Game Draft 2 rd 1: Star Wars: KOTOR vs GTA: Ballad of Gay Tony

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From Director Kenneth Branagh


Rose Byrne as Bastila
Nathan Fillion as Carth
Jennifer Lawrence as Mission
Ron Perlman as Canderous

Stanley Tucci voicing HK-47
Lawrence Fishburne as Jolee Bindo
Ralph Fiennes as Darth Malak
Jason Isaacs as Saul Karath
Brian Steele as Zaalbar

Jared Padalecki as Revan

VS

(New TV Series From Shawn Ryan, the Creator of The Shield)


Michael Pena as Luis Lopez (Protagonist)

Robert Downey Jr. as Anthony Prince aka Gay Tony (Supporting Character)

Victor Rasuk as Armando Torres

Mark Wahlberg as Rocco Pelosi (Supporting character)

Justin Timberlake as Evan Moss (Love Interest)
Liev Schreiber as Ray Bulgarin (Antagonist)

The Ballad of Gay Tony injects Liberty City with an overdose of guns, glitz, and grime. As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (a.k.a. "Gay Tony"), viewers will watch the competing loyalties of family and friends, and love the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price

Season 2 would be a completely different cast and story (another GTA game) similar to HBO's True Detectives

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

On the one hand, I don't really care much about KotOR, specifically (gasp!), on the other hand I couldn't care less about anything GTA. I know for certain which I'd be more likely to watch.

However, the GTA one seems quite well cast, and it definitely strikes me as a plausible concept for a series (I'm not sure if all those folks would go for a TV series role at this point. That's something I tend to ignore for these drafts, though).

KotOR is being (I assume) pitched as a movie. Can I ask which ending it will go with?

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

Padalecki breaks it for me. As much as I would like to see a KotOR movie (even if the twist doesn't have as much oomph if it's not interactive), he is a horrible fit.
Another vote for a GTA.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Hmm, yeah, reading up on KotOR, I'm assuming that Padalecki would be THE main focus of the film. With apologies to fans of Supernatural (and/or Gilmore Girls, I guess), I don't really see him as somebody I would choose to be THE star of a Star Wars movie.

I may have to vote for the GTA show, even though I would never come anywhere near it, were it made.

Or maybe I'll just abstain? That seems kind of lame, though...

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I will "third" the thoughts on Padalecki. I think he does a great job as Sam on Supernatural, and I like him. However, and I think this is as much a problem with Revan as him/herself, than just Padalecki, but Revan almost shouldn't be included in the movie. Actually, I would almost rather see them go the Rebecca route if they did a faithful adaptation of KOTOR and simply just have him mentioned by others. And just make Bastila be the focus of the movie until the end. Revan is a hard cast, considering he's a character the players made themselves and crafted their own personality to fit.

Which kind of makes sense when you think of Padalecki, cause he doesn't really have a strong emotional core in Supernatural. But still, just don't see him carrying a Star Wars film.

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I have to agree, also. As much as I love Padalecki as an actor, especially on Supernatural, I just so t think he would fit as Revan.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

It's funny how we have so many expressing doubts about Padalecki, yet KotOR is winning 6-3.

[Booster Beetle Will break before he bends Find all posts View Profile Close Booster Beetle]

He's the one weak link in an otherwise perfect cast (even though any actor in his mid 20's to late 30's could be Revan)

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Given that he's THE main character (I'm assuming), that's kind of a bad weak link to have, though.

Eh. I can't bring myself to argue the matter too strongly. Like I said, given a choice, I know which one I'd WATCH. I'm just not that impressed by the casting of the central character.

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Jennifer Lawrence as Mission makes up for it imo

[Fearless Agent Orange Find all posts View Profile Close Fearless]

I have infinitely more interest in a Star Wars film resembling what's been assembled here then in a GTA flick.