CURRENT PROJECTS
We have seven scripts currently in development along with a strong concept for a possible second Elevator Gods which takes place in Vegas. - Here are four.ELEVATOR GODS
| PITCH | The Commitments meets Dodgeball for the 80's MTV generation. |
| LOGLINE | A halfwit dreamer from North England must persuade his reluctant mates to reform their Duran Duran tribute band - to enter an 80's tribute contest, win cash, and maybe learn from a local 80's pop legend how to follow his true calling. |
| GENRE | Present day Drama / Black Comedy - set in 2010. |
Set against a backdrop of Bradford, a troubled city now on the rise. - 38 yr old ADAM TEASEDALE had the world at his feet. As sole heir of Workingmen's club - 'The Brad Pit', - the family club left to him by his late parents. He holds the title - the third most eligible Batchelor in Bradford - (Or 3EBB).
So when the club is gutted in a mysterious fire, and a police investigation follows, Adam runs away with the £5,000 of local whip round cash - to a new life in Bulgaria, leaving large holes in pockets and friendships, and his UNCLE BRY to pick up the pieces.
The story begins in Bulgaria a year later. Adam's life has come to this. He's a cheesy keyboard entertainer in a crummy hotel bar who deep down always wanted to be a pop star writing his own songs.
He then hears of two 80's obsessed lottery winners from his hometown of Bradford, and their plan to throw an 80's tribute contest with a cash prize of £200,000. Just enough for Adam to bury his pop star dream and knuckle down to become a Bulgaria hotel big shot.
So Adam returns home to Bradford to find his last family member - uncle Bry has taken a cash deposit to sell the sacred family club to property developer and tribute king TONY HARDLY, lead singer of club land favourites - Spandau Cafe.
With the club almost signed away, and Adam's connection with his late parents fading like his highlights, things are not looking good for Adam Teasedale, and he is torn between his new plans in Bulgaria and his old life.
Even a visit to Bradford pop legend Rueben Cope - for some answers to Adam's late parents past proves fruitless. As Adam finds his childhood hero Rueben - a reclusive former drug addict, addicted to medication, and living in the shadows of his former super group Elevator Gods. An 80's band famous for breaking all the rules with groundbreaking courage, music and originality.
Adam finally convinces his best mates to forgive him and reform their Duran Duran tribute band 'The Reflex. To do battle with the giants of the UK tribute underworld at an 80's Butlin's weekender, thrown by two 80's obsessed lottery winners.
The contest draws such bands as Spandau Cafe, Depeche Vogue, Culture Pub, Alan and the Ants, The League of Humans, Poison Arrow, and legendary Newcastle rocker John Bon Geordie.
What follows is a clash of hair and ego's and a crazy road trip to Skegness. Will Adam turn and run like he's always done? Or will he learn from Rueben Cope's mistakes, win back his friends and learn to harness the secrets that lie in the heart of a true Elevator God.
Let It 'B' Movie.
| PITCH | The Lost Boys meets Hard Days Night. - By Peter Hunt |
| LOGLINE | Why has Paul McCartney got no shoes on - on the Abbey Road cover? Because the night before they we're fighting for survival against a shape shifting dark force - barricaded inside Abbey Rd - and still managed to settle creative differences and save Ringo and George Martin and the tapes in time for the next days album launch. |
SYNOPSIS.
Around the Abbey Road album. Wrestling with personal and creative differences - The Beatles are struggling to work together inside Abbey Road studio and creative juices are low.
The Beatles need to get these songs recorded before tomorrow's record press and radio airplay. 'Let it be' is just an idea. It doesn't make it onto Abbey Road but is played that night for the first time.
Three streets away a 60's crooner is angry - he has been kept off the chart top for too long. He decides to make a pact with a dark witchcraft force who promises to help this twisted crooner march on Abbey Rd and destroy the Beatles.
But first he must attend a dangerous ritual on Regents Park. This ritual goes wrong and he ends up with a rabble of seething creatures mutated from stray dogs and smelly tramps.
