Stories by @peterjudge04

A Man Called Anwar

Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat (1918-1981) has been the third President of Egypt. A former counselor of historical President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sadat stopped the influence of the Nasser's Socialist Party in the country and opened a debate with Israel, becoming the first Arab leader to visit the Israeli part of Jerusalem in 1977. He was assassinated in 1981. He is remembered as a controversial figure.

Dante's Inferno

My personal adaptation of the "Inferno" ("Hell"), the first of the three chants of Dante Alighieri's "Comedy". Dante has to pass through Hell to escape a dark forest in which he lost himself. The spirit of Latin poet Virgil will guide him.

Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments - City of Glass (2020)

Beaten Valentine, a new enemy, the demon Lilith, starts to haunt New York and the World. In the meanwhile, a new shadowhunter named Sebastian Verlac befriends our heroes.

Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments - City of Ashes (2018)

The war between the Shadowhunters and the evil Valentine keeps on, while our heroes also have to face another kind of demons: the ones from their private lives. As for the first story, this movie adapts the second season of the show and not the book that bears its name.

Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments - City of Bones (2016)

Clary Fray, an apparently normal teenager, finds a out she is part of a secret world made by Shadwohunters, human-angel hybrids who fight against demons and other dark creatures. Warning: this movie is based on the first season of the TV series and not on the book of the same name.

Father of the Turks

After the death of the previous Sultan, the new Sultan Mehmed VI cannot face the loss of World War One and the revolts by the movement of the Young Turks, and abdicates. A new, morally ambiguous leader destined to change the country forever has arrived: his name is Atatürk, but he still doesn't know.

Strength to Love

Rose and Maddie are a same-sex couple living in Uganda when they are passing an anti-LGBTQ+ law that punishes queer people by death. The law is supported by the hate-mongering Pastor Kuumba, a local televangelist, and Minister Mohammed, an African-American Muslim minister who traveled to Uganda to show support to the law. Rose plans to reach Germany and then the US where one of her exes live, while Maddie tries to reconcile with her brother, who never accepted her, before leaving her country.

Malcolm X

The chronicles of controversial African-American leader Malcolm X Little aka Malik el-Shabazz.

The Message

An epic biopic about the life of Muhammad, founder of Islam.

Super Mario Bros. - Always Together

*generic Mario plot*

Battleship (2012)

I think most people know this movie, just trying to think of a different yet time-accurate cast.

Coonskin

(Warning: This "remake" fancast is just for fun; "Coonskin" should be NOT remade at all) Brother Bear, Preacher Fox and Brother Rabbit, three country black men, move to Harlem, thinking it's the black man's paradise. However, it's actually a terrible place, and the three friends should take control of the city fighting against the Mafia, the racist police, sinister secret sects and most importantly the evil Miss America, willed to anything but accepting them.

Life in Hell

Taste a slice of the lives of neurotic rabbit Binky, his illegitimate son Bongo, his cynical girlfriend Sheba and two gay lovers Akbar and Jeff in this funny animated sitcom created by Matt Groening.

LGB. T.

Nick Tate, an unsuccessful journalist seeking for a scoop, finds a pansexual alien named LGB. T. (dubbed "Elgy") and plans to make him the scoop he was looking for. Elgy escaped from his home planet, where a genocidal tyrant is persecuting LGBTQ+ people. However, Nick and the alien become friends, enlarging the circle with Nick's girlfriend and coworker Grace, his lesbian neighbor Shannon and his housekeeper Gayle. However, Lawrence Ito, Nick's coworker and rival, kidnaps the alien to make the scoop his own…

Mumbo Jumbo

Harlem, late 1920s: a "perilous virus" called Jes Grew, which symptoms are jazz music, dancing, anti-racism and polytheism, is striking the United States, and the Wallflower Order, an ancient secret society allied with the still-existing Knight Templars that controls the Western World, vows to destroy it. PaPa LaBas, an eccentric voodoo priest loyal to "The Work", the original way of life, thought and religion of African-Americans, finds himself involved in murders, defamations and colonial wars, while the Mu'tafikah, an organization dedicated to steal museum items stolen by colonialists, vow to do the same with Egyptian and Precolumbian items in New York.

Middlesex (TV Miniseries) - Episode 6: “Growth”

Under a doctor's suggestion, Milton and Tessie take Callie to the eccentric sexologist Dr. Peter Luce, whom discovers Callie is actually an intersex boy. However, he doesn't reveal it neither to the parents nor the child, but Callie eventually finds it out and decides to run away and the identity of a young man named "Cal". Traveling the States through hitchhiking, Cal reaches San Francisco, where talent agent Bob Presto finds him a role in a peep show, where he befriends Zora, an intersex girl, and Carmen, a trans girl. In the meanwhile, Milton receives anonymous, threatening phone calls asking money for freeing Callie. Milton leaves the money where established, but he finds out the man was actually his brother-in-law Father Mike who was jealous of him. It follows a car chase, at the end of which Milton dies and Mike is arrested. "Chapter Eleven", Cal's brother, finds him in San Francisco and takes him back home. There, the elderly Desdemona finds out about her grandchild intersex identity and accepts it, revealing him also the secret incestuous nature of her marriage to Lefty. Come back to present, Cal finally has sex with his new girlfriend Julie Kikuchi, who accepts his sexual identity.

Middlesex (TV Miniseries) - Episode 5: “Middlesex”

After moving to Middlesex, Callie starts attending an all-girls private school where she meets a WASPy redheaded girl whom she refers to as the "Obscure Object", and develops a strange love/friendship attraction toward her. They two become friends and Callie spends a holiday with her. However, during it, she has sex with the "Object"'s goth brother Jerome, and then with the "Object" herself, making Jerome wrathful. He harms Callie, who is taken to the hospital where they discover she may not be female. In the meanwhile, the elderly Lefty starts suffering from dementia and, slowly, dies.

Middlesex (TV Miniseries) - Episode 4: "Riot"

Milton and Tessie's child is actually an intersex baby with an XY-chromosome, but the elderly Dr. Philosobian mistakes it for a girl and thus they call them Calliope (dubbed Callie). The little Callie grows up in Detroit and frequents the Zebra Room, the pub founded by Lefty and now owned by Milton, where she befriends Marius Grimes, a young black activist who is despised by the racist Milton. During the 1967 riots, Marius burns off the Zebra Room with a molotov, and the insurance pays it back: the Stephanideses now buy a much fancier house in Grosse Pointe, called Middlesex.

Middlesex (TV Miniseries) - Episode 3: “War”

At the beginning of World War Two, Tessie, pursued by young Orthodox priest Mike Antoniou, starts a relationship with her third cousin Milton. Milton joins the Navy and fights in the World War and the Korean War, they two marry and have a son. They think their next child will be another boy, however it is a daughter, whom they name Calliope.

Middlesex (TV Miniseries) - Episode 2: “America”

Lefty and Desdemona reach America and move to Detroit, at the home of their closeted lesbian cousin Sourmelina, who married an odd man of Pontian ethnicity named Jimmy Zizmo, who leads illegal businesses. Lefty finds a job at Ford Motors but he's fired and tries to work with Jimmy, but he apparently dies by suicide. However, his and Sourmelina's daughter, Tessie, is born, while Lefty and Desdemona also have a son: Milton.