NO MORE HEROES TV SERIES FAN CAST AND IDEAS.
No More Heroes is a video game series that focus on Travis Touchdown a guy from Santa Destroy, California who wants to be the number one assassin. This one of my favourite video game series and with the third game coming out this year, I thought I might do a fan cast and ideas for a live-action tv series. It was also one of the few Wii games rated M for mature.
Travis and Sylvia.
Now video game adaptions have a habit of constantly sucking but in TV form, they actually have a chance at being good. Also, hey in No More Heroes, they break the fourth wall so we could have a scene were Travis mentions how video game adaptions suck all the time. I think a No More Heroes TV series could work because they can take their time with it, not rush it, and just make it into Deadpool meets Scott Pilgrim.
Now I'm going to start my cast and then share my ideas for a tv series. Heads up, I won't spoil too much of the story because I don't want to spoil anything.
Joe Keery as Travis Touchdown
Now casting Travis Touchdown was hard, but I went with actors in their mid-twenties to play the role. Joe Keery seems to have a right look, and he can act very well in movies and tv shows. Travis is a manga fan, video game fan, samurai wielding assassin, and he has a kitten name, Jennie. Travis seeks to become the number one assassin in the world, but to do that, he needs to kill twelve ranked assassins for it. If he becomes number one, Sylvia a super hot agent of the Assassin Association, will have sex with him. Travis's two main goals are becoming number 1 Assassin and having sex with Sylvia.
Charlotte McKinney as Sylvia Christel
Sylvia is an agent of the Assassin Association who lets Travis know when his next opponent will be. Sylvia is beautiful, sexy, intelligent, determine, not a pushover, and funny. She promises Travis she will have sex with him if he is ranked number one Assassin. She is of Ukrainian and Japanese descent, and she would be Travis's love interest in the series, who often trolls him but secretly is in love with him. As well she some secrets that will shock Travis and make Travis go WTF.
Hiroyuki Sanada as Thunder Ryu
Thunder Ryu is a retired assassin and is Travis's mentor who taught him the ways of the katana and Japanese wrestling too. In the show, he would play a more significant role and we will see him train Travis and teach him everything he katana wields and wrestling. He also served as a father figure to Travis growing up.
Hayley Joel Osment as Bishop
Bishop is the owner of a video store and is Travis's best friend. Now in the show, he owns a video game/manga/comic/DVD store called Beef Head. He and Travis have been best friends since they were kids and he even gives Travis a discount on renting, but he does get annoyed when Travis never returns the movies on time.
Jessika Van as Dr. Naomi
Dr. Naomi is a scientist and engineer specializing in beam katanas and many others. She created Travis's beam katanas. She is said to be sixty years old, but she doesn't look it.
Rob Corddry as Randall Lovikov
Randall is a guy who spends most of his time at a bar drinking, but in fact, he teaches Travis some moves and words to shame other assassins.
Jack Reynor as Henry Cooldown
Henry is Travis's twin brother. Even though they look nothing alike, but that's mainly because they are fraternal twins. Henry was raised in Ireland, and he has beam katana that is cross guard, kind of like Kylo Ren's lightsaber. Henry would play a significant role in the show, and we would also learn more about him.
Charles Melton as Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter is the first Assassin that Travis fights, and in the show, we would see this fight happen because in the game, we don't have this fight with this character. Helter is only in the first episode and is 12th Ranked Assassin. He would appear in the first episode.
Sam Hueughan as Death Metal
Death Metal is 11th Ranked Assassin, and only appears in the second episode for all the interduce assassins only appear for one episode.
Zahn McClarnon as Dr. Peace
Dr. Peace is the 10th Ranked Assassin who is a deadly gunslinger and a good singer. He also has a daughter; he and his daughter have an estranged relationship, though. This is why in the end, Travis felt somewhat bad for killing him without having a chance to sing to his daughter like he did when she was young.
