Lights... Camera... ACTION!!: A Hollywood Quest

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hi Magoose here one of the guys helping Duke.

So we have some bad news.

The quest has been canceled as duke does not want to write it anymore.

I'm going to ask if I can take over for it, because I like this quest, and it would be a shame to kill it
TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands. :)

To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.

I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.

I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.

I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all. :D

I'll see you all around.

With so many regards, Duke William Of.
 
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Movie pitch


Kung fu pnada

Genre:Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Humor,Family
Sub-Genre:Martial art,Wuxia
Format:F
ull-Length animation Movie



In the Valley of Peace, a land in Ancient China inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, a giant panda named Po helps his goose father Mr. Ping run their noodle restaurant, but dreams of fighting alongside the Furious Five – Tigress, Monkey, Crane, Viper and Mantis – a group of kung fu masters who live in the Jade Palace, where they are trained by Master Shifu, a cranky red panda. One day, the wise tortoise, Master Oogway, the founder of kung fu, and the Valley's spiritual leader, predicts that Shifu's former protégé, the snow-leopard Tai Lung, will escape from prison and attack the Valley to obtain the Dragon Scroll, a legendary artifact said to grant limitless power to its reader, which he had previously been denied. Panicked, Shifu sends his goose assistant, Zeng to increase the security at Chorh-Gom Prison, where Tai Lung is held.

Shifu holds a tournament for the Five so that Oogway can identify the Dragon Warrior, the prophesied hero worthy of reading the Scroll, and Po arrives too late to enter the arena. Desperate to see his idols, he accidentally launches himself into the middle of the tournament off a chair propelled by fireworks. With the townsfolk believing Po descended from the sky in a fireball, Oogway proclaims Po the Dragon Warrior, much to Po's and the Masters' shock. Shifu believes Oogway's decision to be an accident, and the Five dismiss him, so Po considers quitting. However, after receiving encouragement from Oogway, he endures a frustrated Shifu's harsh training and gradually befriends the Five with his resilience, culinary skill and good humor. During this time, Tigress informs him that Shifu's distant behavior stems from his shame over Tai Lung's betrayal because of being denied the dragon scroll (as Oogway sensed darkness in his heart), having raised him from infancy.

At Chorh-Gom Prison, Zeng's warnings are ignored; Tai Lung easily escapes and subdues his guards before sending Zeng back. Shifu informs Oogway, who makes Shifu promise to believe in Po as the Dragon Warrior, before hiring Shifu as his successor as the Valley's leader and ascending into the Spirit Realm in a stream of peach blossoms. Shifu informs Po and the Five of Tai Lung's escape and Oogway's passing, and tells Po he is the only one who can stop him. Horrified by the bad news about Oogway's death, Po attempts to run away, but Shifu stops him. When Shifu asks Po why he chose to stay, Po tells him that he hated who he was, and he felt that despite Shifu's harsh treatment, he still believed Shifu could change him. Po then makes Shifu admit that he does not know how to train him to be the Dragon Warrior. Tigress overhears this and leads the Five in a secret attempt to stop Tai Lung.

Meanwhile, Shifu discovers that Po is capable of impressive physical feats when motivated by food, and successfully trains Po by incorporating these feats into an innovative style of Kung Fu. The Furious Five fight Tai Lung, but he ultimately defeats them with his nerve-strike technique, leaving only Crane who carries the rest back to the valley, as a warning. On returning, Shifu decides that Po is ready to receive the Dragon Scroll. When Po opens it, he discovers that the scroll is nothing but a blank reflective surface. Believing the Scroll to have no power, Shifu has Po and the Five evacuate the inhabitants of the Valley while he faces Tai Lung alone to help everyone else escape. Trying to console a distraught Po, Mr. Ping reveals that his "secret ingredient soup" has no secret ingredient at all, explaining that things can become special with belief. Realizing that this is the message of the Dragon Scroll, Po rushes back to help Shifu.

