Joyce Sweeney's 'Players'

“Players” is written by Joyce Sweeney, and it talks about St. Philip’s varsity basketball, which they are predicted to go all city, Corey, a senior, makes team captain, and his friends Theo, Noah, and Antawn are all starters. The team gets a new transferred player named Noah, who is a great shooter and player center, wants to be a starter. When Luke faints at the beginning of a game, and Theo quits the team, the basketball team needs to deal with problems to make all city. This book would have been a good story, if it was turned into a movie.

The movie can be easily be made into the movie because it has good character development. The characters are likeable to many high school students. It also had a good plot development, because it gets intense in the middle of the story. The conflict gets really intense every chapter I read.

The cast for everyone in the basketball team must be about 16 to 21 years old, and must be at least be good at basketball and acting.

Corey and Luke’s casting must be about 6 feet and 5 inches and must be really athletic. Theo’s casting must be 6 feet and 10 inches and be really muscular. Antawn’s casting must be less than 6 feet and 3 inches and must be fast and a good shooter. Noah’s casting must have freckles and an evil face in some scenes, and must be about 6 feet and 6 inches. Casting for Corey’s sister Renee must be about 12 to 16 years old and must be a nice person and she has at least a small semblance to Corey. Casting for Corey and Luke’s girlfriends Franny and Claire must be athletic and must be a fan of

basketball.
I would of film it in at Corona or any other school, for the gym, the classes, and the lockers. Filming of Corey’s and Luke’s house would be at any house that has at least 2 stories and a big backyard. Noah’s house would be film at a huge house in the Scottsdale area. The clothes that everyone in the basketball team wears are like normal people right now. The basketball uniforms colors are black, green and blue. For the Corey’s sister wedding at the end, everyone in the basketball team wears tuxedos. The props for the movie, is of course a basketball, an empty bottle of Tylenol, and a gun that is fake, but looks realistic, for the rising action. The soundtrack is going to be filled with hip-hop in the scenes that show them playing basketball. In the scenes where it gets emotional there is music that fits the scene with a symphony playing in the background.
The movie starts out happy and exciting and there are no tensions. The tensions start when it Luke goes one and one against Noah in basketball, and the tone of the movie gets darker when Luke faints at the basketball game, and the tone gets even more darker when Theo quits the team. The story keeps on getting darker and darker, until the wedding scene, where the tensions are at that top, and the tone gets really darker. After the wedding scene, the dark tone, quickly goes away when St. Philip’s basketball team are close to win a championship, the tensions begins to go away after the wedding scene too.
The main change is making the story more modern, because the book is made in 2000. Instead of Renee emailing a random person, she uses direct messaging on Twitter or Facebook. In the book Corey’s favorite newspaper writer is Patti Starr, in the movie Patti Starr is his favorite internet writer (she writes articles online). The last change is that there will have a little bit of more basketball than what the book explained.
The book has good plot and character development. The story has a good conflict, and great characters. “Players” is a great story about friendship and basketball. The locations, characters, and the tone fits the story a lot. This story would be perfect if it was turned into a live-action movie.