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PROVING
GROUND: FROM THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN REDLOCKS"
"A SMART,
EXPLOSIVE, ACTION-PAKCED, FAMILY SPACE ADVENTURE THAT YOU’VE BEEN
WAITING FOR THAT FEATURES TWO TEENAGE GIRLS FLYING STARSHIPS, ,
SPECTACULAR SPACE BATTLES, EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD
HUMOR AND A SASSY COMPUTER NAMED CYPRUS. “
A $16.5
MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET FULL BUDGET OUTLINE AVAILABLE
KEY
PERSONNEL: (All are subject to change)
Executive
producers, Producers and others pending;
KEVIN M. KRAFT
Fred M Davis
WRITER/ PRODUCER: KEVIN M. KRAFT, multi-award-winning
screenwriter and CEO of T E K PRODUCTIONS, LLC
DIRECTOR: TBO
ACTORS WISH
LIST:
Holliston Coleman (Bless the Child, Miss Letti and Me,
Lilo and Stitch2, Medium) as Holly Stephenson/Captain
Redlocks
Jennette
McCurdy (Hollywood Homicide, The Inside, Zoey 101,
Lincoln Heights)
as Aria Krait
Gary Graham
(Star Trek: Enterprise, JAG, Alien Nation tv
series), veteran actor and author as Richard Stephenson
Kim Rhodes
(Disney’s The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Star Trek: Voyager)
as Julia Stephenson
SECOND TIER
ACTORS FOR LEAD: None. This project was written and is being developed
explicitly for actress Holli Coleman.
An outline of the
deal.
The current budget estimate is
$16,446,010.00.
The most recognizable names, Gary Graham and Kim Rhodes have been
offered $40,000.00 apiece for their brief appearances at the beginning
and at the end of the movie. No agreements, other than letters of
interest/intent have been made with the other actors at this time.
At
this time we are approaching Disney, hoping to secure at least a
“first-look” deal, since the feature is a perfect Disney vehicle,
since special effects will be provided by former Disney effects
professionals, who have formed their own spfx company and wish, for
their own reasons, to remain anonymous at this time.
Though the SEC rightly instructs filmmakers to warn investors about film
being VERY HIGH RISK, I truly do see this project having cash cow
potential. It had franchise written all over it...which is why I
chose it for my opening salvo. Response to every-day moviegoers and the
talent involved has been nothing short but enthusiastic, which tells me
the script, story, premise and vision is one that grabs people and will
set a new standard for live-action family films, which the movie going
public is starved for.
PROVING
GROUND: FROM THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN REDLOCKS
A SMART,
EXPLOSIVE, ACTION-PACKED, FAMILY SPACE ADVENTURE THAT YOU’VE BEEN
WAITING FOR THAT FEATURES TWO TEENAGE GIRLS FLYING STARSHIPS,
SPECTACULAR SPACE BATTLES, EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD
HUMOR AND A SASSY COMPUTER NAMED CYPRUS.
Holly Stephenson, 15
yrs, loves starships and space battle history, probably due to the fact
that her father, Richard, is a lieutenant colonel in Earth's
Interstellar Defense Service, where he designs starship defense systems.
Home schooled by their mother, Julia, Holly and Noah often await the
periodic return home from duty of their father, even at this the end of
an intergalactic war. And they get their wish, when he returns,
promising a weekend of fun and family. Plans are dashed, however, when
both Dad and Mom are recalled to duty that very night, and they leave
the kids in the capable hands of the family sentry droid. During the wee
hours, Holly concocts a plan to hold their parents to their word by
venturing to their location: Terelli Prime. Stealing away in the
darkness, the kids make their way to the space base and blackmail a
freighter pilot, Quozzo, to take them to their parents. Ironically,
Quozzo is freighting the
I.D.S. Bradbury,
a heretofore decommissioned battleship, which has begun a refit to
become an automated drone to patrol the demilitarized system where
salvagers, pirates, have begun using the lax, end-war security to
appropriate military vessels.
Things spin out of control,
when Quozzo's ship falls under attack by pirates. Quozzo and Noah escape
in an escape pod to Oblivia Two a hostile nearby planet, and, just
before the freighter is destroyed, Holly manages to escape into the
protection of the
Bradbury. Both
she and the warship emerge unscathed. Now the space around Oblivia Two
becomes the proving ground for Holly and the Bradbury, as she uses her
wits and the limited battle systems of the Bradbury to resist the
Reticulan pirates bent on seizing her father's ship, led by the
coldhearted, Aria Krait, herself only a child, while Noah and Quozzo
struggle to reach a communication system on Oblivia Two, before a
searing fiery cyclone or the slathering jaws of one of the planet's
predators seals their fate. Will the Stephensons survive to ever see Dad
and Mom again?
Holliston Coleman
(Captain Redlocks)
Holliston
Coleman began acting at age four when, on her first theatrical audition,
she booked a role written for a six year old. Holliston was so
convincing and articulate that despite no filming experience she booked
the part of Horace Bing’s daughter on the popular and long-running
television series Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, with Emmy and Golden
Globe winner Jane Seymour. The part called for Holliston to master an
extensive number of lines, to sing both in a group and solo, and to shed
tears for her father.
