Movie Pitch

A couple of weeks ago Jon and I participated in the Hollywood Fantasy Draft at Anomalous Material. Each player had $50 million to use in an auction draft to acquire six actors and a director that they would then cast in either a remake or an original pitch. We got a stellar cast (including Morgan Freeman for only $1 million), and we’d like to share our pitch with you. The City Too Busy To Hate Directed by Clint Eastwood In 1960′s Atlanta, a mayoral race between the staunch segregationist incumbent and a younger, anti-segregationist  (Leonardo DiCaprio) ends in a tie. A committee is formed to make the decision, but one of the pro-segregationists goes missing. Fearing that he’s been kidnapped by extreme political forces within the black community, the other segregationists (led by Jeff Bridges) hire an African-American private investigator (Denzel Washington) to find him before the vote deadline. The PI investigates the missing politician’s naive wife (Anne Hat...