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My cast for a live-action Lucky Star

posted 16 years ago by ryanasaurus007
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"Lucky Star" (2008)
Cast
Emma Watson as Konata Izumi; Kanata Izumi
Kay Panabaker as Kagami Hiiragi
Rupert Grint as Tsukasa Hiiragi
Carly McKillip as Miyuki Takara
Breck Bruns as Yutaka Kobayakawa
Bonnie Wright as Minami Iwasaki
Morgan York as Ayano Minegishi
Ashley Hughes as Misao Kusakabe
Jamie Lynn Spears as Patricia Martin
Britt McKillip as Hiyori Tamura
Britney Spears as Nanako Kuroi
Natalie Portman as Yui Narumi
Chris Rankin as Kiyotaka Narumi
W. Axl Rose as Soujirou Izumi
Slash as Tadao Hiiragi
Ming Na as Miki Hiiragi
Keiko Kitagawa as Inori Hiiragi
Chisaki Hama as Matsuri Hiiragi
Stephanie Seymour as Yukari Takara
Jerry Seinfeld as Meito Anisawa
Naomi Watts as Hikaru Sakuraba
Summer Glau as Hinata Miyakawa
Dakota Blue Richards as Hikage Miyakawa
Director
Richard Epcar
Distributors
Walt Disney Pictures, Cinergi Pictures, and SOS Productions
Rating
PG for rude humor, bullying and some language
Music
Trevor Rabin
Countries
Japan/UK/USA
Languages
English/Japanese

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] thecalhouns 15 years ago

Britney Spears as Nanako Kuroi? you've got to be freakin' joking....

back in 98 I did a titty comedy for Skinemax. Sex Camp, ya remember it?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Really? I wonder who YOU would've picked to be Nanako Kuroi.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Someone who can act.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Such as?

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

A brick wall, perhaps.

Or, if a suitable brick wall is unavailable, how about you?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Are you insinuating that Paul Newman, Laurence Olivier, and Clark Gable were all frauds, saying that a brick wall can act?

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

No, you simpleton. I'm insinuating that a brick wall is a better actor than Britney Spears.

I am further insinuating that you are like a brick wall, in that trying to reason with you is about as productive as bashing one's head against one.

And to top it all off, I am suggesting that you, as a proverbial brick wall, who likes to dress Rupert Grint in drag for these things, take a taste of your own medicine, put on a padded bra and play the role of Nanako Kuroi yourself.

If that's not enough of a challenge for you, you can perform the role in Hungarian.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Request denied. I was asking who would be a better actress than Britney Spears, and "a brick wall" isn't a feasible answer. However, I would like to dub Axl Rose's voice in Spanish AND Japanese, though for the latter, I'd require Romanji in all of my lines.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Which is why I suggested you do it. You can't possibly be a worse actress than Britney Spears is.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Except for the fact that I'm not a freaking professional at acting, though I am planning on doing a web series called "The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya".

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

You're not a professional at acting? But you were speaking so authoritatively before about what kinds of things an actor needs to stay challenged and at the top of their game. Things like playing lots of roles of the opposite sex, performing using languages they don't speak, and doing far more work in a year than is humanly possible.

Are you saying that you're not actually an expert on that?

Next you'll be telling me that this ridiculously stubborn, agenda-pushing, reason-denying online persona you've crafted isn't an act and is the real you.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

When I said I wasn't a professional, I only meant I wasn't an actor, not that I wasn't an expert on acting. In fact, what I know about acting comes from motion pictures, behind-the-scenes specials, stage shows, and books about the film industry, among other things.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

So you can dress in drag and play Kuroi, but you just don't want to.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

I wish I could act in a real movie, but not the way you suggested. What have you seen of Britney Spears that proves to you she can't act?

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

I wish I could act in a real movie, but not the way you suggested.

But you don't have a problem with making Rupert Grint act that way?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

The reason why I don't act that way is because I feel more comfortable in the producer's role.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Since that's the only way you could possibly inflict the various degradations you want to inflict on your cast where they would have to click their heels, salute, grin and bear it, of course you would. If you were anywhere else in the chain, they would be free to tell you what to go do with yourself, as well as the horse you rode in on.

They'd still do that after one day of working with you, anyway.

Why you think any company would trust you with millions of their dollars to satisfy your Emma Watson obsession is another question entirely.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Why you think my Emma Watson obsession is going overboard is yet another question entirely. And no, I don't think my own cast would tell me what to go do with myself, and why are you assuming that producers ride horses? Are you insinuating that Lucky Star is a Western? It's not a Western in either sense, except maybe for the fact that in my mind, a Western world cast and crew highlights the film.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Why you think my Emma Watson obsession is going overboard is yet another question entirely.

