Who Will Be Homoperfectus Felix?

The movie "Drones, Clones and Pheromones" and its sequels is an epic story of Felix, a cloned human who is so radically enhanced that he may well be Homoperfectus, our species' successor. Whereas previous stages in our evolution happened through random mutations and natural selection, Homoperfectus is the creation of the ingenuity of Homosapiens. Although a new type of human such as Felix will still be subject ultimately to the test of time, he will benefit from the fact that we are already disrupting natural selection through our advances in medical science.

When our story begins, Felix is a senior in high school trying to get along with his peers. He lives among a tribe of clone families at the Human Destiny Foundation, and has been raised by one of his creators, Dr. Victor Darwin. His other creator Ricardo has abandoned him, even though he is the prototype for the boy. Felix's innate abilities make him attractive, full of vitality, athletic, and the level of his soaring intellect cannot be determined by conventional IQ measurements.

And so, the casting of an actor to play Felix has requirements that will be difficult to meet in full. In addition to physical beauty, he must be athletic. In addition to articulate and natural speech, he may also have a good singing voice although that is not a requirement. He has to look the right age, but he must be old enough not to change radically over the course of several years of producing three films. Above all, he must have charisma to appeal to a broad spectrum audience, while creating a wholly new character in the cinematic cosmos. Felix will be a memorable character for the ages. I have been looking at up-and-coming talent to play Felix, although it would make a lot of good sense to have an unknown actor so that he carries no emotional baggage to our audience. The future as seen in our story has grown beyond mindless sexual bigotry and heterosexism, and entered an age of a more fluid sexuality, (pun recognized but not intended). The bigotry that will show its face is not in the gender of lovers, but in the relationships between regular humans and cloned humans. We are using homophobia as the model for clonophobia, which then will say something about homophobia to our audience.

First thought would beJustin Long , currently seen in the Apple Computer commercials as "Hi, I'm a Mac". Although he had been in films like Jeepers Creepers" ", it was in Dodgeball"" I first paid attention to him because he was fresh, funny, and extremely likable. Since our story is set 20 years in the future, it may make sense to Apple to sponsor his role in the film, because their logo seen all over the film would show Apple as the dominate computer company in the future.

Another direction I would like to go, would be to find an even newer face, but with demonstrated ability to appeal across the board. I would consider a talent like Jay Brannan, who appeared in and indie feature film "Short Bus" in 2006, and is a rising star in the realm of song writing and performing. His music is personal, thoughtful, and heartfelt. His melodies stay with you and he has a marvelous voice. At times he sounds a little like James Taylor but mostly its purely his own persona. His lyrics have the power of a Joni Mitchell or Van Morrison. He currently is performing in clubs in New York and Los Angeles, and if you get the chance to see him, you'd thank me for alerting you to him. He has his own website, he has a page on YouTube, and a page on My Space.

Otherwise, if you know of someone that meets the role requirments for Felix, please tell him about "Drones, Clones and Pheromones and leave a comment in my guestbood please.