Michael Marshall

Doesn’t mind if people call him Mike or Michael. Doesn’t like it when people call him Mikey but is too nice to tell them to stop.

76

Male

Homosexual (closet)

Screenplay Writer

Michael is not one to focus intently on how he looks. As long as his hair isn’t too much of a mess, he isn’t going to make a big fuss over it. He’s quite modest with how he looks. He knows he’s going bald so he just lets it happen. He has a beard due to not bothering to shave it in his years of depression. He ended up taking a liking to it.. As long as it doesn’t get too long, he doesn’t really care.

Luckily his hair color hasn’t completely disappeared, he’s still got large bits of light brown hair that’s very noticeable but, you can still see the gray and white parts of his hair starting to take over the rest of it. He’s quite healthy for his age but he still has a little bit of a beer belly but nothing that you would call fat.

His clothing is anything that feels comfortable and avoids attention. It’s usually just a dark plain t-shirt or jacket and occasionally he’ll wear a scarf.

Michael is quite a timid and quiet character. He’s spent over 30 years in isolation and depression and it’s made his confidence quite low. He has trouble asking for help when he’ll need it and doesn’t really engage in conversation, usually someone else engages in conversation with him. He prefers to work alone but a small part of him yearns for a partner. Someone else he can bounce ideas off but alas, the last 30 years have repressed that yearn but, it might still be there.

He wasn’t always like that. In his younger days in the 60s/70s, he was quite an outgoing and fun character. He used to be the one that brought the fun and created a night to remember. That same man has been dead for a while but maybe he’s still there. He might just need a little push.

Michael fears many things with this looming film production.He fears that he won’t be able to right for a more modern audience after so many years away. He fears that people will see his inexperience and treat him like some sort of liability. He also fears that his depression may get worsened by the film and it would send him even darker into the void. He also fears that too many people would find out about his true sexuality. The ghosts of his past is one of his largest fears. He hopes that he doesn’t go through what happened 30 years ago again. It would kill him.

Michael came from a relatively normal home. He had no brothers and sisters and is mother is the one who raised him. When he was young, all he would do is either read books and comics or begged is mother to take him to the cinema. He was in love with all of the stories created on each of these mediums. To him, it took him places that he has never been before. One day he’ll be fighting orcs in a fantasy realm and the next, he’ll be a gangster trying to make some money. The possibilities were endless for him.

He knew his dream would be to become a writer one day, so he was intent on making it happen. He started working at a butcher in his late teens to be able to raise funds to send him to film school. When he finally got enough, he said goodbye to his mother and left home with the desire to become one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. When he got to film school, he was very shy. It was the first time that he had been away from home, so the whole place felt foreign to him. That all changed when is meeting his writing partner and future lover: Henry Kilburn. They instantly connected on ideas, characters and stories and Henry managed to help Michael come out of his shell.

It was about the early 60s when they both got out of film school. They both got a shitty apartment together in Los Angeles and they were doing everything they can for opportunities and money. All they could get were either intern positions for asshole producers at the studios or doing grunt work with the technical equipment. They learned the hard way that the film industry was a very competitive place but they weren’t willing to let that get them down. Luckily they’re big break came when the writer hired to do a major paramount picture dropped out and they needed someone to quickly rewrite the screenplay before it gets sent off to the director. Their was only a few days to rewrite and no one was willing to do it in that small space of time but Michael and Henry took that suicide mission in desperate need of an opportunity. They stayed up for over 48 hours straight trying to rewrite it. It was the most stressful and nervous experience he had ever done. From that day on, he swore not try and back himself into a corner like that again. Even among the stress and anxiety, that was the night that they had discovered their love for each other and realized who they were.They also realized that it could damage their careers before they had even started if their secret got out. They made a pact not to tell a single soul of their love for each other. They got it handed in and many months later, the studio were impressed with the critical reviews for the film. It wasn’t amazing, it was just decent reviews but for a rushed script, that was a miracle. That’s when the studio started to focus more on Michael and Henry.

The 70s had arrived and that’s when Michael and Henry started to receive critical acclaim. They had written several screenplays over the course of ten years and each one was either a critical success, box office success or both! Both Henry and Michael received two Academy awards; one for best original screenplay and one for best adapted. They were at the top of their game and it all went to their head. A rocketball mixture of drugs, alcohol and sex was all Michael and Henry did. They felt at the top of the world and that nothing could stop them but the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

The darkest year in Michael’s life. It was a dark Tuesday evening when Michael heard the news. He couldn’t believe it. He didn’t want to believe it. His world had stopped and his heart felt like it was crushed to a million pieces. The moment he saw the body when he was asked to identify it. It was indeed Henry. His skin had become pale and his lips blue, like ice. He couldn’t help but look at him. He was so full of love, life and joy but now he was just an empty husk. Michael didn’t know what to do with himself. The killer shot him outside of the club they were supposed to meet at; Michael stayed behind at the studio to go over some details of a new screenplay with a producer. He kept repeating the same scenario over and over again in his head. Would things have been different if he had been there? Would they both be alive or dead? The killer turned out to be a pissed of drug dealer that Henry tried to rip off. What pisses Michael the most was that the deed was done out of business and it wasn’t personal. It would have easier somehow knowing that it was something more understandable that killed him.

