Graffiti: Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises

***Graffiti: Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises*** (otherwise known as ***Graffiti: Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises – A YouTube Superhero Fan Film*** or simply ***Graffiti: Foxworth Enterprises*** or ***Graffiti 2***) is a 2015 American superhero film / fan film produced by Ragin Productions and distributed through YouTube. The film is the sequel to 2013’s *Graffiti: Dreams & Knightmares* and the second installment of the *Graffiti* film series. An adaptation of the *Foxworth Enterprises* arc, the film was released on March 7, 2015.

The film was written and directed by David Ragin, who reprises his starring role as Dylan Johnson / Graffiti. Ariel Ragin, Cortez Andre, Miniece Ragin and Emmanuel Riggs reprise their roles from the first film as Melrose Hawthorne, Switchblade, Evangeline Carter / Evamore, and Lucius Foxworth respectively. DK Williams, who previously portrayed James Boom in the first film, returns as Josh Boom / Eclipse, the brother of James. New editions to the cast include Sherrilynn Ragin as Dr. Carter, Key Jones as The Assistant, Reggie Johnson as Max Taylor / Frostbite, Robbie Johnson as Jake Taylor / Heatstroke, Dominique A. Lyons as Gerald Myers / Heavy G, Floyd Johnson, Jr. as Isaiah "Ice" Cooper and Eric Williams as David Bradley. The film was released on March 7, 2015 after being delayed from its initial release window of winter 2014.

The third film in the series, *Heroes and Villains*, was released on August 5, 2017.

## Synopsis

Taking place one year after the events of *Graffiti: Dreams & Knightmares*, Dylan Johnson has taken on the full alternate-identity of *Graffiti*. The task proves to be harder than he once figured when he begins to learn about the full responsibilities and consequences of a true superhero. To better aid in his mission to protect his kind, he decides to join a secret program for superhumans, led by CEO and businessman Lucius Foxworth. However, Dylan eventually finds himself in a situation that could put the existence of the entire superhuman race in danger of extinction, which forces him to team up with an unlikely ally: his arch-enemy Switchblade.

### Plot

A year after *Graffiti: Dreams & Knightmares*, Dylan Johnson has already become overwhelmed with the responsibilities of Graffiti, but receives a message from Lucius Foxworth, and after meeting with him, agrees to join his company Foxworth Enterprises to protect superhumans. He is teamed up with Josh Boom, the brother of the man that robbed him a year ago, and learns of his unfortunate death, though they both are unaware that Switchblade was the murderer. After interrupting an unsupervised training session between Melrose Hawthorne's cousins Max and Jake Taylor, Dylan returns home and is immediately attacked by an ear-piercing, painful noise. He calls Melrose, who has since moved to Tokyo for college, who instructs him to move to her grandmother's home for him to stay at. Soon after, Dylan receives his first assignment from Foxworth's unnamed assistant, and he and Josh go to their first assignment. However, when it’s revealed that Josh has been assigned to kill Max and Jake, a fight erupts between them, with Dylan, Max and Jake ultimately overwhelming Josh. Upon returning home, Dylan quits Foxworth Enterprises, and is attacked by Josh again, though the ear-piercing noise reappears, forcing Josh to teleport away, saving Dylan. He runs to Evangeline Carter for help, and the two teleport away to Josh's house for safety. Feeling that a war is imminent, Evangeline goes to recruit other superhumans to bring down Foxworth, while Dylan goes to his pre-scheduled appointment with his barber Isaiah Cooper, who reveals to Dylan that he easily deduced his identity as Graffiti, revealing himself to be superhuman as well. Evangeline flies to Honduras to visit her mother Dr. Carter and tells her about her and Dylan's incidents. However, unbeknownst to her, Dr. Carter is one of the employees of Foxworth herself. Melrose telepathically joins Dylan to meet with Evangeline's first recruit, who turns out to be Switchblade. Before the two can fight, Dylan and Switchblade's identity are revealed on blogger David Bradley's YouTube page, and it’s revealed that Dr. Carter gave him the information, causing a divide between the group and Evangeline. Dylan and Switchblade infiltrate Foxworth's mainframe but are confronted by Josh. Switchblade tells Josh that Foxworth killed James, and he agrees to help them bring down Foxworth, determined to find out the truth about his brother. Evangeline flies back to Dr. Carter and confronts her about her involvement with Foxworth, but she denies knowing what his plan is.

