one who can make a successful adaptation of that book. I know the series inside and out in my head and I know what kind of shots would work for certain scenes; in short I've got the whole thing engineered in my head.
Music: Although I'll hire a composer to write some incidental music, I'll be largely relying on a good amount of already written music. The kind of music that I will relying on will consist of things that haven an Irish or Celtic flavor to it (mainly with a very sweet and soft sounding flute or piccolo to it )as it will evoke the atmosphere and mood that I want the audience to feel. The latter of which is mysticality, beuaty, and untouched wilderness.
Editor: I haven't decided yet but I want someone who is dynamic and very creative with editing.
Screenwriter: It will be myself since I am a really damn good writer due to what a majority of my friends and teachers have said to me, in fact I almost won an award in my high school year book about it, but lost
I hope that's what you are going for Gomily?
EDIT:Seriously guys, just go along and play this little game as I think it is full of potential and creativity that is waiting to be exercised and spilled out into.
Equipment and Weapon Design: My choice for who will design and produce all the weapons that appear in the film will be WETA Workshops, far and away. If their amazing and epic designs on the weapons in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy films are any indication, then it shows that they know how to properly make weapons and make them look awesome at the same time!
Also, yes, Thief Lord is awesome.
Animated by: Production I.G. and Studio 4°C (note the degree sign Gomily, manga groups don't animate, or do you mean 4chan studios? (; ).
Voice cast: The original Dutch cast taken from the time when they recorded the original TV series.
Everything else:
Name of Idea/Origin of Concept: "Wights of Wildwood" Based on a crazy half-assed idea by Rym DeCoster and Scott Rubin which consisted of their idea of a zombie movie being filmed at the docks and beaches of Wildwood, New Jersey. I was only alerted of it's existence when Emily was talking with me on the Geekchat of Friday, and I thought to myself that maybe it might be pretty fun to make. It doesn't take much to make a zombie movie other than lots of makeup, many gory special effects (most of which is cheap in comparison with other kinds of special effects that can be made with a computer), and a lot of physical activity. Also the fact that Wildwood is a schlocky "touristy" place makes this especially fun since a movie theater could be used as a hiding place, as well as using many kinds of foodstuffs and props from the shoppes nearby.
Studio Responsible: The as-of-yet non-existent Front Row Crew Studios of course! Who else would be heavily involved in such an idea other than the members of the FRC and possibly myself. Matter of a fact, I sorta have an aspiration to make this movie with them or at least make this concept with other people at Wildwood regardless.
Director: Undecided since I barely have any directing experience to take on such a task (despite how relatively small it is) and I also don't know anyone else in my personal life who would be interested or willing enough to commit to such a task. All in all, the jury is still out at this point.
Music: Probably some random creative commons music or just plain, old stock music that don't require royalties that need to be paid.
Editor: Undecided, but most likely myself unless I meet up with an indie-film editor who I feel would be appropriate for this project.
Screenwriter: Emily said that should such a project occur with the FRC's involvement, it would most likely be Scott Johnson since Emily stated he would want to write it since he loves zombie movies, but she would revise it and add to it or erase any hiccups in it.
It shall star Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman.