Welcome to A Little Unscripted, the show where
we pull a random title, spin a random genre,
and then try to create a film that honestly shouldn't
work, and is impossible, and is way too expensive,
and no one's asking for, but that's the fun,
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make this thing. Good day. I'm Ryan, and I'm
Logan, and no matter what. We are going to make
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torpedoes and high water. We are doing it. It
is happening and full disclosure to everybody
listening. And thank you for doing so. If you
rated the show, thank you for doing that as well.
We were geeking out over our last movie. Yes,
yes. Kind of fun. It's been a while, so I haven't
thought about it, and that's kind of the beauty,
I think, is I forget about it immediately upon
leaving the studio. I don't know about you. Went
right back into the feeling of this film, though.
Yes. I'm really sorry if we've inspired a serial
killer. Please, I hope not. With a really great
idea. The chances of doing this though, like
you must be the best meteorologist in the world
and they I want their job I want to be wrong
50 % of the time and have that kind of job security
That's all I'm saying doesn't Nicolas Cage play
a weatherman in a movie called the weatherman.
Does he kill somebody? No, I think it's a family
film. I want him to kill somebody. I bet he wanted
to. Instead of going postal is like, you know,
the meteorologist going crazy. I don't know.
What we need to remind everybody is that if you're
going to pull off a serial killing such as this,
you have to be fucking handsome as shit. Yeah,
I think that's one of the keys. Because Boyd
Holbrook just smoothly incorporates into this
thing. So, Logan, as we do... Maybe we could
be accused of not being critical enough of ourselves
Maybe we maybe this is our this is our blind
spot is our own personal bias against our own
films Which maybe it's hard to kill your darlings.
I'm sorry George Martin. I'm sorry. I want to
I agree with you But looking at my darlings is
really tough. Do you wish you could change the
title? Maybe. I don't know. That's the last tornado
in Florida. Maybe just a little bit. It feels
like it does kind of feel like a working title,
but we'll make it. We updated our list and we
asked for crazier shit. It delivered quite thoroughly.
The last tornado in Florida. I'm really stoked
about the tagline. Yes. About the visual. Yes.
You know, hijinks because posters do that. And
I've become well more aware of posters lately.
I think posters are Truly vital part of movies
that I feel like somehow got lost along the way
and now we're either minimalist or it's Matt
Damon's face Back ponytail But I wanted only
the back half of his face his head so like from
the ear forward I don't want to see his full
face just like a profile but somehow we'll all
know we'll all know it's Matt Damon Damon Classic,
classic. Jimmy Kimmel wouldn't tell us. Are you
saying that he would? Are you saying that he
is is the most marketable face? I don't know
where we've landed. I don't know if he has the
most marketable face. I just think that they
realize it's like what if we put like. the tagline
over Matt Damon's face. That'll sell the movie.
That's the Martian. Yeah, sure. Works. There's
kind of a lot of movies. My favorite movie. I'm
not saying they're bad movies or I'm not disparaging
Matt Damon. I'm just saying that like Hollywood
has fallen into this trope of like, well, Matt
Damon can do it. We can all do this. You know
what I'm saying? Did we? Our last movie was a
slasher. Yes. And we. Horror specifically. We
made it into a slasher. But it was just a horror
movie. Did you enjoy the fact that there were
hijinks that could be? Yeah, it's so disrespectful.
Yeah, but in the everybody is so bereaved. So
this is maybe the worst serial killer of all
time. Taking advantage of the bereaved people
are lose. They've lost everything. Come this
way, madam. And stuff you in a lock box. You
know, what's sad is like because what's scary
and what's funny is like a fine line. I feel
like you can find this is why people who direct
horror movies, direct comedy movies, they do
so well. It's like that line is so, so razor
thin that like I end up going to some of these
horror movies and I laugh, not because it's funny,
but because it's like the sheer absurdity of
the situation. It's all you can do is laugh at
this. You have to expel some kind of sound. Yes.
And I think that this movie has plenty of those
scenarios and Boyd Holbrook killing. I want to
say, was it Elijah Wood? Was he our first police
officer that pulls him over to start this movie?
The sad early death. I love it because I think
Elijah would be on board as a horror fan. We
should add one scene in post credits or something
where Boyd is like wearing Elijah Wood's face
on his face and he's like, I'm a hobbit. You
know, there could be hobbit jokes aplenty. But
he's probably got an agreement. Do you want to
see a post credits blooper reel after this horror
movie? Because if there's a caveat to it, this
is my one caveat. Now I want to see a post credits
blooper reel to this horror movie. Does that
ruin a horror movie? Does that take all the stank
out of it? Unless it's a horror comedy. I don't
know. Do you want to see behind the curtain?
Or do you want to keep holding on to that? You're
bringing up a good point, and you got me on this
tightrope where I'm not sure if I want to jump
left or right on this. To bail you out of this,
we both have so much respect. for actors in horror
movies because it's so hard to show everything
like Shakespeare is a line that I think you should
really take to heart as Hollywood and like an
actor or anybody who wants to do something creative
like that. Yeah, because a horror movie is only
as good as this actor. And if the actor or actress
is not buying into this absurd reality, right,
then it falls flat every time because you know
that the actor is like, well, they're not buying
it. I know is a dumb, goofy horror movie, but
that's why I'm here. Like look at Sam Jackson
and like snakes on a plane and like, we want
to get rid of you saying the line. He's like,
I'm, I'm going to tell you guys, everybody's
here for me to say this line, not because it's
a great horror movie, but because they want me
to say this line. Acting scared convincingly,
I think is a hard thing to do. And arguably in
a lot of these movies, they have to emote all
of the emotions, even comedy. So to do this and
be scared convincingly and scream and cry and
do all that stuff is just. I feel like it's it's
a wholesale situation to see a blooper. Maybe
some in some way is is respecting the process
of how you get here and they break. Yeah, it's
just you know, like after Jack Nicholson in The
Shining was like, go check it out. Check it out.
You know, he had to decompress and then take
a dump or something. You know what I mean? So
maybe that's more respect. But I don't know.
I don't I don't shy away from. I don't know your
whole. I think you're correct. we hold off on
the bloopers the bloopers are like in somewhere
in the menus you find it and on the DVD blu -ray
release but they scratch an itch yeah sure do
they sure blooper they are like us look they
make mistakes at their jobs yeah nobody's perfect
Nobody's perfect. Well, speaking of nobody being
perfect, we two humble friends here are here
to make movies. And as a reminder to the listeners,
there's a way to get a hold of us. I'm just going
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to hear from you. And these are the rules of
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versus Wade. We'll figure out what Wade means
later. Wade with an E. We are given an original
movie title, what we hope is an original movie
title. So far, kind of 85 percent. I think so.
Nobody's complaining. Nobody's got us yet. Please
come at us to complain if you if you complain,
just just be nice about the complaint. It's paired
with a genre. And those are real genres. But
pick that random and 60 minutes. We must and
get to make a movie verbally. I mean, we set
it up. We tell whoever wants to listen to this
if they want to like they have the tools practically.
