Summary

These are the ideas I remember.

Choose Your Heist

An eight part streaming series where Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6 are split into an A track and a B track. Episodes 1 and 2 setup the heist and introduce the crew. Episode 2 ends with some really weird shit happening. You, the viewer receive a prompt to decide if (A) weird shit is real or (B) it’s all a trick, he’s high or dreaming. Either way once you’ve chosen, your account is locked into track A or B. We film separate episodes for 3 through 6. If you’re A track, you see the A story. B track, B story.

The key idea is that important parts of story A are embedded in the B track and vice versa. You can’t get the whole story from watching alone. You have to read online reviews and listen to podcasts and talk to people from the other track to tease out the important information for your track. The series uses pop-culture online discussion as a fundamental part of the story telling experience.

Raccoon Eye

A film in the style of Wes Anderson. The movie opens with a ground level camera in the parking lot of a luxuriously wooded park. An arboretum. A big ass raccoon chills in the bushes at the edge of the parking lot eating garbage. The sun is just coming up, the world is beautiful. A car pulls into the shot, only the wheels and the base of the frame is visible.

A man comes around, muttering to himself. He opens the passenger door, unbuckles a drunken giggling passenger, and pulls him roughly from the car dumping him onto the ground directly in front of the camera, filling the shot with our hero’s sloppy drunken mug.

The car pulls away, aggressively. Our hero rolls onto his back. Cut to an overhead shot with a view of the entire empty parking lot. We watch the raccoon slowly wander his way over to the hero and make sweet, sweet love to his face.

Open credits

It’s Monday morning. Our hero is at work, in a meeting. He has the saddest eye patch in the world, a bit of gauze and athletic tape wrapped twice around his head. Taped right over the hair. He has a Kleenex and dabs repeatedly at the liquid seeping out the corner of the gauze. The audio, originally muted and distorted, comes into focus. It’s the type of meeting where our hero loses his job.

He’s home early. Meets a strapping young personal trainer leaving his house on his way in. It’s exactly what you think. He knows it. She doesn’t even really try to hide it. Neither care enough to make an effort to fight or address it. He goes upstairs and passes out.

This is a movie about a man that has achieved a balance in life. He’s mediocre. Everything he does is just barely good enough, and sometimes not. Shitty friends that he treats poorly. Shitty job he loses. Shitty marriage. But at night. He’s BATMAN.

No, he’s not fucking Batman. But he does something. Maybe he’s a Twitch streamer. Maybe he has a podcast. This thing he does at night, he’s amazing at it. Everything else sucks. Everything else get’s minimum effort. Because at night our hero is a HERO. His whole life is a balance, a trade he’s willing to make. Until a raccoon jizzes in his eye.

This will not stand. This must be addressed. He becomes obsessed with revenge on the raccoon. His poorly constructed life comes apart in a series of disasterous events. Rock bottom. Recovery and a new slightly healthier stasis. End credits with our hero signing autographs at a comic con wearing a coonskin hat.

Mystery Van. You’ll be home by midnight. Probably.

This is an entertainment service. Dinner theatre. For $350 dollars a person, we craft a night of adventure. Ten people are picked up in a van and are taken on a mystery date. Dinner with a top chef on the 50 yard line of Century Link field. However, everything is not quite as it seems. Some of our diners are actors playing a part. The night comes apart spectacularly before we put it back together again and drop you off at home. By midnight. Probably.

I See Bad Things

Another streaming series. A late middle aged man, a traffic cop, is reminded of a childhood experience. He was shoplifting candy when he had a vision of a car jacking in the parking lot. As he walks out of the store, he sees his vision starting to play out in front of him and is able to interrupt it by yelling a question at the carjacker.

He has a similar experience as an adult. He does a bad thing and has a vision of a worse thing. This is his superpower.

The Cat Ladies and the Husk

Golden girls + Catwoman. A group of crime fighting ladies aren’t as young as they used to be. At the funeral of one of their members, they notice the grand-daughter has cat like reflexes as well. New blood.

Their enemy is an alien menace, The Husk. A sentient worm that crawls inside a human and takes them over. He turns them into a husk. He’s outraged that he is called the Husk. “I’m not the husk. I’m the husker. I make the husks.”. Inevitably, his plans are foiled right as he’s ranting about how they should call him the Husker.

The cat ladies are responsible for some of the most notorious assassinations as they stop the Husk from successfully taking over powerful figures.

Robbing the Go Store

This is maybe a short. A group of criminals are assembled via a dark web chatroom to rob a store. They carefully execute a break-in with precision and expertise. As they successfully overcome all the obstacles, they realize it’s a Go Store. There is no money. There is no cash registers. They can take as many groceries as they want, but it’s all RedBull and candy bars. They didn’t come here for snacks.

There’s no one here, no money here. The crew begins to argue amongst themselves. In disgust, one of the crew pulls off his mask. A light from the ceiling spotlights him. Alexa’s voice plays on the store speakers, “Robert Williams, 36. Likes snowboarding and camping. Is DTF”. What the fuck. Alexa has used facial recognition and the fact that the Go Store is wired with hundreds of cameras to identify Robert. It’s clear that this crew has some cleaning up to do. Robert pleads, “Danny, come on. You’ve known me forever. Don’t do this.”.

“Sorry, bud,” Danny says softly as he pulls the trigger, shooting Robert in the face.

“Danny Shannon. 342 Elm. danshan@hotmail.com. Two-Oh-Six-“ Alexa is interrupted by gunfire.

Danny crumples to the ground, shot in the side by Gary Snead.

One by one, Alexa reveals information on the crew, turning them against each other. One of them is married to a sister, but is cheating. One is a cop. A cop that does crimes as a hobby, but still a cop. Eventually all of the crew is dead, ending in a double shooting.

The focus fades from the store as police and emergency personal arrive to take in the scene. A voice says, “..weirdest thing, this is the third time this year.” Transition to a shot of a computer. A post is being made in a darkweb chatroom. Alexa is putting together a new crew.

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Mediocre Heroes

People with weird super powers.

Immortal Monster

A middle aged woman, 30 or so, is actually an immortal monster that has lived since the beginning of man. She has to kill once a year. Instead of having one true love across the ages and maybe a new love now, she views lovers the way we view pets. We love them with all our heart, but they die too soon and we get another.

Moleface

Seriously no idea.

Babywigs

Wigs, but for babies?