#and with that. Danny is now Latino!

[before-i-forget-again-pod]

Meet the new actors of Danny and Riley, two agents at the V.A.S.M.!

[mouldycakes]

9 seasons of 'te quiero' ('I love you') and in the last episode they just hit me with 'te amo' (the stronger?deeper? form of saying 'I love you'). Whoever was in charge of the Latino dub, you have my thanks; I really appreciate they didn't go the way they always did previously with 'I love you, buddy/my friend/man' or the canon English version but just went for it with 'I love you, Danny' ;_; I'm just gonna... quietly lose my mind here...

TRANSLATION:

Steve: It's going to be okay, buddy. You know that, don't you?

Danny: I don't feel it's going to be okay. I feel like my best friend is going to leave me... that's... what will happen.

Steve: It's not a forever goodbye.

Danny: If it wasn't a forever goodbye, why would you say that?

Steve: You have a phone, right?

Steve: Come. Come here.

Danny: You're going to make me get up?

Steve: Yes. Up. Come on.

Steve: Hey. I love you, Danny.

Danny: I love you too.

Danny: Don't make me come looking for you.

And only now I notice Danny was looking at Steve at the end and quickly turned his head when he noticed Steve looked back asdfghjklñ ;_;

[drinkingflowertea]

why i love aos:

WOMEN - 7 seasons of strong, vulnerable, badass, complex, sometimes questionable characters and i loved every single one of them (bobbi was my bi awakening and jemma was so real for crushing on bobbi at first sight). also, big up maurissa tanchareon who was one of the showrunners <3

CULTURAL REPRESENTATION - seeing may and daisy on screen, and maurissa as showrunner, has been a big part of my career switch from academia to trying to get a foot in the door of film & tv.

aos deserved better and deserved much more viewership because people missed out on this cast. there was an article i scrolled by that named danny ramirez as the first latino avenger and it just reminded me of yo-yo. she was the first latina superhero for the mcu/marvel tv/whatever you consider to be true, and she's so cool. in love with her, jealous of mack ngl. and ROBBIE. they really took this ghost rider and made something really interesting out of the character.

#COULSONLIVES - it started from the fans <3

MACK'S NICKAMES - i just love mack bro. yo-yo, tremors, turbo, barbara (the way bobbi is her nickname/the one she goes by so he uses her full name instead LOL)

with the way things seem to be going with marvel, leave aos alone. just leave my babies alone.

now im just rambling bye

[doomerpatrol]

Comic Log: March Reads

Stuff I read in March (minus things w/ existing or forthcoming effortposts, as usual).

Do a Powerbomb by Daniel Warren Johnson: A young wrestler gets the invite of the lifetime - get to the top of the heap in an otherdimensional tournament and resurrect her mother, a pro wrestler who died on stage years ago during an accident. But to succeed, she'll have to tag team with the man who fumbled the move that killed her all those years ago.

As I mentioned on my main blog, this is a very fun action series that I found pretty thematically played out and a little rushed in its pacing. Still definitely worth a read to get a sense of a rising talent, and I am interested in seeing where DWJ's work goes from here.

Doctor Strange by Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo: Doctor Strange without his full magical repertoire - relying more on magic tools than spells - and having to pay up for a history of extensive arcane overuse.

I like the interpretation of Strange as a supernatural physician burdened by the uncognizable, as well as the cosmic-horror angle. "The Empirikul" is the kind of ridiculous concept that I love in comics. And I always enjoy Bachalo's art style. But despite those positives it left me a little cold: Strange seemed to have been reinterpreted as Tony Stark meets John Constantine, Bachalo's depiction of Crazy Magic Stuff got repetitive as it went on, and it's all in service of very unexciting character dynamics. I had no idea that Wong has basically exited from being a primary supporting character for Dr. Strange since this series.

All-New Ghost Rider by Felipe Smith: After being gunned down by a paramilitary, Robbie Reyes has to navigate school, auto shop work, taking care of his disabled little brother Gabe, and exacting vengeance as the serial-killer-possessed Ghost Rider.

Genuinely revolting, extremely racist particularly against Latinos/Chicanos, visually hideous - I respect Tradd Moore as an artist but his style simply did not work for this book, and his character art outside of the titular character's transformed state was bad to look at, uncomfortably elongated and cartoony for an ostensibly dark book. Every time little brother Gabe ate ice cream I legitimately felt sick to my stomach. However, Moore is definitely the superior creative partner here - based on how reliant on stereotypes this story is, Smith strikes me as a complete hack and I'm shocked he got the gig.

Doom Patrol by Gerard Way: The Doom Patrol are drawn back together in response to various corporate bodies trying to profit off their existence, centering around Casey Brinke, a fictional creation of classic Patrol character Danny the Street.

I like the first volume well enough. Way's approach is very obviously influenced by the metafiction of Morrison and Pollack - most notably in that it brings back most of Morrison's breakout characters - but barring some inspired moments, it's a much less subtle work, and is far more intensely a "comic about comics" in a way I find overbearing and less interesting. (One of the antagonists is literally a sanitizing corporation called “Retconn.”) However this literalization is compatible with the expressive cartooniness and thick lines of Nick Derington's art - which is why I think the run suffers when Derington is less of a presence in the "Milk Wars" crossover and the "Weight of the Worlds" miniseries. It's got its charm and I love the lesbian baby-making stuff (albeit not its lack of real resolution).

