Hey! So, I'm an actor (well...aspiring) and also a fan fic reader/writer. I was thinking the other day - why not mesh them into one?
I'm not saying go out and rent a theatre and a rehearsal studio and charge tickets, because that's illegal due to making a profit off of a copyrighted work.
My idea is this: I love the X-Men: First Class reboot set of movies. I figured there's a massive fanbase surrounding these movies, and a lot of untapped theatrical potential among the cosplay + fanfic writing community. So, if we put our heads together and write a straight play in the style of a fanfic, maybe even a musical, using the X-Men: First Class/DOFP characters, we could perform it at a larger-scale convention. For example, the George R.R. Brown convention center in Houston hosts cons.
This could go a couple of ways: If we wrote a straight play, we could either make it an alternate universe where special effects wouldn't be needed, and it would be the same characters everyone knows and loves, but explored through a different lens right in front of them (which would give a wonderful acting/writing challenge). If we wanted to write it in a canon-compliant universe, then it would not only be a challenge for the actors (to make the characters accurate to the movie's but also make them their own), the writers (to make the characters accurate as possible to service the actors), and costumers, but the set designers and theatre techies (how will Erik Lehnsherr defy gravity? We shall see).
Also, there's a possibility it could work as a Heathers or Spring Awakening-esque full-on rock musical. I would definitely not want to write an X-Men musical in the style of Les Miz, because it would overamplify the drama that is already present within the stories and characters presented.
This is an idea I would love to work with, because I think there are a lot of performers within the community that love both theatre and cosplay, and it would be nice to get everyone together and create something that I don't think has been done before. Thoughts? Suggestions?
Hey! So, I'm an actor (well...aspiring) and also a fan fic reader/writer. I was thinking the other day - why not mesh them into one?
I'm not saying go out and rent a theatre and a rehearsal studio and charge tickets, because that's illegal due to making a profit off of a copyrighted work.
My idea is this: I love the X-Men: First Class reboot set of movies. I figured there's a massive fanbase surrounding these movies, and a lot of untapped theatrical potential among the cosplay + fanfic writing community. So, if we put our heads together and write a straight play in the style of a fanfic, maybe even a musical, using the X-Men: First Class/DOFP characters, we could perform it at a larger-scale convention. For example, the George R.R. Brown convention center in Houston hosts cons.
This could go a couple of ways: If we wrote a straight play, we could either make it an alternate universe where special effects wouldn't be needed, and it would be the same characters everyone knows and loves, but explored through a different lens right in front of them (which would give a wonderful acting/writing challenge). If we wanted to write it in a canon-compliant universe, then it would not only be a challenge for the actors (to make the characters accurate to the movie's but also make them their own), the writers (to make the characters accurate as possible to service the actors), and costumers, but the set designers and theatre techies (how will Erik Lehnsherr defy gravity? We shall see).
Also, there's a possibility it could work as a Heathers or Spring Awakening-esque full-on rock musical. I would definitely not want to write an X-Men musical in the style of Les Miz, because it would overamplify the drama that is already present within the stories and characters presented.
This is an idea I would love to work with, because I think there are a lot of performers within the community that love both theatre and cosplay, and it would be nice to get everyone together and create something that I don't think has been done before. Thoughts? Suggestions?
Thank you! :)
i'm serious i'm writing a musical