Round 1: Traveler Vs Matrix Vs Dresden Files
Mar 11, 2013 18:05:13 GMT -5
Post by Sportsguy on Mar 11, 2013 18:05:13 GMT -5
Traveler: The 4th Branch
In the television show Traveler, first aired in the summer of 2007, we meet our main characters, Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog. The two Harvard graduates students become suspects when the Drexler Museum in New York is bombed while they are pulling a juvenile prank. It appears that their friend and roommate, Will Traveler, has framed them for the bombing. Afterwards, Traveler disappears and there is no evidence that he ever existed. Jay and Tyler flee from the authorities, who believe them to be domestic terrorists. While on the run and trying to clear their own names, they attempt to delve into Will Traveler's past in hopes of discovering Will's motives for turning on his friends.
Meanwhile, Traveler goes on a similar search for answers. It is revealed that he is in fact a secret agent working for a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the Fourth Branch, and slowly a complex conspiracy is unraveled.
Jay and Tyler reunite with Will, and together the three attempt to bring those responsible to justice. They manage to kidnap Jack Freed, director of the Fourth Branch, but before they can use him to clear Jay and Tyler's names, the limousine with Jack Freed in it explodes.
And that's where this movie picks up...
The question is: "What is the Fourth Branch?"
This is the driving mystery of "Traveler: The Fourth Branch", as Will, Jay, and Tyler attempt to expose the clandestine organization which Jack Freed mentioned moments before his limo exploded in the series finale. The Fourth Branch is a secret society comprised of the oldest families in America. Many people forget that when this country was founded, Democracy was not a proven, accepted form of government. There had not been a successful western Democracy since Athens. And, in many ways, America was looked at as a great experiment. Our founding fathers wanted independence from England, and they needed to unify a fledgling country populated by a multinational constituency to win the war. What better way to rally a disparate army against the oppressors than to promise the common man a voice in the new government? This was the great promise of early American Democracy. But what if the founding fathers were also scared of the common man's power? Would they have perhaps put safeguards into place? A branch that sits above the people's three official branches of government? That, my friends, is the Fourth Branch. A group comprised of the oldest families in America who implement checks and balances on the government to guide the true course of our country. Think about the iconic families of American politics. The Kennedys. The Tafts. The Bushes. Did you ever wonder how they managed to wield so much power and influence? Their membership in the Fourth Branch plays a big part. And while our Founding Fathers believed in using the Branch to foster a youthful nation, today the Branch has become a shadow government that uses economic, political, social, and legal influence to maintain strict control. Right now, their senators are making sure that their latest Supreme Court nominee gets appointed. Their members on the New York Stock Exchange are keeping the price of oil high so we support the effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. What is the Fourth Branch? It is the realization of one of our worst fears, that though we live in the world's greatest democracy, we are not the ones steering the ship.
In "Traveler: The Fourth Branch" Burchell (original cast member Matt Bomer), Fog (Bradley Cooper), and Traveler (Jeremy Renner) have gone underground, waiting to make their next move as they seek to undercover the truth about The Fourth Branch and clear their names. A rouge CIA Agent, known only as "The Porter" (Denzel Washington) is tracking the three, not to harm them, but to assist them if needed.
FBI Agent Jan Marlow (original cast member Viola Davis) has been demoted and banned from working on the Drexler case after FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers (Jeffery Donovan) becomes suspicious that she has realized that he is working for The Fourth Branch. Marlow is secretly working on the case, trying to track down the Harvard trio, not to bring them in, but to help them expose Chambers, the man who was responsible for killing her partner, Agent Boras, and attempting to have her murdered in the series finale. Chambers has jailed Burchell's girlfriend Kim Doherty (Maggie Lawson) in a Central America prison, hoping to use her disappearance to draw out Burchell. Chambers also assigns two new FBI agents CJ Larson (Anne Hathaway) and Trent Walker (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) as the new leads on the Drexler bombing case, hoping the two agents find the Harvard trio and silence them from unearthing the Fourth Branch conspiracy and their ultimate plan, to instill a fear in the American people, to change the constitution so that the Fourth Branch and keep it's heir to their leadership, President Shears (Aaron Eckhart) in office for as long as they want, giving the Fourth Branch the power over the people, making the democracy that the America people think they have into a very real dictatorship.
Directed by Oliver Stone and written by series creator David DiGilio, Traveler: The Fourth Branch will see three ordinary Americans do their Patriotic duty to give America back to the people.
