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Raymond Lawrence "Boots" Riley (born April 1, 1971) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Sorry to Bother You (released July 2018), which he also wrote. In 2023, the television show I'm a Virgo premiered, which Riley wrote and directed.
Obviously, Detroit would be the ideal setting for a Cyborg film. STAR Labs and ideally The Red Room would serve as kind of the "base" for Cyborg and his supporting cast. Where Cyborg stores his mementos and goes to unwind. He can be in a safe place where he can sort of turn-off his connection to the world/wifi. The city people should be shown as resilient, but hesitant to accept Cyborg as their hero. That brings us to the next section.Cyborg has, thankfully, had his supporting cast expanded in recent books. Some are obvious, and I'll admit I don't know if all of these characters are alive (I've dodged trailers like crazy just in case). Some of these are rather new to even comics and others are amalgams. Silas Stone: I imagine that Stone would serve as the sort of doting father figure, by Cyborg. Partially blaming himself for what happened to his son and his condition and making Victor uncomfortable with some of his comments. A man of logic, he has trouble accessing and processing his emotions and sounding like a father and less a scientist throughout the movie. Xenophon Clark: AKA. Exxy or Accountable, is an anti-government hacker. He distrusts Cyborg and thinks of him as just a tool to make the NSA more palatable. Eventually comes to trust Victor as more a human than machine. Sarah Charles: While I think a romantic spark should be hinted, I think the foundation of that should be a friendship. Sarah should be helping Cyborg feel more like a human, in his sadder moments when the question comes up. As in the comics, she should be the one that takes him out to be around more people and helps break down how Victor and Silas feel towards each other when they can't say it. She should be a more action-oriented woman. When things go wrong, she's the first to act in the Red Room. Mr. Orr: A government G-man overseeing Project Red Room, and basically the boss of Cyborg as a government agent. He's a bit prejudiced, but not hateful. He sees Cyborg as a weapon and wants more like him serving in the military. He's not a villain, but he's not a friend. Throughout the film, he begins to question his own thoughts regarding Cyborg and the STAR Team, and eventually becoming an uneasy ally. Dr. Will Magnus: A colleague of Dr. Stone and confidant of Cyborg working with the military on Project: Metal Men (which will be hinted at in the film.) Smart, and a bit more OCD than others, he's a nice guy and is always talking about how much he admires who Cyborg is. He's a big fan of Silas' work.