We can't we we can in an hour. It's just not
doable. Contracts alone movie alone in an hour
negotiating with I don't think yeah We couldn't
get a production company make one full movie
one hour. There's no way Insurance alone would
be an insane we'd be in getting did you pay for
catering for one hour? How would we do it? Everybody
rolls up. We all have everybody in one driveway
and just like all right now what Thomas? And
in that 60 minutes we must complete a plot in
this movie of this movie to conclusion This movie
must include a character. Somebody. At least
one. We lean to a lot. We definitely like the
ensembles. We've learned. We assign a director
to this glorious mess. Please don't drop out
directors that we've assigned. Yeah, we need
you. We need you. You're needed. And in order
to get butts in the seats, this movie must have
a tagline. Yes, the tagline is what's drawing
everybody in. It's not it's not the terrible
like, hey, we just got done filming the weeklies
and we're going to actually make a trailer today
for a movie that comes out in like two weeks
because we're still cutting it together. Yeah.
Instead, we're going to hit him with a tagline
and a movie poster. And I don't know, maybe give
people six months to think about a movie that's
coming out. And maybe I want to go see that one
rather than be like, it comes out tomorrow. Logan
keeps us honest because you remember sometimes
I forget and I'm always reminded buddy the taglines
is the most fun part the most fun hell is on
the way There's not one major award. We probably
shouldn't win for that last. You know, if I could
if if we can honestly like pitch something to
major studio execs, I would like to see the Academy
Award have a movie poster and tagline, you know.
Oh, oh, I think that that would be really fun
leaning towards it because that'd be really slightly
off topic. They are starting to reward stunt
performers. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Can we
can they do some post -homelessly ones? Because
there's some stunt performers from like the last
100 years who really need some awards. I bet.
Because let's talk about shoulders of giants.
This is true. And without who I mean, the actors
are always very effusive and always very thankful
of those people. But it's really cool. It's niche.
I get it. Only you and I and a few people. But
like to get recognized for your work on a movie
where like, hey, I was in that movie. It's like,
oh, yeah. Where were you? It's like they cut
my face out. But I was the guy who took a tumble
off a four story building. Yeah. Yeah. It's like,
hey, you know that guy who got hit in the face
with a motorcycle on the first Mad Max movie
who didn't get paid because he wasn't really
a stunt guy and it wasn't supposed to happen.
That dude deserves an award. OK. The coma was
worth it. Worth it. That's me. My grandkids.
We have a list of 100 movie titles and we generate
a random number. One and a hundred is our movie
titles. One and fifty five are our genre. So
I'm going to spin the magic wheel. Let's please
hear it. OK, our one hundred sixteen and our
genre is thirty three. All right. So I have the
genres correct and I have the title. All right.
You said thirty three for me. Yes. And I have
sixteen. OK, we are. Okay, let's hear it. Somebody
buried Larry. Somebody buried Larry. Okay. What
a good name. Somebody buried Larry. Oh, it rhymes.
It does. It sells itself. It does sell itself.
Somebody buried Larry is a post -apocalyptic
film. According to the sheet here that I have
received from the world. So, you know. Do with
that as you will, ladies and gentlemen, believe
somebody buried Larry. Golly. Well, I was hoping
it would be I was hoping it would be this to
be what you're hoping for. Well, the post -apocalyptic
somebody buried Larry. I love post -apocalyptic
movies. There are so many. There are so many
routes you could take. I feel like we've kind
of already ended up with one only because of
dystopian. I mean. We've been floating on this
edge a while. It's about time we took the dive.
What do you think? Yeah. And we need to go all
in then. Yes, 100%. I see what you're saying.
You're keeping us legit and real. All right.
And on that note, I'm going to start the timer.
And we're going to make a real, original, unique.
post -apocalyptic film, one you've never seen
or heard before. Who's Larry? Who cares? I don't
know. Larry could be somebody buried him a metaphor
for the bomb that they're looking for. Oh, like
Godzilla is the metaphor for the nuclear bomb
in Japan. Like, I'm down. That's deep. That's
deep. But what are your favorite? post -apocalyptic
movies, or books, or comics. Do you want one
that hits the hardest? I don't know if it's my
favorite, but it definitely hit the hardest.
Let's say it at the same time after three. One,
two, three. The Road. What the shit? Do we just
become best friends? We did. Do you want to do
Karate on the Ground? I think we have to. We're
in love now. We might have to end this podcast
here. That was serendipity. That is very unscripted.
Because The Road hits too hard. Cormac McCarthy
if you listen to this some way some shape some
form which I very much doubt I just happen I
don't believe you would listen to this I don't
know how you would but like the road as a book
I read first as a teenager and let me tell you
that hurt That book hurt me hurt me a lot and
then I read it again in college and I was like
this isn't any better this this hurts and Having
seen the movie at least a couple of times like
Viggo Mortensen. I'm sorry you Who hurt you?
Because you're so pure. Okay, it's so great that
I'm like read that read that book and then do
that character I don't know what you would do.
I don't know what else you could do. I didn't
know you'd read it Oh, yeah I read the book well
before I saw the movie because of Viggo Mortensen
was just a great actor and I was like and this
dude is great I want to see this movie this movie
looks the way the the trailer is cut Yeah, does
not sell the movie that you actually see I agree
And I think that that was a fault on the trailer
because I think the movie deserves more praise
for what it is. This is a you watch once and
you're kind of done. I don't need to see the
road ever again. That's one of those books that
you read and you're like, they can't make this.
The fact that they did. You know, I mean, it's
almost nonsense that they did make that into
a full movie. And you could anybody anybody.
We're doing it here on the show. We're flushing
out ideas, what have you. But for some reason,
that read, I think it's for how real it is. I
think it's for how real it feels like no character
feels out of place what you don't know. because
you're left still with a lot of questions. Yes.
Cormac McCarthy gives you absolutely zero answers.
But I think what he does is holds up a beautiful
mirror that says this is what humanity is capable
and possible of. Yeah. And you just have to accept
the good, the bad and the ugly, unfortunately.
And there is a lot of the ugly in there. We talked
about it last episode because of our writer director.
Cuisine Dale Apocalypse opens up brilliantly
with however you think the world ended. You're
probably right. Yeah. So what that you know,
narratively it's it's super fun but what kind
of gets you going as far as a is it more of how
the world ended or where because yeah, you like
I I play in a band and I named an album the apocalypse
and retrospect because I was obsessed with the
idea of like that first newscast that was like
we've rebuilt now we're gonna go That was wild.
Let's not do that one. And eventually it would
happen. Right. Somebody would have to go. It
goes wrong again. Where it went wrong. But on
a huge scale, meaning a world ending catastrophe.
I like the idea. It feels very much like the
postman. But if it's like somebody's trying to
cover the apocalypse in the wake of rebuilding,
it's very simple. It's kind of like the idea
of World War Z. Have you read that? Yes. Yes,
I have. That's kind of the idea of this is that
it's being done posthumously. OK. And they're
trying to piece it all together. They're trying
to figure out who buried Larry. But the and maybe
Larry is like, like symbolic of a news award.
You can win. What if Larry was like, but like
he was he very much like bear with me here. Post
-apocalypse, like would you consider idiocracy
a post -apocalypse? That's fascinating. That's
very fascinating. I feel like the people living
in it at the time they don't know that it was
apocalypse But like well when when intellectually,
right? Yes, like when Luke Wilson's character
I forget his name I forget well like he gives
the robot not sure not sure when not sure arrives
when he gets there and he's not sure and Like
to him. This is the post apocalypse like the
world ended like to him. This is not the world
that he left Well, there is an apocalyptic event
in the movie. This is how nerdy are we but here
we go is the garbage landslide. That's what's
named in its name, the great garbage landslide.
So the problem was that they couldn't. That was
the precipice of where they had to be faced with
dealing with their own filth coming back at them.
OK, like the ocean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really
like a soda can. It's like something simple.