The next day, while on patrol, Dylan is joined unwillingly by Switchblade while he deciphers Foxworth's data. The two are attacked by Gerald Myers, another of Foxworth's employees, but they defeat him. Dylan teleports to his grandmother's house, followed by Switchblade, and Melrose returns from Tokyo to help them bring down Foxworth using a techno virus she created. She reveals that Foxworth runs his company out of his personal home, and the trio plan to storm the house and destroy his business. Foxworth fires Meyers for his failure, and then reveals to Josh that Switchblade killed James, and shows him the security footage of him dumping his body where they found him. Dylan and Switchblade arrive at Foxworth's house for the final fight, and an enraged Josh teleports Switchblade away to avenge his brother, while Dylan prepares to infect Foxworth's mainframe, but Foxworth surprises him and brutally beats him. Foxworth reveals that he is one of the first superhumans in their history, and his power is immortality. Having lost all his loved ones over time, he began to see his powers as a curse from God and felt his only chance at redemption was to rid the world of superhumans entirely. Foxworth reveals his second power, the ability to remove superhuman powers, while Josh gets the upper hand on Switchblade, though his mercy towards him allows Switchblade to detain him. Foxworth begins to take away Dylan's powers, but the high-pitched noise breaks the two apart. Dylan's eyes start to glow, and in a last-ditch effort to bring him down, teleports him and Foxworth away.

Dylan's body is recovered from the Bermuda Triangle, where he was found unconscious, and Foxworth missing. Switchblade watches over Dylan until he wakes up, and reveals to him that, despite teleporting away, Foxworth was successful in draining Dylan's powers. Dylan is distraught, and Switchblade leaves amicably with Josh, now working with Switchblade as his new sidekick in return for his life. Dylan and Melrose decide to use the last of his powers to remove the negative energy from Dylan, and it’s revealed that Knightmare has been infecting him out of revenge for their breakup. Melrose removes Knightmare’s energy from his mind, freeing him from her power. Following Foxworth's disappearance, Foxworth Enterprises shuts down, laying off all its employees, including Dr. Carter, who returns home. Melrose uses the information from Foxworth's data, and her personal connections, to begin officially establishing the Superhuman Community, using Graffiti as the face and representative, despite him no longer having his powers. Understanding that he is still needed to inspire superhumans to embrace their powers and use them responsibly, Dylan begins recruiting and training young superhumans, including Chris Taylor, Max and Jake's cousin, to the Superhuman Community. Meanwhile, Switchblade and Eclipse begin a plan to conquer the superhuman world, and any other powered individuals.

## Cast

* Lil Ray Ragin as Dylan Johnson / Graffiti
* Cortez Andre as Eljanan Brown / Switchblade
* Ariel Ragin as Melrose Hawthorne
* DK Williams as Josh Boom / Eclipse
* Emmanuel Riggs as Lucius Foxworth
* Miniece Ragin as Evangeline Carter / Evamore
* Sherrilynn Ragin as Dr. Carter
* Key Jones as The Assistant
* Reginald “Reggie” Johnson, Jr. as Max Taylor / Frostbite
* Robert “Robbie” Johnson as Jake Taylor / Heatstroke
* Dominique A. Lyons as Gerald Myers / Heavy G
* Floyd Johnson, Jr. as Isaiah “Ice” Cooper
* Eric Williams as David Bradley
* Alyssa Crawley as Knightmare

Demonte Thompson appears as a criminal that Dylan stops early in the film. Khalel Ragin appears as one of Foxworth's informants, while Patricia Ragin has a cameo as Ms. Murphy, Josh's landlord. Alexis Crawley reprises her role from the first film, this time as a girl with a cell phone, and Buddy appears again as Sebastian, Evangeline's dog. Destiny Hudson and Chose Ari appear as two girls in the forest that Dylan saves, and Jaden Johnson appears briefly as Chris Taylor. Yavez Fuller reprises his role as Virgil Hawkins in footage recycled from *Static Shock Phenomenon*, and Sam Backovsky appears as John Eckert in archived footage from *Strike.* Dante Rionda's picture as John Duncan is also seen, though Rionda does not appear in the film.

Like in *Dreams & Knightmares*, numerous members of Ragin's family and friends appear as cameos on the SHI (Superhuman Interface). This includes Ryan "BM" Brockman, Jackie Harding, John Ragin, Evan Lucas, Peyton Morgan, Patrick Morgan, Aja Foster, Jalen Thomas (as Deadpool), Gabby Williams, Symoné White, Jay May, Joanna Reeves, Jeneen Reeves, Ashley Mays, Nicole Johnson, Isaiah Smith, Darrin Cook, Shayne Byrne, Christian Parker, Autumn Johnson, Michael Stanford, Tyler Hill, Aundray Cornish and Christopher Chamberlain.

