There are so many football movies, or really sport movies in general, that it feels like everything has been done before. You have your stories about some sort of team that needs to overcome adversity, like in Remember the Titans or The Mighty Ducks. Then you also have movies where the sports are somewhat adjacent to whatever the actual subject matter is, like Hardball or Air. Then of course you have your underdog stories like We Are Marshall or Rudy. To be honest, I don't really like the movie Rudy all that much. All that fanfare and the guy only plays a few snaps? Like, what's the big deal? So many people lose their minds about that movie for ultimately a scrub player who only plays a couple times in a game that was practically over. Anyway, so that isn't what the Absolute Unit movie is going to be about. Its going to be about a player who finds success in their career, but finds that things do no get easier from there on out.
This past offseason Rolund was approached about being in a historical recreation about the day Deathwing returned and caused the Cataclysm. Since this is an event he was very interested in he was super excited to join the project. He just had a small role and was only on set for two days but during the shoot he got to meat some very important people. Rolund got to attend a dinner which had Thrall and Bran Bronzebeard as speakers and after the dinner got to meet with both leaders to speak about the current state of relations between the races of Azoroth. The scene he was in was about what happened in Ironforge during the event and the leadership of the dwarfs trying to figure out and what to do to keep the city safe. Rolund donated his check from the shoot to the Ironforge Cataclysm Foundation which helps people in dealing with the after effects even years later of the Cataclysm and saves funds for future cataclysmic events.
His agent had contacted him on Friday night. After a long week at the facility, Kurbis was trying to unwind at his Yellowknife residence. His phone buzzed, lighting up the dim room with a brief blue light. He absent mindedly flipped it over. The message on the screen read,
“Hey, want to be in a movie?” J.T. blinked a couple of times, trying to wrap his head around what he was seeing. Did he want to be in a movie? He supposed it might not hurt, at least to find out what it was about. But at the present moment, he wasn’t all that enthused about being in a movie. “What’s the deal?” he typed back, and hit send on his phone. After a brief delay, Kurbis could see his agent was typing a response. He sat back in his recliner, and thought for a moment longer. He was comfortable here in Yellowknife, he had a life that many people could only dream of. But the one thing people didn’t take into account, was the constant horde of media, incessantly probing, asking, talking. Those pancake commercials he had done for Bisquick were about as far as he wanted his acting career to go. Kurbis put his phone down before his agent had responded. He didn’t want to be in a movie after all.
Leonidas walks into the office with the movie directors. The office has a large table in the center and windows with a view peering over Los Angeles.
“Mr. Leonidas, it’s an honor to meet you. My name is Zack Snyder.” Snyder extends a hand and is met with a firm handshake from Leonidas. “And you as well,” Leonidas responds. “I’m thrilled to have you here today to market our movie to the man who lived it himself. Have you seen the movie 300?” Snyder questions. Leonidas nods. “Well our plan is to do a reboot, however we’d like to give you creative control and the lead role of, well, yourself. We’d like to make this movie as accurate as possible to tell the entire tale of your story. We are aware that our first movies were not historically accurate. With you here, everyone in the world will know the legend of King Leonidas. So, what do you say?” Leonidas stands with a toothy grin. “I say we have a deal.”
The movie that I was approached about filming during the offseason was a little surprising to me. The movie they asked me to play in this time was a comedy film. The last movie I made was with my friend Austin Morley and it was an action type revenge gang movie. I felt like that role was challenging because my character had a lot of depth. In the comedy movie I’ll be playing one of three brothers that are going on an adventure to Transylvania find our father who we were told is Count Dracula. I will be costarring with my friend Morley again and this time we have added our friend Brandon Mason to the mix. I think it will be a lot easier to play this role because I’ll be getting to basically be my self around my friends. Hopefully this movie will be as big of a hit as our last one.
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About a month and a half ago, just before the season started, a very well known film studio approached my agency about having me star in their next rom-com movie. Now I've never thought I had the acting chops, but after some thought, we said why not! What's the worst that can happen?
I can't share too many details just yet, but I play a single guy who is a reporter for a big magazine in the big city. I travel to a small rural town to get a story on a matchmaker who apparently has the magic touch to connecting couples. Everyone ends up married! Not a believer in this myself, I look for ways to debunk this as I write my story. My co-star is none other than Bo-Katan herself, Katee Sackhoff . Rounding out the cast is Scarlett Johansson who plays my sister and Pedro Pascal, who plays my golfing buddy and fellow reporter. Hopefully you all go and see it!! S42 Ultimini Champ
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Jake being offered the chance to star in a movie has always been a dream come true. The studio at first wanted him to do a horror movie, but Jake didn't feel like that was really something to bring him up to stardom, in fact, probably the opposite of that. He pitched the idea of being part of a comedy as many sports stars have been part of comedies from being a star to just a simple cameo. The movie studio agreed that that would be a better move for me career wise, but didn't have anything lined up for them that involved a comedy. It was settled on being a cameo for the horror movie as it wasn't enough to seriously hinder his chances if he was killed off in the first 10 minutes of the movie. While there really wasn't any big stars, the studio asked Williams' if there was anyone I'd like to suggest, and I just told them nothing they could offer money wise.
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