They've just been piling it. It's like Claudia
with a chance of meatballs. They were just hooking
it over a fence. I'm sorry, was Mike Judge wrong?
No, the prophet post apocalyptic. To get granular,
it means the apocalypse has happened. And this
is some sort of wake up. Right. We have been
dystopian. Mm hmm. But we've still been civilized.
Is this the move where we go crazy, bananas,
Mad Max, everybody's kind of out for themselves?
Have you seen a movie? I'm going to get this
wrong. Look it up, give us the internet device.
It's a Starz Guard. There's a few Starz Guards.
It's called Hide or Hidden. I have not heard
of it. And it's one of the most unique post -apocalyptic
movies I've ever seen. It's all It's all predicated
on this one Kind of twist The idea is he and
his wife and their daughter are in a bunker Hidden
2015 okay, and there are some crazy threat outside
now. That's the only that's the whole plot of
the movie But there is a wonder. It's really
wonderful. It's super tense I like stuff like
that, but I also like, Waterworld's one of the
best ever, here he is right here, a more expansive
thing, but the idea of somebody trying to cover
it and re -report on what went wrong in the wake
of it potentially going wrong again might be
fun, or do we just do something mad max and just
fucking insane? I like the idea of insanity.
I love just going off the deep end on this, especially
post -apocalypse. I love the idea of it just
being like our main character, whoever they are,
male or female, is just Larry. That's who they
are. Somebody buried Larry. Oh, so we hit the
nose and we're saying Larry is our main character.
What a great main character. What is just a typical
standard? This is a name. This is a name place.
Like this is a placeholder name. And when we
get a better name, we'll pick it. But then by
the time you think about it, you're like, I'm
stuck with Larry now. Our main character be female
and Larry also be a nickname. I think so. Or
is there a derivative of a female name that goes
down to? Well, I mean, like Larry, I was going
to say, like Larry is definitely Lawrence is
like the but Florence is Flaherty. No, it'd be
like Flurry or Fleur or something like that.
Thank you for. Bouncing your idea with me. God
damn it. You're welcome. The road. I'm still
tripping a little bit. Goosebumps. People may
think that's we haven't discussed that. We've
discussed a lot, but like I didn't know you'd
read it. Yeah. Yeah. The road is that there's
a post -apocalypse like Mount Rushmore that the
road needs to be at the top. All right. So do
we have a hook? What's Larry's mission? And is
it? You know, how gnarly of a landscape are we
talking about? Do you like Larry being alone?
The Book of Eli. Yeah, I was thinking about Book
of Eli. I like it. I like the idea of like a
wanderer just going through wastelands. Yes.
What's the wasteland? What caused the wasteland?
Because I don't think we should do nuclear. fallouts
kind of got the like the show fallouts kind of
got that figured out as fun as it is this is
interesting I you know all right here's the one
that I like there's there's a wild one I want
to take yeah just cuz I can yeah but then there's
like the one I think that would probably be more
realistic but the wild one I want to take is
uh in somewhere my brain back years ago I truly
think that like I truly think the next world
war could be started based solely off coffee
or the lack thereof. Let me clarify. I think
if third world nations or other nations decide
to stop exporting coffee to the United States,
we would definitely declare war on everybody.
Oh, I love this. And I think that like the whole
premise of like people being like, wait, we went
to war over bean water. It's like, yeah, we literally
did this. Can we combine a couple of concepts
because I have a wild idea that's usually not
embraced because I you were talking about cause
of the wasteland and coffee. I'm really obsessed
with the world of 12 monkeys. And where nature
started to take over. The part of 12 monkeys
I like is the red herring. I like that part of
12 monkeys. But the idea, and there's a book
that, I think it's called The World Without Us,
that talks about if we were gone tomorrow, what
would start happening? Subways would flood, blah,
blah, blah. Nature would take over. What if the
hippies won and we allowed... the earth to take
over and it went wrong. Oh, and that's the cause
of the apocalyptic. Well, we're not. You could
leave it vague, but that allows for the coffee
war thing to happen because that could have precip
that could like precipitate this. And it led
to like this vast world peace that fucked us.
I have a real world like current example if you
if you would indulge my brain for a moment. So
Pablo Escobar shipped hippos from Africa to his
compound in Colombia, right? That's dope. Okay.
We all know the story of Pablo Escobar. I mean,
I would, would you? If you were a billionaire
of cocaine, you would do everything you want.
I'd feed motherfuckers to those things. Supposedly.
Supposedly he may have urban legend is that he
did who knows good way to get rid of a body any
who? So it went from like 15 hippos in the Amazon
like the Colombian Amazon to we removed Pablo
Escobar and the cartel falls apart and then they're
like well we need to like do something about
us. Well, they decide we can't do anything about
this just yet. So they escape their enclosure.
And now there's like hundreds of hippos. Oh,
wow. And they're like extremely close to getting
into the Amazon. And if they get into the Amazon
River basin, it's over, like from Colombia all
the way down to Brazil. They're very territorial.
They are very territorial. But like the thing
is, they have no natural predators because they're
an apex predator. And they're also a continent
away. Like they're an ocean from where they're
they're talking about a hippo takeover. Turns
out. So Columbia tries to get rid of this problem
because it's a problem. They're like, we're going
to get rid of this problem. American students
get this story, get so upset that they get a
lawsuit. signed by a judge declaring the hippos
as people. And now because of an American law,
they cannot legally remove the hippos in any
way, shape or form because in Colombia, because
the American law dictates that these hippos signed
by a federal judge are humans or sorry, not humans.
They are people and therefore cannot be removed.
But so some hippies in America got judged to
sign a law in America that is creating precedent
for our story. I'm just saying. It's already
happening. It's literally happening in there
like hey, what's hippos are people's like? I'm
not saying hippos aren't people but I'm saying
if these people get into the hippos aren't people
Can we tax them? I would like to what is happening
or how are they now? How are the hippos giving
back? What are they? They're only going to be
done for me lately hippos. What have you done
for me? Well, I think mutant hippo people mutant
hippo people have to be so the idea Yeah, this
is these coffee wars. Yes created this thing
and it led to like what if the hippies what if
and it didn't work out? Yes, I created a utopia
and everything fell apart everything's there
could be lushness But yes thing is there's fucking
creatures. Yeah, the animals have done whatever
has happened because of maybe We let it go. We
lost. You know what I mean? So they've become
like this hippo thing could be part of this.
I mean, let's be real here. So there's a couple
of things our post -apocalypse needs to have.
Humans need to be on the verge, right? Of like,
yeah, full total extinction in some capacity.
And even if like the world became set in whatever,
you could have flashes of it. But I mean, the
black people are certain places on the planet
to this day. And that's terrifying. I don't want
to shit on the peace movement, but like. What
if the hippies won and we just gave peace a chance
and it fucked us over? I'm going to go with the
George R. R. Martin quote. There's nobody that's
good or bad. Everybody's gray. And we all live
in the variations of grayness. So you can be
a good person, but still do bad things. The path
to hell is lined with good intentions. So the
coffee wars. Let's say that that is our inciting
incident to create this global whatever. But
you still have criminals. I like the idea that
the drug lords have become, you know, like uh,
the usurpers of coffee and they started planting
coffee trees everywhere to try to save the coffee,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, yeah. I
mean, like cartels have already taken over avocado
farms in Mexico because avocado makes money.
All of these things are real things. Yeah. All
these like ideas that we're throwing are legit
and I think it definitely leads to this is fun.