Cast and Crew:
Jay Burchell: Matt Bomer
Tyler Fog: Bradley Cooper
Will Traveler: Jeremy Renner
The Porter: Denzel Washington
FBI Agent C.J. Larson: Anne Hathaway
FBI Agent Trent Walker: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers: Jefferey Donovan
FBI Agent Jan Marlowe: Viola Davis
President Shears: Aaron Eckhart
Kim Doherty: Maggie Lawson
Jon Voight: Carlton Fog
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: David DiGilio
Composed by Bear McCreary
Christopher & Jonathan Nolan present: THE MATRIX RESURRECTION
It has been 4 generations since the culmination of events in Revolutions. The Third Renaissance brought about a time of peace between man and machine, a peace that is now fracturing on both sides.
The human side is led in its defense of harmony by Ion (Joesph Gordon-Levitt), an unknowing descendant of The One, and his outspoken wife, Sata (Ellen Page). The peacekeeping machines fused the code of their former Agents with Neo’s code to form a group of Neo-Agents led by Agent James (Daniel Craig) and Agent Thomas (Chris Hemsworth).
The rebel human alliance, led by Darwin (Heath Ledger) and his right-hand man Richtor (Tom Hardy), has formed a tenuous alliance with the head of the rebel machines, Crane (Guy Pearce). They have come to an agreement to take apart the man/machine peacekeepers from the inside before battling it out in the end for the right to the remaining world.
In an effort to subvert the peace, the rebels hack into the Matrix and release a controlled version of the nefarious program, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), as well as a programmed version of the revered human legend, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). They are assisted along the way by legacy programs of The Merovingian and Persephone, Lorenz (Vincent Cassel) and Julia (Marion Cotillard), who have grown fond of the notion of chaos.
After consulting with the human elder, deGrasse (Leonard Nimoy), and the machine elder, Michio (Ken Watanabe), Ion and Sata enlist the aid of Cobol (Mark Dacascos) to train them along with the other peacekeeping humans. Along with the Neo-Agents, the group arranges a meeting with the head of the machines, The Engineer (David Bowie).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Ion
Ellen Page as Sata
Heath Ledger as Darwin
Tom Hardy as Richtor
Daniel Craig as Agent James
Chris Hemsworth as Agent Thomas
Guy Pearce as Crane
David Bowie as The Engineer
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
Vincent Cassel as Lorenz
Marion Cotillard as Julia
Leonard Nimoy as deGrasse
Ken Watanabe as Michio
Mark Dacascos as Cobol
Lost Days: A Case of the Dresden Files
They say that wizards are subtle and quick to anger. They’re half right about that.
Welcome to the Windy City of Chicago, home of Wrigley Field, deep dish pizza, and the world’s only open, practicing wizard. Harry Dresden is a wizard for hire; Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties or Other Entertainment.
Harry has helped to save the city and the world more times then most people realize, but what he wants more then anything is a day where he can just kick back and relax with a beer and his dog Mouse. Unfortunately, today isn’t one of those days. What starts as a consultation for a child abduction for his friend on Chicago PD, Karrin Murphy, turns into an elaborate web as Harry realizes that the child in question is the Archive. The Archive, or Ivy as Harry has nicknamed her, can access any piece of information ever written down in the history of mankind, even ancient and lost tomes of magic.
Harry suspects the Red Court Vampires, led by Duke Ortega, to be involved, along with his lieutenant, the beautiful and deadly Bianca. But if these things weren’t enough, Harry’s apprentice, Molly Carpenter along with her parents, Michael and Chastity have vanished. And Kincaid, Ivy’s protector and mercenary, is tearing through the town, from its mafia underworld to the highest realms of the supernatural, heedless of the destruction he’s causing in his quest to get her back.
Harry has only so long before Ortega can exploit the girl’s vast knowledge and to find his friends. But are these things linked? Can Harry solve the mysteries, recover the girl, find his friends, and pay the rent?
His name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give him a call. He’s in the book.
Presenting an all new story of The Dresden Files, written by Joss Whedon and directed by Robert Rodriguez. With an award winning score by Hans Zimmer and the original author, Jim Butcher serving as creative consultant, this film comes to you Winter, 2014.