At the Jade Palace, Tai Lung brutally defeats Shifu, but he discovers that the Scroll is missing. Po arrives with the Scroll, saving Shifu's life and prompting them to fight. Po proves to be a formidable opponent, frustrating Tai Lung with his confusing fighting techniques. Tai Lung eventually obtains the Scroll, but does not comprehend its blank surface. Tai Lung tries to take his frustrations out on Po with his nerve-strike technique. However, Tai Lung discovers that Po is immune to this. Po overpowers Tai Lung and sends him to the Spirit Realm using the legendary Wuxi Finger Hold technique, which he taught himself. Po is honored by the Valley, earns the respect of the Five, and relaxes with a recovered Shifu.
Po: Chris Farley(if relased in the 90s) or Robin Williams
Tigress: Carrie Fisher
Monkey: Jackie Chan
Mantis: George Carlin
Viper: Michelle Yeoh
Crane: Donnie Yen or Frank Welker
Shifu: Peter Cullen
Oogway: Toshiro Mifune
Tai Lung: Brian Blessed
Mr. Ping: James Hong
One of the good dreamwork and if he achieves even a quarter of the popularity he had with the Chinese people irl it would be a very good method to mess with the Chinese government and humiliate their "Chinese Hollywood"
Great pitch! I was planning to do one, but I think this works better. in the end, i find nothing wrong with Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2, as they are both amazing movies...it's just that from 3 and the travesty that was the fourth, the series seems to go a bit downhill.

I might try for some pitches that try and change a bit of the story from those movies forward.
 
Great pitch! I was planning to do one, but I think this works better. in the end, i find nothing wrong with Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2, as they are both amazing movies...it's just that from 3 and the travesty that was the fourth, the series seems to go a bit downhill.

I might try for some pitches that try and change a bit of the story from those movies forward.
Po deflecting cannonballs will always be more badass than him turning into a chi dragon, change my mind. :p

Say, have we done any American Tail pitches yet?
 
Movie pitch (potentialy universal movie pitch) The mummy


Movie pitch (potentialy universal movie pitch)


The mummy


GENRE :Horor/Action/adventure

-GENRE : Fantasy/Drame

FORMAT :
Film​
In Thebes, Egypt, 1290 BC, high priest Imhotep has an affair with Anck-su-namun, the mistress and future bride of Pharaoh Seti I. They kill the Pharaoh, after he discovers their relationship. Imhotep flees, while Anck-su-namun kills herself. Believing he can resurrect her, Imhotep and his priests steal her corpse and travel to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead. The resurrection ritual is stopped by Pharaoh's bodyguards, the Medjai. Imhotep's priests are mummified alive, while Imhotep himself is tortured, cursed and buried alive with flesh-eating scarabs at the feet of a statue of the god Anubis. The Medjai are sworn to prevent Imhotep's return.

In 1926 AD Cairo, Jonathan Carnahan presents his sister, Evelyn—a librarian and aspiring Egyptologist working for museum curator Dr. Terence Bey—with an intricate box and map that lead to Hamunaptra. Jonathan reveals he stole the box from an American adventurer, Rick O'Connell, who discovered the city while in the French Foreign Legion three years earlier. Evelyn and Jonathan find Rick in a local prison and make a deal with him to lead them to the city, bribing prison warden Gad Hassan to free him.

Rick guides Evelyn and her party to the city, encountering a band of American treasure hunters led by Rick's cowardly acquaintance Beni Gabor. Despite being warned to leave by Ardeth Bay, leader of the Medjai, the two expeditions continue their excavations. A flesh-eating scarab hatches from a decorative shell embedded in an artifact Warden Hassan is looting and burrows inside his body, killing him. Meanwhile, several diggers working with the Americans are killed by triggering a cloud of pressurized salt acid during the excavation. Evelyn searches for the Book of Amun-Ra, made of pure gold. Instead of finding it, she stumbles upon Imhotep's remains. The team of Americans, meanwhile, discover the black Book of the Dead, accompanied by canopic jars carrying Anck-su-namun's preserved organs.

At night, Evelyn reads from the Book of the Dead aloud, accidentally awakening the mummified Imhotep, who seems to briefly confuse Evelyn with Anck-su-namun. The expeditions flee back to Cairo, and Imhotep follows them with the help of Beni, who has agreed to serve him. He regenerates his full strength and human form by killing the members of the American expedition and brings the Ten Plagues back to Egypt. Meanwhile, Evelyn learns that Terence is also working with the Medjai.

Rick, Evelyn, Jonathan, and Terence meet Ardeth at the museum, who hypothesizes that Imhotep wants to resurrect Anck-su-namun by sacrificing Evelyn. She believes that if the Book of the Dead brought Imhotep back to life, the Book of Amun-Ra can kill him again and deduces the book's whereabouts in Hamunaptra. Imhotep corners the group with an army of slaves. Evelyn agrees to accompany him if he spares the rest of the group. Although Imhotep does not honor his word, Rick and the others fight their way to safety, with Terence sacrificing himself to ensure their escape.