Power Man and Iron Fist by David Walker and Sanford Greene: The reunion of Luke Cage, now a devoted family man, and his best friend Iron Fist, who he is slightly embarrassed by. The two of them get embroiled in various gang wars and mystical hijinks as they try to uncover who's been getting ex-cons wrongfully locked up.

I adore Greene’s art and this is a creative team that collaborates often - I will have to check out Bitter Root. The series draws upon blaxploitation and adapts it to be tasteful without being totally neutered. My main issue is that it was cut short very abruptly; it really deserved a longer ongoing. This is predominantly a Luke Cage book but I’m kind of an Iron Fist hater so I’m okay with that, and there were actually some pretty great Danny Rand moments throughout. The series weathers the storm of Civil War II reasonably well - though Captain Marvel and her allies come out of it looking pretty awful - as well as Brian Michael Bendis independently throwing a wrench into the plot by temporarily estranging Luke and Jessica Jones. But it definitely feels like it starts very strongly and then had to wrap up quickly.

Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell: A Lantern with a unique ring sent to act as diplomat and power-balance for a Dyson swarm populated by three very distinct species, investigating the first murder to take place there in five centuries.

The science-fiction and noir-conspiracy elements of this story are really fun, I think there were some really creative ideas, especially in the setting and worldbuilding. Protagonist Jo Mullein's backstory - inspired to make a difference after 9/11, she joins the army and wages war in Afghanistan (she explicitly mentions Kandahar) and then later joins the NY Police Department, where she witnesses her partner do a police brutality and then gets fired for being tagged in a Black Lives Matter post - was made in a lab to annoy me. Hard to fully recommend because for every aspect I like there's another I found rather grating, like the bad politics or the constant (plot-critical!) references to memes.

Iron Man by Kieron Gillen: Iron Man takes leave of his company and, after cracking down on an assortment of different criminal groups making use of the Extremis virus, heads into space where he tries to take down a lifelong alien conspiracy to mold him into a weapon, making use of a new modular armor designed to adapt to different situations.

Shockingly, the section where Greg Land is the predominant artistic contributor is the better half (though credit is due to Planet Hulk artist Carlo Pagulayan for a lot of the cool designs). Unfortunately I think the last eleven issues - say it with me now - spin their wheels and then end, despite introducing a few different fun concepts (that ultimately do not pan out). Iron Man has no business getting into a dust-up with the dark elf Maliketh. But the first seventeen issues are very strong and work well as their own story - it's a continuation of the character work from Matt Fraction's Invincible Iron Man but has its own distinct "knightly" spin on the character. And I really liked the "modular armor" gimmick, it made for a lot of fun surprises and twists.

[bibiscate]

New Year Doodles! 3

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT GHOSTFACE BABYYYY

Got Dbd this november I think and bought some DLCs latter. Ghostface has always been my favorite slasher so of course I'm maining him

Some years(year??) ago I saw some fanart of Danny as red-haired and like "yeah that's him" so that's my headcanon now, he's also latino or something I make the rules

[murcielagatito]

but now that i AM thinking more about it daniel is literally such a common name latinos use bc of religion and how absolutely drenched our cultures are in it (i have cousins named daniel) and so seeing his ass growing up as a literal mixed race kid seeing danny a kid from two worlds struggle to balance both sides of himself to fit in and conform and do his damned hardest. like if that isnt the struggle of being a hispanic kid in usam... of being a kid from a nonwhite culture just living here trying to find a happy medium with being true to yourself and your family and also fitting in with the outsiders... hes always been for us hes always understood us

[ncisfranchise-source]

In An American Story: Everyone’s Invited (Sept. 17, Harper Select), Wilmer Valderrama traces his roots from humble beginnings as a Venezuelan immigrant who spoke no English when his parents enrolled him in Mulholland Middle School in Van Nuys, California; to overnight superstardom as the lovable horndog Fez on That ’70s Show; to, at 44, an established Hollywood multi-hyphenate. For Valderrama, who since 2016 has played Special Agent Nick Torres on CBS’ flagship procedural NCIS, the book is a love letter to the vast possibilities of the American dream.

What it isn’t, however, is a juicy tell-all. Past relationships with stars like Demi Lovato (whose song “29” is rumored to reference their 12-year age gap) and Mandy Moore (whom Valderrama said he’d deflowered in an infamous 2006 interview with Howard Stern) are not touched upon. Nor is the fate of his That ’70s Show co-star and confidante Danny Masterson, sentenced to 30 years to life last September after being found guilty of two counts of rape. For the past four years, Valderrama has adjusted to life as a family man. He married model Amanda Pacheco in January 2020 and became a father the following year.

Valderrama took a break from his busy NCIS shooting schedule to field questions from The Hollywood Reporter about the upcoming presidential election, in which immigration is a key issue; his thoughts on Masterson’s conviction; and his lifelong dream of bringing Zorro back to the screen.

Let’s start with your work with immigrants and all the charitable things you’ve done for people that come to this country, fleeing dangerous places or simply to find a better life. And too often they arrive and are pushed down by those already higher up on the ladder. You went through that yourself. We are about to elect another president. We’ve seen examples of what both candidates will do in the White House when it comes to those issues. I’m wondering where you stand on the current election?

