'Queen & Country' dream casting

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Hello you, the name is Luca but you can call me Luca. Since I posted a few days ago about my proposal for Greg Rucka's spy series 'Queen & Country' filling the gap in the market for a female-led spy movie franchise, I have been dreaming up who I'd have as the characters in a movie adaptation.

 

I have been giving it some thought, and been looking all over for character descriptions so I could think of who could possibly play the characters. Since not many of you may know, I will be offering character descriptions and then list either a few or one person that I feel could play them.

 

Do bare in mind also, some of these characters that I am finding my information from, may lack some bits of info, such as visual description, age or characteristics etc. but I've filled in some of those gaps with what I believe to fit the character and the context.

 

1. Tara Felicity Chace (Minder Two) - Blonde femme-fatale, beautiful, seductive, foul-mouthed, has an attitude, no bullshit kind of person, alcohol and tobacco dependent, workaholic and very good at what she does. Always outperforming her fellow agents. I believe she had an early life of privilege before being shipped off to private school after her parents divorced.

 

(I honestly feel guilty not knowing all of these things, feel free to submit factual corrections)

 

A headstrong but flawed and vulnerable character, a perfect female lead for a spy genre movie.

 

So some of the choices I have for Chace for both in the early part of the film where she has been sent off to boarding school and when she has grown up and joined the SIS.

 

With the apparent Ellen Page casting or discussions, again I like her as an actress but she does not scream any of those traits. A proposed actress who I do think would be a wonderful pick is Emily Blunt, I feel she has many of those traits nailed however she is not my primary pick, I am picking Natalie Dormer.





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The first time I came across Natalie Dormer was her relatively small role as Nurse Gemma in Rush after she bedded Chris Hemsworth's James Hunt. It sucked that her role was so minor, but no matter, her portfolio also includes plenty of TV work, such as Game Of Thrones, The Tudors and Elementary.

 

Dormer also played a major role in the final two Hunger Games movies, the two part Mockingjay films, and she was my favourite for the longest time for the role of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, both her own standalone film and the two part Avengers Infinity War films. That being put to rest both because Brie Larson looks set to take that role and also Dormer had a small and to be honest, wasted part as a flirty private in Captain America: The First Avenger.

 

No matter, because this has popped up now and I think this will be a perfect role for her. I feel Dormer can ride that line between grace, normality, intensity, and has an impeccable charisma. One thing that may not work in Dormer's favour, she is not a huge box office draw despite the fact she is

Margaery Tyrell in Game Of Thrones, and no big budget action film would be given the greenlight unless you have actors in the film that can bring in a big audience.

 

An example of this is Kingsman, which had Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson and Michael Caine in to bring in the paying crowd, but Taron Egerton was the lead. (Can any of you tell how obsessed I am with Kingsman yet? Lol)

 

Now for Tara Chace in her younger days. If they choose to go this route, I'd like to see an earlier part of the movie after Tara is sent off to boarding school and develops her thick skin and could go from being a shy and timid girl to one with attitude and a no f***'s given look on life. This I am certain on, Olivia Cooke.

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I am very high on Cooke as an actress, she is magnetic. From what I saw of Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, she was effortless in that, and believe me I would have seen it myself if not for the subject matter. Most of her other work mainly includes low-budget crappy horror films so I would not have known about her had it not have been for Me, Earl and the Dying Girl.

Cooke tends to fly under the radar, she was among a few actresses up for consideration for the Lara Croft Tomb Raider reboot along with Star Wars actresses Felicity Jones and Daisy Ridley, before the role was won by Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander. Cooke is definitely the least known out of the four, and a role in a franchise film like this could catapult her to the fame she is certainly worthy of.

Her role as a young Tara Chace would consist of her being among a group of over-confident upper class girls and with Tara being very young and impressionable, and in a state after her parents divorced and ditched her at this school, she would be an easy target for these older girls.

Then over time, having developed her thick skin, begins defending those about to fall into the same situation as her (Being taken advantage of by the older girls). She could begin taking a hit from those more privileged than her again and being unfairly treated, realising she has to look out for the little people, building her anger and her desire to turn that into positive energy, taking a toll on herself.

It would offer a chance to see how Tara slowly began both simultaneously breaking and building herself as a young woman, and developing both a lack of trust and a build in confidence in herself as she is thrown into the deep end of life.

