Meme: The TV Producer Edition
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some tv show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.
burningqueen gave me the prompt of SCIENCE FICTION. GOVERNMENTS IN SPACE. SPECIFICALLY, FOREIGN POLICY IN SPACE. I went with this to a certain extent, but my idea took on a different path from the original prompt.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
After a disastrous war that decimated both the Republic of Alexandra and the United Planet of Bolivara, all Mike Durbin wants to do is return home to his family and old life, and forget about the conflict. Unfortunately, his family has been evacuated, and he is left trying to piece together what happened to them. Ruth Durbin, on a neutral planet, is trying to keep her family together while dealing with the difficulties of living in a refugee camp with little contact to the outside systems. The Durbin family saga is contrasted with the political dramas of Alexandra and Bolivara as they attempt to rebuild and adapt to the new political climate as new powers attempt to assert themselves and old patterns start to reemerge.
Mike Durbin (Jeffery Dean Morgan): A former soldier for the Republic of Alexandra, he left the army after his contract ended to start a family with his new wife on the planet of Cypra. Establishing himself as a teacher, he was content until tensions between Alexandra and Bolivara erupted after a border dispute over the planet Thracia. Recalled to service, he served as a munitions expert until he was captured and became a POW until the end of the war. Returning home, he finds Cypra devastated and his wife and children missing. Traveling the systems, piecing together clues, he finds himself entangled in larger forces that threaten war once again.
Ruth Durbin (Olivia Williams): After meeting Mike in college, Ruth went on to become a veterinarian before getting married and settling on Cypra to star a family. Even after her husband went missing, she still keeps faith that he's alive and will find them somehow. After being shuffled from refugee camp to refugee camp, she ends up in a camp run by an aid agency on Pichua. Resourceful, she does her best to protect her family from the factions emerging in the camp, and aid those who need medical attention.
Julia Durbin (Adair Tishler): Julia, a previously outgoing child, has seen the war destroy her previously stable life, leaving her withdrawn and prone to clinging to her remaining family. She sees it as her duty to look after her younger brother, and is afraid that she'll never see her father again. Julia loves word games, and uses them to distract herself from her worries.
Richie Durbin (Asa Butterfield): Richie has very few memories of life undisturbed by war, and has come to view it as a fact of life. He spends most of his time playing with the other children in the camp, and looks up to his older sister as a role model.
Vick McCaffrey (Ewan McGregor): A fellow POW, he learned his fiancé had given him up for dead and moved on, leaving him with no where else to go. A lawyer by training, he enlisted because he initially believed in what Alexandra was fighting for, only to be bitterly disillusioned by the war. He still retains his black and white sense of wrong and right, and hides himself behind biting sarcasm.
Erika (Grace Park): Little is known about Erika, including her last name, but what is known about her makes Mike and Vick wonder why the travel with her--oh, wait, it's her ship. An arms dealer who played both sides in the war, she's disgusted with both their claims to moral superiority, and tends to see things in extreme shades of grey. One of her main annoyances is not being taken seriously as a legitimate source of knowledge about weapons because of her gender and looks.
Rachel Irving (Luciana Carro): A former Bolivaran soldier, she enlisted because she had very few other options. Losing her way after being discharged at war's end, she meets Mike, Vick, and Erika in a bar fight after accidently offending a local political figure. She blames Alexandra for needlessly prolonging the war, and causing further devastation to her home, leading to initial hostilities between her and the Alexandrans.
Ivy Griffiths (Emily Proctor): The head of the refugee camp where Ruth is staying, Ivy is doing her best to meet all the needs of the refugees, while battling to get the supplies and funding necessary from the Pichuan government. Her job as chief administrator only becomes harder when she discovers her camp is being used to supply a group of disgruntled Alexandrans as a base to attack Bolivaran settlements off-planet.
Carina Restlon (Stephanie Jacobsen): A mysterious refugee, her motivations are unknown to all who encounter her. Her path crosses with that of Ruth's, leaving the other woman confused and intrigued about what Carina may know about her husband.
President Sam Drake (Harrison Ford): As president of Alexandra during the war, he emerged victorious, although his republic was devastated. A former soldier, he has always believed in the inevitability of the growth of Alexandran power and influence, and that it was his destiny to carry this out. Although Alexandra was seen as the wronged party in the war, only time will tell if history will accept this interpretation of facts.
Prime Minister Aileen Branson (CCH Pounder): After leading the opposition to Bolivara's traditional monarchy, she was named the new prime minister in the Lamara Peace Accords, as agreed upon by both parties. Although this was done because she was seen as easy to manipulate, Branson does her best to steer a course true to her beliefs while rebuilding the United Planets, as well as dealing with the growing extremist movement that demands Bolivara go to war again to regain its former glory. Her main source of aggravation is working with the Regent Lara.
Regent Lara (Kate Vernon): The current monarch of the United Planets of Bolivara, Lara was not particularly pleased at ceding power to Branson. She still holds a substantial sway in the Bolivaran government, and does her best to maintain her diminished power.