For over 3 decades after that event. Michael retired from the film industry and from the public itself. For the first few years, people went crazy about where he went but by the late 80s, that hype had died down and no one cared anymore. No one cared anymore that Michael was now drinking himself to death in is home, drenched with sorrow and self-pity. That soon changed when he was reached out by a budding director named Jake Fowler. Michael was very reluctant at first but after one drink, Michael agreed to come out of his hole. What’s amazing is that this was the first time in so long that someone tried to reach out. He decided to cautiously but gracefully take the opportunity. Michael was curious to see how the film industry had changed in the time that he has been away.

The moment that both Michael and Henry got their first major screenplay finished. This was the official first one has they agreed that the rushed one didn’t count. In celebration, they opened a bottle of cheap wine and ordered some Chinese food. It was modest night followed by a beautiful full moon. It was perfect. His love life and career was going places.

The moment that he saw Henry’s body at the police station. He had never felt more depressed and more empty than that moment. It felt like and entire part of him had been ripped away. The pain was so excruciating that he couldn’t even feel it. It had literally killed him inside. Nothing will ever make surpass this memory for Michael. This was indeed his darkest moment.

He was dragged out of retirement by Jake Fowler to help him develop is film. Michael was very reluctant and negative at first but Jake told him that he understood who he was and why he left the industry. Michael couldn’t believe that someone finally saw what he felt, let alone have someone reach out to him. He agreed to do Jake’s film but was still reluctant in doing so as it had been so long since he was back in business.

24/04/1939

Has none due to the fact he lived in recluse from society for over 30 years.

Thomas Richard Eames

Tom, Tommy, y’know, the usual. Seriously, what else can you get from Thomas?

37

Male

Bisexual

Cinematographer

Standing at a perfectly average 5’9”, Tommy isn’t as big and scary as he appears from afar. The combination of distance, tattoos, and a strong, solid physique lends him the illusion of appearing taller than he actually is – not that it’s ever bothered him much. He is, after all, an adult, and that means he has better things to worry about. Like taxes. And his mortgage.

Tommy’s eyes are a darker shade of blue, and he often bares his crooked teeth in a too-wide grin. There is a small scar under his right eye from when he’d gotten slapped by an ex-girlfriend while she was holding a set of car keys (not something he likes to talk about).

Recently, he’s taken to getting his head shaved at the sides, though it’s mostly out of convenience rather than any real desire to look his best. All the same, it’s undeniable that he’d almost be handsome in a gruff sort of way if you could actually see his face underneath that beard of his. Often times, you’ll find Tommy dressed in Lacoste or Ralph Lauren polo shirts along with khaki slacks. Basically, “golf dad” is kind of his aesthetic – he’s even got the Rolex watch to go along with it.

His tattoos, however, are a whole ‘nother situation altogether. Just get a look at him without his shirt. Not every single one has meaning, but for those that do, he’d be happy to explain, if asked. To name a few particularly visible ones, he has the words “LOVE” and “HATE” tattooed across his knuckles, a tribal half-sleeve on his left upper arm (hey, he got that when he was eighteen, don’t judge), crashing waves on his right, a cross over his left pectoral, a small, black crown on the side of his right hand, and finally, feathery wings on the backs of his shoulder blades.

Tommy enjoys a cigarette and a bottle of whiskey on the weekends, loves his dog a little too much, and could probably do with seeing a barber more than once every six months. But for all his tactlessness, he really does mean well. When he asks a question, he really does want to know the answer, and when loves, he loves pretty ferociously. Then again, growing up with such a supportive parent will probably do that to a person.

His sense of humor, however sarcastic and crude, will never fail to bring a smile to people’s faces, and even if that doesn’t work, his laugh is deathly infectious. Tommy is one of those guys you hate to love, and he knows it well. Even so, he can be unpredictable, adamant, and dislikes making commitments, especially those he is not sure he can keep. But whatever one might be led to believe, Tommy is an extremely passionate, and emotional person. When he truly takes interest in something (or someone), he puts all of himself into it, and momentarily forgets about everything else.

This, however, means that he is very bad at relationships – really, really bad. He often comes as pushy and overly aggressive, in both his work and his life outside of it. One of Tommy’s defining traits is his volatility. Some days, he almost seems like a ticking time-bomb, ready to explode at a moment’s notice. If things don’t go according to plan, his temper often manages to get the best of him. It’s something he’s trying to work on, of course, though he knows that it isn’t going very well.

Above all else, Tommy fears never amounting to anything. He’s already let one opportunity slip through his grasp, the last thing he needs is for history to repeat itself.

Tommy was born on a sunny August day to Mary Anne Eames, a young waitress from Toronto. Mary’s religious upbringing had, unfortunately, left her homeless as soon as her parents realised their “sinner” of a daughter had gotten herself pregnant out of wedlock, not a boyfriend to be found. Fortunately, Mary had a friend living in Michigan, and while she hadn’t the time or money to get herself an education, she was able to raise her son with a roof over their heads whilst she continued to work.

Tommy’s first brush with the industry happened when he was 11, when a film company shot scenes for a movie in his neighbourhood. He was fascinated by the crew setting up lights and cameras, and soon sought to do the same. With all the grace and enthusiasm of a child tearing open his Christmas presents (which incidentally, included a second-hand camera that year), he began shooting his very own collection of home movies and short films.

After graduating high school, Tommy found a job as a production assistant at a TV station. Which, in layman’s terms, translated to getting bossed around by his superiors while he did all the grunt work. Within a couple of months, however, he managed to work his way up from fetching coffee to shooting low-budget PSAs for $125 a week as a cameraman. Tommy eventually moved on to doing some freelance work when the routine got old, though most of the time, he was recruited as a grip or electrician, and he was dying to get behind a camera again.