Cooke embodies an innocence and a good willed nature, and a vulnerability that is unmatched which would be perfect for someone who grows up to be the SIS and wants to serve their country. Also becoming someone who learns to fend for herself and becomes someone who can fend for others.

So Olivia Cooke grows up to be Natalie Dormer, does not seem too far off from reality does it not? These actresses are both wonderful and I would love it if they were to be cast as Tara Chace.

2. Tom Wallace (Minder One) - Experienced field agent, tall, late 40's with brown hair (Most likely dyed, perhaps becoming grey) and stubble, I imagine himself being relatively smooth and hard working but overall, perhaps a tad too cocky. We know that Chace does do better as an agent than he does, so my guess is that he's very confident but not too unlikeable.

This sort of role would normally go to someone like George Clooney, my pick however for the character of Tom Wallace is Luke Evans.

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My first film of Evans' was the sixth instalment in the Fast and Furious movies, which I personally did not enjoy, infact I walked out of half way through but no matter. I was trying to think of someone who fit the character description and was a box office draw that would not mind taking a supporting role.

I like Evans for this role because he can be very smooth but he also has an edge to him that can make you feel uneasy about whatever character he plays. He can pull of arrogance without becoming unlikeable very well, which is why I imagine he was cast as Gaston in the live-action Beauty and the Beast movie that is being released next March.

Give him a short and slicked back haircut, get him clean shaven and I reckon he could nail the character of Tom Wallace. He may not be a guaranteed box office draw but even with a part in Peter Jackson's middle-earth Hobbit movies, but he is certainly on the right track to becoming a box office draw.

3) Ed Kittering (Minder Three) - The youngest and most inexperienced member, bright hair, baby face, hesitant, always a tad unsure of himself, good willed and keen to impress, he also has a crush on Tara and is taken under Tom's wing.

I had been thinking about who could play Ed for a while now. Many of my friends will probably read that and knowing me, will think I am about to say Taron Egerton, and my response to that would be "Yes you do know me well but I am not having Taron Egerton as Ed". Believe me, I was looking all over for actors around early to mid 20's but I found the perfect guy, Ben Hardy.

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Hardy portrayed Warren Worthington III/Archangel in the new X-Men: Apocalypse, and he really impressed me with what little he was allowed to do. He was effortless with how he played Angel, infact my only issue with the character was that he was included in the film at all, but that's something for another time.

 

Ben Hardy is also a rare case of a soap opera actor transitioning into the movie industry, as he played the character of Peter Beale on Eastenders between 2013 and 2015, which I don't watch personally, I was always a Coronation Street fan when I was into watching it.

 

In Apocalypse, Angel had an attitude and was very reckless in the early part of the film, which was the only time he really was allowed to shine. It doesn't seem like he will be reprising his role for future X-Men movies, so I'd like to see Fox keep him in their circle by putting him in this franchise too, since Q&C is apparently owned by Fox.

He has the charm, the charisma and the youth, and the acting abilities to make him a great choice to play a young, naïve and good willed character.

4) Paul Crocker - The Director of Operations, relatively ruthless to all his agents and is willing to send them on dangerous missions, having been in some military fields and seen his friends get killed, would make him a very detached individual. I have not got an age range for this character but I imagine mid 40's would be Crocker's age.

 

So after some thought, maybe we should have someone who could be perfectly capable to be both a leader to those beneath him and also ruthless enough to seem emotionally subdued and therefore, make him a compelling character. That's why I am picking Hugh Laurie.

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Laurie is a very seasoned actor, and has proven his worth as perhaps one of the best actors to come out of the UK in both the comedy and drama field. He's very characterful and charismatic but doesn't seem larger than life, and can be very intense yet understated, which is why I believe he would be the perfect Paul Crocker.

When putting together this list, I had so many actors in mind for this however none felt 100% right. However when I thought of Laurie, I could not comprehend how perfect he is for Crocker. He's very good at playing reserved, ruthless and emotionally deprived individuals but then also at the same time, can play a fairly average Joe.

 

Now for the final character, at least for a character that is played by one person. There is another character referred to as 'C' who is the superior to the next character I am going to speak about, but in the entire Q&C series of stories, that role is occupied by three different people. Anyway the final character.