This is fun. Are we going to predict the world
ending apocalypse through coffee by accidentally
making this fun movie? We all just sat down to
give us a chance. Turns out somebody buried Larry.
The thing we shouldn't have done was peace. Peace
was never an option. Well, and maybe the idea
is there's some kind of blight and that like
a pure body is what's needed to, you know, turn
things around because do we, do we want a hero's
journey for Larry or do we want a really depressing
bummer? Because we've created a fun little universe
here. I don't think I've seen anything like this
I think it could be we could still end on a semi
happy note I feel like this. I don't know if
we can this is like the Genesis planet Maybe
in Star Trek where they have the ability to like
create vast new life Mm -hmm, and that could
of course go wrong Because it's the post -apocalypse,
you know, but like the world is this is the earth
and we tried this thing and it just went home
Yeah, and we weren't able to live together and
nature eventually won somebody buried Larry and
it starts with a piece of trial allowing hippos
to become people and then they Became stronger
if we do this in the line doesn't have a like
the tagline doesn't have a line about hippos
like yeah I have like we gave a chance and it
killed us or and it fucked us Damn hippo people,
but I don't necessarily want this to be funny
Yeah, I don't know if this is a funny movie because
the if it's really like silent running There's
a wonderful old sci -fi movie with Bruce Dern
and it's like the the world is ending or ended
Forgive me if I'm kidding it wrong. I own it
But it's one I haven't seen a bunch. But the
world's forests are being preserved in spaceships
in space. And that's only part of the broader
thing that's going on. And you assume these caretakers
are on this long journey to do this thing. And
then they're waiting for a solution down below.
And this is all part of the recovery process.
And then at some point, they're like, abandon
it all. Things are bad things suck. So Yeah,
the last force I've got to go you're gonna have
to save yourself somehow and Bruce turns like
nah Not gonna not doing not destroying my ship
and it becomes this like fugitive on that's my
shipping but like the idea of nature of Saving
things but it being the aggressor here, but there's
still being something to be salvaged Yeah, which
may be the relationship between the two. I mean
You can't deny that humans definitely have an
impact on the environment in which we currently
reside. Right. Like the way I like to think about
our planet is that we all coexist on a space
rock hurling through space. It's a spaceship.
I want to be an astronaut. Like you are currently
right now actively doing it. You are you are
an astronaut. You are sailing through the stars.
Not to take anything away from any actual astronauts.
Not to take anything from anybody who's gotten
out of our gravitational pull directly through
a rocket based program. We're setting ourselves
up here. And I'm okay for it. But yes, we may
have a character shortage, so we can create flashbacks.
Yeah, I think we can. But let's focus on the
current world we're in. I like that we're in
very nature. Yeah. But there could be periods
or places that are fucked up. Do you like showing
ruins like, you know, like our current world?
Like, hey, here's a. piece of our civilization
that kind of survived, but like you, they wouldn't
know it. Like it's just like, that's always,
it's a good little dopamine rush and it's used
for like literally, um, like jaw dropping finales,
like the planet of the apes and other things.
Exactly. Like, but that's the whole set piece.
I think, um, I am legend is kind of a fun archetype
for this in a way because that world he's in
New York, Manhattan. I think they botched the
ending too hard. But but like, I think that even
the even the of the two, I think they gave it
the two endings. Where you see the earth coming
back and like when they're attacked by lions.
Yeah, it's stuff like that. That's kind of cool.
But I'd like us to tackle that in a fun way.
Like, what's something we haven't seen in even
an escape from L .A.? Fuck you, haters. Fuck
you. Bruce Campbell's terrifying. He is terrifying.
Terrifying. Can Bruce Campbell be in this movie
somehow? Only if he's our villain. Yes. Yes.
He's the gang leader that we run into, but he's
super uber charismatic and like everybody loves
him and like, you know, wrong, but as a side
note, and I don't want to lose this track from
escape from LA, but the keeping oneself beautiful.
Yeah, you know, like, definitely, like, is that
a thing if it's possible that anybody even cares
about? But an escape from L .A., even when he's
in the submarine, he's going through, you know,
what used to be like a thing underwater is creepy,
too. I think claustrophobia is what's terrifying.
Yeah. So if there could be elements of things
that are even underwater, too, if we can get
all of our cake and eat it, too. Question for
him. But what if the idea of somebody bury Larry
this post apocalypse is that it is in a bunker?
But like it's it's like An apocalypse like test
survival like Larry's this guy like hey or this
gal like yeah the best of the best We've devised
a whole system of be like these are the post
-apocalypses that we want to see if people can
survive and the whole thing is like a Test and
like turns out Larry gets out and it's like no
the world did end surprise like It was actually
just like, no, no, you were like part of this
program. You were meant to survive it. Yeah.
You weren't meant to stop it. You were meant
to survive. Or like, I like the idea. Also, if
this is the premise that we run with, like somehow
there's like this imagine a super soldier program
like we're going to design people, we're going
to release them along the way. Larry's buried
in this bunker. This is really interesting. And
the world is over. I had surmised a world with
our character, Larry. Who could be a girl. We
haven't even gotten to who it is. We were still
talking about the post box. But if it's going
to be low character, we're going to have to have
a lot of story. Yes. In our defense, does that
make sense? Yes. I presupposed a world where
nature was given a chance, and it got us. Like,
we weren't ready for it. The government didn't
have bunkers. We just got fucked. And there wasn't
a government conspiracy left. We're just in a
world that is a free for all. which could be
not great because it messes us up. So you would
like to see and I agree there was some kind of
preparedness in the fall. I think. All right.
So instead of it being like fallout like the
show where it's like nuclear fallout or anything
like that. But let's be really like there are
people who are building bunkers for the end of
times. What if the idea of like Larry is buried
and like they're like all right. Well I figure
by the time this happens you know we'll have
things sort out. They wake up and they walk out
into the post. What about the concept of prepper
bunk. bunkers. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like
these aren't official, but like in the decline,
there was a map made of just regular people who
had these things. That was something that was
kept. Yeah. That was smart. And there's a large
search. You know what I mean? For this one. So
for Larry, the last bunker. Yeah, that's occupied.
Larry, the last bunker. So think about this.
OK, think about across our country. How many
people have bunkers now? A lot. A lot. So, in
the fall of our civilization, through nature
taking us over floods, and again, nature could
take over nuclear reactor sites and conceivably
cause mass explosion events. Yeah, anything's
possible. We could have all of our cake and eat
it too. We could have different landscapes that
we want. But the idea is they made note... of
every individual because of surveillance tech,
whatever, of all these Preppers bunkers. Do we
start with that as our intro scene? And that
was going to be a part of our survival technique
later as these are already there. They're stocked.
We don't have to have the government making a
bunch of stuff. Here's all the bunkers you just
have to get to them. We already have them. We're
going to eminent domain because it's the end
of the fucking world, bitch. So this is a search
of every Preppers bunker because I think I have
an intro for this. Yeah. With this premise, I
like the idea of it starting with the news, like,
you know, a news broadcast and them being like,
this is our last broadcast. Like if anybody's
still listening, of course. And then they put
like the display of the map like here's the map
of all the known bunkers that we have discovered
so far. Nobody has gotten to them yet. If anybody
can get to them, like, you know, chances humanity
will survive is like the plea is the idea. And
then we cut to somebody and it's like. They're
literally like got like a hand like a hand -drawn
crayon map that they've been trying to like draw
based off of memory or something like that Going
out into the post -apocalypse because I feel
like yeah, we start hard and we start heavy with
this for sure and and the idea is that There's
got to be a unique reason for all of this, right?
