BEN D’ABO: LIFE OF A MALE SUPER MODEL
Feature Film
NON-UNION
NOTE: This is a special project. The executive producers/financiers have given the producer director a pre-green light on this project under a first look first see clause. This is going to be an independent venture. The writer director is going to package up the project and submit it as a whole for final approval. The writer/director has stipulated that he wanted this project to be cast with unknowns to the mass public. One of the conditions of it being completely greenlit is whether or not the executive producers/financiers like the chosen cast.
[ BEN D’ABO ]
Lead / Male / African American / 24 - 29 years.
Description: African American obviously mixed with something else. Needs to be a powerful emotional actor. He will run the gamut of emotions: Happy, sad, angry, remorseful etc. The character will also fall deep in to drugs. Must be able to play a drug addict.
The script calls for the character to be naked in a padded cell trying to fight drug withdrawal. Will show full frontal. There is also a sexual scene, no nudity showed in the scene but the character is having simulated sex with his girlfriend
**PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH**
[ MARK ] Lead / Male / Hispanic / 21 - 26 years.
Description: Ben’s best friend who comes to visit his buddy and is the first to recognize his spiral. His attempts to save his friend are basically useless. When Mark faces his best friends demons he is almost taken down by the suppliers. Must be athletic because a lot of running/ jumping action will be involved.
Mark gets caught up in the opulent world of models himself and falls hard for a female. They have a sexual encounter. Simulated grinding. Backside nudity
**PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH**
[ MASIAN ] (Ma sy Yawn). Lead / Female / African American / 21 - 28 years.
Description: sexy, dutiful girlfriend. She has some running scenes so she must be in good shape. There is a sex scene with Ben D’Abo, her boyfriend. Simulated sex scene. Breast and Buttocks to be shown.
**PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH**
[ CHAMBER ] Co-Star / Female / All Ethnicities / 21 - 29 years.
Description: Model type. Attitude but strikingly beautiful . A model who sets her sights on D’Abo. She is forceful, aggressive and a go-getter. She doesn’t play games.
[ SONNY ] Co-Star / Male / All Ethnicities / 25 - 25 years.
Description: Owner of the Modeling company in which D’Abo pursues his dreams. An asshole of sorts. Businessman to the heart. He will talk to you like crap one minute but will always have your back.
STORY LINE: Ben D’abo is a mixed black and white model who comes to Hollywood for fame and fortune. He is immediately tossed to the dogs in a world where sex, drugs and even murder run rampant. Ben becomes the poster child for being used. When Ben is at his lowest, he himself gets lost to a world of drugs. His family rushes to his side to bring him back from the “dead” but it may be too late.