Daily Pilots Post: Crossover Craziness

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

First, just a reminder that the DPP Party Train NEEDS YOU! If you'd like to sign up for a week of pilots posting fun, there are still plenty of slots open for the next few months over here.

Now, on to our DPP. I think most K/L shippers would agree that the chemistry between Katee and Jamie as Kara and Lee is pretty incendiary and incredibly rare. I was talking to someone (Cheryl?) recently about how it's too bad that the studios don't really use repertory like casting nowadays (as they perhaps did in the 1930s and 1940s, casting the same actors against each other again and again in multiple roles). To that end, what other film or movie roles would you like to see these actors tackle, either as themselves or even funnier maybe, as some crazy sort of crossover/transplanted Kara and Lee?

Here's a few examples to start you off:

The Cutting Edge -- Most of you already know I'm taking pilots and putting them on ice for my PilotsBigBang fic coming up. Kara as the cocky, charismatic Olympic Hockey Player whose dreams of gold get crushed by an unfortunate incident that ends her career. Lee as the prissy, uptight figure skater who hasn't been able to live up to his father's expectations or retain a partner thanks to that impenetrable chip on his shoulder.

His Girl Friday--This is my favorite classic movie starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as bantering exes. Insert Kara instead of Roz as Hildy, the hotshot news reporter whose about to chuck her career to settle down with the pleasantly unassuming Bruce for a quiet life on New Capr--- uh I mean the countryside. ;) Her ex/editor Walter (lol, that's almost as bad as Leland right?) can't bear to let her go, so he assigns her one last case to cover the execution of a convicted murderer (Baltar? With Six as the girlfriend? HEE) and soon Hildy is so caught up in the case, she forgets all about Bruce and rides off into the sunset with Walter to get remarried and keep chasing hot scoops. (It all has a kind of buddycops tinge to it, don't it?)

Buffy Starbuck, the Vampire Slayer?--What if Kara's chosen (a bit later-in-life maybe, say college?) to be The One who vanquishes the vamps/demons/cylons/creatures of the night? How about  Lee as a younger version of Giles, her uptight watcher whom she clashes with (and occasionally romances) at every turn? Imagine those training sessions! Hee. Who would be her Scooby gang? 

Alias--This one might be too easy/close already, but Kara as the young super-secret spy working for the CIA, or whom she thinks is the CIA!, until they kill her fiance Zak and she goes to the real CIA and becomes a double agent with Lee as her handler. (Would he still be Zak's brother in this verse? Does she go to him, not knowing he works for the real CIA, and confess her fears about what happened to Zak, and he takes her in to the real CIA? But can he forgive her for getting his brother killed, even though it wasn't her fault?) OOh the intrigue! The drama! THE ANGST IN HIGH HEELS. Throw in a little Tigh and Papadama and Roslin and maybe Leoben (as someone obsessed with her as the Rambaldi prophecy girl, right?) as the parental/boss figures and it could be all kinds of crazy!



The possibilities are endless. So who/what crazy crossover do you think should star Kara and Lee or Katee and Jamie? Or what original premise straight from your own brain would you like to see them star in next? Hit us up with your hot crossover/recast ideas and maybe someone will even be inspired to write some fic!! ;)

Comments

[mintenergy.livejournal.com]

What a fun idea! I know this sounds odd but I'd love to see them cast w eachother on a period film. I recently saw the new BBC adaption of Austen's Emma and I kept thinking Katee and Jamie would be perfect in those roles. It sounds crazy but there you have it.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Ooh I keep meaning to watch that because everyone said Romola Garai reminds them of Katee. (Funny, I'd been looking at the promo stills from Emma and thought she reminded me of a young Cameron Diaz, for sure.)

Jamie's certainly familiar with the period pieces, but Katee seems to have such a modern sensibility. That would be a good stretch for her I think! What classic would you pit them in? Other than Emma?

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Oh yes-- Emma would be perfect.

I swear Romola Garai's performance reminded me so much of KS. : )

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

CLEARLY there needs to be a Mulan crossover. CLEARLY. Chang is Lee. Kinda. Sorta. His dad's the General for crying out loud!

Bee demands some classics!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

See, if I were doing some recasting, I would go old school (big surprise, I know) and tackle some Hitchcock.

They'd be brilliant in North by Northwest, with Lee as the unsuspecting businessman who accidentally gets tangled up with a nasty spy ring and Kara as the undercover agent sent in to watch over him.

