Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Duck Deception

Title: Duck Deception
Starring: Keenan Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayan, Marlon Wayans
Tagline: "These feathers are totally DOWN." or "They're dressing up again!"
Estimated Week One Gross: Enough to bankroll 4 or 5 more sequels.

The Wayans Brothers are 4 wacky special agents forced to go undercover... deep undercover. A vial of a something something from a top secret government experiment has fallen into the wrong... WINGS? In order to retrieve it, these four brothers (who are also conjoined quadruplets) must follow these ducks all the way south during their migration. Along the way they have to deal with all of the things that black people are so bad at dealing with (cold weather, white people, girls with small behinds).

There will be some close calls along the way, but they will eventually make it to their destination without their cover being blown, and will emerge from the whole experience virtually the same way they went in: as bumbling racial caricatures. They will also have a newfound respect for "like nature and ducks and farms and shit."

The president will offer them a free surgical procedure to separate them (because he can't reward them publicly because its very secret) but they will opt to stay together for life because that's "how we do, son" and then their pants will fall down and a car might blow up.

It's gonna be one wild winter!

My Requirements:
$100,000 up front
5% box office
Producer credit and veto power over all drafts of the script

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Superhero USA Comic-a-thon 2007

Title: Superhero USA Comic-a-thon 2007
Tagline: "In time for summer!" or "Stan Lee Approved"
Estimated week one gross: $65 Million

Synopsis:
From the mind of the guy who brought Spider Man back to theaters for third time comes the Superhero USA Comic-a-thon 2007!

In Gotham Capital City a villain from beyond this world is terrorizing the mayor and citizens with a spree of kidnappings (1 to date: the mayor's daughter!) and of blowing up parking meters. It's going to take all the rest of the comic world's superheroes to put a stop to him! Including Aqua Man!

Instead of just trickling out the rest of the second rate, though still mildly successful in their own regard, superheroes, it's time to just cram them all together and make them fight for screen time! Everyone can come and briefly see their favorite superhero played by an actor! Think of the box office sales!

There will be high-flying over the city. There will be roads rippling up in a wave as a super strong guy either punches it (to stop a car perhaps) or lands on it from high above. There
will be people flying into water and then out again. There will be gunfire but no one will get hurt (just like real life). We will see explosions make the windows of skyscrapers blow out. We will hear loud sounds that set off car alarms in the movie. We will witness the greatest superhero story of our time (summer 2007).

Get ready America!

My requirements:
$40,000 up front
7% of box office
Producer credit and credited as Antman

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Passion of the Christ 2: Passion Harder

Title: Passion of the Christ 2: Passion Harder
Tagline: "It's fuckin' Jesus you ungrateful scumbag! What the fuck else you want motherfucker!?"
Estimated week one gross: $90 Billion

(Yeah, yeah, so I haven't posted in awhile and this is a cop-out, but you know what I'm busy and these movies don't just ingeniously invent themselves!)

Synopsis:
So here we go, okay, here we go, alright, yes! Let's do this thing! Let's make it happen! Yes!
Jesus A. "Son of GOD" Christ! Gettin' beat, gettin' bruised, gettin' bloody. Slow-motion, hard-core, ass-fuckin' set to a LOVELY ethereal score. People will pay hand over foot for this bad boy. This will be the most anticipated sequel since Dukes of Hazzard 2! And once the DVD is ready Wal-mart stock will go up, conservative estimate: 4,000,000% EASY.

We shove Jesus in front of some new backdrops, slash on some fake blood (and real) and this thing makes itself. Cut in some scenes from the first one to fill time, no one will notice. Devise some new tortures (maybe Jesus gets water-boarded. Or shoved in one of those iron maiden thingys.) Come on you gotta buy on this!

My requirements:
$100 Million up front
$100 at completion
Blessing by Vatican
Golden Idol of me at Wal-Mart
Graven Image of me in south
Face on all future crosses made

Friday, March 16, 2007

Courage of A Champion

Title: Courage of a Champion
Tagline: "Based on an inspiring true story" or "A dramatic sports movie with a message along the lines of 'Never Give Up'"
Estimated week one gross: $29 million

Synopsis:
The story of the defiant young overweight basketball hopeful who never stops believing in his ability and refuses to give up. Or maybe he's an epileptic polo player; doesn't matter. The point is HE ISN'T GIVING UP (replace "isn't " with "ain't" if we use a black actor).

Typical story. Obsessed with the sport in childhood, yadda-yadda, trains as a young man, blah-blah, does great, faces trouble, overcomes obstacle, deals with personal problem, montage, succeeds despite odds. You know the drill.

