Here’s my pitch for a biker-mice movie (from crew, to cast, to music!)
btw, this is Pg-13. It’s based off a cartoon, and is a family friendly movie.
The guys behind the scenes: The Crew
Producers:
Rick Ungar (no picture available, sorry)
and Tom Tataranowicz
(they worked on both animated series of Biker Mice as producers)
Director: McG
A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.[1]
Having directed movies such as This Is War as well as both Charlie’s Angels movies, McG proves to me that
a fitting director for a project like this with directing his actors both in action and comedy which Biker Mice is in need of.
Furthermore with films such as Terminator Salvation McG proves to be handy in the Science Fiction genre.
Writers: Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (Tataranowitz and/or Ungar as consultants on script)
Hilarious dialogue, awesome action, Wernick and Reese are the men for the job
Zombieland, GI Joe Retaliation and Deadpool…. Need I say more? I didn’t think so
DP: Russell Carpenter
Russel Carpenter has worked as the DP on Titanic, both Charlie’s Angels movies, as well as This Means War
A cinematographer (usually credited with the title director of photography, or DP) is the chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, and responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image. The study and practice of this field is referred to as cinematography. In the American system, the camera operator and everybody else in camera department is subordinate to the DP, who, along with and next to the director, has the final word on all decisions related to both lighting and framing.
VFX:
For vfx we have Prime Focus or Prime Focus World, who has done visual FX for movies such as Total Recall, Dredd and Avatar
to read about what exactly they did for the movies they’ve worked on, go here
http://www.primefocusworld.com/work
and check these videos out
The main purpose for this is they wouldn’t be the main FX crew, they would have the job of (as you see in the above links)
creating some shots of Chicago, as well as shots of Limburger’s tower.
and secondly for FX: Aaron Sims Company, who has done visual FX, character design, and previs
(also known as pre-rendering, preview or wireframe windows) which is a function to visualise complex scenes in a movie before filming. It is also a concept in still photography. Previsualization is applied to techniques such as storyboarding, either in the form of charcoal drawn sketches or in digital technology in the planning and conceptualization of movie scenery make up.)
for movies such as Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Insidious and The Incredible Hulk. Just to name a few
Check out some of their work at different stages of their projects in the following videos:
MUSICAL SCORE:
John 5 (The soundtrack to this will be mostly 80s rock and metal, the score will also reflect this style but with that John 5 flare.)
THE PLAYERS: (Cast) (mocap and voice)
first up THE MICE:
the main mouse, the head honcho, Throttle:
during a time when the biker mice were captured his eyes were damaged by Dr Karbunkle’s experiments.
(the same experiments where Vinnie loses have his face and Modo loses an arm.)
so he wears sunglasses with technology to make him see again. Without them he is completely %100 blind.
As played by: (A)
Chris Pine
even though I am casting against type (which sometimes happens in Hollywood. And I like that! I love it when a director
casts an actor totally left field; it shows guts. Frankly on this site it gets very…
“Type casty” I am casting Chris Pine simply based on his voice and his bankability. Throttle has a very monotone voice and only once
in a while shows excitement or personality such as lines like “there’s only three things in this universe of ours you can count on,
Your brains, your bros and your bike!” Which isn’t very Chris Pine. Chris Pine is used to being the class clown in movies. Let’s give him a challenge.
(B)
Karl Urban
this one occurred to me when I was watching “And Soon The Darkness”
I thought about every movie I’ve seen Urban in, the monotone, stiff, serious characters he always plays. That is very much
like throttle. The only problem I ran into with Karl Urban was that apparently he has never played a comedic role. One could
argue that his Judge Dredd had a sense of humor though.
Vinnie: ladies man, comedy relief, wild man. Half of his face was removed in the same experiments that damaged Throttle’s
eyes.
As Played by
(A)
Ben foster: the only comedic roles I’ve seen him in are Birds of America but that was more physical comedy
than comedy in dialogue which Vinnie fits under. But I think he could pull it off
(B)
Joey Lawrence:
Not by any stretch a popular actor, and maybe too old for the younger acting of the mice. But the personality?
Perfect
(C) I didn’t want to pick someone to obvious. But when it fits it fits… Seann William Scott
Personally I think he might be too old for this role, particularly since Vinnie is the little brother persona of the
three biker mice. But again, If the shoe fits…
Modo:!