 

5) Donald Weldon - An older gentleman, Crocker's boss who may not always agree with him but is always willing to back him up. I imagine he would be rather happy-go-lucky and be a wise head, willing to give people advice should they wish it. Maybe even recite a wise quote like Colin Firth's Kingsman character.

 

I did not need to think long about who would fit this role, for Donald Weldon I have picked, Mark Rylance.

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Ever since Rylance turned heads in his Oscar-winning role as a Russian spy in Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies, he has been on an absolute roll. He's also continuing his partnership with Spielberg as the titular character in The BFG, a major part in Spielberg's adaptation of the cult classic novel Ready Player One and is as of now, shooting the Christopher Nolan war epic Dunkirk alongside Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles. (Yes! One Direction singer Harry Styles)

 

Going from primarily a theatre actor to having now so many big films with also an Oscar already, would only be a good thing in terms of how beneficial his inclusion would be as far as box office draw goes. Plus he's a real chameleon, from what little I have seen of him, he can perfectly place himself into whatever character he is playing.

 

So there you have it, all the characters that I am aware of. Again I reiterate, I have not read the comics and these traits for the characters, whilst some are factual, most are just what I believe to be fitting of the characters within the context of this story.

I would like to see some more women characters in the film though, maybe an original character if there is not any in the book. Maybe a bubbly friend who could be the polar opposite of what Tara's is, almost like a Karen Page to Tara being like Jessica Jones. We could also make this character the person who fills Tara's ear with all the relevant information whilst on a field mission. This is just an idea of course.

Anyway, hope you all enjoyed my casting ideas, would love to hear your thoughts and if Greg Rucka (Queen & Country original author) is reading this, I hope I captured the essence of who these characters are from pure guesses. I'd love to read these apparently amazing stories and see what could be adapted from all your selected stories into a feature film.

As for the rest of you, I appreciate you reading up on my casting ideas. I do get that these actors aren't all immediately going to bring in huge crowds, it won't be Kingsman levels but they are who I believe to be the ones best suited to the roles and I've cast them knowing some of them may become huge box office draws in a few years.

Which is why I am hoping you lot come up with your own cast and you can do that by commenting below along with why you reckon they are best suited to the role. Or you can tweet to me @TheLucaFormat.

Hope to see you all soon on my next post, so until we meet again.
Luca.

My opinion on shipping and fanfiction

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Hello everyone, the name is Luca, but you can call me Luca.

 

Firstly, I have been working on putting together a cast list for my ideal movie adaptation of Queen & Country after I spoke about it in my last post, and it is taking a bit longer than I was expecting. Do look forward to it though, I want everyone's opinion on it when I do get round to completing it, but I thought I'd make this because I do have something to say about it.

 

Now I am certainly not about to say that shipping is 100% a bad thing, I'm guilty of it. Two of my mates Ash and Glyn, we jokingly ship them to create 'Glynley' (I personally preferred 'Glash'), even me and my best friend Nadine ship ourselves with each other as a laugh and we call it 'Ludine'. However, what I don't like or get is the idea that you do actually want these people to be properly together.

 

I have James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in the picture there, now there are probably some women out there who want to see these two together, but I'll be using their X-Men co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult as an example. Lawrence and Hoult were dating (Allegedly) on and off during and inbetween the filming of the X-Men movies; First Class, Days of Future Past and Apocalypse.

 

This never bothered me, at least from what I remember. If it meant that in the scenes where Raven and Hank (Their characters) interacted were not affected in a negative manner, it's all good. However after Days of Future Past was released, there was some toxic celebrity site (OH THAT IS A POST FOR ANOTHER DAY) that 'confirmed' that JLaw and Nick were no longer seeing each other, and I saw this screen-grab on my Instagram in the trending section.

 

Some Jennifer Lawrence fan account had posted it, and their caption was something along the lines of:

 

"Yeyy!! Now she can start seeing Josh. I am so happyyy"

 

I am probably paraphrasing but I have the main message across. She wanted Jennifer to date her Hunger Games co-star Josh Hutcherson. Unless she actually has a proper scoop on JLaw's life like she's the camera in a frickin' soap opera or a reality show, how does she know that Jen would be seeing Josh anyway?

