Movie Treatment....direct from the 'Pents crack writing staff.
how bout a kind of "Family Man" meets that whoopi goldberg film about her hiding out in a convent?
i had a terrifically entertaining dream the other night that yes, could be an interesting movie as well. doubt me, as most dreams seem so fascinating when we're experiencing them but once the light of day strikes they become nonsensical.
well, here's my idea:
a young 20'/30 hotshot attorney type (Chris Hyde) gets into a brawl in a front of a nightclub in midtown manhattan. he's drunk, as usual, out celebrating another empty business victory with some acquaintances. the judge has become tired of seeing this young man with so much potential wind up in his coutrroom for drunk and disorderly behavior so he offers the man a deal: work off his debt to society by serving as business manager for a struggling church up in Harlem.
once the white salesman finds out his sentence he decides to grit his teeth and get with the program. then he meets the powers that be in the first church of harlem: Chastity Hallace and her stepfather Grit Hallace run the church. Chastity runs the choir and the day to day operational particulars, with Grit Hallace doing the the bulk of the sermons and who has major control of the funds of the church.
Chastity is a beautiful, sincere, petite, and sweet bundle being obviously held down by by stepdad, who took over operations while chastity's mother's health deterioriated. As Chris falls more in love wiith Chastity he begins to harbor a grudge against Grit for holding down his stepdaughter in order to advance his own career.
I see Chris Hyde being played by Heath Ledger type, someone in their 20/30s with enough sex appeal to appeal to a wide audience
I see Chastitsy being blayed by someone at home in a church choir as well as in the arms of a leading man. possibly Jennifer Hudson would be the ideal candidate if she could feel more at home in her already beautiful body.
And Grit Hallace, the evil stepfather, would be played by any one of the original kings of comedy. they're all three the right age group, the right attitude, the right everything. since this film would be a musical comedy romance, it's key to have likeable characters, even the unseemly ones. Steve Harvey would be simply brilliant in the role as would a host of others.
i had a terrifically entertaining dream the other night that yes, could be an interesting movie as well. doubt me, as most dreams seem so fascinating when we're experiencing them but once the light of day strikes they become nonsensical.
well, here's my idea:
a young 20'/30 hotshot attorney type (Chris Hyde) gets into a brawl in a front of a nightclub in midtown manhattan. he's drunk, as usual, out celebrating another empty business victory with some acquaintances. the judge has become tired of seeing this young man with so much potential wind up in his coutrroom for drunk and disorderly behavior so he offers the man a deal: work off his debt to society by serving as business manager for a struggling church up in Harlem.
once the white salesman finds out his sentence he decides to grit his teeth and get with the program. then he meets the powers that be in the first church of harlem: Chastity Hallace and her stepfather Grit Hallace run the church. Chastity runs the choir and the day to day operational particulars, with Grit Hallace doing the the bulk of the sermons and who has major control of the funds of the church.
Chastity is a beautiful, sincere, petite, and sweet bundle being obviously held down by by stepdad, who took over operations while chastity's mother's health deterioriated. As Chris falls more in love wiith Chastity he begins to harbor a grudge against Grit for holding down his stepdaughter in order to advance his own career.
I see Chris Hyde being played by Heath Ledger type, someone in their 20/30s with enough sex appeal to appeal to a wide audience
I see Chastitsy being blayed by someone at home in a church choir as well as in the arms of a leading man. possibly Jennifer Hudson would be the ideal candidate if she could feel more at home in her already beautiful body.
And Grit Hallace, the evil stepfather, would be played by any one of the original kings of comedy. they're all three the right age group, the right attitude, the right everything. since this film would be a musical comedy romance, it's key to have likeable characters, even the unseemly ones. Steve Harvey would be simply brilliant in the role as would a host of others.
posted by joe sweeney at 1:09 AM
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