Zachary Quinto as Harry Dresden
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Karrin Murphy
David Hyde Pierce as the voice of Bob the Skull
Eric Roberts as "Gentleman" John Marcone
Dennis Quaid as Mac
Dakota Fanning as Ivy/The Archive
Sam Worthington as Kincaid
Emma Watson as Molly Carpenter
Sean Bean as Michael Carpenter
Maria Bello as Chastity Carpenter
Ben Barnes as Thomas Raith
Antonio Banderas as Duke Paolo Ortega
Angelina Jolie as Bianca
In the television show Traveler, first aired in the summer of 2007, we meet our main characters, Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog. The two Harvard graduates students become suspects when the Drexler Museum in New York is bombed while they are pulling a juvenile prank. It appears that their friend and roommate, Will Traveler, has framed them for the bombing. Afterwards, Traveler disappears and there is no evidence that he ever existed. Jay and Tyler flee from the authorities, who believe them to be domestic terrorists. While on the run and trying to clear their own names, they attempt to delve into Will Traveler's past in hopes of discovering Will's motives for turning on his friends.
Meanwhile, Traveler goes on a similar search for answers. It is revealed that he is in fact a secret agent working for a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the Fourth Branch, and slowly a complex conspiracy is unraveled.
Jay and Tyler reunite with Will, and together the three attempt to bring those responsible to justice. They manage to kidnap Jack Freed, director of the Fourth Branch, but before they can use him to clear Jay and Tyler's names, the limousine with Jack Freed in it explodes.
And that's where this movie picks up...
The question is: "What is the Fourth Branch?"
This is the driving mystery of "Traveler: The Fourth Branch", as Will, Jay, and Tyler attempt to expose the clandestine organization which Jack Freed mentioned moments before his limo exploded in the series finale. The Fourth Branch is a secret society comprised of the oldest families in America. Many people forget that when this country was founded, Democracy was not a proven, accepted form of government. There had not been a successful western Democracy since Athens. And, in many ways, America was looked at as a great experiment. Our founding fathers wanted independence from England, and they needed to unify a fledgling country populated by a multinational constituency to win the war. What better way to rally a disparate army against the oppressors than to promise the common man a voice in the new government? This was the great promise of early American Democracy. But what if the founding fathers were also scared of the common man's power? Would they have perhaps put safeguards into place? A branch that sits above the people's three official branches of government? That, my friends, is the Fourth Branch. A group comprised of the oldest families in America who implement checks and balances on the government to guide the true course of our country. Think about the iconic families of American politics. The Kennedys. The Tafts. The Bushes. Did you ever wonder how they managed to wield so much power and influence? Their membership in the Fourth Branch plays a big part. And while our Founding Fathers believed in using the Branch to foster a youthful nation, today the Branch has become a shadow government that uses economic, political, social, and legal influence to maintain strict control. Right now, their senators are making sure that their latest Supreme Court nominee gets appointed. Their members on the New York Stock Exchange are keeping the price of oil high so we support the effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. What is the Fourth Branch? It is the realization of one of our worst fears, that though we live in the world's greatest democracy, we are not the ones steering the ship.
In "Traveler: The Fourth Branch" Burchell (original cast member Matt Bomer), Fog (Bradley Cooper), and Traveler (Jeremy Renner) have gone underground, waiting to make their next move as they seek to undercover the truth about The Fourth Branch and clear their names. A rouge CIA Agent, known only as "The Porter" (Denzel Washington) is tracking the three, not to harm them, but to assist them if needed.
FBI Agent Jan Marlow (original cast member Viola Davis) has been demoted and banned from working on the Drexler case after FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers (Jeffery Donovan) becomes suspicious that she has realized that he is working for The Fourth Branch. Marlow is secretly working on the case, trying to track down the Harvard trio, not to bring them in, but to help them expose Chambers, the man who was responsible for killing her partner, Agent Boras, and attempting to have her murdered in the series finale. Chambers has jailed Burchell's girlfriend Kim Doherty (Maggie Lawson) in a Central America prison, hoping to use her disappearance to draw out Burchell. Chambers also assigns two new FBI agents CJ Larson (Anne Hathaway) and Trent Walker (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) as the new leads on the Drexler bombing case, hoping the two agents find the Harvard trio and silence them from unearthing the Fourth Branch conspiracy and their ultimate plan, to instill a fear in the American people, to change the constitution so that the Fourth Branch and keep it's heir to their leadership, President Shears (Aaron Eckhart) in office for as long as they want, giving the Fourth Branch the power over the people, making the democracy that the America people think they have into a very real dictatorship.
Directed by Oliver Stone and written by series creator David DiGilio, Traveler: The Fourth Branch will see three ordinary Americans do their Patriotic duty to give America back to the people.
