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Movie Star the world’s biggest open online casting call has been an incredible success, with millions of people visiting the site since launching in December. Inspired by the MySpace success stories of Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys, director Steve Nesbit asked wannabe actors and actresses to upload a 30 second audition clip of themselves to the site. Masses of movie star hopefuls submitted their clips for Steve Nesbit’s upcoming feature film Rapture, which starts filming later in the year and is expected to launch in ’08.


Rapture is a feature film to be released in 2008. It will be set and produced in London by ROK Motion a British Production Company and directed by Steve Nesbit. Rapture has used a very innovative casting method, by auditioning its actors online at Movie Star

The Movie

Rapture Teaser

It is 2018. Urban decay is rife. Crime, drugs and poverty have reached epidemic levels.

The streets are bloody with violent gang warfare and are ruled by the city crime lord, Eshu, who traffics the deadly narcotic, Rapture, to the desperate and depraved.

In the cold fall, a cruel mutilation and murder of a pregnant woman sends ripples through the bleak city. A blind young woman is found at the scene of the crime. She is Alara, an escaped patient from the local asylum, and although senseless and unhinged she holds the key to solving the murder. She encounters Joseph, the murdered woman's brother, and together they unravel the secrets of the dark city.

Characters

Lead Roles

Alara is blind. She has lived her whole life inside an institution and has had little contact with humans and none with the outside world or society. She is entirely dysfunctional.
Alara is inspirational to our audience, as despite her living what we would consider a cruel existence, she remains loving and pure hearted. She is plagued by terrifying visions and premonitions, which she cannot always make sense of, but it is this unique quality that makes her valuable to hostile forces.

Joseph enters as the quiet unassuming brother of a murder victim. He has no noticeable presence or ambition. In fact he is a man who would shy away from a challenge. Joseph's goal in life is to simply fit in with society and surround himself with calm. Joseph's revelation comes as he finds that his world has been a succession of lies to protect him from his family's tragic and complex history. When he is forced to take up the ultimate challenge, he discovers the warrior and hero within.

Support Roles

Eshu is the kingpin crime lord. He has an enormous, menacing presence. 
He is a man of few words, but when he speaks, everyone listens. He rules the city using his Street Rats, all of whom are Rapture addicts. Eshu has the only source of Rapture and this gives him immense power. 
Eshu's motivation is to achieve absolute power and immortality, he has everything else that he wants, but this will give him God-like status. He doesn't care what or who it costs to get it.
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David Hershel is a doctor who runs the local asylum and performs experiments on the residents.Hershel is motivated by his scientific ambition and will stop at nothing to fulfil his hunger for knowledge. Hershel's ethics are questionable to say the least.

Frank Mendel is a fast talking, chain smoking and gum chewing arrogant detective.
Mendel has a very high opinion of himself and no regard or respect for his colleagues, whom he regularly insults through the course of his work. Mendel is self-interested, scheming, but very good at his job, which is why he has kept it for so long.

James is Joseph and Kate's grandfather. He is sage, kind and the gentleman that we would all like to be. James is revealed to be a key figure in the story and his character is multi faceted. James has lived alone since the death of his wife, but tries to keep himself and the house well preserved in her honour. James and his wife were responsible for raising Joseph and Kate following their parents' death. This is a challenging role, requiring a full range of acting skills with some action involved.

Kate is the murder victim and sister of Joseph.
She appears in detail at the beginning as a murdered, pregnant woman and throughout the film in apparition sequences. Kate has a kind demeanour, she is gentle, maternal and warm. However she has the ability to look wild and evil within apparitions.

Bill Taylor is a large henchman who does not speak, but his look is so powerful and threatening that he does not need to. Butcher looks like he could snap you in two with his fingers. His face looks simple, with his mouth often hanging open but he is far more intelligent than he looks, and he is a loyal servant to the death.

Anli Bardici and his brother are sinister hit men, Anli is far stronger than his appearance suggests. He will stop at nothing to serve his master. Anli is the spokesman for the pair and has a better way with words than his brother.

Besim Bardici Anli's brother is quieter and even more sinister, he doesn't speak much but there is a violence in his gaze. Besim rarely speaks, and when he does it is generally crude or very significant.