Rick, Jonathan, and Ardeth recruit Captain Winston Havelock, a member of the Royal Air Force with a death wish to fly them back to Hamunaptra in pursuit of Imhotep. However, Imhotep magically conjures a sandstorm, crashing their plane and killing Havelock. Rick, Jonathan, and Ardeth locate the Book of Amun-Ra in Hamunaptra while Imhotep prepares to sacrifice Evelyn, also bringing Anck-su-namun's mummified remains to life as part of the ritual. Rick manages to rescue her after a brutal fight with Imhotep's mummified priests and mummified soldiers; Anck-su-namun's mummy is also slain during the melee. Evelyn reads from the Book of Amun-Ra, making Imhotep mortal, and he is fatally wounded by Rick. Imhotep degenerates back into his mummified form and descends into the pool of souls, vowing revenge.

Beni accidentally sets off a booby trap while looting the city of its riches and is killed by a swarm of flesh-eating scarabs as Hamunaptra collapses into the sand. Ardeth bids Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan goodbye, and the trio rides away on a pair of camels, not realizing it is laden with Beni's stolen treasure.
A brilliant action film with very good special effects and imagery of a fantasized Egypt straight out of an epic adventure dream.
Maybe something we could do between two indiana jone ?
 
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Not a fan of trying to take The Mummy when it would be draining a significant film of the Universal Catalogue and specifically one tied to the Universal Monsterverse. Universal is already getting fucked, no need to bury them like that, I think.
 
Not a fan of trying to take The Mummy when it would be draining a significant film of the Universal Catalogue and specifically one tied to the Universal Monsterverse. Universal is already getting fucked, no need to bury them like that, I think.
That's fair,it's more fun if we keep the competition alive and it would indeed be not very nice with them
 
How the omake for the biggest American produced movie ever is going:

The other film heads: I WANT IT TO BE UNDER THIS NAME!

Bruce: how the hell did you all become heads of your own film studios?
 


Movie pitch (potentialy universal movie pitch)


The mummy


GENRE :Horor/Action/adventure

-GENRE : Fantasy/Drame

FORMAT :
Film​
In Thebes, Egypt, 1290 BC, high priest Imhotep has an affair with Anck-su-namun, the mistress and future bride of Pharaoh Seti I. They kill the Pharaoh, after he discovers their relationship. Imhotep flees, while Anck-su-namun kills herself. Believing he can resurrect her, Imhotep and his priests steal her corpse and travel to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead. The resurrection ritual is stopped by Pharaoh's bodyguards, the Medjai. Imhotep's priests are mummified alive, while Imhotep himself is tortured, cursed and buried alive with flesh-eating scarabs at the feet of a statue of the god Anubis. The Medjai are sworn to prevent Imhotep's return.

In 1926 AD Cairo, Jonathan Carnahan presents his sister, Evelyn—a librarian and aspiring Egyptologist working for museum curator Dr. Terence Bey—with an intricate box and map that lead to Hamunaptra. Jonathan reveals he stole the box from an American adventurer, Rick O'Connell, who discovered the city while in the French Foreign Legion three years earlier. Evelyn and Jonathan find Rick in a local prison and make a deal with him to lead them to the city, bribing prison warden Gad Hassan to free him.

Rick guides Evelyn and her party to the city, encountering a band of American treasure hunters led by Rick's cowardly acquaintance Beni Gabor. Despite being warned to leave by Ardeth Bay, leader of the Medjai, the two expeditions continue their excavations. A flesh-eating scarab hatches from a decorative shell embedded in an artifact Warden Hassan is looting and burrows inside his body, killing him. Meanwhile, several diggers working with the Americans are killed by triggering a cloud of pressurized salt acid during the excavation. Evelyn searches for the Book of Amun-Ra, made of pure gold. Instead of finding it, she stumbles upon Imhotep's remains. The team of Americans, meanwhile, discover the black Book of the Dead, accompanied by canopic jars carrying Anck-su-namun's preserved organs.