VALDERRAMA I appreciate the question. A lot of what this memoir was really about was to humanize the immigrant experience. I think that every time there is some kind of election, there is a paraphrasing of our culture. And I thought it was really important to just say, “Hey — this is what immigrants really look like.” Immigrants are police. Our attorneys, our nurses, our doctors, our essential workers. They have such an essential and vital contribution to this country. It’s important that as we go into these conversations, and as they become hot topics in the news, that we don’t forget the humanity. We call ourselves “the 200 percent” — because we’re 100 percent American and 100 percent Latino, too. The potential of this moment is to really come together.

You don’t mention your politics in the book. You do mention meeting Barack Obama and that being very exciting and also being disturbed by things that happened in 2016, but you never mention Donald Trump by name. I know that you’re on a popular show, NCIS, that’s watched by the entire country, blue and red, and maybe you don’t want to alienate your viewership. Because of course when it comes to Trump, you could say a lot of negative things about the way he talks about immigrants.

VALDERRAMA I mean, look, obviously, as you and I know, his words can really speak for themselves. When I joined Voto Latino 20 years ago, the goal was to wake up the interest of our Latino community. My biggest first priority was to [get Latinos to] sign up to the census and make sure that we’re counted and know how many we are here. Imagine now if everyone who was eligible to vote went out and voted. When politics become debates, we lose the humanity in the conversation. The most important part was to fire up my community to go out there and vote for their interest and what they feel their future should look like. And I’m not here to really tell anybody who to vote for. I think you and I know who I’m going to vote for, but the most important thing to me is to tell our culture that this is their election, too.

There’s a scene in the book in which you experience a very narrowly averted charter plane crash on your way back from the Super Bowl. You’re with Colin Hanks and Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson and the plane is shaking and filling with carbon monoxide. Masterson says he can’t feel his limbs. You and Kutcher share a single oxygen mask. What could you tell us about that flight and how it changed your life?

VALDERRAMA The first thing I thought about was my sisters, my mom and my dad. If I ever leave this Earth, do they have everything they need? You think about, what do you really fear in life? Death may be one, but leaving your loved ones without everything they need was the most petrifying experience. So I went on to just work my ass off. I went off to be an entrepreneur and to start many businesses and to really stay working. It’s a great testament to what this country can provide for you.

Looking at what’s happening now in Venezuela, opposition leader Edmundo Gonzales just fled to Spain to seek asylum. It’s very disheartening, and a dark reminder of what’s at stake in the next U.S. election.

VALDERRAMA I feel like every election Venezuela has, there is this one moment of fresh air where it just seems like for a second it might open up again. And it is really heartbreaking. I still have family there. People are making a couple of dollars a month. It’s horrible. They’re the largest producer of oil in the world. Venezuela should have been a Dubai. It really is heartbreaking to see a country be prisoned without its freedoms.

As one of the most visible and successful Venezuelan expats, do Venezuelans reach out to you in to help? Are they saying, “Please Wilmer — come back and save us?”

VALDERRAMA I think we, as [Venezuelan] individuals who are abroad with a platform, I think our biggest job is to amplify the reality. God, I wish I could be there. I wish I could be in the streets with the people that I grew up with. And the biggest issue here is that there’s no entry point for any of us. So much is being blocked away. I try so hard to really make sure that the world doesn’t forget what’s really happening out there. I get the messages from my fellow Venezuelan saying, “Please tell the world.” So that’s what we try to do.

I want to ask about your That ’70s Show co-star Danny Masterson, who was found guilty of rape. Ashton and Mila Kunis, also your castmates on that show, both caught backlash for writing letters of character for Danny that came out in the trial. What are your feelings about that?

VALDERRAMA Well, look — I totally understand why you have to ask the question. I definitely get it. But, respectfully, I like to use this time to really talk about the book that I’m really excited about. And that I worked so hard on for people to read. I mean, really the book is about my family and my immigrant story, and my parents sacrifice.

Did Scientology ever court you?

VALDERRAMA Again, my focus is to talk about my parents and my sacrifice. I don’t have anything to add to that.

In terms of your personal life, you had a lot of high-visibility relationships with other stars, and I noticed you didn’t talk about them in the book. Is there a reason you didn’t?

VALDERRAMA I didn’t set out to actually make a memoir. My book was supposed to be a book about service. I traveled with the USO for so many years since in my mid-20s. It really is just a thank you to America for giving me a future that probably I could have never gotten in my own country.

I saw headlines with season 22 of NCIS coming up, that you teased something that made fans worried. So what did you tease exactly, and what are they worried about?

VALDERRAMA I think they always worry. The fans are so passionate about NCIS. I would say this: That in season 22, the contribution these writers have done to the show is just invaluable. We’re playing a lot more with personal journeys for our characters. This season will be a little bit more humorous, definitely a lot more emotionally driven for our lead characters, and perhaps — perhaps — they’re going to be in major danger.

So you’re not going anywhere.

VALDERRAMA Yeah, no. I’m OK. I’m in the season.

Finally, there’s a passage in the book where you discuss a business lunch with Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden, where you convince her to have Disney re-acquire the rights to Zorro as a starring vehicle for you.