Then, at the age of twenty-one, Tommy managed to put together an impressive enough resume and demo reel that earned him a full-ride scholarship to the American Film Institute in LA. During his second year, a collaborative short film made by him and a couple of his classmates earned itself a place at Sundance.

Once he’d graduated from AFI, with both a degree and work experience under his belt, Tommy found it a hell of a lot easier to get the jobs he wanted. Not that it was always ever a smooth ride, he’d had to deal with his fair share of rejection along the way, and the only reason he managed to pull through was because he had thick skin. But soon enough, he was earning enough money to move his mom from their crummy, one-room apartment in Detroit to a nice house in the suburbs.

Of course, as the saying went, all good things must come to an end. His mere involvement in a critically panned film in the 2004 was enough to cast a questionable shade on his reputation, and for years, Tommy was stuck in a quagmire of terrible B-movies.

It’d taken no small amount of luck (and shameless self-promotion), but finally, in the summer of 2012, an up-and-coming director decided to take a chance on Tommy, hiring him as the director of photography for an ambitious, neo-noir thriller. Tommy drew on his prior experiences, and just like that - his unique, stylistic approach to the lighting and framing of characters, combined with great creative direction from the director - won the film an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Since then, things have been looking up for him. While some still have their doubts about Tommy, thinking of him as a one-hit wonder, his latest work has seen him stepping up his game. He knows what’s on the line, and getting complacent simply isn’t an option. (Insert Name Here) will be the second, big-name feature film he’s worked on since his comeback.

Winning that Academy Award, of course. Sometimes, he still finds it hard to believe that it wasn’t just something he dreamt up.

The low point of his career, when the only work he could get was shooting awful movies for awful cable TV.

Why wouldn’t he? Even with an Oscar under his belt, he still finds it kind of surreal that he’d been offered a gig for something as big as this.

August 25th, 1978

Virgo

Twitter: @TommyEames78
Instagram: @ThomasEames
_{(Because he’s just that creative.)}

Never Have I Ever > Into The Wrong Hands > Soulmates
_{(Also, he owns a Pitbull named Rocco, just as an FYI.)}

Noor Jurji Bahadur Al-Madina, PhD

Some people call her Nora. She doesn’t mind it, but she will be mad if she gets a letter addressed to Nora L Medina

42

Female

Asexual

Writer

Cat lady might be the best words to describe her aesthetic. Noor doesn’t care much about her personal appearance. She usually dresses in an oversized sweater or sweatshirt paired with practical pants. Her hair is usually very unkempt and messy, when she has to look a little presentable she will tie it into a bun. Poor eyesight runs in her family, so Noor frequently wears thick glasses instead of contact lenses. She’s a little taller than the average woman, but slouches so this fact is rarely noticeable.

Noor is not a social butterfly. She can get along with people and even form friendships, but it is difficult for her to interact with strangers. She reads whenever she gets the chance, and talking about media is one of the few ways she can find common ground with unfamiliar people. Noor is very methodical and prone to thinking outside of the box, she often starts with ideas that seem strange and gradually works on them until they are less out there.

She frequently appears spaced out, like she’s lost in her own world. She appears this way both when she is paying attention and when she is not, which happens more often than she would like to admit. Noor is very committed to her artistic vision and her own ideals, but is averse to conflict. She tends to change the subject when disputes over this come up, even if they will have to be discussed eventually. She is rarely in a bad mood, but her quiet nature means this is hard to notice.

Being forgotten, being manipulated

Noor grew up in a middle class household in Windsor, Ontario, the second oldest of five. She read frequently, a habit which her parents encouraged, particularly her father, a paralegal who had at one point aspired to a literary career. He never realized his dreams, but did have a quite extensive book collection. From an early age, her taste was eclectic, digging into old classics and modern pulp with equal ease. While she definitely had her favorites, this was when she developed that every genre and nearly every book has strengths that a writer can learn from.

Noor was never comfortable around strangers, and spent most of her time with her family or reading. Plenty of reading and time to study allowed her to earn high marks in school. She went to college at the University of Michigan; this was her first time spending an extended period away from home. It was a stressful experience for her, and she coped by rarely leaving her room. Noor had always wrote a little bit, but it was during her self-imposed isolation that she really began to develop her style.

She finished her undergraduate studies with a dual major in math and English, and went to graduate school. Even though she enjoyed fiction writing, Noor avoided creative writing classes due to her discomfort during the workshopping process, she focused on literary criticism instead. As a post-doc, Noor worked as an adjunct for several universities in the area, in a futile search for a path to tenure.

Over the years, she read and wrote more, and shared her work with a few penpals, several of whom were published authors. With careful study and the advice of those more experienced, she refined her eclectic style and started to get her stories published in a few minor journals. They attracted notice for their metafictional elements and philosophical themes, but she remained relatively obscure.

Her first real break came when she wrote her first novel, Psychic Distance, a psychological novel with elements of magic realism that focuses on a man in country in the midst of a revolution. It received good reviews and minor commercial success, enough to increase interest in the rest of her work. She published a few short stories for several years while she worked on the book that would become her best known work. The Folding of Space was somewhere between a collection of related stories and full-fledged novel, but either way it was greatly praised and won awards. Despite being experimental, it was successful enough for Noor to concentrate on her writing career full-time and marked her as one of the newest members of the literary elite. She’s currently planning her next large-scale work and exploring opportunities.