At night, Evelyn reads from the Book of the Dead aloud, accidentally awakening the mummified Imhotep, who seems to briefly confuse Evelyn with Anck-su-namun. The expeditions flee back to Cairo, and Imhotep follows them with the help of Beni, who has agreed to serve him. He regenerates his full strength and human form by killing the members of the American expedition and brings the Ten Plagues back to Egypt. Meanwhile, Evelyn learns that Terence is also working with the Medjai.

Rick, Evelyn, Jonathan, and Terence meet Ardeth at the museum, who hypothesizes that Imhotep wants to resurrect Anck-su-namun by sacrificing Evelyn. She believes that if the Book of the Dead brought Imhotep back to life, the Book of Amun-Ra can kill him again and deduces the book's whereabouts in Hamunaptra. Imhotep corners the group with an army of slaves. Evelyn agrees to accompany him if he spares the rest of the group. Although Imhotep does not honor his word, Rick and the others fight their way to safety, with Terence sacrificing himself to ensure their escape.

Rick, Jonathan, and Ardeth recruit Captain Winston Havelock, a member of the Royal Air Force with a death wish to fly them back to Hamunaptra in pursuit of Imhotep. However, Imhotep magically conjures a sandstorm, crashing their plane and killing Havelock. Rick, Jonathan, and Ardeth locate the Book of Amun-Ra in Hamunaptra while Imhotep prepares to sacrifice Evelyn, also bringing Anck-su-namun's mummified remains to life as part of the ritual. Rick manages to rescue her after a brutal fight with Imhotep's mummified priests and mummified soldiers; Anck-su-namun's mummy is also slain during the melee. Evelyn reads from the Book of Amun-Ra, making Imhotep mortal, and he is fatally wounded by Rick. Imhotep degenerates back into his mummified form and descends into the pool of souls, vowing revenge.

Beni accidentally sets off a booby trap while looting the city of its riches and is killed by a swarm of flesh-eating scarabs as Hamunaptra collapses into the sand. Ardeth bids Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan goodbye, and the trio rides away on a pair of camels, not realizing it is laden with Beni's stolen treasure.
A brilliant action film with very good special effects and imagery of a fantasized Egypt straight out of an epic adventure dream.
Maybe something we could do between two indiana jone ?
If we do this film I think we should try it during the beginning of the 90s, especially since this decade seems like it will belong to Indiana Jones.

I still hope to do the Prince of Persia trilogy this decade as well.

Anyways, can we do this? I mean, from what I understand, the Mummy is something that is under the domain of Universal. Heck, even Hammer Films needed permission from Universal in order to make their Mummy films.

Do you mind if I suggest some actors later on? I'm writing something else at the moment.
 
Do you mind if I suggest some actors later on? I'm writing something else at the moment.
Anyone IS free to sugest a casting for any or m'y pitchs,i know almost nothing about actors so it couldn't bé worse than what i would do,thought i may not notice it thé first Time dont hésitate to ping me again if i don't answer.
 
When Star Wars shut down the movie industry... twice. Atleast the execs of the other companies could rest easy knowing that after the third movie things will die down as Star Wars is just lightning in a bottle. But after Indiana Jones, I think they will realise that LucasFilm can replicate the magic from Star Wars in other trilogies which are completely seperate from Star Wars and shut them down at a moments notice. This might be highly alarming for them.

It definitely will be very alarming for Hollywood that Lucasfilms has another billion dollar trilogy so everyone has to be real strategic and either try to avoid the summer and somehow get more people to go to the movies in the spring or fall, or somehow get Lucasfilms to release Indy and Star Wars in late summer so it doesn't interfere with their movies.

You wanna know another amazing thing? Next summer will see the release of ET, a movie that was the highest grossing movie for a decade OTL and made $700 million. Who knows how it will be here.

Might it be called the Indiana Jones effect instead of the CSI effect?

Probably will still be the CSI effect, cause it's one thing for a whole lot of people to take archeology courses because of it, it's another with CSI where it's severely affected the modern judicial process for the worse.


AWWWW!!!! This was another super adorable story and it's nice and sweet to see Sarah bond with her kitten. That being said, I'm unsure how Carrie came to know of an Australian snack and like it enough that it's what she accidentally named Lamington. Well, definitely more creative than Bruce and Ginger, lol.

Will Mary and Joseph have their own kittens soon? I do like the overall vibes of the O'Brian family, how Mary is the good big sister and Joseph is just happy doing his own thing and the twins have their own personality quirks.

