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Subject: Screenplay Pitches log lines
Copyright Aaron Agassi, 1999 - 2004
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'The War of Agreement' - Conspiracy Spy Thriller
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
September 26 1999
Farce turns deadly, as an easy going Palestinian from Brookline
Massachusetts, on a bet with an Orthodox Jewish friend, converts
to Judaism
in order to emigrate to Israel. -Only to stumble upon the
dangerous
discovery that the PLO and the Israeli government have conspired
from the
beginning to keep the Middle East in turmoil, as an excuse to
each dominate
and exploit their own peoples! And our hero, because of his
contrived cover
identity and dual affiliations, is mistaken by both factions as
their double agent
go-between.
'Rogue Earth', Hard Science Fiction
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
26 September 1999
Orbit catastrophically perturbed by a mysterious gravity
transmissions from
deep space, the Earth is slingshotted close to the Sun, and out
into a Grand
Tour of the Solar System, in the far future, at the next
planetary
alignment, to encounter each planet in turn, now populated by
different
PostHuman GELFs and AIs.
'SPACE: 1999', but with
drama, science and respect for the intelligence.
Now moving towards production
as of 2010?
'Time Skein', Science Fiction Gothic
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
26 September 1999
The brooding Lord of Skein Manor, a temperamental TV producer,
stalks the
mansion's corridors of time, struggling to change history in
order to
retroactively prevent his own secret terminal illness.
'DARK SHADOWS' meets 'THE TIME TUNNEL' and 'SLIDERS'
'The Castrated Woman', Psychological Thriller
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
26 September 1999
A starlet on a Sit Com struggles to break loose from her strange
and
controlling rich and powerful fiancée and producer, the Lord of
Skein Manor,
and his spooky circle of friends, to embark upon a life of sexual
adventure.
But instead, she suffers a panic attack and a strange episode of
lost time.
A Feminist 'The Prisoner/'The Fugitive/'The X-Files'
'Cheshire Catharine', Comedy Sit Com/Fantasy
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
26 September 1999
A show within a show about the mistress of a bizarre and
temperamental
producer, the Sit Com actress who plays:
A buxom young woman driven to such depths of awkward self
consciousness,
that she tends to fade away, except for her gravity defying
boobs, floating
in mid air! -which her skinny kid sister then likes to borrow. An
hysterically jealous supervisor at work slyly manipulates both
Catharine and
the shy nerdy mail clerk, to keep them from connecting and
breaking the
spell.
'BEWITCHED' or 'I DREAM OF JENNIE' as done by Ernie Kovacs
visits with
'HARRISON BERGERON' and 'THE YOUNG ONES' in 'DEXTER'S LABORATORY'.
Dycote Orion
ForesightA disillusioned time traveling political intern discovers that politicians are only interested in fore knowledge of elections and appropriations, but refuse to rethink policy, no matter what the foreseeable consequences. And so (s)he quits the internship in disgust to begin a career as a cynical time traveling lobbyist for hire, but is quickly drawn into a pathetic pro bono cause.
Phases of an Alien Moon"very interesting history of the prejudices in aviation against women - which doubtless were inherited by NASA. There was a series of accidents in the 1920's involving menstruating women pilots - things like the wings of the plane coming off."
-Footnote to interview with Constance Penley
Yes, the curse of menstruation has always attracted killer Gremlins! And, what's more, that's also what actually happened to Challenger. But watch out, Alien BEMs! Ripley's gone PMS...
'Frankensteina'
The exploits of the notorious real life Alchemist and grave robber who's legend may well have inspired Marry Shelly.
'Buckaroo Banzai and the Isolinguals'.
L. Sprague de Camp's first published work: 'Isolinguals', Astounding, September 1937 later anthologized by Damon Knight in FIRST FLIGHT : MAIDEN VOYAGES IN SPACE AND TIME. Lancer, PB, in 1963, would be ideal for adaptation into a Buckaroo Banzai Adventure, 'Buckaroo Banzai and the Isolinguals'.
Buckaroo Banzai, of course, is a latter day pulp fiction crime fighter and super scientist who was played by Peter Weller.
Chaos reigns as, one by one, the population of the city revert to identities from ancestral memory. The Isolinguals of the title are different confused roving gangs made up of anachronistic identities each speaking ancient language similar enough to at all communicate. Can Buckaroo Banzai and his friends figure out what is happening and respond in time to save the day?
Stoning the Houri
Word of the Prophetess
Proctors of Janat
An easy going and hither to generally unnoticed Polynesian island community finds itself under the jurisdiction of a fanatical Fundamentalist Islamic nation.
'Commandments of Time' - Bible Epic/Science Fiction
'Rolicker!'
'Working
Relationship'
'Vulcan
Master'
CliqueBusters
Ploutos
IlluminedCelebrating and luxuriating on a yacht and finding themselves lured into extraordinary rendition at sea, the arrogant Wall Street tycoons, unpunished architects of the global financial crisis, are finally brought to trial for acts of economic terror in an international tribunal convened in Greece.
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