China Anne McClain as Shinobu
Shinobu is the 8th Ranked Assassin and is a deadly samurai warrior; she seeks to avenge her father's death, who she believes Travis is the one who killed him. Will get to know the character more in the show.
Lucas Till as Destroyman
Destroyman is the 7th Ranked Assassin, a postman who dresses up as a superhero when he kills people.
Jaime Alexander as Holly Summers
Holly Summers is the 6th Ranked Assassin. She is a former super model who lost her left leg in a fight. She often plants bombs and traps for her opponents. She teaches Travis that all assassins must die, and it shouldn't matter what gender they are. Cause in the show, Travis is shown he doesn't like killing female killers. Travis tells her corpse he loves her fighting spirit as he gives proper burial.
Sean Hape as Letz Shake
Letz Shake is the 5th Ranked Assassin. He is also a punk rockstar and a lead vocalist as well. He makes earthquakes with his brain friend Dr. Shake who is either his friend, father, or brother. In this version, we learn Dr. Shake is Letz's father. The actor I got playing Letz is the guitar player from Mad Max Fury Road.
Finn Jones as Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii
Harvey is 4th Ranked Assassin. He is a stage magician who kills people instead of making them look fake or some illusion.
Margo Martindale as Speed Buster
Speed Buster is ranked number 3 Assassin. She may be an old lady, but her cart can kill hundreds of people with just one blast. She claims all men are stubborn and foolish, too, she, however does respect Thunder Ryu. She kills Thunder Ryu, and Travis then kills her, but she accepts her fate for she sees Travis will be a good man like Thunder Ryu.
Skyler Samuel as Bad Girl
Bad Girl is 2nd Ranked Assassin. She is an assassin who kills people with a bat for her own pleasure, and she often plays the whole innocent girl until she tricks that person and beats them to death with her bat.
Adam Baldwin as DarkStar
DarkStar is Ranked 1st Assassin. He lives in a castle and is basically like Darth Vader. If you play the game, you'll understand why he's not a big deal. I would have the show build him up as this bad guy who looks badass and seems really dangerous, but it turns out it was just messing with the audience.
Dakota Fanning as Jeane
Jeane is Travis's sister and is the top number one Assassin. Jeane would not appear until the last episode, but we would see flashbacks of her killing Travis's parents, and we would have brief scenes that would set her up as the main villain. She was Travis's childhood girlfriend until she straight-up murdered his parents because her father was Travis's. So it's a very messed up situation that makes Luke and Leia's kiss less disturbing.
Here are some characters that we didn't see in the game and some original characters I created.
Johnny Knoxville as Hunter Touchdown
Travis's Parents would be in the show but just for the first episode, through flashbacks and Travis remembering his parents. Interesting fact Travis Touchdown's design was based on Johnny Knoxville. We would see what Travis's relationship with his parents was like. He had a close relationship with his dad even though his dad kept some very messed up secrets from him and his mom. His dad owned a motorcycle store, which explains Travis's motorcycle because his dad owned it. He also got Travis into pro wrestling because his dad was a huge fan of pro wrestling.
It would also be revealed that Jeane is, in fact Travis's sister from their father, and she hated their father for abandoning her, and that's why she killed him.
Liv Tyler as Katlin Touchdown
His mom was a very loving mother who taught Travis Japanese culture too, which is why Travis also had great love for Japanese culture. She also got him into manga anime. It reveal Travis doesn't like killing female assassins mainly because he thinks about his mother and how she was killed in a such horrible way. Her death impacted him, which is why he doesn't like killing female assassins. We learn she sends Henry to Ireland as an exchange student and living with her family in Ireland.
Kaitlyn Taylor Love as Rachel
Rachel is an original character who works at Beef Head. She is also the character calling Travis that he is late returning a movie he rented. We would see the character often reading the newest manga and checking her text after she finishes a page.
Ming Na Wen as Keita Sakai
Keita is the manager of the Job Center. She often helps Travis find a job and always wears a wrestling shirt at work.