What's the story of the Eddie cat, the kittens presumed father? Is it like a cat of the neighbors who comes to visit every now and again? Well at least Ginger has a good supply of mice, lol.

Poor Carrie and Debbie, being reminded of Eddie by Mary who didn't understand the gravity of her words and was just being herself. They'll probably definitely want to have a talk with her soon.

Looking forward to more kitten adventures, might write some myself.
 

From the perspective of competitors looking out for Lucasfim sequals i would be concered as Star Wars is about to deliver a third installment while Dune is in production for the first of how many?

As potentials Lord of the rings is being bandied about and there are both the Conan and Solomon Kane IP's sitting in the wings as both HEMA and Sword and Sorcery seem to be increasing in popularity. Meanwhile In TV land Gundam is about to get a sequal.

I fully expect other studios to look half in fear and half in awe at Colombia's gamble on a series of loosely connected movies and be envous that they have Bruce as a locked in director actor and consultant.



Sarah's Kitten -
Thanks Glad you enjoyed it.

RL we had a kitten with the same characteristics. A short black coat with flecks of long white fur mixed so it looks a lot like a lamington.For those who don't know, a lamington is a sponge cake coated in chocolate sauce and then rolled in dried coconut, making a black cake with white flecks. Our Lamington was a sweetie who liked to snuggle while you read or watch TV.



Sarah, with her stated liking of reading and propensity to sit still for some time, made her the safest child to introduce to a kitten first. Mary is a bit too energetic for a newborn kitten and in a way already has Ginger and Natalie. Joseph, I tentatively headcannon as a bit more physically active than Sarah; being slower to talk I expect him to have less he feels he needs to say but be more insightful. I expect he will follow his father into martial arts, athletics, and possibly into acting.

I intended to write a short chapter about him getting an Orange and black striped kitten he or someone with an appropriate Japanese history (lots of options but considering adoption options, perhaps Mark Hamill) ends up calling Tora.

Rupert Murdoch would be a good culprit for introducing the meal to the family, particularly during the collaboration for the "Greatest Film Ever" as he is from Australia.

Another cat story we need to see is about the next generation of scarily intelligent special forces animals. As demonstrated multiple times in the quest, Ginger and Natalie can take down a man. An adorable scene could be Ginger borrowing a teddy bear from the basement that no one likes (perhaps Eddie dropped it off at one point), and it gets set up for attack practice for kittens?



My somewhat nebulous idea for Eddie Cats' backstory is that he is another Scottish fold with not-very-amazing genetics. His owner is a PETA supporter for social clout and was hoping to get Ginger from Bruce and breed kittens. Plan A failed. Plan B is to get Ginger pregnant (success) and then be a neighbour who can have the kittens dumped on. Plan C involves catching and Cat napping the kittens. Backstory details include her renting a home in the Hollywood hills for appearance. An in with the vet, a kitten mill somewhere. All funded by certain rich people who like the idea of owning a cat that was stolen, or parents stolen from Bruce as a trophy and proof that they can beat him, that he is not better than them and only Little people pay Taxes and for all his wealth Bruce is still a little people that can be stolen from by the true elites.
 
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Hey guys, would a Dial H For Hero pitch work?

It's a DC Property that is basically Ben 10 but... superheroes.
 
Movie pitch Home alone

Movie pitch


Home alone


GENRE: Family/comedy

SUBGENRE: Christmas movie

FORMAT: Movie

The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Kate and Peter's home in a Chicago suburb on the night before their departure. Kate and Peter's youngest son, Kevin, is ridiculed by his siblings and cousins due to his immaturity. Kevin inadvertently ruins the family dinner after a scuffle with his oldest brother Buzz, in which Kevin's airplane ticket is unknowingly thrown away, resulting in Kate sending him up to the attic. Kevin berates his mother for allowing the rest of the family to pick on him and wishes that his family would disappear. During the night, heavy winds create a power outage, disabling the alarm clocks and causing the family to oversleep. In the confusion and rush to get to the airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind.

Kevin wakes to find the house empty and the family cars still in the garage, unaware that they had rented vans to take them to the airport. Thinking that his wish has come true, he is overjoyed with his newfound freedom. Later, Kevin becomes frightened by his next-door neighbor, "Old Man" Marley, rumored to be a serial killer who murdered his own family. The McCallister home is soon stalked by the "Wet Bandits", Harry and Marv, a pair of burglars who have been breaking into other vacant houses in the neighborhood. Kevin tricks them into thinking that his family is still home, forcing them to postpone their plans to rob the McCallister house.