VALDERRAMA In the early ’60s, there was a rights dispute between ABC and Walt Disney [which were separate companies at the time]. The rights ended up going back to the original owners of the Zorro books. When I had a conversation with Disney, they were incredibly empowering. And after 60 years, we were successfully able to bring the rights back to Walt Disney and start developing a new legacy for the characters. And now it’s spinning in development.

I do love Zorro, I must say.

VALDERRAMA Me too. Zorro was the direct inspiration for Bob Kane to create Batman. Bruce Wayne was leaving the movie theater with his parents when they were murdered — and the movie they had just seen was The Mask of Zorro.

We need the gritty, Christopher Nolan version of Zorro.

VALDERRAMA That would be so cool. But [TV’s Zorro] Guy Williams had this effortless lightness, so we’re going to try to make sure that that humor is still there, too.

[reanimatedgh0ul]

ok but thinking abt the fentons being like my latino family in that danny and jazz are NOT allowed to touch the dishwasher have to hand wash and dry the dishes and anytime the kids ask why they can't use it they'll either remind them of the fact they use it for *insert w/e unconventional reason they have for it here that's DEFINITELY NOT what a dishwasher should be used for* or there was 'the incident' so now that thing is basically possessed lol

[usaigi]

💕🏳️‍🌈 For the media hyperfixation asks!

YES THIS IS THE ONE I WANTED ILY TY

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

Mateo Murdock 🥺 He's cute, angsty, funny, a hot mess, witty, mommy and daddy issues and has the mental illness sparkle ✨ Something about a character so filled with rage and hurt and so dedicated to help others. Mhm martyrs.. He and Loki were my first MCU blorbos and while I still like Loki, he's lost his blorbo status in my heart. He's my number one.

🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you? (I got this one twice so I'm going to split up my response, here's the other half)

Heroes for Hire + contractors MK and Layla & Kingpin Felicia Hardy

Colleen - Her mom is Okinawan w/ connection to K'un-Lun/the mystical cities/Seven Capital Cities of Heaven and dad is born and raised in Hawaii with chinese, filipino, korean, japanese, white, hawaiian ancestry. Colleen being Okinawan and growing up in Hawaii exposed her to how indigenous people are treated like second class citizens on their own land and how outsiders/colonizers exploit the land and its resources and that why she's so protective of the K'un-Lun/mystical cities. Also she's a lesbian for Misty

Danny - Half white, half chinese. Some family and business partners and other rich people from Rand's side thought Danny's mom was a foreign gold digger but her family is China Rich™ British boarding school, met Wendell at fancy Ivy League etc. and still not "like them" So when Danny was born, he got exposed to a lot of racism and specifically Sinophobia/anti-Chinese comments all through childhood

And ADHD King 🏃 undiagnosed though, all his sifus thought he just liked to jump.

Claire - Afro-Latina (canon) Did I make this up or does Claire talk about experiencing a lot of anti-blackness growing up? Anyways, if that's canon, cool!(not that anti-blackness in the latine community is cool but for Netflix to acknowledge that's something afro-Latinos often experience) If not, it's canon now.

Matt - Mexican Matt etc etc. i know u know this by now but also trans masc Matt who thought he used to be a lesbian and is now a straight cis passing white passing guy despite being disabled poc and queer and the identity and religious meltdown he must have had when he went to college. Also I changed my mind, I do like BPD Matt

Jessica - wonder bread white but she's like self aware about it. She brings a store bought cake to the office potluck. She keeps her mouth closed when the others wash their chicken in the sink. PTSD is canon but I also think she has DPDR. Also Bi.

send me a ask about my media hyperfixation

[hauntnowpod]

We're in week three of our crowdfunding campaign, and we've got more voice actors to introduce you to!

Jess "Bear" Winston is back as the voice of Alicia, Eulalie's boo (pun intended) who has some long overdue family business to attend to this season...

From Alicia in TWWHN to Kaan in On The Line... the vocal expansion of their talent is on rise... Please check them out on their soundcloud as well as their streams on www.twitch.tv/Moukeni! Feel free to say hi!

Jordan Alekzander Moore joins us this season as Howard!

Jordan is a voice actor from Memphis, TN doing primarily character work in animation and video games while also writing poetry and comedy.

Julian Dailey joins our haunting this season as one of the voices of Poltergeist 0. Dun dun dun. Julian's takes with Maritza made me GASP and they'll do the same when you hear them!!!

Julian Dailey is an afro-latino voice actor based in Pittsburgh, PA. He completed an Acting degree at Northwestern University and has studied under stage and voice actors alike, such as Scott Burns, Tommy Rapley, and Cassandra Lee Morris. Julian has been a featured voice on several shows including The Sheridan Tapes, Tales From the Fringes of Reality, and Tales of the Echowood. In his free time, you can find him sinking hours into video games and animated shows without blinking.

Kira Apple is back as our favorite incorrigible undead Narrator (and Mary... whose role deepens this season in an exciting, spoilery way).

Kira Apple is a part-time voice actor and full-time cat wrangler. Her voice work includes the role of Jack St. James in Superstition, Katya Harper in Electromancy, and Cybilene in Inn Between. A bookseller at Charis Books & More, the oldest independent feminist bookstore in the US South, Kira also volunteers at the PAWS Atlanta Cat Cottage and enjoys video games, reading romance, scifi, and fantasy, and playing TTRPGs.