Since
then, Holliston has tackled a number of roles beyond her years. At the
age of six, she booked the title role as “the Child” in the Paramount
feature film Bless the Child, starring opposite Academy Award
winner Kim Basinger. The role was described in the breakdown by the
Paramount features casting director as “perhaps the toughest role ever
written for a six year old.” Holliston played an autistic child
overwhelmed by messages from God and pursued by agents of evil.
As a
largely silent autistic child on screen the majority of the film,
Holliston had to communicate a vast emotional range with expression and
posture. One critic described her as having “dead-on instincts when
acting with her face and body.” Her performance was hailed by critics
nationwide, with the New York Times proclaiming her to be
“enormously compelling … a real find.” People Magazine raved
that “the best acting comes from Holliston, who brings real gravitas to
her scenes.” Holliston received over sixty positive reviews
nationwide. (See attached.)
Later,
Holliston was selected from a national search to play the title role in
a TNT film Miss Lettie and Me, filmed on location in Georgia, in
which Holliston played opposite Mary Tyler Moore and Burt Reynolds, both
Golden Globe and Emmy winners and Academy Award nominees. The filming
of Miss Lettie and Me was extremely demanding in that Holliston
filmed every day of the shoot and was on screen most of the film. She
played Moore’s feisty niece who has unexpectedly come to live with her.
The producer, Beth Poulson, noted that Holliston’s maturity, focus,
ability, and sweetness were so unusual that she would recommend
Holliston to “any production, anytime.”
Holliston
also performed as the voice of Lilo’s classmate Aleka in Disney’s
animated film Lilo & Stitch II.
Between
films, Coleman continues to be offered extremely challenging roles in
television dramas. In Law and Order: SVU, Holli played a
pregnant 12 year old, the illegal wife of a cult leader whom she finally
shoots, in what lead Marishka Haggerty called “an Emmy-worthy
performance in her favorite episode”. In Medium, Holli plays a
recurring role as the best friend of Patricia Arquette’s daughter.
Touched by an Angel tapped Holliston for one of the biggest roles
they’ve ever offered a child, calling for virtually continuous screen
time as a near-orphan guided by angels in her search for her missing
father. In Judging Amy, Holliston portrayed a difficult,
emotionally charged based-on-truth story of a disturbed young girl whose
mother eventually murdered her. In Ally McBeal, Holliston played
a young girl torn by her father’s infidelity to her mother, and in ER,
Holliston was asked to portray a young girl driven to kill her father in
self-defense.
Holliston’s film experiences also include Supreme Sanction, in
which she played opposite Michael Madsen and David Dukes as the daughter
of a man pursued by assassins, and Norman Jewison’s Emmy-nominated
Dinner with Friends, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the
same name. In Dinner with Friends, Holliston had the privilege
of acting as the daughter of Academy Award nominee Toni Colette and
Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear, as well as with Dennis Quaid and
Andie MacDowell.
Holliston
has extensive international experience. She filmed Bless the Child
for four months in Canada, and recently traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria to
film Run for the Money, an action-drama with Christian Slater,
Val Kilmer, and Daryl Hannah. Holliston portrayed Slater’s daughter,
kidnapped by Kilmer.
Holliston
has already accumulated a rich variety of experiences in film making.
She has acted around fire and explosions, participated in car chase and
accident stunts, had a full body double cast made (requiring her to be
still while her entire head and body were wrapped in plaster), was in a
harness two stories high against a green screen background (she did
flips in the harness between takes for fun), has been filmed underwater,
remained motionless for over an hour while special CG cameras were
programmed frame by frame, acted against non-existent CG creatures, and
acted under huge wind fans and rain-making equipment. Holliston has
also acted with animals and birds, both live and animatronic.
For her
title roles in Bless the Child, Holliston was honored with a
prestigious Saturn Award nomination for Best Performance by a Younger
Actor from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
For her title roles in both Bless the Child and Miss Lettie
and Me, Holliston received Young Artist Award nominations for Best
Performance. In honor of her inspiring role as Cody in Bless the
Child, Holliston was asked to be a Presenter at the televised Family
Film Awards.
In spite
of Holliston’s interesting and busy life as an actress, she remains a
normal kid with an array of friends from church and neighborhood, and
has surrounded herself with a variety of pets and outside activities.
Holli and her family have owned and loved pets including: dogs, cats,
rabbits, sheep, chinchillas, hedgehogs, parrots, guinea pigs, mice,
lizards, frogs, fish, and a large tortoise. Holli is currently taking
swim and diving training at the Olympic Rose Bowl Aquatic Center. She
also takes gymnastics and piano lessons. Holli loves to sing and dance.
Holli
enjoys learning new accents for her potential roles. She has been
tutored by Robert Easton, the renowned “Henry Higgins of Hollywood” for
various accents from Irish to Santa-Fe Western. Easton says Holliston
is a quick study with an excellent ear and a remarkable ability to pick
up the nuances of language.
Holli
home-schools year-round with her mother Doris (a former writing
instructor at USC and Cal State University, Northridge), her father Bob
(a Caltech grad and software development engineer), and her younger
brother Bobby, whom she in turn is helping to educate.
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