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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'.
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Dycote Orion
The Space Nukes for Peace Conspiracy
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
9 September 2000
Comedy Spy Techno-Thriller Mystery Mocumentary
(The protagonist investigates) Indian and
Pakistani Peace Activists and double agents conspiring
together in an audacious disinformation campaign to spur
a commercial space race between their respective nations
instead of imminent war, by cultivating suspicion in each
government that the other nation's above ground nuclear
tests where, in actuality, secret R&D for cheap and
powerful (but somewhat "dirty") atomic bomb
driven Heavy Lift massive launch vehicles intended to
achieve Earth orbit, once, with huge payloads, such as
entire disassembled space stations, and there after to go
into extended service through out the Solar System mining
Asteroids and so forth (effectively resuming Project
Orion which was abandoned by the United States after the
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty).
'The Mouse that Roared/ on the Moon' meets 'The Man who
Never Was', 'Kim', 'City of Hope' and 'Star Cops', sort
of.
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Foresight
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
24 November 2000
A 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.
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Phases of an Alien Moon
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 23 August 2001
"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...
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'Frankensteina'
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Life and
Times of Johann Konrad
Dippel
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 29 January 2002
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- Gothic/historical/bio-pic
The exploits of the notorious real life
Alchemist and grave robber who's legend may well have inspired Marry Shelly.
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'Buckaroo Banzai and the Isolinguals'.
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 15 April 2002
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- Tongue-in-cheek Science Fiction Adventure
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?
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Stoning the Houri
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 26 April 2002
A devout Muslim woman runs away to a Pacific island and goes native! So her Western
educated but Muslim Fundamentalist [son/brother/husband] must honor-kill her.
But he has a dream about fanatical Mujahedin in Paradise, who cannot
understand that they are dead, and start stoning the Houri!
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Word of the Prophetess
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 6 May 2002
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- A desperate female Muslim fugitive is declared Prophetess (with
four husbands and all!) by an opportunistic publicist who has given her
asylum, garnering for her a fatwa, media attention and all the protection and
all of the commotion of a
high profile.
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Proctors of Janat
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 6 May 2002
An easy going and hither to generally unnoticed Polynesian
island community finds itself under the jurisdiction of a fanatical
Fundamentalist Islamic nation.
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'Commandments of Time' - Bible Epic/Science Fiction
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
From a suggestion by Dr. Peter Choras
aaronagassi@comcast.net
August 10 2003
Was God a time traveler? And did He intervene in history? Moses, like unto
Sisyphus, climbs the mountain again and again, bringing down variant Tablets of
the Law and smashing them again in frustration. For at the foot of the mountain,
he is always greeted by generations of his descendants, relating to their
revered Patriarch what has/will come to pass from each variant set of
commandments in turn.
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- With his last breath, Moses hands down the final Tablets of the Law fit for the
true liberation from bondage, of justice, clarity and flexibility, sanguine that
by God's will he has finally gotten it right. But then the High Priests
rejecting it all as too complicated and unsuitable for keeping much needed
order, instead just dash off a quick rewrite of the Code of Hammurabi, the
familiar commandments we know. And the rest, sadly, is history.
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'Rolicker!'
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
March 19 2004
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- Political Satire/ reality TV/ campaign proposal,
truth-in-jest
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- Styling himself after Robin Hood, an enterprising
publicist and his Merry Men create a sensation by setting out to illegally
improve the completely inadequate, confusing and poorly visible street signage
for the hopelessly convoluted street system of Boston Massachusetts, even
going so far as to optimize the hitherto poorly synchronized streetlight
timing! Announcing his next strike, our hero successfully orchestrates the
public announcement of his candidacy for the office of Traffic Commissioner
while being led away in handcuffs before the media, and then wins by a
landslide!
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'Working
Relationship'
Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
December 06 2004
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A cheap detective has enslaved his mortal enemy, a vengeful and blood thirsty
vampire and genius mathematician, by cunning exploitation of an obscure
weakness cursing all vampires, the irresistible obsessive compulsion to solve
puzzles of every kind. And the vexing conundrum in question is the massive
raft of statistical anomalies of the election fraud and intimidation that the
detective has been hired to investigate. But once the case is solved...
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- 'Molest Me Now, Scumbag!'
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Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- July 25 2008
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Oddball Short Comedy / Social Commentary
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A demented cartoonish Shirley Temple lookalike relentlessly and aggressively
attempts to seduce a timid, haunted and terrified recovering paroled child
molester fleeing from her, stumbling over his own feet and screaming
hysterically!
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Mad
Max: White Fella
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Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- August 2024
Deep into the postapocalyptic Outback wastelands, Max discovers the hidden
Mauri Wakanda.
Documentaries and game shows
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'Vulcan
Master'
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 29 January 2002
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- Game show:
- Spot common logical falsities, follow premise to
logical conclusion, win real life arguments, parry leading questions under
pressure.
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- "Is your Logic commanding? Are you a true
Vulcan Master?"
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- A proposal for a flashy 'Star Trek' parodying TV
game show that will challenge reasoning skills rather than rote memory
ability.
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CliqueBusters
- Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
- 29 January 2002
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- Reality TV Video verité and/or fictionalized movie, marketing spin-off from a proposed
anti-bullying initiative. The problem of bullying in just about every social
context is finally beginning to emerge as a viable video journalistic theme.
Yet only CliqueBusters is a concept for intervention!
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- Real life 'REVENGE of the NERDS' / 'HEATHERS'? Can it
be done?
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Ploutos
Illumined
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Aaron Agassi, (617) 628-2339
aaronagassi@comcast.net
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21 July 2015
Celebrating 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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