Yeah, for sure. The Karens won, or the hippies
won. They told us that it was OK to let nature
do nature things. Nature really got us good.
And nature really got us good. I don't want to
get too hooked up into the minutiae of this,
but I think it's sellable. I think it's also
sellable. But again, it gives us so much production
design. Yeah, we're going on the wild. I like
the idea that our main character is So this would
be somebody conceivably. What age do you see?
Do you see a certain age of somebody? I think
any age entirely possible. Is there a look? Because
I'm kind of. I kind of feel like it almost looks
like Star Wars in a weird way. I can see that.
It will definitely feel alien. Some military,
some not. If this person is... Here's a question.
Are they exiting their own bunker because, let's
say, their supplies are running low and they
need to get these supplies? Or something to that
effect? Or are they totally alone? Where are
they when they get out? I'd love for the key
to turning this around, being there. to this
is corny, but it like restoring the relationship
between the two. That's what fucked it up in
the first place. If somebody has to make a sacrifice
to do it, that's what it is. But that's like
you need another person to walk away. Of course,
I think there was I think we were going to stumble
across other folks. Yeah. And maybe it's a knowledge
base that needs to happen like that. Our person
may be a part of something that we don't know.
And we let that lie. There could be other characters.
I like I mean, I'm just I'm trying to think of
the idea of like what if they're like, hey, there's
got to be something beyond where we are. We're
running low on supplies. We have to go check
and like, no, it's dangerous out there, of course,
because we're in close civilization. Is it kind
of we do this a lot, but is it kind of fun if
we just like don't show the other people and
and their bunker? Yeah, I don't think you could.
I think we literally can show the person exiting
the bunker. Into this and a lot of stuff like
you get to you get context out of like this the
bunker culture Yeah, and these are just regular
people's places who may who may have been betrayed
What if the person sent out or if it's like a
lottery system where they're like, hey, we have
to send somebody every few weeks and like this
is just the next person and I like that there's
a mission for some reason. They're being sent
on a mission. I like the idea of they're being
sent on a mission, but like it's a desperate
mission. Like, hey, we haven't heard from so
and so and we keep sending some other people
and like they, you know, along their route through
the post -apocalypse, they're like, oh, when
they stumble upon the cannibal tribe, because
we got to have a cannibal tribe out there. Yeah.
Channing Tatum is going to be the guy. No, we
can't do Channing. Mutants with the animals.
Yeah. Like when we've run into this stuff. Or
like, we're going to run into the show of like,
hey, here's the other survivors who didn't survive
until their mission, right? Exactly. So I think
that that needs to be a thing. I think this person
is not very like they are not the hero. This
person is definitely like Ben selected and they're
like, if you make it great. We're not expecting
you to make it. Also, everybody's definitely
kind of mutated inside this bunker, right? Like
they're all kind of how far in the future. Well,
that's that's interesting. Like how how gnarly
do you want things to be? All right. You're ready
for this. I'm going to throw this at you. I want
Terry Gillum to direct this. What the fuck? You
said twelve monkeys. Terry Gillum will definitely.
OK, OK. This movie. He'll definitely do a wild
job. He will. Like, have you seen Brazil? Come
on, people. He'll make. Yeah, I'm with you, but
I want I want him to make it a little bit less
insane. Like, I'd like to. OK, yeah, a little
bit. OK, so we need to dial it back because I
think this could be mainstream. This could definitely
be mainstream. Like the Coen Brothers. I can
see the Coen Brothers doing this. That's too
weird. Is it though? I feel like they could do.
I'd like for this to be a really big world. OK,
you know what I mean? Yeah, I do. I feel Adrian
Brody, because I'm just thinking of predators
and it kind of does. It feels like this is very
much a road trip movie. Like a Luke Wilson. Yeah.
Like somebody who's tough, but like still lovable
at a certain age, you know, younger Luke Wilson.
Yeah. Now, because I think it'll help us email
or mail in a way female. OK, who are you thinking
female? Because you're thinking younger naive.
I feel like you're going for the naivety, like
you're looking for somebody. who already kind
of exudes this unknowing property because they're
going into an unknown peak. Like 20s Drew Barrymore.
I can see it. She's tough. I can see it. I'll
put a pin. Can we put a pin in it? I'm not I'm
not 100 percent sold on. And I'm getting you
know, I'm getting I'm trying to push us out of
our modern zone. Yeah, we need to go backwards.
I was thinking of, you know, there is a hero's
journey to this, but some toughness has got to
be there. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like it
is like to me more young to me more. I'm just
seeing her as G .I. Jane, but like right in those
kind of tough, tough, tight, Claire Danes. Maybe
I see like a Sharon Stone, Sharon Stone. I feel
like she's too tall. How dare you have too tall
Sharon. How do all the judgments too tall is
the criteria. Do you think she has the chops?
Yeah, I think for sure she's got the job. I think
so. You are you know what I think thinking about
it you were looking for I think honestly younger
well like I don't remember her I would like I
Think Laura Dern Because people forget like they've
they dress her already we might have but I think
that she would be very perfect because like Jurassic
Park She was only like 23 when she did right
part wild at heart. I'm in I think Laura Dern
would be a great selection for this if we've
used Laura Dern And this is our one mulligan.
I'm willing to sacrifice our mulligan for Laura
Bernegan. Because somebody you can root for who
has strength, who can fight. I'm sure we've suggested
her before. Or maybe older. She's just a treasure.
She is a treasure. All right. Is there anybody
else you can see? Yeah. How far back you want
to go? Keep going. I mentioned Drew Barrymore.
I'm trying to think of scrappy. People are probably
losing their minds right now. Going insane. They're
probably shouting at their headphones at us.
Selma Blair would be fun. I guess she's got an
interesting look. Hellboy. Do you know who you're
talking about? I know exactly who you're talking
about. I think she's tough. She's a fighter.
If you go current, the girl from, forgive me,
from Knives Out and the Ballerina. Oh, Ana de
Armas. Yeah. I think she would be great if we
went current. Yeah. Kathleen Turner, young Kathleen
Turner. OK, OK. Lori Petty. We put her in some.
I think we did, but I think that she would also
fit this role. I'm getting us into kick -ass
people. Yeah, yeah. Let's see. Oh, I got to look.
Yeah, you can explain it. Like, what have you
seen? What have you seen them in? Yeah. So let
me. Oh, no. Now my brain feels like I can't do
anything. I was going to type this thing. It's
like Emily Blunt. We say Emily Blunt a lot, too.
No, I don't think so. I don't think, you know,
again, it it's it's our fantasy. You know what
I mean? I like I like getting myself out of.
Oh, all right. I think I have a couple of suggestions.
Yes. Kirstie Alley. OK, I can see it. I was going
to suggest the movie Sucker Punch. Love it or
hate it. I think the lead actresses in it are
all phenomenal. They're all definitely like.
The movie, if you love it or hate it, I don't
really care. Draw from it as you will. But I
think Emily Browning would be really fun. And
if not her, I think Abby Cornish would be the
person here. Oh, I know who Abby Cornish is.
She's in... What is wrong with me? She's also
on Limitless. Yeah. She's in Geostorm. She is
in Geostorm. You are correct. I think she would
be a great actress for this role. I think she
would be. She has that toughness. About her but
also like she can pull that night tivity off.
I feel yeah, and she looks like a Larry to me
Let's do Abby Cornish Abby Cornish. That's we're
gonna call up your agent Abby and this movie's
going to production I can't believe how long
it took to get us to our main character 28 minutes
left, but we did it and We're low on character.