Masi Oka as Owen
Owen is the owner of a Golden Town bar, where Travis goes to hang out with Bishop, Rachel, and Randall. He also intends to Thunder Ryu's wrestling school. Even though he's not the best, he is the most committed to it. It's also the bar where Travis meets Sylvia too.
These are some original characters are characters I made for the jobs that Travis works at.
Chad Coleman as Sid
Sid is an exterminator and is good friends with Travis, Bishop, and Thunder Ryu. He owns an extermination business that goes after scorpions. Travis even nicknames him Scorpion Slayer. He gives Travis a job to help pay off his bills and apartment.
Dina Maria Riva as Angela
She owns a Juice Stand, and one of her best drinks is coconut flavor juice, that's all-natural. Travis gets a job working for her to collect coconuts. She can be nice some days but can be annoying, she also checks out Travis when he's not looking, but she gives good pay to Travis.
Kevin Sussman as Logan
Logan is the owner of the Lawn Mowing business. He hires Travis part-time to mow the lawns in the streets of Santa Destroy and parks. Logan is a bit nerdy; he's a married man with two kids and a very friendly guy.
David Zayas as Reggie
Reggie is a garbage man who hires Travis part-time to help clean up the streets or parks of any garbage. Reggie is very hard working, he once had a garbage truck, but after a drinking drive accident, he lost his driving license, so now he takes out the garbage the hard way.
Vik Sahay as Raj
Raj is a metal detector who hires Travis to help find bombs that were left over from his fight with Holly Summers. Raj once served in the military until he retired. Now he works as a full-time metal detector, one of his duties in the army.
Zoe Perry as Jenny
Jenny is a graffiti-cleaning lady who hires Travis to help clean the buildings with graffiti on them. Jenny acts like she's lovely and terrific, but in secret, she's a total party animal, gets drunk a lot, and even has gone streaking through the streets of Santa Destroy.
Jon Heder and Efren Ramirez as Tommy and Jason
Tommy and Jason own a gas station. They hire Travis to fill up cars with gas. Tommy and Jason are adoptive brothers who open a gas station and plan to expand more of their gas stations in Santa Destroy, California.
Mindy Sterling as Kat
Kat is the owner of cat finding group called Meow Meow. Kat hires Travis to help find lost cats and kittens. Kat is the biggest cat person out there. It is said she has eight cats in total. She even gives one of her cat's kittens to Travis, explaining how Travis got Jeane.
Robin Atkin Downes as Extreme Luke
Extreme Luke isn't a business owner, but he's a guy who will pay someone a lot of money to do a powerful bike jump off an edge and fly in the air for a good five minutes or less. Robin Atkins is the voice of Travis Touchdown. I think it would be a fun cameo.
Now that's it for my original characters and characters we didn't see much in the game.
Now here are my ideas for a No More Heroes TV Series.
6. Take Inspiration from Deadpool and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Now, if No More Heroes ever got an adaption, it needs to look at Deadpool and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World for inspiration. Like Deadpool breaking-the-forth wall jokes, intense action, crude humor, and bloody violence. Scott Pilgrim's feeling like a great adaption of a video game, with game sound effects, and lots of anime and video game references, It feels like you're playing a video game. No More Heroes is Travis vs. 12 deadly assassins like Scott vs. Seven Ex-Boyfriends. (Except Scott fighting them to be with Ramona, while Travis is doing this to have sex with Sylvia and become number 1.) I would look at these two films for inspiration to make an adaption of No More Heroes as well. It needs to be faithful to the game too. The fighting and action would also combine Deadpool's action and Scott Pilgrim's fighting.
5. Have each episode focus on Travis working a day job and killing the next ranked assassin in each episode.
Now in the show, there would be 12 episodes and an hour and ten minutes long. The episodes would be about Travis killing the next ranked assassin that Sylvia has to assign him to kill, as well as him working at different part-time jobs and seeing him interact and hanging out with some of his friends.