We're so delighted Kirsty Woolven is returning as one of the voices of The Apartment AND the voice of Fidelia!

Kirsty Woolven is a voice actor based in the Midlands. You can hear them in several audiodrama podcasts such as: The Secret of St Kilda, Apollyon, Devoid of Space, Shadows At The Door and The Sheridan Tapes. When not in the booth, they can be found on stage, playing Animal Crossing or writing! For more info, their website is at: https://kirstywoolven.carrd.co/

Lindsay Zana is returning as Danny, who has quite the character arc this season!

Lindsay is an LA based actor and singer with a love for Shakespeare, Musicals and audio dramas. When she's not emoting behind a microphone, she can be found singing with Top Shelf Vocal, filming self-tapes, or chilling with her husband and puppy.

Madi Opincaru joins us this season as City Ghost and Poltergeist 5!

Madi loves giving voice to a variety of characters in podcasts, games and animations, with occasional dabbing into narration. When she's not recording she enjoys playing D&D and indie games, reading and napping with her cats.

Maria Corcobado joins us this season as FF House Ghost 3 and FF House (those pesky abbreviations again! You'll have to listen to find out what they're for).

Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: Mary Shelly (Bloody Poetry), Duckling Smith (Our Country's Good). Winner of the Lilian Baylis Award. Classical roles include: Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Titania (Midsummers Night Dream) Chorus (Henry V). Nominated for Voiceover Newcomer of the Year at the One Voice Awards 2022. Radio work includes: Let's Write a Story (Radio 3), Something Understood (Radio 4). Recent Audio Work: Ignited Melodies (Audible), Nya (Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio), Monogabliss (Kolbold Blue Productions).

Maritza Rodriguez voiced Ylena last season, and she's back this season as one of the voices of Poltergeist 0. I CACKLED with horrified glee when I heard her and Julian's takes. STAY TUNED!!!

Maritza's bio is short and on point: Bringing art and creativity into the world one step at a time!

Marlon Dance-Hooi joins us this season as Chief Inspector Turnbubble!

Marlon is a Eurasian Australian Actor and Voice-over Artist. He has been performing in some form or other since early childhood. His breakout role in the King and I (alongside the legendary Hayley Mills) instilled a love of the craft and a passion for theatre. He continued on stage in multiple South Australian productions throughout high school and college, and after completing degrees in Arts and Law embarked upon a professional acting career. Moving to Sydney and then Singapore, he worked on everything from live theatre and Fringe shows to feature films and television, appearing on four Singaporean TV series and several award winning short films. Throughout this period he worked tirelessly on his craft, tutored by working actors Sam Haft, Chum Ehelopola and Kamil Haque and learning Meisner, Adler, Chekov, Improv, Suzuki and Meyerhold techniques. Marlon is also a skilled impressionist and has lent his smooth, articulate and versatile voice to 8 animated series, including the award-winning Netflix show Oddbods, and several animated feature films, in addition to dozens of ads, corporate videos, podcasts and animated shorts. In his spare time he is an avid roleplayer, creating fantasy worlds, as well as a fan of manga and speculative fiction.

Mary-Anne Stanek joins us this season as Sister Prudence (a character who is pure delight, in my book).

Mary-Anne is a student, part-time tutor and voice actress based in South-Western France.

Michelle Sellers joins us this season as Tricia.

Michelle Sellers is a voice actor based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before voice over, she was an infectious disease research scientist but a disability took her out of the lab and into the studio. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her family doing most anything as long as they are there. You can find her on Twitter @VO_Bowtiekitty

Please help make them all welcome, and if you can share our crowdfunding campaign:

[angelo-tiger-woods]

Part 6 - Incoming Text for Halle Berry (@halleberry) and 50 Cent (@50cent) and Connie Orlando (@connieorlando) and Draya Michele (@drayamichele) and Eiza Gonzalez (@eizagonzalez): “An Idea Worth 200 Million Dollars”

Proposal for the American Reboot of Hustle Developed by Angelo (POW)

Here’s the link:

Hustle (TV series) - Wikipedia - (click on the blue link)

I. Overview of the Original Series

Title: Hustle Genre: Crime drama / Heist fiction Creator: Tony Jordan Original Network: BBC One Years Active: 2004–2012 Number of Seasons: 8 Number of Episodes: 48 Production Company: Kudos Film and Television Ownership of IP: BBC Studios (via Kudos, now part of Banijay Group) Distribution: BBC Worldwide Average Viewership: 4.5 to 6.7 million viewers per episode (UK) Estimated Budget per Episode: £500,000–£700,000 (~$900,000–$1.2M USD adjusted) Rights Negotiation Contact: BBC Studios Rights Licensing Department

Total Estimated Budget for 48 Episodes:

£24M–£33.6M GBP

$43.2M–$57.6M USD

II. Original Cast and Ages During Filming

Adrian Lester (Mickey Stone)

Age in 2004: 35

Age in 2012: 43

Robert Glenister (Ash Morgan)

Age in 2004: 43

Age in 2012: 51

Marc Warren (Danny Blue)

Age in 2004: 36

Age in 2012: 44

Jaime Murray (Stacie Monroe)