We were low on care. We had to figure out the
story that we want to tell yeah, and I again
I like the idea of this world that's been inhabited
over inhabited right and this bunker system.
Everybody is just like backyard bunkers and they
got to find them. All right. Cannibal marauders.
Yes. Got it. That's like the last one we run
into. Right. Like this is like she's fleeing
from them. Like this is where she finds how about
somebody kind. Could there be a like like some
like There's a hint that things are going well
uh -huh with the and it's not like the end of
Star Trek the motion picture But that you have
to fuck a tree for things to go well But there's
a certain balance that's been re restored with
nature and maybe uh -huh not saying there's tree
fucking Like they're kind of green or something
this this like like You know, that are maybe
their lore. They got through the thing well.
They understood what it was. They have wisdom.
I know you're talking like you, you want there
to be some mutant folks for sure. But on the
good side, you want some good mute who are kind
of like, maybe they're nuts. Maybe they're all
like just attached to shit. Oh, like, oh, like
nature subsumed them entirely. There's a, there's
a whole town of people that are just like, you
know, flying Dutchman from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Like they're all just stuck to buildings. Yeah.
That'd be terrifying to walk through. That's
really cool. But like, they're all still like
semi -conscious. Yes. That'd be freaky. That's
a really fun concept. All right. The leader of
that, it's not Bill Nighy. We can't call him
because he's already that. No, he's already reserved.
I feel like, again, I feel it feels like it should
be a female. I'm going to suggest Gina Torres.
As the, like, I don't think you see any voices.
I think it needs to be a voice. Like, none of
these faces or humans that are subsumed by nature
have any faces, but like kind of hive mindy in
that sense. And like, she just, like, she's the
voice of them. Yeah. Well, can we get Alan Tudyk
in as a voice for fun here anyway? Okay. Please.
Can he be our cannibal guy? Oh, bad guy? Yes.
Live action? Please. Holy fuck, yeah. Are you
serious? Yes. I love Alan Tudyk. Well, now we
have a nice little way that we could just pilfer
from. Yeah. Now we're just going to steal all
the firefly grass. No. What's Nathan Villian
going to play? I was going to suggest Jule State,
but, you know, Nathan's great too. All right.
Alan Tudyk playing against type as a really,
really, really, really, really gnarly. Evil.
Whatever type of. Unhinged. Unhinged. But I like
Gina Torres as the because. She's tough. Yes,
Zoe. But if you see her in other things, she
does have like when she speaks. In a softer way,
it's when she definitely has that matrony like
feel about her, but it's like, no, no, I'll kill
you if I need. And matter of fact, yes, too.
Yes, I think she hits that. That's there. They're
all weird and like, yes. And she's she's a firm
like they can't tell her anything about where
this shit is because they're like, oh, yeah,
sure. We don't know maps. You got it all wrong.
Maps are Gargon. You need to ascend. Yes. You
need to join us. Like Earth would be better if
you joined us. I don't want to be mortar. I don't
want to be a building. I'm going to just keep
stepping. Just like twinkle toes. Yeah. So like
I think that this hive mind, they're not necessarily
evil. They're just like they don't understand
why people don't want to join them. And it doesn't
want to join them. Like this is it. We figured
it out. We figured out this is how You want peace?
We've achieved peace. There's no more death.
And maybe that's OK. This is really nerdy, but
that's just all she perceives them as. Your mind
can't like we are. We aren't what you see. Yeah,
we're all together. You just this is the only
thing that you're living in is a fake reality.
Come join us in the real one. Yeah. And again,
you can play with that however you want, but
it's kind of fun. Like your mind can only construct
so much. And this is what you can figure it out.
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's Gina Torres.
Gina Torres. As the leader of this hive mind.
Yeah, I call them nature absorbed. That's pretty
stupid. The subsumed. I'm calling them the subsumed.
Subsumed? Yeah. What does that mean? It's kind
of like consumed. It's kind of like consumed.
But yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at us using the nerdy
language. If it's not a word, that's OK. We're
going to put it on a t -shirt anyway and it'll
become a word. We can do that. That's a good
t -shirt. One of the subsumed. Ben subsumed.
Needs to have like a bunch of vines and flowers
on it, of course. If we can have some flashbacks.
We need a villain. Like more than Alan Tudyk,
I think. Oh, of course. And I liked your idea
of trying to communicate some of the narrative
through like that last, you know. Reporting out
on the bunkers. If you haven't reported in, blah,
blah, blah. We need to know for counts. But like
it gives you enough for context and you could
get more. But could there be a call back to like
we've seen Larry before and Larry's bad like
Larry's not a good guy. Like, are you thinking
like Snowpiercer where like interesting way?
Yeah, he's kind of characters like I'm trying
to save the world. But like by trying to save
me, of course. Yeah, I saved the world like Like
that kind of system has to turn out to sacrifice
herself. Turns out the guy that was like, hey,
I'm going to build all these bunkers and like,
you know, for the world's survival is actually
like he's actually living in this last bunker
that nobody's found. Well, no, I think he's just
like either either way. But like the point is,
he's cowardly hiding out or whatever. But he's
created this false promise, like one last betrayal.
OK. I'm still writing maybe he's maybe and we
can we can create a world where he's doing like
weird gnarly shit or something like trying to
bastardize the process or it's just like thank
goodness you saved me oh yeah yeah where he's
like like I don't really mean that yeah you're
a thing and then there's a choice to be made
okay you know who do you imagine is a big bad
who do you want who's Larry somebody buried Larry
And again, we can have some turns out the Abby
Cornish's character isn't Larry and she's the
one who buries Larry's Larry's the bad guy Larry
well, yeah for sacrifice needs to be made. It's
Larry. Yeah I like the idea that Larry's not
like he's not benevolent like a little bit of
switcheroo. Did you say what did you say earlier
snowpiercer? Yeah Snowpiercer, the show. Ed Harris
at the... Oh. Same guy, same character. I've
not seen the show. Okay, so Sean Bean is in the
show. Sorry for spoilers. And that's the character
at the front of the train. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What's the rub in that again? He is just at the
head, right? Just created it and just lives it.
This is the only way that we're going to do it.
And there's always class systems. And if you
don't embrace the system, then everything falls
apart. Everything. So his old mantra is like...
It's a train and everything needs to work on
a train. So if everybody has a place on the train,
well, we have those in the tail who aren't part
of the system. We need to get rid of them. Right.
And like it's all it's a giant metaphor for immigrants
and class standards. And of course it is because
what else would it be about? But and you could
have areas where like it looked like we tried
to do stuff and nature just. screwed us up. We
tried to make us no piercer. I love the idea
of there being like a fort, like a giant, you
know, like a legit like military installation
where it looks like everything was burned out.
Like they're literally trying to burn the forest
back. We don't know how, but nothing co -op because
in order to build or do anything like nature
does have to cooperate. If it decides not to,
it all turns. everything would be harder. I think
this movie looks very similar, not like shot
for shot, but it definitely looks like the Planet
of the Apes, the most the kingdom of the Planet
of the Apes that came out a few years ago. I
love them all. I think that like this post -apocalypse
of like, hey, like things exist, but like nature
is definitely one back is the predominant theme
of this film. So do we have any kind of mutated
animal threat? Do we have just regular animal
threats? I like what is your what is your interest
level? I think the answer to both is yes, and
I'm down for either. Mutate just means that it's
something that we haven't seen. So if it's far
enough in the future, what a mutant animal would
just be an animal to them. Right. But things
would have evolved. I'm kind of wondering what's
interesting about how they could evolve. To be
more and to have maybe learned from their mistakes
in the past to not become subservient I'll be
honest with you I don't know if I can out think
nature for how they would evolve because nature
is too good at that stuff We are assuming quite
a lot. Yeah, I don't know what I could figure
out the nature wouldn't already have done, right?
