One of many part time jobs I held in LA was asa freelance script coverage dude. I worked in several directors’ and producers’ offices as well, so I got to see the full gamut of indie to blockbuster scripts and pitches. The one this that always shocked and saddened me though was the raw numbers of it all. It was astounding how many fully written and full-on fantastic scripts never got the go ahead to be made into movies or even developed further.

Yet even more surprising was how many truly terrible scripts got the ok to be shat out of some human script-mill for hundreds of thousands of dollars, based solely on a logline and a title.

AS OF NOW, I am putting this out there: I want a piece of those hundreds of thousands of dollars. And not like the corner of one of the dollar bills, ok, Lady Fate, if you’re listening. I mean I want if not all, a large portion of the hundreds of thousands. Ok? No ironic “You got what you wished for” nonsense!

Therefore, in pursuit of this goal I will begin posting, right here on DRINK @ WORK, titles and loglines to terrible, horrible, confusing movie ideas.

Statistically, one of them just HAS TO GET BOUGHT, right?

Right.

Check in regularly, Hollywood.

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UPRIGHT BASSIST CLUB

Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY

LOGLINE: Two widowed neighbors get a second chance at love when they discover their shared history as professional upright bass players, and then aliens attack.