Cast and Crew:
Jay Burchell: Matt Bomer
Tyler Fog: Bradley Cooper
Will Traveler: Jeremy Renner
The Porter: Denzel Washington
FBI Agent C.J. Larson: Anne Hathaway
FBI Agent Trent Walker: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers: Jefferey Donovan
FBI Agent Jan Marlowe: Viola Davis
President Shears: Aaron Eckhart
Kim Doherty: Maggie Lawson
Jon Voight: Carlton Fog
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: David DiGilio
Composed by Bear McCreary
Christopher & Jonathan Nolan present: THE MATRIX RESURRECTION
It has been 4 generations since the culmination of events in Revolutions. The Third Renaissance brought about a time of peace between man and machine, a peace that is now fracturing on both sides.
The human side is led in its defense of harmony by Ion (Joesph Gordon-Levitt), an unknowing descendant of The One, and his outspoken wife, Sata (Ellen Page). The peacekeeping machines fused the code of their former Agents with Neo’s code to form a group of Neo-Agents led by Agent James (Daniel Craig) and Agent Thomas (Chris Hemsworth).
The rebel human alliance, led by Darwin (Heath Ledger) and his right-hand man Richtor (Tom Hardy), has formed a tenuous alliance with the head of the rebel machines, Crane (Guy Pearce). They have come to an agreement to take apart the man/machine peacekeepers from the inside before battling it out in the end for the right to the remaining world.
In an effort to subvert the peace, the rebels hack into the Matrix and release a controlled version of the nefarious program, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), as well as a programmed version of the revered human legend, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). They are assisted along the way by legacy programs of The Merovingian and Persephone, Lorenz (Vincent Cassel) and Julia (Marion Cotillard), who have grown fond of the notion of chaos.
After consulting with the human elder, deGrasse (Leonard Nimoy), and the machine elder, Michio (Ken Watanabe), Ion and Sata enlist the aid of Cobol (Mark Dacascos) to train them along with the other peacekeeping humans. Along with the Neo-Agents, the group arranges a meeting with the head of the machines, The Engineer (David Bowie).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Ion
Ellen Page as Sata
Heath Ledger as Darwin
Tom Hardy as Richtor
Daniel Craig as Agent James
Chris Hemsworth as Agent Thomas
Guy Pearce as Crane
David Bowie as The Engineer
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
Vincent Cassel as Lorenz
Marion Cotillard as Julia
Leonard Nimoy as deGrasse
Ken Watanabe as Michio
Mark Dacascos as Cobol
Lost Days: A Case of the Dresden Files
They say that wizards are subtle and quick to anger. They’re half right about that.
Welcome to the Windy City of Chicago, home of Wrigley Field, deep dish pizza, and the world’s only open, practicing wizard. Harry Dresden is a wizard for hire; Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties or Other Entertainment.
Harry has helped to save the city and the world more times then most people realize, but what he wants more then anything is a day where he can just kick back and relax with a beer and his dog Mouse. Unfortunately, today isn’t one of those days. What starts as a consultation for a child abduction for his friend on Chicago PD, Karrin Murphy, turns into an elaborate web as Harry realizes that the child in question is the Archive. The Archive, or Ivy as Harry has nicknamed her, can access any piece of information ever written down in the history of mankind, even ancient and lost tomes of magic.
Harry suspects the Red Court Vampires, led by Duke Ortega, to be involved, along with his lieutenant, the beautiful and deadly Bianca. But if these things weren’t enough, Harry’s apprentice, Molly Carpenter along with her parents, Michael and Chastity have vanished. And Kincaid, Ivy’s protector and mercenary, is tearing through the town, from its mafia underworld to the highest realms of the supernatural, heedless of the destruction he’s causing in his quest to get her back.
Harry has only so long before Ortega can exploit the girl’s vast knowledge and to find his friends. But are these things linked? Can Harry solve the mysteries, recover the girl, find his friends, and pay the rent?
His name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give him a call. He’s in the book.
Presenting an all new story of The Dresden Files, written by Joss Whedon and directed by Robert Rodriguez. With an award winning score by Hans Zimmer and the original author, Jim Butcher serving as creative consultant, this film comes to you Winter, 2014.
Zachary Quinto as Harry Dresden
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Karrin Murphy
David Hyde Pierce as the voice of Bob the Skull
Eric Roberts as "Gentleman" John Marcone
Dennis Quaid as Mac
Dakota Fanning as Ivy/The Archive
Sam Worthington as Kincaid
Emma Watson as Molly Carpenter
Sean Bean as Michael Carpenter
Maria Bello as Chastity Carpenter
Ben Barnes as Thomas Raith
Antonio Banderas as Duke Paolo Ortega
Angelina Jolie as Bianca