Kate realizes mid-flight that Kevin was left behind, and upon arrival in Paris, the family discovers that all flights for the next two days are booked, and that the phone lines are still down back home in Chicago. Peter and the rest of the family stay in his brother's apartment in Paris, while Kate manages to get a flight back to Scranton, Pennsylvania. She fails to find a flight to Chicago, but meets Gus Polinski, the lead member of a traveling polka band, who offers to let her travel with them to Chicago in a moving van.

On Christmas Eve, Harry and Marv finally realize that only Kevin is in the McCallister home, and Kevin overhears them discussing plans to break into the house that night. Kevin starts to miss his family and asks the local Santa Claus impersonator if he could bring them back for Christmas. He goes to church and watches a choir perform, eventually re-encountering Marley, who proves the rumors about him are false. Marley points out his granddaughter in the choir and mentions he has never met her since she is the daughter of his estranged son. Kevin suggests Marley should reconcile with his son.

Kevin returns home and rigs the house with booby traps. Harry and Marv break in, spring the traps, and suffer various injuries. Kevin calls the police and lures the duo into a vacant neighboring house that they had previously broken into. Harry and Marv ambush Kevin and prepare to get their revenge, but Marley intervenes and knocks them out with his snow shovel. The police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv, having identified all the houses that they broke into due to their habit of flooding them.

On Christmas Day, Kevin is initially disappointed to find that his family is still gone, but Kate arrives home, and they reconcile. The rest of the family then returns after waiting in Paris for a direct flight to Chicago. Kevin keeps silent about his encounter with Harry and Marv, although Peter finds Harry's knocked-out gold tooth. Kevin then happily watches Marley reuniting with his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. Buzz then confronts Kevin from a distance for trashing his bedroom.
A easy to make and cheap film but which brings in a lot of money, Mike will be happy.
I was surprised to learn that there are six films in this franchise, also by god this poster
 


Movie pitch



Home alone


GENRE: Family/comedy

SUBGENRE: Christmas movie

FORMAT: Movie

The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Kate and Peter's home in a Chicago suburb on the night before their departure. Kate and Peter's youngest son, Kevin, is ridiculed by his siblings and cousins due to his immaturity. Kevin inadvertently ruins the family dinner after a scuffle with his oldest brother Buzz, in which Kevin's airplane ticket is unknowingly thrown away, resulting in Kate sending him up to the attic. Kevin berates his mother for allowing the rest of the family to pick on him and wishes that his family would disappear. During the night, heavy winds create a power outage, disabling the alarm clocks and causing the family to oversleep. In the confusion and rush to get to the airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind.

Kevin wakes to find the house empty and the family cars still in the garage, unaware that they had rented vans to take them to the airport. Thinking that his wish has come true, he is overjoyed with his newfound freedom. Later, Kevin becomes frightened by his next-door neighbor, "Old Man" Marley, rumored to be a serial killer who murdered his own family. The McCallister home is soon stalked by the "Wet Bandits", Harry and Marv, a pair of burglars who have been breaking into other vacant houses in the neighborhood. Kevin tricks them into thinking that his family is still home, forcing them to postpone their plans to rob the McCallister house.

Kate realizes mid-flight that Kevin was left behind, and upon arrival in Paris, the family discovers that all flights for the next two days are booked, and that the phone lines are still down back home in Chicago. Peter and the rest of the family stay in his brother's apartment in Paris, while Kate manages to get a flight back to Scranton, Pennsylvania. She fails to find a flight to Chicago, but meets Gus Polinski, the lead member of a traveling polka band, who offers to let her travel with them to Chicago in a moving van.

On Christmas Eve, Harry and Marv finally realize that only Kevin is in the McCallister home, and Kevin overhears them discussing plans to break into the house that night. Kevin starts to miss his family and asks the local Santa Claus impersonator if he could bring them back for Christmas. He goes to church and watches a choir perform, eventually re-encountering Marley, who proves the rumors about him are false. Marley points out his granddaughter in the choir and mentions he has never met her since she is the daughter of his estranged son. Kevin suggests Marley should reconcile with his son.

