Animal Movies for Grownups: Seven Horrible Pitches

I’m not working on a film right now, but I am very busy writing something that has nothing to do with this blog.  However, I don’t want to skip out on sending you a blog entry this week, so here’s a short list I came up with late last night when I couldn’t sleep because it was close to 100 degrees and the air conditioning wasn’t working.  I may have been delirious with heat exhaustion.  Feel free to use any of these yourself should you find yourself at your next meeting with producers from Paramount or Fox trying to pitch an idea when you’ve run out of options.

 Animal Movies for Grownups: Seven Horrible Pitches

1. It’s Die Hard meets Free Willy!

2. A hybrid thriller that combines My Friend Flicka with The Manchurian Candidate.

3. It’s a nonlinear Pulp Fiction take on March of the Penguins.

4. Gladiator goes under the sea in Moby Dick’s Fight Club!

5. It’s a Goodfellas with heart—just add orphaned migrating geese.                 

6. Amadeus had a beloved dog named Old Yeller…

7. Think Das Boot with cats!