Saturday, October 24, 2009

Next to God, there is no greater protector than I.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T



An autobiography of Mr. T-

Born as the youngest of 12 kids, Mr. T kicked ass from birth. It's impressive that Chuck Norris got as much cred as he did, when he is just a white Mr. T.

Mr. T is an actual athlete and martial artist, and has a much better hook than Chuck Norris, with Mr. T, you can base it on a true story.


From Wikipedia:
His wearing of gold neck chains and other jewelry was the result of customers losing the items or leaving them behind at the bar/night club after a fight. A customer, who may have been banned from the club or trying to avoid another confrontation, would not have to re-enter the club if Mr. T wore their jewelry as he stood out front. When a customer returned to claim the item, it was readily visible and available with no further confrontations required. Often, the "former" customers did not return. Mr. T thus built up a large collection and earned a reputation for wearing many gold neck chains and bracelets.

Mr. T managed eventually to parlay his job as a bouncer into a career as a bodyguard to the stars that lasted almost ten years. He protected well-known personalities like Muhammad AliSteve McQueen,Michael JacksonLeon SpinksJoe Frazier and Diana Ross, charging $3,000 per day.[2]
As a bodyguard, Tureaud's business card read, "Next to God, there is no greater protector than I." Mr. T claimed that he never lost a client, saying, "I got hurt worse growing up in the ghetto than working as a bodyguard." A bald-headed Mr. T can be seen on film accompanying Joe Frazier to the ring in Frazier's rematch against George Foreman in 1976.


I think a part real part fake autobiography (like the antoine fisher story told by antione fisher) about Mr. T, make it an good old-fashioned big action comedy. With a legit actor in it, this could be such a great Will Smith movie for the next Will Smith. Considering how popular Star Trek was this summer, I firmly believe you can sell anything.
Put some quality it and you've got a guaranteed money maker- District 9, Iron Man, Batman, The Hangover- something slightly unexpected good makes people recommend movies. It's the ones that you weren't expecting to be as good as they were. The title has to be good, a little funny when you say it out loud, and very self explanatory with a poster.
Mr. T-  bam.
Start off with the real story, and then at about the 30 minute mark, turn it into something crazy. Make it like a real version of the Pedo Van, where Mr. T just wants to help people, but is constantly thrown because of his appearance- I want to show the Mr. T from Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool.
Then it turns into something bigger- he gets caught up in some shit and has to rip shit up. A big bad ass old fashioned action movie- something along the lines of True Lies or Die Hard With a Vengeance, something with clever twists and big explosions. If they're making a movie based on this,



Then Mr. T can't be far off.

Edit: Here's a funny story. I only read the early years part of the biography before starting to type this up and trying to photoshop gold chains onto the new Mr. T with the Sackman and Qui Gon Jin and guess what I read at the bottom of the Mr T page?
"Mohawk Media, publisher of the Mr. T graphic novel, has announced on its website that Sony Pictures will be producing a CGI movie starring Mr. T, scheduled for release in 2009."

I think the idea is still good for something, just not Mr. T. And he's the only celebrity I've seen at the mall. Although he was doing a TV Land thing. And I saw Bette Midler on the street once.

A video commemorating creativity.




And another good song.



in conclusion, if you have a few minutes, enjoy this.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You know, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was not nearly as slutty as the title made it sound.. i'm sorry what were we talking about?

Anonymous said...

Could be the best thing I read in my life :D