Age in 2004: 27

Age in 2012: 35

Robert Vaughn (Albert Stroller)

Age in 2004: 71

Age in 2012: 79

Matt Di Angelo (Sean Kennedy — joined in 2006, Season 4)

Age in 2006: 16

Age in 2012: 24

Kelly Adams (Emma Kennedy — joined in 2006, Season 4)

Age in 2006: 24

Age in 2012: 32

III. Creative Team Behind the Original Series

Writers:

Tony Jordan (creator, lead writer)

James Payne

Julie Rutterford

Chris Lang

Steve Coombes

Lucy Gannon

Directors:

Bharat Nalluri

Alrick Riley

John Strickland

Colm McCarthy

Colin Teague

IV. American Reboot Vision

This reboot reimagines Hustle as a high-end, prestige television series with a multicultural American focus. The show will feature two parallel casts:

A Black American ensemble, operating primarily in major urban centers like Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York.

A Latino-American ensemble, telling culturally rooted stories based in Miami, Chicago, and Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

These parallel arcs will occasionally intersect through shared heists, rivalries, or joint operations, offering natural crossover potential.

V. Reimagined African-American Cast

Mo McRae as Mickey "Bricks" Stone (Originally Adrian Lester) – The calculating leader and strategist.

Allen Payne as Ash "Three Socks" Morgan (Originally Robert Glenister) – The fixer and logistics expert.

Jesse Williams as Danny Blue (Originally Marc Warren) – The quick-tempered, ambitious young grifter.

Lori Harvey as Stacie Monroe (Originally Jaime Murray) – The elegant, sharp-minded con artist.

Delroy Lindo as Albert Stroller (Originally Robert Vaughn) – The elder statesman with a gift for persuasion.

Myles Truitt as Sean Kennedy (Originally Matt Di Angelo) – The youngest team member, eager and talented.

Paige Hurd as Emma Kennedy (Originally Kelly Adams) – A rising star, clever and tech-savvy.

This version of Hustle will showcase authentic Black American experiences, exploring themes of social mobility, identity, and justice through elaborate, morally driven heists.

Here are the Wikipedia links for the new cast members of the Hustle reboot:

Mo McRae (Mickey "Bricks" Stone) Wikipedia Link - (click on the blue link)

Allen Payne (Ash "Three Socks" Morgan) Wikipedia Link - (click on the blue link)

Jesse Williams (Danny Blue) Jesse Williams (actor) - Wikipedia - (click on the blue link)

Lori Harvey (Stacie Monroe) Wikipedia Link - (click on the blue link)

Delroy Lindo (Albert Stroller) Wikipedia Link - (click on the blue link)

Myles Truitt (Sean Kennedy) Wikipedia Link - (click on the blue link)

Paige Hurd (Emma Kennedy) Wikipedia Link - (click on the blue link)

VI. Latino-American Arc & Expansion

Jennifer Lopez (@jlo), Salma Hayek (@salmahayek) and Antonio Banderas (@antoniobanderas) will headline the Latino crew introduced in a parallel arc.

J.Lo and Salma Hayek will also serve as co-producers and cultural advisors, with casting authority for Latino actors.

This arc provides opportunities for crossover episodes, unique cultural commentary, and an expanded universe.

The Latino ensemble's crew will operate under similar moral codes—targeting the corrupt and powerful—while reflecting Latinx experiences in the U.S.

VII. Strategic Objectives & Studio Partnerships

Objectives:

Cultural Empowerment: Uplift and represent Black and Latino communities through layered storytelling.

Franchise Longevity: Built for five seasons or more with flexible arcs, changing locations, and evolving crews.

Broad Appeal: Combines the cleverness of Leverage, the slickness of Ocean’s Eleven, and the cultural edge of Power or Snowfall.

Potential Studio Partners:

U.S. Distribution: Amazon MGM Studios and BET Networks (@bet)

UK Collaboration: BBC One and BBC Studios (pending rights negotiation)

VIII. Creative Leadership Recommendation

Suggested Showrunner: Mike Judge

Known for King of the Hill, Silicon Valley, and Office Space

Brings ensemble expertise, sharp dialogue, and access to elite writers

His involvement ensures strong satirical undertones, workplace dynamic mastery, and franchise-quality character development.

IX. Next Steps for Development

Begin IP negotiations with BBC Studios’ Licensing & Legal Department.

Secure co-production agreement with Amazon MGM and BET.

Engage Mike Judge or another top-tier showrunner to lead the writers' room.

Assemble a diverse writing team capable of building a multi-season narrative grounded in culture and high-stakes drama.

Pitch to BBC One emphasizing the series' global franchise potential and cultural impact.

Conclusion

This reboot of Hustle is not simply a remake—it is a bold reimagining. It offers stylish, socially conscious storytelling rooted in American diversity while preserving the original’s spirit of charm, deception, and camaraderie. With the right partnerships, this series can become a landmark of modern prestige television.

Respectfully, Angelo (POW)

P.S.:

Here is the trailer:

Hustle (TV Series 2004) Trailer [HD] - (Official Exclusive)

[moose-party]

Hey all!

Fernando Moose Garfunkle here! One man/moose band supreme and this generations greatest rockstar!!!