Noor has always had some interest in film, and has written film criticism before. Studios tend to write her novels off as unfilmable but are still interested seeing what she could come up with working in conjunction with film professionals. She found these offers a lot more tempting when she realized that she would soon be facing a large tax bill due to the complexities of international tax law.

August 24th, 1973

Melody was, in childhood, known as Mellie to her friends. In high school she tried to go by “Rae” to be “cool” and doesn’t let anyone call her that anymore. If you’re a friend of hers, you can call her “Mel”; otherwise it has to be “Melody”. She makes exceptions for her music students, however; many of the younger ones have taken to calling her “Auntie Mel” or “Aunt Mellie”.

Twenty-Three

Female

Heterosexual

Composer

Mel seems to have inherited an equal smattering of traits from both parents: her mother’s blue-gray eyes and curly dark brown hair, which she usually pulls into a bun, and her father’s golden complexion and general bone structure. She’s rather short, about 5’1, another trait that she inherited from her mother. She usually has a fairly distracted expression on her face, her eyes unfocused and staring off into the distance; usually she can be found distractedly tapping the table or desk with a pencil or pen and mumbling under her breath.

Fashion-wise, Mel tends to go simple and comfortable. She favors pale colors and generally conservative styles. Her go-to outfits are button-up shirts and long skirts. She generally hates any look that draws attention to her, such as the monstrous glasses that she got when she was in high school and still trying to “stand out” (but she never can remember to trade them out when she goes to the eye doctor.) She wears very little makeup, usually only when there’s some formal event she needs to go to.

Scatterbrained, Distant, Quiet, Fidgety.

Mel is the stereotypical composer. Always distracted by her work (and from her work), without great time-management skills. She’s often seen frantically rushing around the set looking for her in-progress score; she’ll often set things down without knowing and then entirely forget about them, until she suddenly has an epiphany and needs to write it down in her notes.

When it comes to interacting with people, Mel prefers to not. She’s a kind soul but she very much dislikes interacting with people in a casual sense. She does fine in a professional sense, in that she’s able to interact with fellow composers and musicians in the workplace and keep her orchestra (fairly) happy, healthy, and sane, even during concert season. But when it comes to being an actual friend… well, she has issues.

The one bit of human interaction that she actually does enjoy is her music classes. She offers private lessons for clarinet and has quite a few students, typically elementary and middle schoolers who want to learn but are intimidated by other instructors they’ve tried.

Ironically, she fears being feared. She doesn’t ever want anyone to distrust her or be afraid of her.
Breaking her clarinet. It happened to her once before, in middle school, and it was the most horrible thing she ever experienced.

Mel has a lot of favorite memories. One of them is from when she was six or seven and got to play a clarinet sonata as the soloist with her local high school’s band. Another is when she opened the gold-leafed envelope from Juilliard. Or when she went to the orchestra on her birthday and wound up almost fainting when she realized they were playing her symphony. Or just a few months ago, when she took all of her students to a state music festival and their ensemble wound up taking first place.

When she was in seventh grade, a group of kids cornered her when she was walking home from school. They systematically destroyed her clarinet, by jumping on it, banging it against the brick wall, etc, and breaking all of her reeds by smashing them into the ground. She collected all of the pieces of it, and has all the keys on a necklace that she used to wear every day and still keeps for memorabilia’s sake

You’ve got to be kidding. A blockbuster movie for a twenty-three-year-old composer? Resume fodder, anyone? Also, she’s getting bored with just the standard, already-written pieces and needs to get her creative juices flowing

September 1 1992

Virgo

Twitter: @MelodyDreamer
Alternate Twitter: @HSOMel
Facebook: Mel Nielsen
Instagram: MelodyClarinet
Tumblr: Elusive_Clarinetist

Hayden Shiri Anderson

Anderson is his preferred alias as he finds Hayden a bit too feminine for his liking. Calling him by his middle name is a sure fire way to piss him off as he feels its reserved for family only and it sounds too much like "Sherry" when english-speakers say it.

29

Male

Heterosexual

Props Master

Anderson is most characterized by his resting, seemingly uncaring bitch face. That said, he does have a dashing smile that he shows every few blue moons. He's a tall man at about 6' 2" with an average built and has always looked young for his age.

His eyes are a dark coffee brown, already having stress lines and dark under eyes if you look close enough, and his black hair is slick due to either hair spray or gel. If he didn't take the time to "tame" it in the morning, chances are he'd look like an anime character. He does shave a lot as his facial hair can grow quite rapidly and thus he often experiments with different facial hair styles at a whim. Right now however, he's clean shaved.

The other major part to note about him is his hands, rough and dirty from his job of constantly making things (and his nail biting habits). No matter how well he cleans them, they will always have traces of dirt or oil or something. Despite how often he is hunched over something, his back is always straight up like a drill sergeant's.

Clothing wise, he favors working clothes or formal or something in between. Jeans and fancy vests are his favorite items though.

Perhaps the most prevalent thing about Anderson is his snark, now in varying shades of mockery, sarcasm, annoyance, bluntness and indifference. He's a very down to earth and pragmatic man with a strong and dedicated work ethic but that doesn't stop him from chewing the hell out of people, even his superiors can only have such an amount of control over his snark.

To the people he opens up to, Anderson's snark has more of a humorous side and his willingness to help them personally increases. However, he absolutely refuses to be connected to "special snow flakes". That isn't to say he'll sneakily help them in some way, but it means he just won't talk to them and point out their flaws more often.