4. Make the show M-rated and have it poke fun at video game adaptions and reference anime.
Now, this show needs to be rated M for Mature audiences because this shows needs to be bloody, sexy, full of dirty jokes, and just so fun to watch. Like in the show, Travis, who breaks the fourth wall, would poke fun at Video Game Adaptions he would even say at one point, "I know nerds and fans, this a video game adaption of everyone's favorite Assassin, and if you don't like how they write me in this show or the other characters who they have grown to love over the years...I understand because video game adaptions always fucking suck! Except for Castlevania, that Mortal Kombat reboot with the guy who plays my master Thunder Ryu, that animated Mario Bros film, Sonic the Hedgehog, which may have broken the video game adaption curse, and of course, Angry Birds 2. Those are the only adaptions of video games I can think of." I can just see Travis say this if there was a show. The show would poke fun at other things like pop culture, anime, and today's media. I can see someone say to Travis that beam katana is a rip-off from Star Wars and would just say, "Look up your history of laser swords, asshead, because Star Wars never came up with the idea of laser swords first. It was Edmond Hamilton, an SCI-FI writer, who likely inspired Lucas. Look it up, you people watching this show; it's a fact."
Also, there would be many anime references, and we have an anime scene where Travis watches Pure White Lover and Bizarre Jelly, and we see Glastonbury in action. It would be a good anime scene to show, and in season two, we would see Glastonbury in action.
3. Show us Travis's origin and possibility tell some of the backgrounds of certain characters like Henry, Sylvia, and Shinobu.
Now the tv series, I would have the first episode, and through some flashbacks in future episodes, I would have the show explore Travis's origin. For example, some of his childhood, how he learned to use katana, how he knows wrestling, how he met Sylvia and became an Assassin. The TV series would also show more about who Sylvia, Henry, and Shinobu are and their story. I feel like those three characters are ones besides Travis; they need more character study, but there is no need for the rest of the assassins.
2. Have the series go up to three seasons or maybe four, depending on how the show does.
Now with No More Heroes 3 on the way this year, this show should do three seasons based on the first game, second game, and upcoming third game unless you want to include Travis Strikes Again as season 3. Each episode would be 12 episodes and an hour long. I would make this three seasons because I hate to see it milked.
1. Have the game's creators as producers and have a say in this show.
Now I think it is best to get the creator of No More Heroes, Goichi Suda, to serve as the show's producer and supervisor. I think it would be a big help to have him on board, and hopefully, he will convince whatever network to stay faithful to the game if they have to make some changes. That's fine just depends on the difference. It would be awesome if a TV Series of No More Heroes were in the works. Still, today's studios would look at No More Heroes and say It needs a modern-day update; the female characters wear too many tight outfits, bikinis, and revealing outfits. Travis seems like a toxic masculinity type of guy. Truth is, No More Heroes doesn't really need a modern-day update. It's fine the way it is. Instead, they just add more to the story and make some changes. In the game, female characters like Sylvia, Holly, and Shinobu are great and well-written characters. They are not just there to be sexy, but they add a lot to the story and are important figures in Travis's life; Travis is a punk, but he's a good guy, and like I wrote before, he doesn't like killing female assassins he actually he has morals. At one point, Shinobu tries to make out with Travis. Still, he turns her down because he doesn't like it, and it feels wrong to do that. "I can't. I feel like that pervy teacher in porn." Travis Touchdown: No More Heroes 2. As much as I want a No More Heroes TV Series, I am worried about the direction they would take it, and we may not even get a tv series or any adaption in the future, but never say never.
OHH YEAH!!!!
So those are my Fan Cast and Ideas for a No More Heroes TV Series. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment, and this year No More Heroes III will be out, so make sure you get it. What do you guys want to see in a No More Heroes TV Series or Movie, depending on who makes it? If you haven't played the game or just heard of it, I recommend playing it because it's an excellent old slash-and-hack game. Or just watch the whole game on Youtube.
