[NEohioPAL]Pre-casting for A Joker's Card sequel

Johnny Wu johnny at mdifilm.com
Thu May 19 09:55:17 PDT 2005


Hello everyone, this might be a bit early, but right now I'm preparing a
short story, the sequel to A Joker's Card, this time, however, it will
be our own superhero and villian, which it's the most important casting
that I have to create, so, I am doing some 'pre-casting', which means,
the script will be written based on the selected cast member. 

The characters are brothers/sisters, they will need to be fit or can do
their own acrobatic or preferable martial art stunts, they will be wired
(one have a heavy 15' long wing, while the other with a 15' long tal),
and enduring hours of being hang above the ground, both will be trained
with spear vs shield/sword martial art combat fighting.

Will this a pay gig? not sure yet, as I'm still in pre-production stage,
definetely the finished project will have as much or perhaps more
press/media coverage than A Joker's Card (Although with AJC, everyone
donated their time to be on the set for 4 days at 12-14 hours). And you
get to be experimenting with wire-fu :) I am also comtemplating to make
this a SAG experimental short film as I've direct contact with a few
people in LA that I might ask them to make some small appearances.
Again, everything is in planning stage at this time. Definetely for sure
is that the cast and crew for A Joker's Card had said they will come
back and help to make the sequel. 

To make this a fun and exciting project, I will need to start searching,
in pre-casting of the two brothers/sisters: Midael and Abbadon and
everything will easily fall into place, if anyone interested in
pre-auditioning for these roles, email me your headshot and resume and
we can proceed from there. The actual production (principal photography)
will not start until Summer 2006 (some of you probably want to know why
wait that long, simple: we need cool locations, outfit to be made, and
testing to be tried for explosions and such, and the creation of
props... One thing is we are going to try to create as much visual fx as
possible without using computer generated graphics or animations), which
means if you already had plan to move to another city by then, please do
not submit :)  

Why am I doing this? it's to challenge our team: the cast and crew to
exel in our expertise and to challenge ourselves with new obstacles,
everything in the sequel will be twice difficult to create compared to
previous, this would build our knowledge in filmmaking.

An outliine of the story can be found at this link: 
http://www.jrmorgenproductions.com/portal/viewtopic.php?t=480&sid=e9c54a
cecbb41341d1b64f2b09684d31

Thanks again for taking the time to read this. :)

Johnny K. Wu
Director/Producer/Editor

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