Job wise, he's very stubborn, once he has an idea on how something should be made or handled, he will stick by it. This is a sort of double edged sword where on one hand, the things he uses and makes are of exceptional quality, and in the other, he tends to ignore deadlines and pre-set budgets. And because he puts so much effort and time into the stuff he makes, he hates seeing it destroyed. Thus, its not far fetched to see that Anderson doesn't hold the pyrotechnics people in the highest regards.

Ghosts, Bugs, spooky stuff, being unable to use his hands

Anderson was born to rural country girl and a city kid, his parents meeting in college. For as long as he knew, his mother had been a chemical researcher while his father had been a dentist. One would say here that it would make little sense on how Anderson would have acquired his skills set from this, but it was actually his Grandfather who taught him handicrafts and otherwise blue collar work (and his attitude).

Never the amazing student, Anderson gravitated towards the nerds who'd put models together and paint them or the robotics geeks who'd obsessed about making sure every screw was right and re-checked lines of code twenty times over. Getting into wargaming himself, he saved up pocket and job money to get into it, taking the time to hand paint and decorate his little models with custom creations which got more complex and elaborate as time went on.

His first experience with the fine arts came late in his high school career when he decided to join the props and scenery crew of the school theater club. Within his first show, he had become de facto leader of the crew after rather viciously chewing out the actual leader and out doing him by making half the things needed on his own. Impressive to say the least, he'd gotten himself a permeant standing as leader of said crew until he graduated.

After graduating college, he began to search for work, doing various odd jobs to stay alive. Despite his skill at producing props and scenery, his lack of finer points of social conduct made getting said jobs a lot harder. It didn't help that he was young and lack contacts within the industry to help him. After working on small films, Anderson's true break out into the industry might just be now.

He needs money and a break out role to prove that he didn't just waste his life going after an other wise worthless talent.

May 3, 1986

Tarus

Twitter: @TheCrimsonFckr
Tumblr: Professionally_Asian

Emma Sophia Fowler

Emma. Easy enough to say, needs no nicknames.

34

Female

Bisexual

Camera Operator

Emma is a bright and sparkly girl that can often be seen with a smile on her face. Adorned with a pair of sky blue orbs that never seem to lose their sparkle, they're one of the most distinctive features on her face. Her thin lips rest easily on her face, supple and intuitive, ready to spread into a smile at a moment's notice. Her hair. a lovely shade of coppery brown cam be usually seen styled in the shape of a bob with the fringe covering most of her eyebrows. Her ivory complexion is pale and smooth yet hinted warmly with a glint of golden undertones. Her body is lithe yet managing to possess a decent amount of curves, her posture excellent and her demeanour inviting.

Apparel wise, she prefers function and ease especially those that aid her in her daily life and routine. She can usually be seen dressed in an assortment of tank tops, blouses & t-shirts along with a pair of jeans or pants completing the outfit with a pair of sneakers or sport shoes. The colours she favours are white, black, greys, greens and browns.

Warm, Friendly, Inquisitive, Scatterbrain

Emma is very much a people person and generally gets along well with people due to her pleasant disposition. Talkative and equipped with a great sense of humour, she is also rather playful and a fond lover of jokes, tending to laugh at most of them, especially the ones cracked by her friends. Headstrong and determined, once she sets her mind on something, she will do her best to achieve or complete it. Inquisitive and naturally curious, she is always interested in the affairs of others, seeming to poke her nose into matters that do not concern her purely out of curiosity. A keen explorer, she loves learning new things but can be quite the scatterbrain, forgetting things she may need and getting distracted rather easily. With that said, she is a hard-worker and is willing to put in the extra mile for her job.

When it comes to romance, Emma is by no means any good in the field. She does more than her fair share of flirting and is bi-curious, although she is more attracted to guys. A sucker for romance, she is a big fan of the whole love and affection thing between a couple and will go all out for the person she loves and considers her other half. She is very confident, although sometimes it may be overly so, which may come off as arrogance. Prone to being stubborn and obstinate, she often insists on doing things her way even though she knows that it may not be the fastest or most efficient way. She always seeks company, and likes it most when not alone.

Being single for the rest of her life

Born in the same lower class family as her much accomplished older brother, Jack Fowler, they grew up in what could be considered poverty, their life shaped by welfare, food stamps and even homeless shelters at certain occasions. Their parents, Amanda and Michael worked extremely hard for a living, providing the best for the three children they had, but there was only so much they could do when life was tough to them. The living situation of the Fowler family improved by some miracle or even divine intervention as Emma would like to call it, and the family was able to afford a cheap rental house that could house the lot of them. As a result of their struggles, the entire family was tight and close to one another, and none more than the brother and sister pair of Jake and Emma. The house wasn't big or spacious, but it was good to have some place permanent to stay in rather than moving around from place-to-place or shelter-to-shelter. The constant moving was starting to wear her out and she was glad for the change.

When Jake decided to go into acting, Emma gave him her full support, forever supportive of what her elder brother passion and interest was. The fact that he also happened to be really good at it was just the icing on the cake. When he became famous overnight, their family living situation changed immensely. No longer did they had to stay in a small cheap rental house, but they were able to afford a large and spacious home that they could finally call their own. The younger Fowler sibling also had the chance and opportunity to pursue her interest in Cinematography. She had great talent for it and did extremely well in her studies, graduating from school in flying colours and landing a job as a camera assistant. Continuing her trend of doing exceptionally well in what she does, after a couple of years of doing fantastic work as an assistant, she was finally promoted to the role of a Camera Operator. But life was not a bed of roses, as a massive scandal soon hit her brother, effectively destroying her brother's successive career in Hollywood.

