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tencrush ([personal profile] tencrush) wrote2010-07-13 09:20 am
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Spoilers for Torchwood USA

Casting call reposted at ONTD:

TORCHWOOD
Episodic
1 Hour Drama
BBC Show that will air on STARZ
UNION

Executive Producers: Julie Gardner, Russell T Davies
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: TBD
Casting Directors: John Frank Levey, Melanie Burgess
Work Dates: starting approx Jan 12, 2011 for 10 eps
Location: Tentatively Los Angeles

SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY

[REX MATHESON] CAUCASIAN, Late 20s, CIA agent, a fast-tracked high-flyer. And he knows it! Rex is fast, sharp, smart, clever, and when the situation demands it, ruthless. He's got a lethal sense of humor - he doesn't care if he makes enemies, he's too busy enjoying himself. But when Rex's life is put in danger, he feels his own mortality for the first time, and has to balance the demands of the job, and his duty to his country, against his desperate desire to survive. Though that doesn't defeat him - if anything, it makes him even more arrogant and unstoppable than ever. For Rex, all rules are off! Like him or loathe him, you can't miss him - and that's exactly how Rex wants things to be…..SERIES REGULAR

[ESTHER KATUSI] She's early 20s, a Watch Analyst at the CIA - it's one of the less glamorous jobs, filtering information to pass along the chain. But Esther's determined to better herself! She's still young, so the job hasn't made her cynical yet - she's still an optimist, ever hopeful, and her faith in mankind is sustained by her own Christianity. She's hopelessly in love with one of the CIA agents, Rex Matheson, though she'd never tell him. Nevertheless, she's no pushover - she's more than capable of thinking for herself, and can break the rules when she needs to. And when Esther's forced off the grid, and on the run, she learns to survive, fast. She turns out to be a natural, learning to fight and run with the best of them, without ever losing her essential good-hearted nature. Please submit actors of all races and ethnicities EXCEPT Caucasian. Recurring Guest Star. Will appear in many, or possibly all 10 episodes.

[OSWALD JONES] CAUCASIAN, Late 40s, a convicted murderer and pedophile. But he's no thug - this man is dangerously clever. Oswald escapes his sentence on a technicality, and finds himself becoming a media celebrity. And he's sharp enough to make the most of the situation, and profit from it. He's always thinking, always aware, always looking for the chance to promote himself - while living with the fact that many people want him dead. He appears to be wonderfully, genuinely repentant - but underneath, he's still boiling with lust and rage. And one day, he's going to lose control again. But this man is destined to become more important than even he could have foreseen, as terrifying events of worldwide significance begin to turn around him... Recurring Guest Star. Will appear in many, or possibly all 10 episodes.


I think Rex should be called Max Power. Shame he'll never know how much the non-white wimmens is pining for him, that's a nice storyline there, Russell. We've not seen that one before.

BUT HEY, RUSSELL, THE LOVEABLE ROGUEISH PEDOPHILE ANGLE?? LOVE IT. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, IT'LL BE TASTEFUL AND ARTY AND... I JUST LOVE IT. YOU'VE CONVINCED ME TO WATCH THIS SHIT THEY CANCELLED PARTY DOWN FOR. I'VE BEEN SWAYED BY THE JOLLY, SEXY, BROODING CELEBRITY PEDO. I'M IN! I'M IN, YOU HEAR ME! WHEN'S IT STARTING????

My favourite bit, apart from the obvious, is where it doesn't mention aliens or that it's sci-fi, anywhere. At all.

[identity profile] ella-caramella.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
The OP on ONTD gives this site as the source:

http://www.breakdownexpress.com/

Anyone with an access who can confirm?

pamela_c81

[identity profile] janto-forever81.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
plez tell me its a big joke! not true, if it is then i am happy ianto not in it

[identity profile] lzbrt.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It's legit. My friend (who knows nothing about TW and thought Tosh was a dude LOL) works for a couple agents in LA - she sent me the breakdown before it was posted on ONTD.

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[identity profile] ceindreadh.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! That casting break down has really made me revise my previously stated intentions to never watch anything with RTD's name on it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh sorry, I think I just broke my sarcasm meter.