## Production

On March 4, 2014, David Ragin announced his intentions to write "Graffiti 2", which was shortly followed by a teaser poster being released days later on March 8. On March 21, Ragin announced the film's official title, "Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises" and that he would be returning to the role of Graffiti. On March 30, Cortez Andre was announced to be reprising his role as Switchblade, with Miniece Ragin, Ariel Ragin and Emmanuel Riggs announced to be reprising their roles as Evangeline Carter / Evamore, Melrose Hawthorne and Lucius Foxworth in April. DK Williams was also announced to return, playing a new character Josh Boom / Eclipse, the superhuman brother of his character in the first film, and it was initially announced that Alyssa Crawley decided to not return as Knightmare, though she would end up appearing in the film after all. In May, Sherrilynn Ragin, Key Jones and Dom Lyons were cast as Dr. Carter, The Assistant and Gerald Myers / Heavy G, and in June, Floyd Johnson, Jr. joined the cast as Isaiah "Ice" Cooper. Finally, in August, Reggie Johnson and Robbie Johnson were cast as Max Taylor / Frostbite and Jake Taylor / Heatstroke, and Eric Williams was cast as David "D-Brad" Bradley, replacing Connor Griffin, who was originally cast in the role, but was dropped due to lack of communication.

Production for the film began immediately following the first film, with the script being completed on April 9, and filming began April 23. The first teaser trailer, featuring Graffiti was released on July 11, and the film's official poster, designed by Floyd Johnson, Jr., was released on August 12, The second trailer and poster, also designed by Johnson, was released September 26. A third poster was released on February 5, 2015, and the film premiered at the JAWS for Jesus Missionary Church on February 28 as a fundraiser for the church. It was finally released a week later on March 7, 2015.

## Media

### Posters

*Promotional Poster**Official Poster**Official Poster**Official Poster**Graffiti / Melrose Character Poster**Eclipse / Switchblade Character Poster**Graffiti Character Poster**Switchblade Character Poster**Melrose Character Poster**Eclipse Character Poster**Lucius Foxworth Character Poster**Evamore Character Poster**Dr. Carter Character Poster**The Assistant Character Poster**Frostbite and Heatstroke Character Poster**Heavy G Character Poster**Isaiah 'Ice' Cooper Character Poster**D-Brad Character Poster*
### Videos

* Teaser Trailer #1
* Official Trailer #1
* Official Trailer #2
* "Round 2" Clip
* "Quitting Foxworth Enterprises" Clip
* "Fighting in the Forest" Clip
* Full Film on YouTube

### Other

*Official Movie Logo*Cortez AndreDK Williams and Cortez Andre*The Cast of Graffiti 2 at the JAWS Movie Premiere**Flyer for JAWS Fundrasier (2015)*
## Trivia

* The film's initial title was "Enter the Mindframe" before being changed to *Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises*.
	+ The title *Enter the Mindframe* is a reference to the Bruce Lee film *Enter the Dragon*.
* Several characters were meant to appear in the initial film, but were later cut; these include Dwayne Foxworth (Lucius Foxworth's son), John Armstrong, Frost Hamperson / Genesis, Elsa Divine / the Elementress, Chaos, Muzick and Ponytail. Muzick and Ponytail were cut early into production.
	+ Elsa Divine and Frost Hamperson would later appear in *Graffiti: Heroes and Villains* portrayed by Linise Washington and Patrick Morgan, respectively.
	+ John Duncan was also set to appear, and take on the superhero identity of "Network", but his character was ultimately killed off-screen.
		- Ironically, John Duncan was set to die sacrificing his life to save Melrose.
* The initial story would have featured Dylan Johnson joining and later quitting Foxworth Enterprises, but being set up and captured by Elsa Divine on Foxworth's orders, leading to Melrose, Evamore and Network forming a team to rescue him.
	+ In the original story, Dylan would have to work with Switchblade and John Armstrong to escape imprisonment while the team subsequently attempted to rescue him.
* The initial film would also have also included a friend of Dylan growing to become jealous of his powers and eventually would have received the power to control energy from Lucius Foxworth, renaming himself "Energy" as a superhero alias. He would later redeem himself by betraying Foxworth, overloading him and causing an explosion that resulted in him, Dylan and Foxworth becoming powerless.
	+ In the original ending, Foxworth, Elsa, Energy and Dwayne Foxworth would be arrested for their crimes against humanity, while Frost Hamperson would escape with Chaos (revealed to be his son from the future).
* In the second draft of the film, Knightmare was set to have a larger being a member of Foxworth Enterprises and used against Dylan (essentially replacing Elsa Divine in her role), but the character was cut from the film as per Alyssa Crawley's request.
	+ She would later appear in the film in a minimal role.
		- In the original plan for the film, she would betray Foxworth to align with the heroes, but lose her powers in the process, leading to her rekindling her relationship with Dylan.

## External Links

* Graffiti: Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises on YouTube
* Graffiti: Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises on IMDb