Life's A Pitch Podcast

We talk about a town Bruce Willis owned, Bible movies in general and pitch some more bible movies! Honourable mentions Mission: Forbidden Fruit - A casino heist set at the beginning of time. For Sale - Big Boat, Used Once - Who gets ownership of the boat once the waters subside!

Join us as we take selected stories from the apocryphal "book of pitch" in this biblical stories episode! Apocryphal mentions: Samson: Heavyweight Champion of the world - a man takes on an entire people after they kill his donkey. David Vs Kaiju - A Hero from the bible is brought to the future to take on a post apocalyptic threat. Gor Blimey! Herod Calm Down - We start the "Gor Blimey" comedy franchise with a trip to biblical times.

Tom reads a "pitch" for a movie idea he came up with in 2017 and wrote down and we play the first part of some bonus Patreon exclusive content for you all.

We go back to the old format this holiday season giving films to pitch to each other with a Christmas theme! Tom pitches "The clock that stopped for Christmas Crocs" Matt Pitches "A Stocking Full Of Bullets" Merry Holidays to you all!

We talk about xmas ads with Dave Bulmer and pitch an utterly silly advert for the shampoo that saved the holiday.

Come and witness the completely bonkers festive ad campaigns we cooked up this week with the help of Dave Bulmer! Music by Darren Curtis

THREE whole new pitches in this special Star Wars bonus bits. That's nearly a whole other episode of Ash Routh and us adding to Star Wars Legends year by year. Don't miss out!

This week we expanded the Star Wars universe as we discover that the Sarlacc isn't just a mouth, and it hates sand! Sandra Oh escorts the enormous space worm across the galaxy as the Hutt cartels hunt to claim it as their pet. Honourable Mentions: The Planet with like... a billion midochlorians - What are those little force thingies *really*. I mean how do they feel about this whole Jedi thing. And can they escape the evil Palpatine trying to shove 'em in clones? Dancing with the Star Wars - Imagine the Star Wars special and the dance party at the end of Shrek 2 had a baby. You're just about there.

We pitch some more movies based on song titles and talk about what is the film that has a song title but is the furthest away from that song. The answer may surprise you. This is the deleted scenes for episode 355, it might be worth listening to that episode first before this one. Or not, your call.

We pitch a film where all Mark Addy wants to do is watch Love Island but Ridley Scott won't let him... Honourable Mentions Sandstorm: An archeologist finds an ancient beat which is also a cosmic warning. Hamantha: Listen and find out what this is about. Doctor Worm: A time travelling worm and a mole ask people to listen to their new beats as they lay down some mind bending drum and bass!

We pitch the most complicated space western imaginable as an amazon original Star Wars knock-off. Then we sort out what on earth we mean by a "modern western"

This week we pitch some modern westerns, seemingly just by transporting cowboys into the future. A pop culture convention is rocked as tensions in the queue start to mount and strange characters begin to wander the convention. But nobody expects the startling revelation when the doors to the most popular panel open. Honourable Mentions: Bury my spurs in Belper - A cowboy businessman intended to replace all the players in football team Tottenham Hotspurs once he acquired them. But he didn't account for their loyalty to the team, and now he's plotting a murderous solution up north. The Quickdraw App - Jingle all the way meets SNL in this technological toy-store chaos. Get That Horse off my Hovercraft - Many theories, but only one can be true. Why did that horse get on the hovercraft, and what does it intend to do with the army of horses it has raised.

A horrible highway based gameshow, a murder in a village in Derbyshire and a completion for the next cereal mascot all feature in this weeks food based deleted scenes! This is the deleted scenes for episode 344, it might be worth going back and listening to that podcast before this one... or you do you...

We pitch cooking competition movies this week and come up with an origin story/biopic for Guy Fieri! Honourable Mentions Creme-Brawl-ee - You've heard of the hunger/squid games? Well imagine that but with a certain kind of desert thrown in the mix! Pizza The Action - An Adam Sandler movie in which Adam Sandler has to prove he can make the best Pizza in New York.

We pitch a BUNCH more product placement movies, hate on some billionaires, and realise why we don't like Chris Pratt. The usual, then.

This week, we're placing products in the public imagination, such that every story is profitable, and every legend intensifies our love of corporate consumption. Hamburglar (Lin Manuel Miranda) has ousted the clown as the vain figurehead of McDonald's Town, but when an imperial threat comes knocking, he must put his trust in unexpected places to steal back their greatest prize. But will this caper become a civil war? Honourable Mentions: Netflix the Movie A Big Bite: The Apple Movie Video James Be sure to tune in to the Deleted Scenes this week for a bunch more honourable mentions!

In this deleted scenes we talk about pitching real movie titles, Matt goes through a list of his unused titles from the time we used to pitch movies at each other. We talk about Bond themes for some reason and talk about real movie titles we can't pitch without being like the original movie! Enjoy! This is the deleted scenes from episode 351, we'd recommend listening to that before this podcast, but we ain't gonna stop you doing you.

We delve back into actual movie titles this week and pitch an Arthur Miller-esque drama about a salesman in "For A Few Dollars More". This weeks Honourable Mentions are both based on titles of Stanley Kubrick movies, except we make them better!! A Clockwork Orange - Will Holmes track down the their of a priceless piece of steampunk art? The Shining - How far are you willing to go to get exposure for your theatre play?

What qualifies as a paranormal movie? How many spooky movies can Eden watch in a year? And why does Jack Black want to capture the California Raisins so badly? These are deleted scenes from the Life's a Pitch podcast episode 350, if this is your first time listening, we recommend going back and listening to the main episode first for context!

This week we pitch some paranormal horror movies with Eden MW! A childhood book club reunites under the strangest circumstances as they're haunted by the ghost of their local library! Honourable Mentions: The House without a Toilet - A pair of hopeful movie-makers visit an eminent producer in the hopes of having their script optioned. However when their bladders start to fill, they discover that the bathroom doesn't want to be found, as it hides dark secrets. I wish I could be a crime against humanity - When a scientist transfers his soul into a suspiciously cheap mansion with the hopes of haunting the next buyers, the last thing he counted on was renovations. Can he survive the modern way of "living" or will he give up the ghost? Spooky music by PeriTune: https://peritune.com/