What's important about this is how we market it. The previews need to be intense, "sporty." We need to convey the idea that if you're not interested in this movie you "hate sports." And if you hate sports we all know that means you're a little 'light in the loafers.' A fee-fee man. So it's important to advertise this movie during EVERY sporting event. Also we put posters up in bars and Buffalo Wild Wings and other places guys hang out with other guys (not gay bars). We need to bully men into seeing this. And it has a message. "Never give up" or some shit. Whatever. We sell this one right and we can rake in big.

Cuba Gooding Jr. has expressed interest.

So you interested? You like SPORTS don't you?

My requirements:
$25,000 up front.
5% of box office and dvd sales.
5% of related chicken-wing specials and beer mug sales.

Friday, March 2, 2007

Why TV is Better Than the Movies

There was a good article in Newsweek this week about why TV is better than the movies.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17200496/site/newsweek/

There was an old stigma around TV; that it was for losers and the motion pictures were where all the real talent went. This article argues that is now reversed. I encourage you to read it and let it inspire you to create great movies like me! Us creative genius need to work together and turn this around. Let's hit them with a brillinat CGI movie about a talking pipe-organ, voiced by Will Smith's son, so fast it makes their heads spin! Let's see you do THAT on TV idiots!

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

LOVE WITH SPORTS

Title: Love With Sports
Tagline: "The most recent Vince Vaughn movie!" or "Jennifer Aniston is still popular!"
Estimated week one gross: $38.2 million

Synopsis:
At last! A romantic comedy just like any other! Picture this! Vince Vaughn plays a single suburban male. He likes to be lazy, watch the TV and sports, and drink beer with his best bud (played by the guy who played Ross in 'Friends'...or is that too many 'Friends' actors in one movie? Lisa Kudrow is already cast as Jennifer Aniston's quirky "friend"... hmm maybe re-cast this part) and who lives in a giant house in the suburbs, despite the fact that he's single and never seems to be at work. Jennifer Anston plays a single, metropolitan hot-shot magazine editor or possibly hot-shot television producer in the Big City where she lives in a luxurious penthouse somewhere in the heart of downtown, yet her balcony has a view of the entire city skyline! The two couldn't be further apart! Until one day a crazy twist of fate brings them into each other's lives!

One day Jennifer Aniston's magazine (or television show) does a special on the local sports team and portrays them in a negative light (maybe they gang-raped a 16-year-old). Well this does NOT sit well with Vince Vaughn. He lives his life by the local sports team. Half his wardrobe and his home decorations show this! He can not stand to hear his beloved sports team bad-mouthed! He fires off a series of death threats to Jennifer Aniston, eventually dying down to at least two a week.

Jennifer Aniston is desperate for love. Despite the comments by her best friend Lisa Kudrow like 'who needs men?' and 'love is not great,' Jennifer still longs to be loved. Then she gets Vince Vaughn's death threats. Never before has she fallen in love with correspondence, not like this. Night after lonely night she reads his incoherent, rambly threats of death and bodily harm and falls deeper and deeper into love. Who is this mysterious man sending her all these letters? She MUST know!

Lucky for her, one night Vince Vaughn is ready to live out his fantasy. He tracks her down and shows up at her work with a claw hammer and some rope ready to fulfill his promises and 'deliver the goods.' Clutching the hammer in his trembling hand he waits, ready to kill, until he sees her. As he watches her perform CPR on a dying black baby in the city streets he immediately falls in love. What an angel! He can't go through with it, so he turns and goes and she never even notices him. Her love was SO close!

Vince gives up on the threats, but can't seem to get Jennifer out of his mind. He has to send her one last letter, this one a love letter! A few more lonely days later and Jennifer hasn't had a death threat in awhile and thinks they have stopped. This depresses her greatly until she gets another letter from her psychotic stalker. In it he tells her to meet him at a specific place.

"This must be it," she says checking her note against the address. It's the top of the Freedom Tower (if Freedom Tower not built by shooting than lets say the Sphinx). Up on the majestic rooftop is one white table-clothed table and a team of chefs and waiters standing by. Vince pops out from behind a giant ice sculpture and kisses her softly on the hand. It's their first date!

Now we have an 80 minute dating montage of everyday relationship foibles with a humorous spin and plenty of sports jokes (for the guys). Also maybe they go see the latest Adam Sandler movie so that could eat up like 30 minutes if we tie-in clips for that movie in ours.

Anywhoooooo, they date a lot, then they have a fight over something (lets say he accidentally makes out with Jennifer Aniston's friend and she sees this, even though it wasn't his fault) and she storms off and they fight over it and "I never want to see you again!" and "Fine!" and they both storm off angry. Will their love ever be rekindled?!