I'm just wondering if like plants and animals
would integrate more together. Like, plants would
start, animals would start popping out of the
ground, out of the dirt. Those things would be
fun to do. I just imagine me trying to come up
with some appendage or some feature that a creature
has that you've never seen before seems kind
of out there that I can't do. Let's hyper -focus
on this. The mutant hippo people. I'm serious.
Now, you have this wild idea, and let's run with
it. I'm down. I'm down. Because the hippos get
into the Amazon, and it's ruined. And OK, let's
add a little tragedy to this thing. Even in nature's
grand plan to take over the world, it didn't
go perfect. And one nuclear whatever was not
whatever, disposed of properly, and it created
a mutation. Turns out somebody tried to nuke
the hippos and the hippos shouldn't have been
there and it's one of like the last things and
like God you fucking blew it, but I love I love
it and only if we have this as like little like
Easter eggs scattered throughout the world turns
out we knew the Amazon nature's plant No, I'm
saying like in its return to whatever. Yeah all
of the shit that we did It still was like nature
still where thing didn't go perfectly They let
some kind of sludge or waste get somewhere and
it mutated some hippos. I'm down. But only if
we like we have to show we have to show them
and then we have to show a fight. Then they've
had offspring. Of course. And then they've made
it with dogs. Many dog hippo. That's what we
are. We've come to. I don't know. I don't know
if that's the lie I want to take, but you want
a bunch of mutant hippos running around as a
nuisance animal. And I'm OK with that. I want
to be small and fast. It's a sci -fi post -apocalypse.
We could do whatever we want, Ryan. But I do
like the idea of there being mutant animals out
and about inside this apocalypse. Whatever that
looks like. Whatever it looks like. And have
some fun with that, whoever makes this movie.
Hopefully. Yeah. We need to find a good creature
designer. We'll call up Geiger. Phil Tippett,
I'd like maybe to do some practical stuff. Definitely
practical creatures, please. Gina Torres does
have to come in for a few days to get bolted
to a building. Yeah, yeah. So we can... You know,
it's not all going to be CG. We can't afford
that, probably. Well, maybe we can. Maybe we
can. But it depends on who we get to direct this.
You don't want Terry Gilliam. Who do you want?
I think Terry Gilliam is great. I think he's
great. If he's known for being intentionally
weird. Yeah. Is he too weird of a director for
this movie in this tone that you want? Probably.
OK, I agree with you. I think he'd be fun and
he could do it. He would definitely. have the
skills to do it. He did 12 monkeys. Like, you've
got to remember, like, he can do the series.
Yeah, it's just 12 monkeys still absolutely bonkers.
It is. So if not him, I'd love to hire him and
be like, you can't go too crazy. But then that'd
be a waste of a Terry Gilliam. Yeah, you can't
you can't rein him in. So you got to find somebody
that you actually think will fit the wheelhouse.
So because I don't want to rein in my my writer
director on this. Yeah. And the idea that this
is something that needs to feel kind of big would
be, Oh, you're going to, you're going to fucking
shit yourself. I hope not. Well, the movie that
I was talking about hidden, I just looked up
who did it and it was written and directed by
Matt and Ross Duffer. Was it really? So the,
you know, I remember how I'm telling you serendipities.
So can we have the Duffer brothers write and
direct this please? We could be pretty good.
That's pretty fucking crazy. Anyway, let me hold
on. There's a movie. I was the Why can't I remember?
I need to be better with some of the you know
some of you know, like Some of the more prominent
newer directors because this thing could be very
small. You know what I mean? Oh, yes I'm sorry.
I'm trying to find this Spielberg You know if
we could get it if we get Spielberg or George
Lucas in his prime to do a smaller bigger post
-apocalyptic movie. I could see that. Oh, what
about having Kevin Costner direct it? Oh, he
definitely knows how to direct it. For sure.
I was looking up. Remember the movie Love and
Monsters? Oh, yeah. We talked about this before.
I feel like I just didn't know the director who
did that. I was looking about Michael Matthews.
I'm looking up his other stuff. If he's done
anything like. we would know. Yes, I think Michael
Matthews would be great. He's only done three
or two feature films, Five Fingers for Marcel's,
Love and Monsters, and upcoming is... Well, this
is essentially a light remake of Love and Monsters
in a way. Just our way. Just our way. I feel
like he could do it. Yeah, I think he'd be great.
So Michael Matthews has our director. I liked
the idea of rolling with Terry Gilliam was fun
because it would be really weird. It would be
really weird, but maybe not relatable. We could
do George Lucas a la Willow style. You know,
he could do it. Oh, hell yeah. Ron Howard, Ron
Howard to shoot the shit out of this movie. Yeah,
it would. It would be big. It would look. I am
not. You know, I like the idea of Kevin Costner
or Mel Gibson. Do you think Mel Gibson would
make this movie? Small, big and small. Yeah,
he would definitely hit the big and small, but
yeah, I, it's not enough blood and guts for Mel
Gibson. No, I think Michael Matthews is great.
I'm just trying to think. It's like, would, would
Mel Gibson make this movie? No, I don't think
he would. I mean, he put some religious symbolism.
It would definitely be too religious and there'd
be way more blood and guts. Now that I don't
want blood and guts there just be more blood
and got that stuff, you know He's not afraid
of it the prince and the madman or the you know,
the what -have -you and that what have you did
he direct that I yeah, I Sean Penn the professor
and the madman about the oh did he direct making
of the dictionary He might have that movie was
not bad. It was not what I liked it. I thought
it was super fun Yeah, I didn't know that story.
I didn't know that story. That was a very interesting
story. But take away. It takes forever. It takes
a long time. Well, the old version. Let's be
real here. Jesus. Oh, my gosh. How much time
do we have left to find this tag? I have 12 minutes
left. This sounds like we're pretty good at that.
We come up with the last 10 minutes. Usually
this is a fun idea. I like this very Larry. Alan
Tudyk, Bruce Campbell is Larry, right? Then we
talk about him being the bad. Yes. So Bruce Campbell
as Larry. All right. So what about this? What
if Alan Tudyk is like a long lost descendant
of Larry? Like Larry's been living in this bunker
forever. Oh, so an empathetic marauding cannibal?
No, he's not. No empathy. I don't want to give
him empathy. He's tied to, it just turns out
like, you know. Larry here buried himself inside
of his bunker. Yeah, had a kid and like his kids
had kids and like he didn't let his kid into
the bunker and so like his family lived outside
the bunker. So that's why like Alan Tudyk is
like his long lost descendant. And it's like
the origin of the reverse. Yeah, that's great.
Love it. All right. All right. I like the relation
long lost descendants of later on. Yeah, my notes
are not going to make any sense, but hope that's
all right. That's okay. We gave piece of chance.
I mean, that could be it. We gave piece of chance.
I agree. It could definitely be the tagline.
Let's see if we can come up some others though.