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.
burningqueen gave me the prompt of SCIENCE FICTION. GOVERNMENTS IN SPACE. SPECIFICALLY, FOREIGN POLICY IN SPACE. I went with this to a certain extent, but my idea took on a different path from the original prompt.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
After a disastrous war that decimated both the Republic of Alexandra and the United Planet of Bolivara, all Mike Durbin wants to do is return home to his family and old life, and forget about the conflict. Unfortunately, his family has been evacuated, and he is left trying to piece together what happened to them. Ruth Durbin, on a neutral planet, is trying to keep her family together while dealing with the difficulties of living in a refugee camp with little contact to the outside systems. The Durbin family saga is contrasted with the political dramas of Alexandra and Bolivara as they attempt to rebuild and adapt to the new political climate as new powers attempt to assert themselves and old patterns start to reemerge.
Mike Durbin (Jeffery Dean Morgan): A former soldier for the Republic of Alexandra, he left the army after his contract ended to start a family with his new wife on the planet of Cypra. Establishing himself as a teacher, he was content until tensions between Alexandra and Bolivara erupted after a border dispute over the planet Thracia. Recalled to service, he served as a munitions expert until he was captured and became a POW until the end of the war. Returning home, he finds Cypra devastated and his wife and children missing. Traveling the systems, piecing together clues, he finds himself entangled in larger forces that threaten war once again.
Ruth Durbin (Olivia Williams): After meeting Mike in college, Ruth went on to become a veterinarian before getting married and settling on Cypra to star a family. Even after her husband went missing, she still keeps faith that he's alive and will find them somehow. After being shuffled from refugee camp to refugee camp, she ends up in a camp run by an aid agency on Pichua. Resourceful, she does her best to protect her family from the factions emerging in the camp, and aid those who need medical attention.
Julia Durbin (Adair Tishler): Julia, a previously outgoing child, has seen the war destroy her previously stable life, leaving her withdrawn and prone to clinging to her remaining family. She sees it as her duty to look after her younger brother, and is afraid that she'll never see her father again. Julia loves word games, and uses them to distract herself from her worries.
Richie Durbin (Asa Butterfield): Richie has very few memories of life undisturbed by war, and has come to view it as a fact of life. He spends most of his time playing with the other children in the camp, and looks up to his older sister as a role model.
Vick McCaffrey (Ewan McGregor): A fellow POW, he learned his fiancé had given him up for dead and moved on, leaving him with no where else to go. A lawyer by training, he enlisted because he initially believed in what Alexandra was fighting for, only to be bitterly disillusioned by the war. He still retains his black and white sense of wrong and right, and hides himself behind biting sarcasm.
Erika (Grace Park): Little is known about Erika, including her last name, but what is known about her makes Mike and Vick wonder why the travel with her--oh, wait, it's her ship. An arms dealer who played both sides in the war, she's disgusted with both their claims to moral superiority, and tends to see things in extreme shades of grey. One of her main annoyances is not being taken seriously as a legitimate source of knowledge about weapons because of her gender and looks.
Rachel Irving (Luciana Carro): A former Bolivaran soldier, she enlisted because she had very few other options. Losing her way after being discharged at war's end, she meets Mike, Vick, and Erika in a bar fight after accidently offending a local political figure. She blames Alexandra for needlessly prolonging the war, and causing further devastation to her home, leading to initial hostilities between her and the Alexandrans.
Ivy Griffiths (Emily Proctor): The head of the refugee camp where Ruth is staying, Ivy is doing her best to meet all the needs of the refugees, while battling to get the supplies and funding necessary from the Pichuan government. Her job as chief administrator only becomes harder when she discovers her camp is being used to supply a group of disgruntled Alexandrans as a base to attack Bolivaran settlements off-planet.
Carina Restlon (Stephanie Jacobsen): A mysterious refugee, her motivations are unknown to all who encounter her. Her path crosses with that of Ruth's, leaving the other woman confused and intrigued about what Carina may know about her husband.
President Sam Drake (Harrison Ford): As president of Alexandra during the war, he emerged victorious, although his republic was devastated. A former soldier, he has always believed in the inevitability of the growth of Alexandran power and influence, and that it was his destiny to carry this out. Although Alexandra was seen as the wronged party in the war, only time will tell if history will accept this interpretation of facts.
Prime Minister Aileen Branson (CCH Pounder): After leading the opposition to Bolivara's traditional monarchy, she was named the new prime minister in the Lamara Peace Accords, as agreed upon by both parties. Although this was done because she was seen as easy to manipulate, Branson does her best to steer a course true to her beliefs while rebuilding the United Planets, as well as dealing with the growing extremist movement that demands Bolivara go to war again to regain its former glory. Her main source of aggravation is working with the Regent Lara.
Regent Lara (Kate Vernon): The current monarch of the United Planets of Bolivara, Lara was not particularly pleased at ceding power to Branson. She still holds a substantial sway in the Bolivaran government, and does her best to maintain her diminished power.