If you’ve found this blog it’s gonna be like my personal place. I’ve never really had one and I actually would like somewhere to post my thoughts without a character limit or anything like that. I’m not really planning on advertising this too much either aside from hashtags.

I don’t really know what to say for a first post so I will ramble and type.

If you would like to know a little backstory about me, I’m a Latino mix and I grew up a bit shy, I have a song that I’m working called “Been Around” which is kind of me telling in song form my personal history. If you go to my SoundCloud you can listen to the guitar demo for it. It’s really fun country rock twangy style. I was born in Arizona and moved to Washington State during my teens and after I turned 18 I decided to get married and elope with (at the time) my significant other (or as she would prefer it to be called) “Long time Girlfriend”. I have always LOVED rock music, I grew up in a predominately Mexican, hip hop, texmex, and rap listening family. I remember to this day when I went into a Walmart and saw the display for guitar hero 1. I had begged my mother to buy me an electric guitar but in my youth she would flat out refused until I “learned on acoustic first” which kind of killed my passion for it at first if I will be honest. But being able to play all these awesome rock songs and get the feeling of being on stage and performing was so cool to me. Not only did I love the virtual crowds, but I fell in love with the solos, rhythms, and bands of rockstars that were writing these awesome musical adventures and songs. I then began writing my own songwriting journey and adventure to become one of the greatest rockstars ever. I have my personal favorite artists and such, but I have never aimed to be the “next” anything. I have never believed in imitating or replicating someone else’s image especially as an aspiring artist myself. Although this has labeled me many times by other people as contrarian or a try hard because I’m trying to be genuine and make it to the top on the merit of my talent and original works.

Some of my all time favorite artists are: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, At the Drive-in, Melvins, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, MF DOOM, Danny Brown, Project Pat, Mr.Bungle, Death Grips, The Meat Puppets, Ween, System of a Down, Modest Mouse, The Dead milkmen, Black Flag, Soundgarden, Descendents, Minutemen, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator, The Clash, Hall & Oates, Korn, Pantera, and more I can’t think to list right now.

I used to love running around and playing outside like most kids that grew up in the 2000’s but I was also chronically online from about 5 years old onwards and it wasn’t up until recently that I started weening and getting off the internet a bit more. So I would spend a lot of time in random chat rooms, Skype group chats, and avatar spaces like: gaiaonline, habbo hotel, OMGPOP, & a plethora of other sites that I either can’t remember or just cannot find a trace of their existence to this day. I even remember when YouTube and 4chan were first made lol. If I wasn’t playing outside with my small pool of friends (I grew up with maybe only a handful of friends, but each one holds a special and memorable place in my heart and history), I was inside rocking out on guitar hero or looking up dumb stuff like Bigfoot/lichens monster videos on YouTube and researching my favorite video game lore on google hahaha.

I’ve almost like, NEVER NOT been in a relationship of some sorts. I guess because I just really love having a girlfriend or partner, but at the same time I lament it because I can’t truly be like, as selfish as I would like to be. Though, even if I feel that way I am forced to be empathetic and considerate of another person because they’re special to me, although I can be a bit of a hard to deal with partner especially because I don’t manage my time very well with my hobbies, partners, work, and such. My current girlfriend is very nice and works with me best as she can even though I piss her off a lot lol.

I’ve lived in quite a few states in my adult life, I will make some dedicated story posts and maybe even YouTube videos for those who may just want to listen instead of read an essay and a half about some dumb shit I did in a random time period.

In my adult life I’ve mostly been stuck in fast food, but I also really love blue collar work. If I could I would like to be an onsite chef for a group of fellas. There’s something about making some damn good food and seeing people enjoy what they’re eating and also trying to make it healthy for them. Stuff I love to cook is like spinach omelettes, pesto and arugula sandwiches, black bean burgers, hand breaded &self made chicken strips/patties, and more (that’s all I can think of right now). I recently got out of drive thru based service and now work in a diner and I actually like it a lot more compared to fast food. The ticket times are more forgiving and my coworkers and I all get along awesome. I also love working in a kitchen and not having to interact with people that shit rocks my casbah lmao.

That’s all I can really think to say at this time, but like I said I hope to make some story time posts and also make a listenable versions of them.

If you’d like to hear my stuff check out

Https://mooseparty.carrd.co <—- this is my main website and has the links to almost everything I do. At the moment though, I need to update it to include my twitch account where I stream clone hero and talk about music. That channels name is “MoosePartyIndustries” on twitch if you’d like to follow me there. OH ALSO I HAVE A BAND WITH MY BROTHER, we are called BALLISTIC BUDDHA and we have like 4 songs on YouTube you should definitely check out. My personal favorites of ours are “as the fields turn to ash” and “Fusion”.

Thanks for reading and getting to know me a little more! I’ll definitely remember to post here more since I’ve been needing somewhere to dump my thoughts.

Have a wonderful day! STAY SEXY AND KEEP IT 300

-Fernando Moose Garfunkle of MOOSE PARTY

[moochilatv]

Red Fast Luck presents: Three-Run Homer

New single from San Francisco sonic explorers, Red Fast Luck.

Red Fast Luck is a Bay Area-based improvising duo consisting of multi-reed sorcerer David Boyce (aka Black Edgar) and electro-acoustic percussionist PC Muñoz.