Also? Vertigo. Omg, the brilliance would melt by brain, not to mention the utter angsty perfection that is that film. Lee's the lawyer-turned-detective who has a debilitating fear of heights. While he recovers from a recent trauma, he's asked to trail the wife of a friend who seems possessed by a ghost. He follows her and becomes obsessed with her, and the two fall in love. But he can't save her form her demons and loses her when she jumps to her death.... only to find a woman months later who looks just like her, and he goes on a terrible hourney to recreate his lost love. Kara is of course the woman he loved, but she's far from dead-- just caught in a web of lies and deceit and ends up playing two versions of herself. This film bypasses angst and just goes straight for tragic despair. OMG, I love it.

And let's not forget Notorious. Kara's the daughter of an enemy of the state and agrees to become a spy. Lee's her cool and calm handler, but they soon fall in love only to find out that the mission is... Kara's got to hop back in the sack with an old flame to get info on thebaddies. OH, THE ANGST! HOW DO I LOVE THEE?

Re: Bee demands some classics!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I have not seen any of those. But you're making me want to! Esp the latter two. (I know they're favorites).

The Vertigo desc. is really interesting because it made me think: What if TWO KARAS came back after Maelstrom? Hee.

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

SECONDED. Yes. Awesome.

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

OMG YES!!!

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

Excellent idea, Rebecca. They'd be amazing in a period piece! Emma would definitely be happy-making. And for some angst, there's always Wuthering Heights. They're so Cathy and Heathcliff, as it has been said before (by Bee, I believe!).

Re: Bee demands some classics!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Dude, they are so good. Vertigo is my all-time favortie movie ever. EVER. And Notorious is probably my second favorite (at least of Hitchcock's stuff). You really need to see both of those films and bask in the all the glorious K/L possibilies.

Ooooh... that is an interesting thought. In the film, she's still alive because she's an accomplice to the murder of the original wife-- she was just hired to play a part b/c she looked like her. But what she goes through when she finds Scotty (Lee) again is so, so horrible. She loves him and wants to let him know it's still her, but she can't. So she just goes along with his plan to turn her back into the woman she was imitating in the first place. And gods, all she wants is just to be loved for herself.

GAH-- just talking about it make me want to watch it RFN!

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Dude... picture the "I'll Make A Man Out of You" scene with Kara and Lee?

Re: Bee demands some classics!

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

OH, THE ANGST! HOW DO I LOVE THEE?

Hee hee hee. I actually just mentioned above how I'd love to see them as Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, whom I know you (and possibly Cosette?) have already compared them to. THAT would be some good angst!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

OoH I haven't seen Mulan in a long time. I like it though. I feel like maybe you have mentioned this previously, y/y?

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know I'm not the first to have Wuthering Heights thought. I'd vote for a remake of the 1939 Laurence Olivier/Merle Oberon classic-- it's angsty and fabulous and tragic without getting into all the second generation crap and making Heathcliff into a really unredeemable villain.

Re: Bee demands some classics!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Wow. I am not sure I followed all that. So it's two different women who just look alike then. Ah okay.

I think my head was stuck on mind-bendy, crazy space magic possibilities. What the hell, right? Couldn't have been weirder than what we did get with pigeon poofs.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

I think so... maybe even in the same conversation in which I insinuated Anya and Demitri from Anastasia are also Kara and Lee... man I wanna watch that... I wonder if I have time before class...

Re: Bee demands some classics!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Who's the crazy lady in the attic? ;)

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

...which actually makes me want to cast Lee as Mulan instead, lol. Kidding. Kinda. (You know I love you, Lee!)

Seriously, though--YES! It would be epic.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Oh I liked Anastasia too. I can see her as the orphan with royal roots, but...am less convinced of him as a charming con man.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

XD That is pretty fabulous too. :) I mean making Kara Mulan would make her kinda girlie up... unless we think of it like Kara's just getting into the military for the first time... she couldn't have been perfect from the start!

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love that one too for them! Awww.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Perhaps... but the BANTER. THE BANTER.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

I'm just thinking of the scene where she pulls him up from under the train just as something hits the tracks and is all "and to think that could've been you."

Re: Bee demands some classics!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

That's Jane Eyre youre thinking of. : )

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I am a fan of that. Lee is the princess, after all.

Oh we didn't even mention Star Wars! Too much of a gimmie perhaps.