My only fear now is that they'll cast actors that I'd watch read the phone book, and then I *might* be torn.

WTF, WTF, WTFFF?

[identity profile] rambleinblue.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want anyone on the new series to have the last name JONES.....

.....period.

[identity profile] lookninjas.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already said this upthread, but ONTD has been the home of some VERY convincing trolling in the past. So I'd take it with a grain of salt until it's confirmed by a more reliable source. ONTD is suspect in the extreme.

[identity profile] malle-babbe.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
This is either a troll, or RTD seriously needs to cut down on the cocaine and Red Bull smoothies he was chugging while writing The End Of Time...

[identity profile] penny-sieve.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Ok yeah! Wasn't interested to begin with, this just sealed the deal for me!

[identity profile] lisamariedavis.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
This has to be a joke. Right? Please? Because if it's not, that's just seriously fucked up.

[identity profile] alchemistpotion.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Pedophilia? I don't think my brain has digested that yet. Just give me a minute ... pedophilia?

They killed our wonderful Ianto, sweet Toshiko and our ... Owen, for THIS!? For pedophiles, and CIA agents!?

[identity profile] ice-elf.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
I really hope this is a joke...

it's not happening

[identity profile] janto-forever81.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
plez tell me its a joke, i thought coe was bad they can not do any worse!

[personal profile] syien_island 2010-07-14 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, perhaps RTD hopes to start a tv team trend by adding the child predator with a soul to the ensemble. Barf.

RTD, RTD, for the love of Whedon, please stop writing for tv.

[identity profile] ceindreadh.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Something I've just noticed but one of the characters has the last name Jones, and another has the last name Matheson - which was GDL's characters surname in Girl Number 9.
Coincidence?

[identity profile] starshine24mc.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
RTD renames his characters over and over he says in interviews, otherwise he forgets the names. So you have the doctor (John Smith), Martha Jones, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, James Harper, John Hart, Yanto Jones (in some other RTD show) Stuart Jones (QAF), Rose Tyler, Vince Tyler (QAF) and now we have Matheson and another Jones to play with. Whee!

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(Anonymous) 2010-07-14 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Kecks-Exclusives-New-1020550.aspx

NO JOKE AND NO HOAX.
ext_27120: ianto loves coffee (Victory Dalek)

[identity profile] maxine-mirkwood.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. And Ausiello's (http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/07/14/ask-ausiello-spoilers-office-bones-supernatural/) reporting it on EW now, too.

[identity profile] theorclair.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Fucking hell.

Fucking hell.

The only way this could be acceptable is if all three of them get sacrificed and Ianto, Owen, and Tosh all come back from it. The only way.

and like juliet316 i will be unable to watch it as it's triggery

[identity profile] starshine24mc.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
this sounds really fake

[identity profile] i-own-ianto.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh you are so fucking kidding me!
Okay i get that he wants to become so big american cult hero or something BUT STOP BARSTADISING TORCHWOOD!
I liked RTD and now i want to go up to him and him repeatedly until he works out what the fuck he thinks he's doing.
Sorry for the swearing...am very annoyed.

x

[identity profile] jsks.livejournal.com 2010-07-16 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
please let it be a bad joke because as however much i loathed coe and cheered when rtd left who not even i would want to believe that rusty would sink this low.

[identity profile] evelynwordsmyth.livejournal.com 2010-07-18 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"...forty-something murderer and pedophile"

"...murderer and pedophile"

"...murderer and pedophile"


If this brilliant casting call is true, then Congratulations, Russell! You've Won:

Image (http://www.blogger.com/%20%20%20http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_I2uQkGxIykM/S_zUIMmWFQI/AAAAAAAAK0A/fIujsdOum7A/s400/pedo-bear-seal-of-approval+joannecasey.png)

[identity profile] ericadawn16.livejournal.com 2010-07-18 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
So, a bit late but my two cents. I'm hoping it's a rough sketch without being the exact details as we will see them, like pedophile could just mean the kind of guy who would shag poodles without having to actually say, John Hart.

I still remember when I saw the casting notice for Jurassic Park 4 and you notice how that's not at your local theater or dvd rental.

And two white guys? Wow, way to go with making it more "worldly".

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