 

This all stemming from the fact that in the Hunger Games franchise, JLaw plays the main protagonist Katniss Everdeen and Hutcherson plays one of the two possible love interests, Peeta Mellark.

 

So why is it that people cannot separate fiction and real life? I mean, that is something - bit off topic for a second - that the Hunger Games did do very well, the sensationalising of the public's view on the relationship between Katniss and Peeta, portrayed throughout the franchise and is very appropriate for what we are talking about here.

 

In the first two films, they played up their relationship for the camera and people bought it, even though they were not actually together.

 

Why do we need two famous people to be together? What if I shipped your mum with your boss? Or your dad with the head mistress at your place of education? It's mind boggling to think that we need this.

 

Now I am all for you lot creating your own stories about fictional characters. I for one love reading about Kingsman fan fiction, particularly between the characters of Eggsy and Roxy, but the second I see one about the actors who play them - Taron Egerton and Sophie Cookson - then I'll have an issue if it is portrayed in a serious manner.

 

I won't be a hypocrite though, I have been through that phase. Thomas 'TomSka' Ridgewell who is responsible for asdfmovie, and Jennifer 'ThatJennyBee' Bingham used to be together, I even used to commute with Jenny as a fan (She is lovely by the way, go look for her videos if you have not already). When they broke up, it was sad since I probably would not see videos of them in the future and it was obviously a sad time for them to have to go through, but do we need them together in order to function as a human? Should we as their fans insist on the both of them working things out for our sake?

 

It was cute to watch them of course. But it is their choice to go their separate ways and they never only got together to seem more appealing to their audience, and if there are people who do that then shame on them honestly. But I personally have never watched or associated myself with anyone who does do that so I won't talk about it.

 

I am not a high profile person, and I would not really like to be. But if I was and I had people who admired me insisting I get into a relationship with whoever, I'd joke about it but I'd pity whoever would feel like they'd be more complete as a person if they saw me and this random person holding hands or kissing etc., unless it was them because then I would totally get it..

 

So can we do ourselves a favour? I don't mind shipping, I don't mind fanfiction between fictitious individuals, but can we not insist on two real life people getting into a relationship? We would be doing the world so much good.

 

Needed to vent this out, I probably don't make sense looking back on things but this honestly always has me annoyed. Especially since I saw that comment about how the Jennifer Lawrence fan was happy that she had split with Nicholas Hoult meaning she could hook up with Josh Hutcherson.

 

Hopefully I did speak some sense at least. I really want this desire of wanting certain celebrities to date each other in real life to stop, because it's incredibly unnecessary.

 

Anyway, hope you enjoyed, please let me know what you thought down below in the comments or you can tweet me @TheLucaFormat. Will hopefully have my Queen & Country cast list up for you before Sunday, thank you for reading.

So until we meet again,

Luca.

Jane Bond? No. New heroine please!

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Hello you, the name is Luca but you can call me Luca. Now when I started this blog, this was always something I wanted to talk about, because since Daniel Craig was officially no longer going to be James Bond, everyone and their dogs have been wondering who the next Bond would be.

 

James Bond is a huge part of British culture, and every British actor and even some non Brits have been lining up to possibly snatch the coveted role. This list includes Henry Cavill, Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, Damian Lewis and even my favourite actor, Taron Egerton. I have my picks and I reckon one of those people will be Bond, not Egerton though, he's a much better spy as Eggsy in Kingsman.

 

But the reason why I am here is because Gillian Anderson and Emilia Clarke have both turned the small talk of James Bond going from a man into a woman by becoming Jane Bond, into something with proper traction. Now I know for a fact, that if I say I don't like this idea, I am a sexist misogynist piece of shit, if I have to take a false hit to get my real word out there, so be it because I am confident in the fact that I am saying something that is not that.

 

Allow me to clarify, no I don't think the next James Bond should be a woman, because Bond has been written to be a man and that is a key characteristic of what makes Bond the character and icon he is. But what really annoys me about this rumour is that it is taking a minority and only making it interesting because it is leeching off of something that is already famous.

 

I would much rather we have not a female version of Bond, but a female equivalent of Bond. Yes, it will not have a history like James Bond and it won't perhaps have an impact immediately, hell what I am thinking about may have missed on its first throw but I feel if done right, a female led spy franchise could be incredibly successful.

