Gabriella Buba's "Daughters of Flood and Fury," the movie

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Daughters of Flood and Fury is Book 2 of the Stormbringer Saga which I pitch as my Filipino Mythology Avatar the last Airbender, but the Avatar is not a Pacifist. Imagine a mid-17th century southeast Asian archipelago brimming with magic and dragons with dozens of gold and pearl rich kingdoms and city states struggling to ally against greedy western powers. Where daring pirates raid western ships loaded down with Oriental riches - gold, silks, slaves - and elemental shamans entreat their goddesses to keep these thousands of islands born of fire, dotted with volcanoes from exploding or being swamped by sea and storm.

Book 2 has 3 point of view characters. Lunurin, a Stormcaller in service to the Goddess of Storms and Vengeance, and Alon, a tide-touched healer named to the Goddess of the Sea and the 2nd son of the ruler of one of the richest city states in the archipelago newly freed from the colonial empire. They are the protagonists from book 1 now married and wrangling enemies and allies across the archipelago into an alliance to face the Spanish armada coming to re-conquer their city. I also introduce the Point-of-view of Inez, once a postulant in a nunnery, who suffered greatly at the hands of Spanish priests in book 1 and now finds herself chasing missionary rumors of her sister Catalina returned as a martyr gathering the faithful to the reconquest.

If this were being cast 20 years ago I would beg for my male narrator for the Audiobook, Dante Basco to play Alon. It was an absolute pie in the sky dreamcast to have him agree to voice Alon. After all Dante Basco is the original Filipino elemental magic man, Prince Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender. But Dante now directs as well as acting, producing, and voice acting, so he would make an amazing director for Daughters of Flood and Fury. He has an absolute spot on vision for the energy of my work. He could also play an excellent and devastating Jeian (Alon’s volatile older brother.)

Manny Jacinto would be a more age appropriate casting for Alon, and he was an early face claim for Alon, especially after...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: Daughters of Flood and Fury.

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