August 7, 2013
Last year I pitched my sure-fire, can’t-miss movie to Hollywood. Hamsterus, the touching story of a boy and his giant mutated hamster, was passed on by every studio in California, plus two in Argentina. Well, I don’t give up easily, so here is my next big Hollywood idea, a TV series that I am sure is going to be a hit. Here is the first part of my brief treatment of the first act of your new favorite show. Enjoy!
PRESIDENT HOBO
Act 1
Scene 1
Washington DC at night. Streets are deserted. A police car slowly drives through a rundown area, its spotlight picking out dark spots and bleak shadows. Suddenly the police car stops and the spotlight stays fixed on a group of garbage cans.
VOICE OF OFFICER ONE ON POLICE RADIO (crackle of static): We found him. I repeat, The President has been found.
Slow close up on garbage cans. Camera moves around cans to reveal a bum sleeping behind the cans, his clothes little more than rags, his face unshaven for weeks.
Two police officers get out of the car and walk toward the President.
OFFICER ONE: I am so tired of this. How does he keep getting away?
OFFICER TWO: I don’t care but this time they better give him a shower. I’m sick and tired of going home smelling like Presidential stank.
The officers pick him up and not-so-carefully drop him in the back of their squad car.
Act 1
Scene 2
The White House, the Oval Office.
REX MARGIN and LOLA SAMPLE are pacing the office, BRENDA SITSWELL sits behind the president’s desk with a can of wax.
BRENDA: I wish he’d stop carving his initials in the desk.
REX: I just wish he’s spell them right.
Two Secret Service agents enter the office, propping up PRESIDENT HOBO between them.
AGENT ONE: Look who’s back.
They drop him on the couch.
AGENT TWO: Timber!
REX MARGIN: Thanks fellas, take the rest of the night off. And don’t forget- this never happened.
AGENT ONE: Again.
REX: What?
AGENT ONE: This never happened again. Just like it never happened last week or three times last month.
LOLA SAMPLE: That’s enough officer, you’re dismissed.
The agents leave. LOLA, REX, and BRENDA gather around the couch, where PRESIDENT HOBO lays snoring and clutching an empty whiskey bottle.
REX: You guys know I didn’t vote for him, right?
What do you think? It’s going to be huge, right? I can’t wait for this to go into production. Networks love political dramas, and this one is topical and has a dash of comedy. I know that after this, Hollywood execs will be lined up at my door. I can’t wait!
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