Kevin returns home and rigs the house with booby traps. Harry and Marv break in, spring the traps, and suffer various injuries. Kevin calls the police and lures the duo into a vacant neighboring house that they had previously broken into. Harry and Marv ambush Kevin and prepare to get their revenge, but Marley intervenes and knocks them out with his snow shovel. The police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv, having identified all the houses that they broke into due to their habit of flooding them.

On Christmas Day, Kevin is initially disappointed to find that his family is still gone, but Kate arrives home, and they reconcile. The rest of the family then returns after waiting in Paris for a direct flight to Chicago. Kevin keeps silent about his encounter with Harry and Marv, although Peter finds Harry's knocked-out gold tooth. Kevin then happily watches Marley reuniting with his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. Buzz then confronts Kevin from a distance for trashing his bedroom.
A easy to make and cheap film but which brings in a lot of money, Mike will be happy.
I was surprised to learn that there are six films in this franchise, also by god this poster
I remember this Movie, My God it is nostalgic remembering the many times I used to watch this Film as a kid with my siblings, Good times.
 
Hey guys, would a Dial H For Hero pitch work?

It's a DC Property that is basically Ben 10 but... superheroes.

Like, I was thinking it'd be the basic plot of the original comic run.

Young teenager Robby Reed is a genius who finds himself falling into a cavern due to the actions of a villain/villain group (in the comic it was the Thunderbolt Gang, but that can be changed). There, he finds a strange alien device that has a dial on it... that he decides to take with him.

He leaves the cavern and spends the next several hours deciphering the language of the dial (or maybe days/weeks for a bit more realism? Or we could go and full send it and have it be a years long deciphering process turning him from young teenager to young man?), and discovers that this dial can turn him into Heroes.
There's a litany of various heroes he could turn into... I'd personally prefer going with the classic options from the original run, but we could make some original ones or use ones from later on.

Classic ones would be stuff like... The Cometeer, Giant Boy, Mole Man, The Squid, and The Human Starfish.

Uh, here's an image of the general concept.


Oh yeah, Robby also has the catchphrase Sockamagee! If anyone was interested... not the greatest catchphrase. But it's at least kind of funny in how bad it is.
 
Like, I was thinking it'd be the basic plot of the original comic run.

Young teenager Robby Reed is a genius who finds himself falling into a cavern due to the actions of a villain/villain group (in the comic it was the Thunderbolt Gang, but that can be changed). There, he finds a strange alien device that has a dial on it... that he decides to take with him.

He leaves the cavern and spends the next several hours deciphering the language of the dial (or maybe days/weeks for a bit more realism? Or we could go and full send it and have it be a years long deciphering process turning him from young teenager to young man?), and discovers that this dial can turn him into Heroes.
There's a litany of various heroes he could turn into... I'd personally prefer going with the classic options from the original run, but we could make some original ones or use ones from later on.

Classic ones would be stuff like... The Cometeer, Giant Boy, Mole Man, The Squid, and The Human Starfish.

Uh, here's an image of the general concept.


Oh yeah, Robby also has the catchphrase Sockamagee! If anyone was interested... not the greatest catchphrase. But it's at least kind of funny in how bad it is.
So like I said, because Dial H has already been a DC property for ages(since the 60s if memory serves), then unless you make the pitch specifically as a Columbia pitch(the studio that currently owns DC in-quest), then no, making specifically Dial H for Hero for Lucasfilm would not work. It would have to be made sufficiently different from Dial H, and at that point you might as well just do a Ben 10 pitch(I think I actually have one buried somewhere as a "Jen 10" pitch that I had been working on months back, but that's neither here nor there).
 
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So like I said, because Dial H has already been a DC property for ages(since the 60s if memory serves), then unless you make the pitch specifically as a Columbia pitch(the studio that currently owns DC in-quest), then no, making specifically Dial H for Hero for Lucasfilm would not work. It would have to be made sufficiently different from Dial H, and at that point you might as well just do a Ben 10(I think I actually have one buried somewhere, but that's neither here nor there) pitch.

Yeah sorry, posted that without seeing your message. Didn't want to double post in order to reply.

Really have to catch up to this quest, only brought it up now because I didn't want to forget to bring it up later on, kek.
 
Yeah sorry, posted that without seeing your message. Didn't want to double post in order to reply.

Really have to catch up to this quest, only brought it up now because I didn't want to forget to bring it up later on, kek.
No worries, it's all good. I hope you enjoy reading through the quest, we've all had a lot of fun and it's always nice for new people to jump in.
 
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