Trouble soon found her as well, and Emma dealt with it in ways appropriate to the circumstances. As she was not an actress, it did not exactly impact her the same way it did with her brother. Apart from some hiccups and plenty of back-talking, she remained in her job as they required her technical expertise despite her brother's problems. As much as she tried to show that it did not affect her, it actually did. Although, it took a while, she was ecstatic when Jake bounced back, intending on make a movie for his directorial debut. Leaving her old studio behind with hardly any regrets at all, the decision was not difficult at all, opting to stay at her brother's side , helping him do what she does best, capturing greatness.

Seeing the finished theatrically released version of the movie she had worked on in a theatre. It had been a surreal experience for her. Especially seeing her names in the credits.

The time when she was harassed and gave trouble by paparazzi and colleagues alike.

To support Jake in his debut!

December 24th

Capricorn

Twitter: @EmmaCam
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Aleksandri Valora Galino

Aleksi: She got tired of introducing her whole name

28

Female

bisexual

Production Designer

Aleksi is a fairly tall Russian/Irish girl standing at the height of 6'4" which coupled with her radiant green eyes either allure or intimidate men who try to hook up with her. Her red hair that runs down to the middle of her back seems like it is just unable to be straight and tidy unless she ties it back with a scrunchy, this most likely comes from her father's side of the gene pool.

As you can see in the photo above she has A LOT of freckles but and they cover the bridge of her nose, she is overly proud of this saying that they make her super unique.

She doesn't like to spend a lot of time on her appearance since she isn't on camera most of the time but does put on a bit of make-up.

Aleksi's body is very toned but also lithe as she works out almost daily but isn't like a fitness nut or anything it just helps her think.

Aleksandri is a two sided coin, at times she can be spontaneous and random, while at others she will be quiet, timid, and won't want to get in other people's way. These personalities benefit her job as they both are hard workers through and through but with slightly different end results.

All and all she is a pretty down to earth girl who loves almost everybody... unless you mess with her daily routine. The Timid side of her personality loves to give directions and work from far away or from up high which suits her job of visualizing the area and the objects that are needed for the movie at the time. The more boisterous side of her personality works hands on, helping the roles under her make the set and objects. Either way both are ready to help others as long as they aren't doing something at the time.

The drawbacks of her personalities are that they both have their special problems, her Shy side for example has a very hard time communicating with people which could lead to a breakdown in communication between her and her charges. Her more open and loud side has the problem of procrastinating on things that she deems less important than another task or object which usually leads to her lesser work piles up causing her to need to work harder.

Absolutely hates Arachnids (spiders, scorpions, etc.)

Aleksandri was born to a Russian mother and a Irish father in a town on the outer edges of Russia. Her father was a nature photographer and her mother was an art designer for a t-shirt company which led to Aleksi gaining a passion for movies and art in general.

In school Aleksi was the bright yet quiet one in class that knew the answers to questions but didn't actually answer. This continued until she was pressured into becoming more "open" with her emotions and with other people which caused her to develop her split personality. Her friends, family, and teachers did question this change but slowly learned to accept her for herself.

While she did grow up in Russia Aleksi was allowed to traveled around the world when she turned 17 and began to start a job as a staged photography agent which means that she would actually set up a scenes to take photos of. Eventually she was scouted by a Company who hired her for her ability in scene construction and prop development and started at the bottom of the ladder until she thought she was worthy of going out on her own at the age of 26.

Aleksi was picked up by the current film company from a Indy Film expo where she was the winner for the best film design award; this is where she started in this busness and has been there for a few years.

Her favorite memory is when she looked out the commercial plane's window and spotting the shores of florida which to her signified the beginning of her new life in the movie buisness

Her least favorite memory is when she was visiting her father's home in Ireland on work related business and one night before a strong storm she woke up after hearing her father yell and she saw an army of spiders just marching through the house but thank god she had surrounded her bed with mothballs which kept most of them away.

She decided to work on this movie because she needs the money to pay for a new upscale apartment in New York city

Jan 8, 1994

Capricorn

@TheRedGoldVal

Daniel Branden Griffin

Dan- Its quite obvious as a nickname. He doesn't feel a particular way toward it. He doesn't love the name but he has nothing against it

During University and high school his close friends would call him D-man, it still comes up as a nickname for him to those people.

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Male

He is heterosexual when it comes to relationships, however, he'll flirt with anyone and everyone

Stunts Coordinator

Daniel stands at 185cm (just less than 6'1") and has quite a muscular body shape (thanks to the intense routine required to be a stuntman). He generally keeps quite a clean-shaven look despite a slight bit of stubble on his tanned face. Unless he's needed to do so for his job he doesn't spend much time getting ready. He doesn't brush his hair all that often but just smooths it out with his hands when he gets out of the shower.

Daniel has a single stud on his left ear, although he'd take it out when performing stunts or helping the stuntmen learn their stunts and such. Although he is the stunts coordinator on this project he is also a professional stuntman and still holds that role in other projects he does. He often has multiple bruises and has fractured his wrist on many occasions. He has a few scars on the back of his neck, one on his shoulder from when he broke it on one of his first projects and a small scar down his right cheek, not from a stunt, he fell as a child and accidentally slid down where a nail was sticking out as he fell.

Flirty and carefree, Daniel likes to live life to he fullest and loves to take risks. He, usually, is very joyful and cheery. He is quite the child at heart. Sometimes his cheeriness can get to the point of being annoying. He is quite the optimist and a bit of a dreamer. He is also quite possibly crazy but that the secret of a daredevil, right?

