11-08-2018, 10:21 PM
(11-08-2018, 05:14 PM)linus Wrote: ... As a side note, dunno if you guys ever corresponded with Neil Howe or the late William Strauss, but my experience is they are (or rather were in the case of Strauss) always so nice and accessible. (It's always great when people get to be successful but don't barricade themselves off to the world.) I wrote to Neil just his past week about this franchise I've been creating (now in conjunction with one of last year's "Beauty and the Beast" producers) and the generational archetypes of the characters. It takes place over the last 40-50 years, and going into the future, and concerns the life cycle of my fictionalized likeness, an abused former child actor who along with other former kid actors is also a clandestine agent for a secret global elite (this is the epic, comic book good and evil stuff - the proverbial bad guys run a global criminal empire built on drug and child sex trafficking). The first thing will probably drop next year - a pseudo-doc short in five different formats (about how a certain culture of child sex trafficking, originating in Afghanistan [see that Frontline doc "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan"] came to Hollywood in the 1970s + events in the present day) - and it's turning out to be a lot of fun in any event. A lot of the adult roles are and will go to former child actors (so far xers and millennials - the Homelanders will be newbies, mostly), the good guys playing themselves by name. I can only name the definites, rather than the probables (which include a couple or few former teen idols), but among the definites are my old friend Christina Nigra ("Cloak and Dagger") and Nathan Forrest Winters ("Clownhouse"). And unless they tell me I suck too badly, I'll be playing my dopey self. Maybe I could pay one or a few of you to go see something.
Always up for a movie. Say what and when, and I'll be there.
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