 

There is so much potential in what I have in mind, so ladies and gentlemen, I give you, 'Queen & Country', a graphic novel by American comic book writer and novelist Greg Rucka.

 

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The series centres on Tara Felicity Chace (Alias 'Minder Two'), a British operative of the Special Operations Section of the Secret Intelligence Service, colloquially known as the Minders. Queen & Country attempts to portray the bureaucracy and politics which agents deal with in a realistic manner, as well as including the dangerous missions typical of the spy genre.

 

I will admit, I have not read a single issue of Queen & Country or the novel 'A Gentleman's Game', I would really love to find at least one issue. So immediately, you are probably thinking "Who are you to talk about this since you've never read anything to do with it?", okay I get your point. I am just really keen to see something of the spy genre that can be successful on its own, and from what I have read about Queen & Country and the character of Tara Chace, it sounds incredible.

 

Tara grew up learning to be tough after her parents divorced and they shipped her off to boarding school, and after completing her formal educating at Cambridge, she was recruited by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. After intensive training, Chace became an elite field officer in the Special Operations Section of the SIS.

 

The reason that I am aware of this is because of former AMC and Collider Movie Talk show producer John Campea - who I have a lot of respect for - when he was asked about how he felt about a movie series led by Rebecca Ferguson's 'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation' character Ilsa Faust. I loved the character of Ilsa Faust and I was delighted to hear that she is actually returning for the follow up to Rogue Nation, and I loved the idea of her character being in a set of movies as a lead.

 

However, Campea brought up Queen & Country. There were plans to make a movie adaptation by 20th Century Fox with Ellen Page as Tara Chace and directed by a guy named Craig Viverios. Now don't get me wrong, I adore Ellen Page, hell she's Kitty Pryde in the X-Men franchise! But for this role, I reckon she would be incredibly mis-cast. In the same way I like Jesse Eisenberg, I do not think he is a good choice for Lex Luthor (And I stand by that after seeing Batman V Superman).

 

Page for me is too petite and doesn't fit what I have read up on the character to be, it would be like casting Taron Egerton as Bond, at least right now because he's way too boy-ish, he even says it himself. So none of this is a knock on the actors, Page is just not the best fit in my opinion for Tara Chace.

 

The film has been in development hell for a while now, but I would love to see it reignited. Go all out with this film, make this a woman's answer to James Bond. Also if any of you know where I can get my hands on a Queen & Country comic, please do tell me, I really want to read up on this series.

 

People, thank you again for reading what I have to say. If this interests you, I'd love to see this gain some traction. I would love to see this become a movie, and have women play this role for many years down the line and providing a great story with this amazing character, Tara Chace.

 

Hope to hear what you have to say down below, or on my Twitter @TheLucaFormat. Hope to see you all again soon.

 

So until we meet again,

Luca.

The word 'Context' and why I appreciate it

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Hello you, thank you to the people reading this and I am glad you have decided to either click on my blog for the first time or return after my last post.

Now I'm sure you've already had a look at the title of this post and are thinking something along the lines of "What?" or maybe perhaps, something else? I don't know what you are thinking, but I'll explain.

According to Dictionary.com, the word Context means 'The parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word, or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect', and also 'The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.'. I'll provide a link to the page for the word Context if you want to find out other things such as origin and use of it in direct speech: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/context

"So person who runs this blog.." (The name's Luca by the way) "...why are you telling us this? Are you my English teacher or some shit like that?". Possibly! Not really, I'm not an English teacher in a school or college, but I learned about the word Context from my English teacher at college.

I've just finished college completely, only just yesterday too. My English class was great, though I am bias because I was a whole heap of fun in that lesson if I do say so myself, I enjoyed it in that regard but also I did learn a lot. It was a combined subject of both AS English Language and also Literature, so for Language we had to compare texts that were pulled from books, speeches, sports commentaries, even a bunch of Twitter interactions.

Then in Literature, we were reading the entire novel of 'The Great Gatsby' and Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture', and in the final exam I had yesterday, we were asked to write about a scene from Gatsby and compare two poems from Rapture. In all of these, context was always a major factor.

Simply because it made sense of most things. If you take either context out of a situation or take a situation out of context (That probably means the same thing but whatever), it can make a world of difference. I have both many and few examples to prove my point, I'll go with this one.