Just come curious. That's not the only one. That's
not the end. I'll be all that's got to be. That's
got to be one already. Oh, yeah. For sure. Alien
movie. I'm not sure. I mean, the premise that
we're advancing is that this intense coffee war
And then, you know, the drug lords get involved,
governments, what have you, created this really
intense sped up need to try to bond with the
environment more. And the hippies got more traction
and hippos became people. And then all of a sudden,
forests became uber protected and had the right
to vote. And then nature was like, now is our
time. I love it. All right. So the idea. that
we got this bunker living. And I think we leaned
on kind of a happy ending. Like there's a sacrifice.
That's how we get back into Larry. And there's
an indication of how Larry dies. There's an indication
that like we might be able to start rebuilding
again. Yeah, it turns out Larry's bunker had
like all the stuff necessary to actually rebuild
the site. You just didn't want to do it and what
have you. What? Yeah. Yeah. This poster. Yeah.
What do you want? Is insane in my head. I want
to hear the insane poster. Well, no, I just think
of how many different ways it could go. You know,
I kind of see it. neutral background kind of
split with a V and you could see the different
areas of decay and she's walking through the
middle. Okay. You know, so it's not like super
scary, but in the in the V's is what you could
see all that crazy shit. And she's just walking.
Kind of like a Venn diagram of all the. It's
kind of like the color of this room. Okay. And
then a V with all different colors of shit on
either side. Who's a because obviously we got
like so. Abby carnage doesn't we give her character
a name her character needs a name want to give
her name which we need to give her a name real
quick because I think she definitely needs to
have Like an interaction with the whoever the
gatekeeper is that's kicking her out like on
her scouting mission or somebody There's got
to be somebody there and obviously it's Billy
Zane and Billy Zane is like alright. Well good
luck out there. Oh Like leader of the maybe not
leader, but like you know gatekeeper or like
you know just like hey it's my job to open the
gate up and You know, you get hurt. Oh, you know
what? He could be seen in flashback to easily
because you could have other people like Bruce
Campbell needs to be established. Oh, like he's
a friend. Like he's he's the assistant. You know
what I mean? Oh, I like Billy Zane's assistant.
Yeah, that's his Igor. Billy Zane is his Igor.
Does Larry last minute ad does Larry have a kid
in there? In there with him, like he's got like
a clone version of him or like a child like there's
a kid involved. Make it a little extra complicated.
Is it his kid? Yeah. Or is it just he has a child
and he doesn't say anything? Like we don't we
don't actually acknowledge the child in the room.
There's just a child in the room. Like she's
got to take it at the end. I don't know if I
need I don't know if we necessarily need to do
it. I could see it. The symbolism alone is like,
look, he was holding the world hostage and she
saved the new world. Like I could see it. I see
it. I get it. Do I need it? Do I want it? So
the idea of this movie is the journey, right?
There's a betrayal at the end that you hide.
So the tagline, and we promised some return.
You know, imbalance restored. Yeah, I think imbalance
restored. That's a good one. Imbalance restored.
Somebody buried Larry. You can always just do
dig here. I mean, we're talking about bunkers
and whatnot. Somebody buried Larry. Dig here.
Interesting. Dig here. Egor. Sorry, I'm writing
down the Egor character. Dig here. See, you like
to see, it's fascinating, you like to see how
they go together. I do. I want the tagline and
the title to kind of mesh in some way, shape,
or form. They don't need to, but I think it helps
sell it. Somebody buried Larry. Bring a shovel.
And you wonder. Bring a shovel. But this is a
serious apocalyptic movie, right? Yeah. So we
have. OK. Well, our problem is we've we've created
a marketing pickle. We've for ourselves. Our
title is funny. Yeah. Our premise is not. It's
definitely we can have some humor. I didn't want
we don't want to post apocalypse to be funny.
Who wants that? We we could. That's like if you
go if you went with imbalance restored, that
makes it a little serious. Yeah, I could see
in balance. They hear me. Definitely is funny.
I could definitely. I don't know. So if we're
trying to create seriousness out of the movie,
the tagline should probably have to be a little.
Yeah, a little more. Maybe more somber. But again.
I don't like imbalance restored and balance restored
is because that's the idea. Yeah. And maybe it's
just catchy enough to work. I think it might
work in balance restored. I think that's pretty
good. Because it's not like a joke. It's not
a joke title. And you're like, oh, somebody buried
Larry. The poster looks pretty serious. All right.
I'm interested. And because the idea is she,
you know, gets to this thing, it's just like
still pulling shit. Oh, yeah. At the end of the
world. Yeah, we're still doing this same old
dog and pony show. And then but along the way,
thanks to the who's who's and the who's who's.
Figures out the way to yeah, really restore the
balance. I like this Abby Cornish, I'm sorry.
Your character still doesn't have a name. We're
just calling you. We're gonna call your character
Abby. I think. Oh, you're oh, yeah. You said
that. I was like, I didn't come up with a name.
We moved on. Well, like soundtrack wise, is it
big? Oh, yeah. We got five minutes. We got to
have some sweeping scores, right? Well, yeah,
I think so. I think so. We're talking full orchestra
here. I feel we got to. Oh, gosh. Well, yeah,
because if you have fight scenes, if you have.
Oh, yeah. This is a full on. We're talking. OK.
It's going to be great. This is a grand film.
It's a small cast, but a grand film. We don't
have many named characters. That's a good point.
It doesn't mean we can't have the fun we want
to have in a post -apocalyptic movie. But you
could have some scary stuff too, you know what
I mean? If we don't have mutant hippos attacking
a camp or her in some capacity, we're sad. Alright,
you know what? We're John Williams. I think you,
I agree with you. John, if we can do anybody,
if we can do anybody, it wouldn't have to be
huge, huge, but like a nice iconic score would
be cool off the top of my head. I can't remember
it, but who did who did the Lord of the Rings?
Do you know like who was the composer for the
Lord of the Rings? It is. I feel like it's a
big name. I'm going to be mad for not remembering,
but I feel like the score for that definitely
feels correct in like same scale. And he's an
older Howard Shore. I feel like Howard Shore,
if that's him. I think we've used him before.
Have we? Yeah. Or we talked about using Enya.
We definitely talked about using Enya, but I
don't know if we've used Howard Shore. But John
Williams could make this, like, serious enough.
Like, give it some edge. Like, hey, this isn't
cute. Give it some edge. But sweeping. Creepy.
Yes, I like when he does creepy like when Indiana
Jones is going into the cave This definitely
feels we need to have some creepy vibes Nature
is scary because if you can set up the Gina Torres
thing to be fucking terrifying the whole and
the whole thing is loose there like If done right
if I was to direct it we show up Abby Cornish
character shows up at this town that's being
like consumed by the nature of Gina Torres like
I'm talking like Dusk like the Sun is setting
And it's like, oh, it's just a normal everyday
town. And now we're like, no, let's walk in here.
Let's see this town. And it's like, no, let's
be terrifying. Absolutely. Whispering voices
and stuff. And then tension and release. Yeah.
Again, second -minute tension, cannibal killers.
That's good music. Oh, that's going to be some
fun. All right. I think we did a good job on
this. I like this. This is a very Larry. We did.
We buried Larry. Yes. We'd like to share Larry
with the world if we can. Oh, you know what?
You know what I mean? We could always done like
the tagline of like the tomb is open or something
like that. Somebody buried Larry. The tomb is
open. Yeah. Tomb for the taking who that's well
like the idea that that it's a ruse. You know
what I mean? Yeah. He's he's selling himself
as something he's not. Yeah. the salvation, the
last scientist turns out like it's just fucking
you. Yeah. Oh, I forgot. Your name was Lawrence
of Arabia. Well, Logan, well done. And anybody
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