GPI Annouces Film Selection Release for 2004

Gorgon Productions International announces its Series A Film Story selection for 2004, a neatly packaged set of 15 ideas for blockbuster movies that will have producers creaming themselves with joy. Rights to these screenplays are available as a full set for US$3 million or as separate pieces at US$300,000 each.

Cotton and Candy

Two fashion gurus engage in a bitter struggle to dominate the women's lingerie market. The industry is a non-stop circus of sex, drugs, champagne, luscious photo shoots and supermodels strutting almost nude down the catwalks. When an unlikely challenger appears with a new approach to marketing and some interesting new designs, the world of knickers is changed forever. The gurus don’t like it and they will do anything they can to stop it.

Half Treatment

In 2033, the use of specially grown human organs and the rise of genetic manipulation have made health care the most powerful industry on earth, dominated by one company, Zoehnerloft. Medicine and health care is accessed only by the very wealthy, but basic medical services can be obtained from questionable backyard operators. When her mother dies during a routine procedure, June Factor begins to uncover some startling truths.

Moe: Pop. 7000

In a post-apocalyptic Gippsland country town, unemployment, drug abuse and violence is rife. Amid the depravity, two sisters decide to organise a talent quest among the townsfolk to stave off boredom, with amazing results. Soon the nation is tuned to this shocking event live on TV and ratings soar. As advertisers scramble to buy space, the violence escalates. The military is called in, but the townsfolk threaten to “blow the town apart” if they intervene. It is reality TV.

A conversation with Satan

After happily being hanged for a terrorist act, an Islamic radical is terrified to discover that there is no glory in the afterlife. Timiboy endures countless tortures and degradation in Hell and his companions include the world’s most evil people. God, in regular meetings with Satan, wonders if he should end the misguided religious belief about the afterlife. Satan convinces him to keep the status quo because “business is booming right now” and because “God owes him”.

Torpedo Punt

In 2008, Les Knarkle is the coach of the LA Roos, the first AFL side to be based in the USA, after North Melbourne folds and is "relocated". Arriving to typical Hollywood fanfare, football is the last thing on the "celebrity" players’ minds. But after a miserable start, the Roos are soon abandoned by the public. Unshaken, Knarkle tries some unusual recruiting for surprising results culminating at the MCG in September, with the world watching and a V.V.I.P in the stands.

Leave me in Poland

An Australian boy in his late 20s leaves to travel the world. En route through Europe, he becomes disillusioned by the hypocrisy of other backpackers who, as middle class children of Western cultures, rarely venture off “the circuit”. Seeking a shift of focus, our protagonist leaves the party islands of Greece for the industrial suburbs of Poland. Now removed from the circus, he seeks out real experiences and people, and in this quest, begins to understand himself.

The Adventures of Wallypuss

A genetic freak as the result of a museum accident, Wallypuss becomes an unlikely superhero. Taking the form and body of a man - but with giant cat paws and claws instead of hands and feet - Wallypuss can climb trees and spring over walls. His cats’ eyes enable him to see in the dark, but he is also scared of water and dogs, makes messes and is obsessed with birds. The story follows his adventures as he prowls through the city, doing good deeds while trying to hide his condition from his friends, his family and the love of his life.

Company Nine

In final months of WW2, a company of soldiers is nearly wiped out by a German attack close to Berlin. The thirteen shell-shocked survivors continue to push forward, but with no-one in command. Now delirious and weak, the soldiers begin to reflect on their lives. For some, such as the young narrator Spence, it is a time for peaceful contemplation. But for those whose loyalty is weakest, it is a welcome temptation to rewrite the moral code.

RSVP

Married with children, successful and fairly happy, James Spidley is turning 40. One morning he is cleaning out of his garage when he finds a box of junk. In the box is the guest list from his 21st birthday. In a flash of nostalgia he decides to invite every one of his guests from 19 years ago - to his 40th birthday. No spouses or partners, just a date with the past. Although his wife thinks he has gone mad, he persists, and one month later 70 people congregate to re-live a night from the past – was it a mistake?

Bunny Rolling

Jamieson Brown is Australia's undisputed “Dog King”. Born into abject poverty in Queensland, he received a greyhound pup as a gift on his 18th birthday, which he trained to be the greatest prizewinner of all time. That dog, Barney Banana, enabled Jamieson to build a greyhound racing empire without peer. The story traces his rise through the often corrupt world of greyhound racing, his struggle to be accepted by society, and Brown’s nagging fear that his success was all due to the dog Australians know as Barney.

Lenny and Leon

An alien craft crash-lands off the French coast during WWII. In the confusion of war, the landing goes completely unnoticed and the two surviving aliens, Lenny and Leon, end up assimilating into the British army, becoming war heroes. Our story starts 60 years later, where our two characters, now running a pawn shop in Notting Hill, are thought simply to be eccentric brothers.

Minute Man

A man discovers the ability to freeze time, stopping people where they stand while he can roam around freely for up to 15 minutes. What does he do? Simply waltz into banks and take money? Does he start doing really weird things, purely because he is free to and no one is around to witness it? Or does he instead use his incredible powers for good?

Under the Marble

In the 1980s, organised crime gangs in Russia, Poland and Italy use extortion, murder and other measures to install the first non-Italian Pope in 450 years, John Paul II. As the Vatican and its supreme patriarch become a front for criminal and terrorist activities around the world, our story centres on a young priest in Rome who uncovers the corrupt empire and tries to expose it.

Giants

A scientific expedition discovers a lost race of about 200 giants found living on a remote tropical island. They have the same physiology as humans, but average 9-11 feet in height. Geneticists, anthropologists, politicians and the military clamour to get access to them. But the giants soon fall prey to unscrupulous promoters and opportunists who sniff the obvious marketing and entertainment possibilities. Dwindling in numbers and now subject to common human diseases only one thing can now save them - escaping so they can rebuild their race.

Onto you

A married couple both find out their partner is having an clandestine affair. Thinking they have the upper hand, each person tries to catch the other person out, not realising that they are being followed themselves. In a 'spy vs spy' scenario, they get closer and closer to catching the other until it all comes to a head one night at a five star hotel both are using for their dalliances.

- posted by Wallypuss @ 4:22 am

 
Toronto's grilled hot dogs
Criss-crossed with cuts
Expose the pink spicy flesh
Burn it rough and coarse and salty please

Splash it and swamp it with mustard
The is the best combination
Sitting in a tissue wrapper
Put in some sauerkraut too

She has all the condiments
Freshly made in clean jars
She is polite and people flock to
Her steel cart on the King st corner

She is Polish herself
Pretty blonde locks
She wipes the barbecue heat from her brow
And goes home to Markham tonight


- posted by Wallypuss @ 4:10 am