In the X-Men movie franchise - which I fucking love by the way - we have had a bunch of good movies, great movies and unfortunately, some bad ones. I'll talk another time about why I love the X-Men movies, but for now, this.

The 2014 X-Men film 'Days of Future Past' came out, I loved it a lot. Without going into too much detail, you had Hugh Jackman's Wolverine sent back in time from the future with the characters of Professor X and Magneto played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, to 1973 where those same two were portrayed by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender.

Bare in mind, McAvoy and Fassbender had appeared three years prior in 'X-Men: First Class', which took place in 1962 and long before the first X-Men film. Wolverine's purpose in Days of Future Past' is to prevent Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique from killing Peter Dinklage's Bolivar Trask, and causing a chain reaction which will inevitably cause the extinction of both humanity and mutant kind.

If Mystique is prevented from killing Trask, it will change the timeline. Because the film takes place in 1973, before the original trilogy of films and the two Wolverine standalones, that means they are wiped out and in their place in the timeline, something else entirely.

My point is, I saw a funny YouTube comment that jokingly said "So they're purposely erasing all the bad movies so they don't count?" and I looked at it, I laughed of course and he went on to say "Why can't they just say 'Oh these ones do not count'?". I knew he was joking but I said "Well they are but it has to fit in the context of the story", or rather I would have said that if I knew what the word context meant. I cannot remember exactly what I was saying but I would have appreciated knowing the word context.

I mean, you can't have Patrick Stewart just turn to the camera and be like "Hello everyone, these films don't count but somehow these ones which are a direct consequence of the ones we say don't count towards the canon timeline, they do somehow". Like if X-Men: Origins Wolverine did not happen, how could we have X2: X-Men United? Wolverine's origin is a major part of X2: X-Men United and if X-Men: Origins Wolverine did not happen, then X2: X-Men United could not. You see my point?

Like I said before, context can make so much difference. Whether it be backing up a point, explaining the lore of a story etc., context is crucial. So I thank my English tutor Denise, for teaching me what 'Context' means, I really appreciate it. As well as other things to do with English language and literature of course!

Thank you all for reading. I was apprehensive about writing this as I felt it may come across as cheesy or cringey, but fuck it I've wrote it all out now and I'm happy with it. I also want to give a special shout out to all the friends I made in my English class, who I won't be joining for the second year and I wish them the best of luck!

Hey, perhaps this blog post could end up as an English paper in the next few years. Maybe even next year! Who knows? Most likely not but incase it does, hello to everyone in my English class! Are you doing any better? This is probably an exam when you're reading this so I'll shut up. I won't be allowed to help you, shh..!

Of course I am not so far up my own arse. I'm very self aware and know I won't be featured on the news, have my piece become that of great English writing importance just because I'm a 19 year old British guy who appreciates something other than the norm. That norm being the usual stuff like; KFC, online gaming, movies and, well I'll just leave it there.

All I hope is, that you enjoyed reading this. Hope to see you all on another post very soon.

So until we meet again,
Luca.

Welcome to Red's One-Shot

Hello you! Thank you for checking out my blog. I have just started it and I look forward to creating posts for you lot to read. Some ideas I have in mind is talking about movies that I love, and some things that I believe deserve some acknowledgement and whatever is a worthy enough topic to prompt discussion.

Before I created 'Red's One-Shot', I used to run a blog called 'The Luca Format' and I ran it for about a year, where I discussed motorsport. I was posting on that blog for about a year until I decided at the end of 2014 to stop posting, since I promised myself that I would not post if I did not have the passion, nor would I post something that was not what the primary demographic had come to see.

My old blog was primarily a motorsport blog, and whilst I am proud of how the blog did, I have removed it as I would prefer a complete new slate. I also believe I was a tad naïve and honestly, I don't think I tried my hardest, I just wanted to have a post out. Like for example, when I reviewed the movie 'Rush' (Which I will review on here at some point), I think I just tried to sound like I knew what I was talking about and failed miserably.

No matter, 'Red's One-Shot' is live and I look forward to publishing content for you lot very soon.

Thank you again for being here and reading. If you want to keep in touch, you can follow by email by typing in your email address into that option to the right of the screen, and you'll be notified when I post next. Also you can follow me on Twitter @TheLucaFormat.

Hope to see you all soon, so until we meet again.

Luca.