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Showing posts with label pitch meeting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pitch meeting. Show all posts

Friday, March 21, 2025

"So, there was this Robot War..."

The Electric State Pitch Meeting
Netflix has become a powerhouse at churning out content over the past decade, and their latest blockbuster hit has all the ingredients to make a massive hit: big-name stars and directors, one of the biggest budgets ever, and… well that’s enough according to the algorithm! 
 
The Electric State does raise some questions. Like why did they even base this on a graphic novel if they were just going to do their own thing anyway? Why didn’t the humans just deactivate all the robots if they didn’t believe they were alive anyway? How are the needs to sleep and to recharge that much different from each other? Did Mr. Peanut just sign a treaty with Bill Clinton? To answer all these questions and more, step inside Ryan George’s Pitch Meeting for The Electric State!

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Cameos, cameos, and more cameos...!

Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Deadpool & Wolverine!
Deadpool & Wolverine definitely raises some questions. Like how well does that Anchor Being concept actually hold up? Is this movie 90% cameos? How many fights are there where nobody is capable of getting hurt? To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to Deadpool & Wolverine.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Is it pronounced NAMOR or No-More?

Pitch Meeting: WAKANDA FOREVER
After the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman, Ryan Coogler and Marvel found themselves in the difficult position of continuing an iconic and culturally important series without its main star. The result is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever– a lovely tribute to Boseman, but not without some Marvel-ness to poke fun at! Black Panther: Wakanda Forever does raise some questions. Like how do you actually pronounce NAMOR? How is this guy getting in and out of Wakanda so easily? Why would they go fight the ocean people on their home turf? Is everybody Iron Man now? To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever!

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Ms. Marvel Pitch Meeting

Step inside the pitch meeting that led to Ms Marvel!
Marvel has been going full throttle with their content output in Phase 4. With show after show after show hitting Disney Plus in the past year, some people are saying that superhero fatigue may finally be setting in. So putting out a new series about a character people aren’t super familiar with, starring a newcomer actress was always going to be a challenge, no matter how well-reviewed the show was.

Ms Marvel
does raise some questions though. Like does every single teenager boy have a crush on Kamala? Why is this Damage Control department so bad at their jobs? Does everybody just have elaborate exposition presentations ready to go? What’s up with the sudden time travel? How long did those kids have to rig up the entire school Home Alone style?

To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Ms Marvel! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Friday, July 15, 2022

'Thor: Love and Thunder' Pitch Meeting...

Hear the Pitch Meeting that brought us
THOR: LOVE
and THUNDER
Thor: Ragnarok in 2017 completely reinvented the God of Thunder, who, after Thor: The Dark World– many thought had become a pretty boring character. Since Ragnarok was such a hit, it seems like Taiki Waititi was given free reign to do whatever he wanted for the sequel 5 years later. Thor: Love and Thunder raises a lot of questions though. Like did Thor Odinson get dumber? How many times are these goats going to scream? Can we see Gorr the God Butcher butcher some gods sometime? Was that Guardians of the Galaxy tease in Endgame really just for the intro of this movie? If Gorr thought all gods only cared about themselves, why did he assume they would rescue children? To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Thor: Love and Thunder! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.