When you have an entire wiki devoted to an Emma Watson you've created in your head, it's gone overboard.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

It's about more than Emma Watson! It's about her band, the Remington Steelers, and everyone connected to the band as well.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] thecalhouns 15 years ago

Really? I wonder who YOU would've picked to be Nanako Kuroi.

I don't know, but I know Spears would be an awful choice

surely there's plenty of blond actresses out there that are capable of playing her

back in 98 I did a titty comedy for Skinemax. Sex Camp, ya remember it?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

NOW you respond? After theodoricblood/LordStyphon trolled the $#%& out of me on this thread!?

Anyway, you should at least do research on actors kinda like the research I do.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

You do research?

Could've fooled me.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

You do research?

More than you think.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

If any of that research showed up outside of "what series can I butcher by using it to glorify Emma Watson this time", I might believe you.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Problem is, even if you could believe me when I say I do more research on actors than anyone else on this board, judging by your behavior, you'd have a snowball's chance in hell of believing me anyway.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Since there are lots of people on IMDb who research actors, many of them for serious things, saying you do more research than any of them is highly unlikely.

Saying you research actors would be more believable if you could assemble a cast that didn't recycle the same Harry Potter, Disney Channel and High School Musical cast members you use in ever single one. But you can't do that, can you?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

A lucky few are recycled, yes. However, I have faith in them, and I do include other actors as well.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Make a cast that doesn't include any of those "lucky few" and your claims of doing research might be more believable.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

I would if I could, but unfortunately, I tend to wind up recycling more than a few.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

This is where all that research you say you do would come in handy.

But since you don't do any research outside of looking for more things to defile in the name of your false god Emma and her daemonic retainers, and since she and her friends are the only actors you know anything about, you just use them.

So I'm right. You can't make a cast list without any of them. You need them.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

I actually did one without Emma (that one being Princess Tutu, I'm not the least bit surprised), though I did have her narrate. And no, she's not a false god, and her acting contacts are not dæmonic retainers to ANYONE. Also, I use more than them as if I didn't need Emma and the gang in the first place, since how else would I keep this up?

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

I actually did one without Emma (that one being Princess Tutu, I'm not the least bit surprised), though I did have her narrate.

Then that's not without her at all, is it, Uwe?

since how else would I keep this up?

So this is just a gimmick you're inflicting on the Internet?

Why you gotta be a jerk like that, Uwe?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

My Name Is Not Durwood (or Uwe Boll, for that matter)! And no, I'm not being a jerk. And whereas Emma usually plays the female lead in my casts, in Princess Tutu an inferior substitute by the name of Gage Golightly fills the lead.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

She's still in it, doofus. Try to make a cast where Watson, Grint, Radcliffe or any other member of your Harry Potter-Disney stable don't appear in any capacity at all. Try some variety.

Just try it.

You can't do it, can you, uwebollasaurus007?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Or maybe I could make a cast with one or two of them?

And no, I'm not Uwe Boll.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

No. Expand your limited horizons or go home.

And of course you're not Uwe Boll. Uwe Boll is a better filmmaker than you will ever be.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

My horizons are expanded as far as the movies I have seen so far, which I believe is so many I can't count.

And if you knew all along I wasn't Uwe Boll, then why did you insist on calling me "uwebollasaurus007", both here and on the gomanga.com boards?

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

And yet you keep using the same people over and over again.

Calling you uwebollasaurus007 is a means of comparing you to Uwe Boll, implying that you are a terrible filmmaker. If you were able to grasp that, comparing the two of you would have been an insult to you. Instead, it's an insult to Uwe Boll.

[–] Dang58 15 years ago

Ryan: How is Grint a good Tsukasa? In what world could Grint, a 6 foot dorky looking guy; play a 5 foot, cute, but slightly clumsy girl?

Rupert Grint:
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Tsukasa:
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Do you even know what Lucky Star is about?

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

No, he doesn't. Nor does he care.

He just wants to fantasize about his One Twue Wuv, Emma "Mary Sue" Watson. And Rupert Grint in a dress.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

It still is an insult to me.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Ever heard of three magical little things called "makeup", "CGI effects", and "perspective dobules"?

Oh, and Lucky Star is about a group of Haruhi Suzumiya fans.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Ever heard of three magical little things called "makeup", "CGI effects", and "perspective dobules"?