Well then we have the hilarious broken up sequence (Vince Vaughn is wearing a wife-beater, has a 5-o'clock shadow and drinks beer and Jennifer Aniston has sex with like 4 or 5 scuzzy looking guys she meets at a dance club during the course of the week). Until Vince Vaughn can't take it anymore and he rushes off to find his love! But when he gets to her work the secretary tells him that the magazine is sending her to Singapore for training and she won't be back for 12 years and has no phone number anymore. Oh no! BUT, she says, if he hurries he can catch her at her apartment! The race is on! Get out of the way minorities who make up the city! He gets to her penthouse just in time to see a private plane take off int he middle of her street. NO! He missed her! He screams her name at the plane and swears at an elderly man who yells "It's 5 in the morning!" at him.

What a crumby ending this will be right? But what's this?! Suddenly Vince Vaughn hears a voice behind him, "Looking for me?" he spins. It's Jennifer Aniston holding her luggage. She wasn't on the plane! They embrace and the camera spins around them as they also spin in the middle of Times Square for the next 14 minutes until the movie can end at a decent time.


My requirements:
$10,000 up front.
5% of box office and dvd sales.
Cameo as 'snooty, nasal-voiced city-type guy Vince Vaughn punches out for disagreeing with him about bathroom etiquette.'

Friday, January 19, 2007

RINGTONE

Title: Ringtone
Tagline: "Check yo celly" or "Bling, Bling. It's Fo' U"
Estimated week one gross: $14 million

Synopsis:
Capitalizing on the recent wave of 'urban' or 'black' movies such as Crossover, Stomp Tha Yard, Drumline and You Got Served, Ringtone delivers the best predictable plot, unlikable characters and easy to follow story line that has fans of this genre clamoring for more!

The story follows a young, disenfranchised black youth named Crunk Mafia as he struggles to fit in as he leaves the 'hood' and heads to some all-black area in metro Atlanta. By 'fitting in' of course I mean he seeks out the newest shoes and t-shirts and the best diamond necklaces and platinum teeth. One summer day in his new home, the envy of his neighborhood - some guy who drives a Hummer limo around - catches Crunk 'textin' one of friends on a 'broke ass' cell phone. The man pulls out his phone and lets Crunk use a 'legit playa's celly' : a diamond covered, super flashy flip phone with a boomin ring tone. Crunk is blown away and in that moment knows his calling: he's going to trick out his cell phone and take it to the somehow world-famous Atlanta 'Cell Off' and compete for $10,000 and glory. But the world of cell phones isn't as easy to rise up in as Crunk would come to find!

Ringtone is loaded with super fancy, close up shots of cell phones: cell phones being opened (with whooshing sounds), cell phones in use and cells on belts. All of the one-dimensional characters are represented by their cell phone styles and each one has a unique 'ringtone' to identify them.

In addition to gaining fame and glory by winning the super intense Cell Off, Crunk tries to find love with the local girl, Destiny. But to do this he will need to impress her by having the crispest baseball hat and biggest pajama t-shirt on the block!

To add to his troubles, a group of local toughs also takes notice to Crunk's fancy cell phone styling and at the height of their cruelty, steals his prized cell phone, "Ring Ding," by using a gun! Thus demonstrating the troubles of urban life and forcing Crunk to start from scratch building a bigger, tighter cell phone in time for the contest. Crunk must also face the humiliation after being robbed by calling his 'boys' on a pay-phone and embarrassing them by making them take a call from a 'buster' on a 'bitch's phone.'

When he finally makes it to the unrealistically huge and crowded Cell Off we are treated to glamour shots of all types of stylish cell phones. There are cells with hydrolic flips, cells covered in so many diamonds that millions of African children must be limbless, cells with ps3's built in, cells that look like Hummers and use actual gas, cells implanted into womens' vaginas, and many other flashy cell phones. Will Crunk's new celly, "Platinum Ice" hold it's weight?

Ringtone is loaded with the all the generic writing movie fans want. From Crunk's cocky, arrogant, irritating dialog to Destiny's annoying, needy, stereotypically dependent womanly charm along with the shitty, hacky wit, humour and faux-tough guy talk of Crunk's "boys!"
The cinematography is almost focused exclusively on products and the whole movie plays more like a commercial than a film! Nothing important is learned, the only lessons being 'gain more flashy material goods than everyone else or else be a "buster"' and 'if your chain is fake than you deserve to die' (this will be punctuated by a scene of one of Crunk's boys, 'Lizard' getting mowed down in a drive-by when it's revealed his new Puma sneakers and matching Puma headband and jacket were bought on sale! If anything this movie will set black people back another 25 years!

My Requirements:
$70,000 up front
10% of box-office and dvd sales
3% of merchandising
Producer credit