mOOn platOOn
7 regular features updated on odd days
The Bottom Line: This is a blog about mOOn platOOn, by Steve Games. Working in Hollywood but outside the bounds of studio controls, it’s a dream to create a movie – a TV series – a video game, books, interactive website and toys, and this is the beginning.
LOWER YOUR SHIELDS. Hollywood Outsider Makes Star Trek Connection
I enrolled in an improvisational acting class, and who sat down next to me on the very first night? Wil Wheaton, the actor who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation for four years.
Wil and I have now performed in class together and did some homework by going out to a couple of improv shows. He usually has an entourage (really!) but on two occasions it was just me and Ensign Crusher out on the town. No, we’re not gay. He’s married and I have a girl friend of six years.
He’s a good guy and quite the writer. Google him, he’s got websites, books, he’s an actual honest-to-gosh self-proclaimed geek. If he were just a bigger star, I’d recruit him for mOOn platOOn.
It Came From Out Of The Script
The following excerpt from the mOOn platOOn script features McVey, the government agent (an older black gentleman) who recruits for the secret space program devoted to building weapons, and Ariel, a talented but crude lost soul awkwardly trying her hand at prostitution.
McVEY
You must be pretty desperate. [They stop.] You don’t really like doing business with African Americans, do you?
ARIEL
How the “hello” do you think you know anything about me? Well, it’s nothing personal. I just don’t do coloreds. Usually. Don’t go all “civil rights” on me, okay?
McVEY
It’s okay. I don’t do prostitutes. No offense.
ARIEL
It ain’t just Negroes! I don’t do Chinamen or Japs, either. Or none of them…or those….I just like stickin’ with my own kind. Unless…it’s a holiday, or…
McVEY
Now that’s unfortunate. Because, first of all, you could use the business. And then, there’s the fact that you aren’t really hanging with your own kind at all. You think street scum is the best you can do?
If I Were Casting Now
The part of McVey, an older black American working for a secret government headhunting operation: MORGAN FREEMAN
mOOn platOOn Byproducts
As a novelty book for sci fi enthusiasts, how about Dr. Cannadda's Guide To Human Health On Other Worlds. [Dr. Cannadda is a medical practioner working on the Moon with mOOn platOOn]
mOOn platOOn Issues
One of the themes for the lead character, Oberon, is the issue of parental abandonment. His father never acknowledged him and the boy was raised by a rather resentful and underqualified uncle. Anyone out there share a similar situation with insights?
Other Projects By Steve Games
A shot from one of my music videos, Come Back To Earth. Yes, that's me! You can order a CD of my original music videos through the PayPal account shown at the bottom of the page.
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The Cast In Hollywood
Today feels warm and stagnant, a little hazy, not as hot as it's been but hot enough.
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