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10/07/2005: "Actors and Agents who turned down roles"

My favorite story of an agent who turned down a role in Gamers is Gary Coleman's agent.
The guy took forever to get back to us and then said it "wasn't the right material for Gary."
Mind you, I kind of screwed up, the part was for the character of the little person and being oh so creative I called the character Little person, even after we submitted the lines to Gary's agent.

By the way, I didn't bother naming any characters anything special. Hell John Heard plays Gordon's dad. Beverly is Gordon's mom. And Kelly is Angela's mom. And then William Katt is Reese's boss. Isn't that creative? I blame the fact on that I was saving up all the good names for my twin boys. Tu-Pac and Biggie. That's a joke, about their names.

Okay, back to Gary's agent who said it wasn't the right material. The right material? Jesus Christ! This is after the God's of Cinema blessed us with getting real actors like John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, William Katt, and Kelly LeBrock to appear in a God Damn Ultra Low Budget Indie film!
I had to throw away my boot leg VHS copy of the Kid with the 200 I.Q. after that one.

Here's another story, I'm sure Michelle the casting director will love me for this. I kind of doubt she reads the blog here, so this will be a test.

I was a huge fan of Jay Mohr's show called Action. Super fan of the show, it should of found a home on HBO and stayed there. Needless to say there were two people from the show Action I wanted to cast.
One was for a lead and the other was anything.
One of the guy's agent was such a prick that he told us "His actor wasn't interested in a project where the camera rental house was going to get paid more than the talent. Ha,Ha! We got the gear for free buddy!

The other actor's agent put us off for a month, and the day after we casted the part, the guy calls and says "We'll do it." And we said no.

If we get into a film festival, one that isn't like The El Monte Film Festival, my home town which I would hope would let me win. I swear I may drunk call all these frickin actors and go hey buddy, how was the part on that Disney Dog movie that's been re-done every seven years?

And don't even get me started on the wonderful folks at The Wizards of the Coast.

I got a tattoo of a phoenix on my arm back in 1997. It was from the Fiend Folio. I changed the face a bit to make it look less gay. I used an Eagles face. I felt a connection with D&D and Gary Gygax, even though my true reason for getting the tat, was because I was working for Home Depot Television and I got the tat to promise myself that someday I would do a movie. I was a little tired of getting my ass chewed out at HDTV for being the only guy using a jib to get nice footage from the stores.

So, hell I was all about fate and destiny. Shit, watching Empire Strikes Back will do that to you. I thought I was a lock for getting permission to use the Dungeons and Dragons name. We were so close, however, they pulled it. They got a partnership with somebody big to a do movie about a group of guys who play D&D in a hobby shop.

I still have no idea what or who is part of that film, but, christ if that didn't happen the same week our script got out to the web for rehearsals. Strange timing. So that's why we had to call the game Demon, Nymphs and Dragons. And we tried like hell to get Gary's blessings and came real close. So we ended up dressing ROBERTO BLASINI up as the Dungeon Lord.

I was close to calling it A.D.D.
However, Joe Nieves the actor who plays Fernando brought up a good point about the name Demons, Nymphs, and Dragons.

So I hope this blog didn't suck. Thanks for reading it.