Selected cast credits · Film reference
The film supercharged the later Fast & Furious series.
The crew structure, locations, driving stunts, villain, and found-family ending are cited as shared DNA.
Opening Venice heist and escape.
Other proposals include the double cross, cable repair, date confrontation, final chase, crew assembly, and Skinny Pete introduction.
Lyle claiming he invented Napster.
Hacker jargon, Shawn Fanning’s cameo, revitalized Hollywood Boulevard, and Seth Green’s prominence are also period markers.
Real vehicles and chases; Mini Coopers; cast driving; Los Angeles locations.
The Korean driving range, Samoan crew, and shopkeeper’s financial-crisis prediction are also retained.
Body surfacing; Venice pan into the house.
Two shots are proposed.
The L.A. Job or The Hollywood Job.
The movie does say the released title phrase.
The heist economics and small take.
The panel questions costs, division of $27 million, collateral damage, lack of police, and why the gold was not worth closer to $100 million.
Money song; unearned romance; Napster stalking; Stella’s plan; Statham’s hair.
The sparse basketball scene is handled separately as a sports category.
No selection.
The panel does not identify an overacting winner.
Modern action logic makes the crew’s refusal to shoot Steve hard to accept; Charlize Theron mirrors Halle Berry.
Both takes are retained separately.
Skinny Pete; Scott Adsit; Boris Krutonog; Oscar Nuñez.
Multiple supporting performers are proposed.
Shawn Fanning; Donald Sutherland; Skinny Pete.
Shawn Fanning’s cameo receives the strongest enthusiastic response.
Put the Venice heist last.
The planned house heist is also preferred over the actual finale.
Mini Coopers; possibly Seth Green; Hollywood around 2003.
Venice scenes are raised; most cast members are rejected.
Tom Cruise, potentially as Steve.
Cruise is favored over Hanks and imagined in Norton’s role.
Six sequels; a Donald Sutherland prequel; Stella Bridger series; all-Black heist film.
The unmade Brazilian Job and audience bias around Black heist crews are discussed.
Derek from American History X.
The proposed addition is performed as a Mini Cooper challenge scene.
Stunts.
A stunt or stunt-driver Oscar is selected.
Gold brick or Mini Cooper.
Both are selected.
Trust everyone, but not the devil inside them.
The Donald Sutherland line is selected.
Mini Coopers; Edward Norton also proposed.
The cars receive Craig Horlbeck’s emphatic choice; Norton is an independent earlier choice.