Daniel can get quite serious on occasions. His seriousness seem to come out when he is given a fair bit of responsibility and he can, temporarily become strict however there are times where Daniel just can't be serious when he should be. He can't seem to act in between his usual childish vibe or his occasional strict personality. He's either one or the other. On occasions he can be reckless. Once he has his mind set it's hard o change no matter how dangerous. He doesn't consider his own safety in many times. He is quite and intelligent man but for an intelligent man he can do some stupidly ridiculous things. When choosing the stunts crew for the projects he's working on he is very picky but he believes greatly in his choices, even if he doesn't show it all the time. He also has a bit of a habit of breaking things, never on purpose though.

- Daniel has a slight fear of not living his life the way he wants too
- Being buried alive

Daniel was born to a young family borderlining middle class and upper class. His father was a stunts driver/rider- usually using motorbike and cars and his mother was a lawyer until she was 7 months pregnant with Daniel's younger brother. Daniel has an older brother by 2 years,a younger brother by 3 years and a younger sister by 8 years. His father had worked with a travelling show for as long as Dan could remember so his father was on the road for 8-9 months of the year. Regardless of this Daniel and his father were very close.

When Daniel was 8 his father taught him how to ride a motorbike in one of his months off. Daniel quickly got the knack of it and each time his father was home he would teach Daniel a new stunt or 2. It started off with very simple tricks but as Daniel got older and more proficient on the motorbike the more difficult they got. At 15 Daniel joined his father, travelling around the country and performing stunts, he knew that was what he wanted to do. As he's mother requested he'd have some sort of education Daniel resorted to online schooling through the day and got slightly above average marks. His mother would state he could do so much better if he actually focused in class instead of always being distracted.

After finishing school Daniel continued travelling and performing stunts despite his mother trying to push him to at least start a degree on the side he never did. After 2 years his father had an accident during training which resulted in fractured back so he had to drop out of his job. Daniel continued for 5 months when he was discovered by a former stuntsman who took up a job as a stunts coordinator. He hired Daniel for a movie and spent months helping him learning other stunts not including vehicles. Daniel soon fell in love with the job and continued as a stuntsman for movies and TV shows until he was 27 when he was promoted to stunts coordinator. He still does the occasional job as a stuntsman but generally stays within his job description.

His schedule was free and anywhere he's getting a job, he's in. It started when he jokingly asked the director for the job over twitter but he approached the director a month later 'offering his services' to the movie.

January 15, 1987

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Maximillian Steinitz Goldstein

Max likes to refer to himself as “The Rainmaker”, in reference to his dealmaking skills, but this has not caught on. A better known nickname is Maximum Overdick, which stems from an anonymous comment quoted in the papers during the aftermath of his restructuring of Capella. He abhors that nickname.

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Male

Heterosexual

Executive Producer

He's an older man, and he has not aged gracefully. His hair is grey and thinning, his jowels are sagging, and ages spots can be seen on his face. Though he wears his hair in a comb-over to conceal his baldness, he still has the same brown eyes and large nose he was born with. He is 5’ 7”, a little shorter than average. He has noticeable gut and pale skin as a result of his largely sedentary lifestyle. He makes an effort to dress nicely even on casual occasions.

Max likes making friends, he always tries to build business relationships into actual friendship. He's outgoing, and loves to talk about whatever subject is on his mind at that very moment. He is a very patient man, and hates feeling like he is bossing people around, but holds onto his own views quite stubbornly. Max trusts people by default, and generally keeps a cheery outlook on life. He tries to be open to feedback and criticism, but gets offended when people flat-out ignore his instructions. When he does have to put his foot down and give orders, he tries to be gentle, but always puts business over friendship.
Max has a very high opinion of himself. He doesn’t necessarily look down on others, but it he does not like it when people point out his flaws. He is rather insecure and is not good at ignoring things said about himself. He particularly dislike comparisons to people he knows, especially his father or his friends at CRC. Max harbors lingering self doubt, but does not admit this fact.

Being laughed at, behind his back and to his face

Max came from a family of bankers in New York City. His father was highly regarded in the community, not only for his wealth but his generosity. As a young man, Max lived quite comfortably, and only worked hard when his parents insisted. As an adult he would follow the expected path of earning a business degree at Dartmouth, where his success was more due to legacy and quality tutors than his own merit.
He was quite well regarded by fraternity brothers at Dartmouth, but his grades made potential employers wary. He found a job at one of the less prestigious investment banks, and performed unexceptionally; he would spend almost a decade there. Max left when some of his classmates offered him a position as one of the first hires at their newly founded private equity firm, Cohen & Robinson Capital.
CRC was an immediate success and grew into one of the best known corporate raiders of the era. Max worked on several successful deals, but never originated one on his own, always taking direction from the founding partners. As the eighties drew to a close, the collapse of the junk bond market and increasing price of leveraged buyouts hurt the firm’s growth, spurring them to look harder for opportunities. Max came to them with the idea of buying up Capella Pictures, a studio dating back to the golden age of Hollywood which had posted a large profit in recent years.

Almost immediately after it was completed, the buyout looked like a mistake. The studio’s profits didn’t last as a string of artistic films tanked at the box office. The partners were furious and sought to blame Max for the failure, so they placed him in charge of the studio to ensure that he would shoulder all of the blame. Max was isolated from the rest of the company and in danger of being fired, his only option was to make big changes at Capella.