Their EP, “Live in San Francisco”, is one of the featured albums on the San Francisco Public Library’s new curated streaming service, Bay Beats. Their first studio album, “Everything You Do Controls the World”, is out now (2024) on bandcamp

David Boyce/Black Edgar

Originally from NYC, David Boycegraduated from Cornell University and taught elementary/junior high school in the Bronx. After his plans to move into the city became thwarted due to gentrification and high rents, he moved out to San Francisco just in time for the Loma Prieta earthquake. In 1991, he co-founded the iconic AfroFuturist jazz trio Broun Fellinis (31 years running) and became an active freelance musician involved in many musical pursuits across multiple styles. He performs with Broun Fellinis, Black Quarterback, Red Fast Luck, Shimmering Leaves, Radio Sofia, 6Roses, The Supplicants and Black Edgar's Music Box.

PC Muñoz

PC Muñoz is a musician, producer, and writer based in San Francisco. His body of work as an artist and producer includes GRAMMY®-nominated contemporary classical music with composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud as well as recordings with rock legend Jackson Browne, kulintang master Danny Kalanduyan, rappers DEM ONE and Kev Choice, violinist Matthew Szemela, poet/chanteuse Ingrid Chavez, and many more. Muñoz is a recent (2022) Quinteto Latino Composer-in-Residence, a current Mosaic America Fellow, and one of the featured writers in the latest collection from University of Hawai’i Press, “New CHamoru Literature” (2023). Visit:  pcmunoz.com.

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Very nice @fullfriendnerdclutch!

But I sure wasn't lazy myself.

Started off my week having brunch with my boy Jamie, which got quite the nice dude at that point.

I let him make a pic of me at the park later as I couldn't help but get topless to play with my current shape.

Propably it was this that got me hot for some more muscles, but it wasn't until wednesday when I texted Ryan to meet at the beach.

He brought another buddy along so we looked around fpr a nice trio.

Didn't take long to find the first two at the changing booths, both just entering. I took the one on the right, rushing into the booth, covering his mouth while sinking a shot into his hips.

"Can I..." someone whispered through the closed door which was Jamies buddy asking me to let him have this one.

Surprisingly I didn't take another one having a very good time with my boys, shooting a lot of pocs and of cause injoying eachother every now and then.

It wasn't until the evening when we strawled along the marina when I got interested with someone, disapearing between the small houses with me followed, just smiling back at my boys while doing so.

Even sent them a selfie as a treaser before I joined them again, beeing so horny that we dumped the plan on going to a club and headi g to the next hotel instead.

We even got a very nice addition as we headed for our room, leaving the elevator when this hunky latino got in. We hit in him hard.

Unfortunately he didn't respond very well.

Or bmaybe it was for the better as Ryan didn't wait long to give him a shot instead.

What else... ah ya! How could I forget the trip at the weekend! Jamie broad some amazing new cheeks, having them peak out of his dufflebag.

Yet he didn't want to show me more, pulling out another one, carefully trying to hide the other.

"Nice one!" I said when he got him on, and I meant it. But at that point, I couldn't help but be curious about the other one.

And he knew that! He just loves to keep me craving, to build up my longing for a look dispite us having had hundreds and hundreds at that point.

And he didn't disappoint, pulling out that second suit at a remote spot, a beatiful beach, giving me quite the show slowly slipping out of that other suit and into the hidden one.

What a weekend!

On sunday, when we got back at our place, Danny hit me up.

"Guess who got something nice for daddy" he teased me.

"Wanna see?"

Of cause I wanted. So I called him, beeing greeted by a stunning twink he turned just an hour ago

"Got him on a hookup! Want you to feel him so bad, daddy!"

I love when he talks to me like that. And I sure gave him the daddy he wanted.

It stayed on my mind even the day after that. Partly because I really miss to fool around with him for realy, partly because that smooth gym-guy I wore didn't really satisfy my daddy-needs fully.

But I didn't realize that before I saw that officer checking a guy along the road I took to get to a friend.

I instantly pulled over and Ryan didn't even ask as the guy standing besides the officer didn't look that shabby either.

We waited for them to finish before I approached the officer in his car. As soon as he was distracted I pushed a shot into his biceps.

When I looked up Ryan was already in the car of the other one.

Of cause I send a picture to Danny as soon as I was dressed.

"Hmm, daddy! Officer! I was such a naughty boy" Danny replied.

"I already slipped into something more... beefy" he said before sending a pic.

"I wished you were here, daddy!"

Yeah, thats for my side. Hope you are dooing well @fullfriendnerdclutch

Outfit of the day - when you know, you know...

Wanna show me yours? Tag me!

[reanimatedgh0ul]

no bc i'm REALLY thinking abt the idea of the giw coming in the fentons' home and forcibly taking their portal saying it's now authorized as government property along w them sending a fucking SWAT team once they now know danny's identity and danny being issued the threat of arrest if he doesn't comply

after they're taken into custody just imagining this scene from the moon girl s1 finale part 1 w maddie/jack trying to help danny to escape from the giw and ultimately trading themselves in order to keep danny safe is fucking heartbreaking to me bc of the way this eerily parallels real life experiences of government issued authorities coming in and treating brown latino families like this GOD