The gentle giant. Big...strong...and with more heart than any 10 men combined
But make no mistake ; if force is necessary, Modo can bring it. He too had been a victim of the Martian Wars of Liberation. Where Vinnie's face was disfigured (explaining the half mask), Modo lost an arm. But the replacement more than made up for his loss. Modo sports a bionic arm
As Played by
(A) Vin Diesel
With this choice I went with a little bit different of a direction; I don’t know of any roles where Diesel has played as gentle as a character as
Modo. But I don’t think it’s impossible for him to change it up.
(B) Dwayne Johnson
I also considered both him and Vin Diesel for Grease-Pit until I decided not to have grease-pit in the movie. He just doesn’t work in live action.
To me this doesn’t necessarily count as bad casting work seeing as in Hollywood it happens all the time that people will be up for the same
role and end up in different roles. (such as Jennifer Aniston and Courtenay Cox were up for the opposite roles of Rachel and Monica when
Friends was still casting.
CHARLEY:
The best wrench in Chicago, Charley is very possibly the best motorcycle mechanic anywhere. She's also the best friend a Biker Mice From Mars could ever hope to have.
As played by:
A) Amber Heard
Amber Heard usually plays characters with a tough exterior, so she could add a bit of edge to Charley. Heard is also the way to go
if a studio went with a “attractive seat filler”.
B) Adrianne Palicki
Palicki is getting more roles and more popular of late and her star is slowly rising, so would be a way for studios to cash in on her popularity.
She also has a cheery presence that I think could suit an onscreen Charley
THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS: (other Martian mice)
Harley
Only has a part in “Once upon a time on Mars” a biker mice movie from the 90s which tells the story of the Biker Mice’s lives back on
mars. Vinnie’s love interest on mars. Also pretty much the Mars equivalent to Charley. She fixed up the biker mice after their run-in with
Karbunkle that injured them.
AS PLAYED BY
Anita Briem
GENERAL CARBINE
General Carbine is the de facto leader of the Freedom Fighters on mars; a former Army officer who defected during the Plutarkian-Mars war. Has a heart for Throttle
General Carbine by ~
XtreamCrazy on
deviantART
(Is that not the sickest thing you’ve ever seen in your life? I found this aweome deviantart page with biker mice art.
AS PLAYED BY
Olivia Wilde
I’ll be honest, I’ve had a giant crush on this girl since I saw Tron Legacy, lol. She pretty much ends up in all my casts…don’t think she
was in my deadpool cast… but she was in my Savage Dragon cast as She-Dragon haha. Anywho I just think she’d be a great fit for Carbine
add just that bit of edge to the character but still make her likable.
Stoker:
Stoker is the founding father of the Freedom Fighter movement on Mars,
AS PLAYED BY
Patrick Dempsey
this was somehow the easiest choice. I had no idea initially who would play stoker in this, but I was going through a list of actors while I was watching the show and some reason Dempsey just seemed to be the right choice!
The Vilains!
The main bad: Limburger
Lawrence Limburger looks like an average, overweight multi-bizillianare --impeciable purple three-piece suit, white gloves, black shoes, red-tie, flower in the lapel, and an expensive-looking walking cane. No...nothing special...just average...
Except for the fact that he is really a Plutarkian in disquise.
Limburger by ~
XtreamCrazy on
deviantART
Plutarkians are a race of fish-people from the planet, Plutark. The Plutarkians wasted their own planetary resources, turning their planet into one, big mess. Now, they go around the cosmos, stripmining every planet they come to.
AS PLAYED BY
STEPHEN FRY
it was all about the voice and the fact that he oozes charisma and… hate to say it but kind of looks like him! hahaha
DR. KARBUNKLE
AS PLAYED BY
John Leguizamo
(Yup! That’s John! See what I mean about being a chameleon?)
As shown in Spawn, Too Wong Foo, as well as pretty much all of his stand up comedy and to a lesser extent but still Romeo and Juliet
Lequizamo has the uncanny ability to completely disappear into a role, both literally and figuratively. A brilliant character actor
I highly recommend you find his one man show on youtube.
PIT BOSS
PLAYED BY
Peter Stormare
Prison break, Bad Boys II, Constantine
MINOR VILLAINS:
THE ROAD RAVENS
A biker gang the biker mice run into when they arrive in Chicago.