And this is why you'll never get a job in the entertainment industry higher than "2nd unit director's coffee spray target".

Oh, and Lucky Star is about a group of Haruhi Suzumiya fans.

No it isn't. And if you'd watched it (or otherwise done any "research") you'd know that.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

The reason why I got that impression is because the characters, namely Konata Izumi, tend to reference Haruhi in any way, shape, or form.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] Dang58 15 years ago

CG will take care of the physical features, but the voice won't change. And if you wanted to use CG to change Grint into a girl, then it would me more feasible to just make the whole movie CGI.

Makeup would just make Grint into an uglier looking guy.

Perspective Doubles, wouldn't even work in a situation like this.

Your casting of this movie is all wrong, and you have no clue what Lucky Star is even about. Watch the show, and then make a cast. You should have been doing that since day one.

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Tell me, uwebollasaurus007, of all the things you make these atrocious cast lists for, how many have you actually watched?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

OK, check that. Replace "makeup" with "voice dubber, such as, maybe, Rachael Lillis or Moneca Stori".

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

With all the work you're going through to disguise Rupert Grint, with makeup, voice dubbing, CGI and other layers of covering him, when it's all said and done, it's not Rupert Grint anymore, so it's absurd that you insist he fill all these roles. It would be far more pracitical and waste far less of the studio's money to just do the smart thing and cast a female in the roles to begin with.

But to go to such lengths to make Grint play as girls, you must really hate him. Was his performance as Ron really that bad?

Or are you into forced transformation?

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

But to go to such lengths to make Grint play as girls, you must really hate him.

I actually like him, theodoricsimoncowell, and I plan on seeing Cherrybomb when it comes out. (I've already seen Thunderpants and Driving Lessons.) It's just the ***** ****** movies I "really hate" for not sticking close enough to the books. I especially hate the sixth film for being rated PG, since that means it's going to be Lighter And Softer, and that there's more Adaptation Decay than the other installments, past, present, and future.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Tell me, theodoricsimoncowell, of all the anime you've accused me of making so-called "atrocious" cast lists, how many have you actually watched?

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

A good many of them. Including this one.

Given your refusal to give me a direct answer to my question, I must conclude that the answer to how many you've seen is "next to none".

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

More than you think, theodoricsimoncowell. In fact, I even saw a few episodes of Sailor Moon that smacked of Macekre, and I even own both the three movies (both subbed and dubbed) on VHS and the Stars arc on DVD.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Like I thought, next to none.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

I've also seen, let's see, Haruhi Suzumiya, Pretty Cure, InuYasha, Lupin III,, Pokémon, Dragon Ball Z, and the like.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Like I thought, next to none.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

Why do you insist on calling that much "next to none", theodoricsimoncowell?

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Because given the list of anime titles you've decided need a live action adaptation to showcase the many talents of Emma the Magnificent, edwoodasaurus007, the number you've actually watched and know anything about is miniscule.

You have listed seven titles as ones you've seen. You've made your stupid casts for many more than that, for titles you've demonstratably don't know anything about other than the barest of surface appearences. Those same surface apparences that you have repeatedly shown is all you care about. Except in the curious case of Rupert Grint, who you keep casting as a CGI-character's live-action stand-in.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

I've also seen Ranma ½, Cutey Honey, Akira, Digimon, The Slayers, Macross, and Golgo 13 among others.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."

[–] theodoricblood 15 years ago

Which doesn't change the fact that you make casts for things you've never seen and don't know anything about that you didn't find in one minute of reading whatever information they have in their Wikipedia entries. This readily identifies you as a hack. Hollywood has plenty of your kind already.

You also have problems with humor. This may be related to your being denser than dark matter about what is wrong with what you plaster here, despite being told, repeatedly, just what is wrong. It may also be related to the fact that Monty Python jokes fly right over your head, indicating a lack of experience with them.

And you have an extremely unhealthy obsession with turning Rupert Grint into a girl. You sicko.

[–] ryanasaurus007 15 years ago

I'm more of a hax0r than a hack, theodoricsimoncowell, though as a respectable user I'd never even consider hacking into anyone's account, let alone yours. I'm also experienced with Monty Python, e.g. Romani ite domum, the Spanish Inquisition, the Ministry of Silly Walks, dead parrots, and upper class twits. And I'm just trying to present a challenge to anyone with a "dorky-looking" or "Mary Sue" personality. I have no intention of having Rupert get a sex change in my mind.

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"Are you trying to say "capisce"? Because it hurts my ears the way you say it."