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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorst. Movie. Pitch. Ever.
- "Okay, here's the pitch for the movie. So, there's this billionaire, Big T. He wants to become President."- "Okay..."
- "Big T is a big-time real-estate investor who plays fast and loose with other people's money, who lies, who fucks models and Playboy-bunnies..."
- "Okay?"
- "And he's doing business with russian oligarchs. Russian Oligarchs. Now. During the election-season, russian internet trolls drum up smear-campaigns against his opponent and russian hackers publish embarrassing documents stolen from his opponent."
- "Wait. Manipulating a presidential election? What about the FBI and stuff?"
- "Oh, they have proof that those trolls and hackers not only work for russian business-friends of Big T but actually for the russian government itself! And the Senate Majority Leader threatens the President to keep all of this under wraps."
- "What?"
- "Anyways. He wins the election, becomes President and after the election investigators start rolling up the conspiracy. It's the President vs the Department of Justice."
- "Ohhhh! Now that part sounds good. Political drama. Corruption. Whistleblowers. High-stakes. Very nice."
- "So, the investigation into the President is heating up. The investigators get closer and closer and the President starts to lose his shit and lash out in public."
- "Yes..."
- "And then it surfaces that he fucked a pornstar while his third wife was pregnant with his fifth child."
- "... wait ..."
- "And now the pornstar sues the President's lawyer because she wants to be freed from the NDA and start talking about the affair..."
- "Hold on..."
- "And investigators find evidence that the President's lawyer committed several crimes and the FBI raids his house and offices."
- "What..."
- "And as the President's lawyer is on trial, it turns out that a big-time TV-personality who railed against this investigation for months and years is secretly also a client of the President's lawyer!"
- "Now you're getting..."
- "And then it turns out that the lawyer's family has been doing business with the russian mob for decades!"
- "GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!"
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)with more violence to follow
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,728 posts)To replace House of Cards. Theres more time to get into the nuances.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)canetoad
(17,164 posts)PatSeg
(47,482 posts)soap opera, where they keep throwing in outrageous and unbelievable scandals to hold the viewer's interest.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Wait... How many times has Kushner amended his security-clearance form?
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)an oversight. These people don't even pretend to be reputable. Everything they do is so in-your-face and blatant. They are really terrible criminals.
I quit watching the show Scandal awhile back, because the story line got so absurd, but not nearly as outrageous as this administration apparently.
Baitball Blogger
(46,720 posts)Whatever they come up with to end that already troubled show will be mmmeh.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Nobody would have thought it plausible unless it actually happened.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)what actor plays "Big T"? And would this be a drama or comedy?
Unfortunately my first pick for drama James Gandolfini, is deceased...Tom Hardy could pull it off imo...
Comedy would have to go to Alec Baldwin.
Great pitch!
tblue37
(65,391 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)and his fourth child. Of course, there is the maid's baby but I don't really know where in the children line up that one falls.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)They gotta use every cliché and platitude possible or theyll lose the true feel of it. No subtleties. Theyd be wasted.
Initech
(100,079 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)We dont see the Big T character with bed head leering at something? How else do you expect to sell this pitch?
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BSdetect
(8,998 posts)habits, lack of exercise, inability to focus on intelligence briefings and so on.
Birtherism.