With the night slipping away the army invade Abbey Road and so to survive The Beatles must put aside their love of dogs and fight for life with nothing but drumsticks and a fire axe.
Things die down and for some time they go back to work on the classic songs settling their differences with new found vigor. Then the creatures invade the inner studio but rather than run away and leave behind the reels of their best work, the Beatles decide to stand and fight, slay the beasts, finish the songs, lay down the track of Let it be for a later album, and rescue George Martin, Ringo and the session masters, trapped in the desk room.
They have a change of clothes but McCartney loses his shoes in the fight. The famous picture on the Abbey Rd cover is 9 am the next day.
W TITLE: TV SHOW COMEDY
| PITCH | Kings of Comedy at the Jeremy Kyle show. |
| LOGLINE | An egotistic daytime TV show - on the eve of his retirement takes on more than he bargained for when his cheating world is revealed by a heavily mistreated last guest - who turns the tables on him in front of a riveted nation. |
| GENRE | Thriller, Comedy. |
A righteous, Jeremy Kyle style TV show host, who owns the TV station, and has a love hate relationship with the British pubic - is set to air his last live show before begrudging early retirement. It is reputed he has turned soft in his TV style.
But the tables are swiftly turned on him when his last working class Guest - accused of degrading behaviour to his fiancee - is unfairly rejected off the show, without us hearing his side of the story.
Now dumped forever by his once fiancée and driven by despair and anger at the hosts heavy swansong style - the Guest kidnaps the host's wife - heavily influenced by his mischievous Brother - and demands to be let back on the show - bringing various oddball character witnesses, for a fair hearing in front of the British public, the newspapers and his watching fiancee.
But the host has troubles of his own both marital and financial - which his kidnapped wife exposes freely to her new captors - who in turn feed back rather patchily to our anti hero - the Guest.
What follows is a battle of nerves and a mighty show down as the host's double life is revealed live on air.
But the guests Brother insists on a little more, which includes the Brothers oafish childhood mate be allowed to reveal his rather odd fetishes on the show, along with proving he is not an oaf. But to make matters worse a further ransom amount is demanded by the Brother as things get out of control.
The host refuses to pay, so the Guest driven on by his desperate Brother see a chance to raise cash by selling prime time TV adverts for companies put together by the oafish mate on a ropey camera with surprising outcomes. The entire country tunes in riveted but also responds well to the ad and comical hoc TV campaigns.
The story starts as they enter the show, and the backstory is revealed as we go along.
SUBPLOT: The Guest is consequently fired from his job in trainee marketing - after his TV humiliation - so decides to be honest about the products bringing comedy relief and a pinch of moral questioning. He gives away primetime exposure to some of the smaller companies that he snubbed in his job such as a curry house and a rug dealer.
Dangerzone
(Off the Wall Genre smashing comedy)Four alternative versions of 80's legends of Film and Music live in a shared house in Salford Manchester in 1978. Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer, Kenny Loggins and Harold Faltermeyer. Lack of inspiration is denying them the seeds to creativity that could unlock dream careers at Granada TV - the dream factory of the area. Such great works and visions as Top Gun, and the themes from Beverly Hills Cop and Footloose are mere untapped seeds a million miles away.
Kenny out of sheer creative frustration breaks loose and to find inspiration for the music for a pilot show he's working on - embroils himself in a drug deal which ultimately screws up the local Manchester cartel, he double crosses the big boys, get arrested - imprisoned, then is re kidnapped by bent cops, and is almost killed by local drug gangs.
This leaves Don, Jerry and Harold with no choice but to rescue their 'buddy in need, their wing man', from the big boys - and so ensues a mighty clash - which feeds them from Mothernature's breast of adventure, giving them seeds to ideas years ahead of themselves.
A crazy adventure of 80's naff, pre success cameos, Ford Capri chases and textbook quotes that of course - aren't quite there yet.