He read obsessively about what the other, more successful studios had done to bolster their profits. Max embarked on an ambitious restructuring plan, which he started by leveraging the studio’s back catalog and pull with theater chains. Home media releases and theater distribution deals brought in new cash flows to buy some time. After that, he moved on to change the film production side of the studio with a new emphasis on tax credits and financing deals to reduce risk. Most controversially, he took control of the studio’s slate of upcoming movies and cancelled a score of auteur projects while pushing a new emphasis on formulaic movies and franchises.

Max’s program succeeded in revitalizing the studio. He even wrote a minorly successful book about his strategy called The Bottom Line, which he makes a point of giving copies to everyone he does business with. Although he is happy with his reputation and the current state of Capella, he does not leave things entirely up to those below him on the corporate ladder. He still intervenes heavily in deciding what films Capella will and won’t distribute as he believes he has a good sense of what audiences enjoy.

Max was very excited to hear about Jake’s project because he believes it has a marketable storyline and thinks that Jake’s name could generate some free publicity. Capella has agreed to be responsible for distributing it to theaters, but was not comfortable with the budget Jake asked for. They have provided part of the funding, but not all of it.

March 19th ,1948

@MaxSGoldstein

Oliver William Brody

Ollie. Olivier (ol-i-vee-er) if you're feeling fancy. *wink*

27

Male

Bisexual

Assistant Stunt Coordinator and/or Stuntman

Usually considered overheight for his age, Oliver is the tallest of the bunch when it comes to stunt guys, but nowhere near the muscliest. He tends to look quite lanky, while still retaining good strength and stamina, enough to be a stuntman. He wears baggy jeans and t-shirts, and a hoodie if it's cold. He's rarely seen wearing smart clothes, and is completely out of place in a suit. He's considered childish for his age, with him wearing quite a lot of "nerdy" clothes. They're still awesome to him, though, and thinks it cool to be a kid at heart.

He also has two or three faint scars on his arm which he claims are from stunts gone wrong.


T-Shirts
Ollie takes preference to plain crew neck t-shirts, in a range of exciting colours, from white to cream, and even brown to pink. He also sometimes wears logoed t-shirts, and occasionally wears a certain Flash shirt just to creep people out. Another logoed t-shirt of his is a smoky Superman shirt.

Button-up Shirts
Even though he's out of place in a suit doesn't mean he's out of place in a button-up shirt. However, he's limited to 3 (a man can't look good in everything) - a dark grey long-sleeved button-up, a purplish-red short-sleeved button-up, and a plaid red and black button-up with roll-up sleeves.

Hats
Since he's so weird, Ollie likes wearing hats all year round, every season. Obviously, not every day. However, he does have a certain grey beanie he wears mainly during summer. Other hats include a Joker snapback, a Superman snapback, a Flash baseball cap and a black flatcap.

If you didn't tell already, Oliver is your typical stand-up comedian type of guy. However, one thing is effective - his comedy just works. He pulls jokes at the perfect moments, can easily lighten the mood of any situation, and it's hard not to crack a smile when he's doing his thing. Whether it grows on you or pisses you off to the core is your own decision.

Despite his comedic nature, Ollie knows when to be serious, and definitely knows how to do his job. He's skilled in acrobatics and parkour, having started gymnastics at age 2, and parkour at age 12. He's hard-working and intelligent, and will stop at nothing to deliver the optimal performance. Some in the industry might say he's overambitious, but one thing's for sure - he does a helluva job.

Dying on the job, failing in the industry, and not doing his parents proud.

Oliver was thrown into the deep end from a young age, having started doing gymnastics at age 2. He wasn't the top of his class, but enjoyed what he did, and carried on for years afterwards, making his gymnastics center a second home to him. He loved the place, and made friends with everyone, being a charismatic and funny kid as he grew and matured. He went to competitions (sometimes winning a bronze or silver!) and went to parties with his friends. They were his best friends for life!

Until he was 12, that was. His friends decided to quit gymnastics, as they became too caught up in football and didn't want to do "girly stuff". They stopped talking to him, laughed at him whenever they saw him in the street, and didn't even send him birthday cards. If that wasn't hard enough, the girl he liked started hanging around with them, too! Life couldn't get any worse. At least he thought, anyway. But one night, when he came home from school, balling his eyes out, his parents took him into the living room and showed him a video - it was amazing. People were running around, jumping over walls, doing awesome rolls and backflips!

He started doing parkour straight away, taking lessons and practicing in the garden. He went to the gym, trained up, and went big - he started a career in being a stuntsman. His first film wasn't too big-budget, but was a good way to introduce him to the business, and what goes into being a stuntman. He loved it, and went on to do four more films, three of them big-budget. After the fifth, he went back home to tell his parents how proud he was, only to find the house was sold and work was being done to the place. One of the kids he used to be friends with still lived on the street, and took him to the police station, where they showed him his parents' body in the morgue. They were burnt and disfigured, absolute horror on what remained of their faces. He broke down, going into a spiral of money loss and alcoholism. That was, until Jake Fowler found him.

Oliver recognized the man from his acting career, before a scandal had sent him plummeting, and felt sympathy for the man. He stopped drinking and ran to the nearest gym, before joining the movie crew. Now he's just waiting for his big comeback!

His debut movie, being videocalled by his mother and talking to her about what an amazing experience it was.

Coming home and being shown the burned up bodies of his parents.

Jake found him, being the washed up stuntsman he was, and invited him onboard. A comeback in a big-budget move, directed by none other than Jake Fowler himself? Who can say no?

January 14, 1992

Capricorn

Oliver Brody
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Oliver Brody ✓

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