Life's A Pitch Podcast

In this pseudo sequel to the 1993 classic, the world famous Mario Bros. are called to a small town where everything is not quite what it seems. Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing - Andy Sandburg must pay his debts back to his racoon friend Tommy Nook, while avoiding the police. Wow! You look like Tony Hawk - A man having an identity crisis stumbles across a horrible conspiracy!

We pitch a strange, piratical apocalypse, and this one has aliens. We also talk a lot about Waterworld.

Freedom is gone, the law in California is decided by a few drone-wielding police-oligarchs, but the waverider culture is strong and surf gangs are breaking the rules from Alcatraz to the newly-sentient Golden Gate Bridge. In this episode we blended the genre's of Post-Apocalypse and Pirate for your entertainment, what a wave to ride. Honourable Mentions: WasteLandLubber - Society has started anew, and a second age of exploration uncovers an enormous island of trash from before the fall floating in the ocean. Will the pirates of the Wasteland discover the island's poisonous secret before it's too late? Legend of the Mutant Rum - An agent from the apocalyptic timewar is thrown backwards to the age of piracy with a mysterious doomsday weapon. Unfortunately that weapon also looks like some VERY tasty rum. But if these pirates drink it, it could change the past forever in one very fuzzy way.

We pitch another fighting movie that spends more time in courtroom battles than in the ring, And we talk about just what counts as a martial arts movie. These are deleted scenes from the Life's a Pitch podcast episode 327, if this is your first time listening, we recommend you go back and listen to the main episode, to give these snippets more context!

In a jaded society that gets its kicks from watching strangers compelled into rage-fuelled public fights, one woman must defy the odds and find a way to end this sick gameshow once and for all. Honourable Mentions: 120 minutes of Punch - One art film, two narratives. A punch seems to last a lifetime, maybe this experience isn't what the director intended, but does that make it less real? Sock the Kasbah - After the Kasbah is hit by a landslide, Joe Strummer becomes public enemy number one, and now he's trapped in a foreign land fighting for his very life.

Another teen party movie, this time with an activity, and a sociopathic plan to make one lonely kid feel better. This is a deleted scene from the Life's a Pitch Podcast episode 236, if this is your first time listening, we recommend you listen to the main episode first to give this snippet a bit of context.

The whole world is looking forward to raucous parties when things are back to normal, so we decided to pitch some of the craziest teen party movies around, When his parents go away for the weekend, one nerd (Tom Holland) takes the opportunity -and the use of his Dad's (David Lynch) credit card- to have his first wild party. But when him and his best friend (Macauley Culkin) discover a wanted terrorist (Liam Neeson) in the aftermath, they get embroiled in a plot to destroy federal evidence. Worse yet though, the house is trashed! Honourable Mentions: Aliens Have Invaded My Crotch - It's hard enough being the only teen in school who's not interested in sex and parties. But when one teen is abducted by aliens, he discovers a conspiracy that definitely didn't get brought up in sex ed. Florida's Maximum Security McDonalds - When you're fourteen and all you want to do is party in the arcade, a birthday trip to a burger chain (even a floating one) with gran can seem like a real drag. But after some escape shenani

We pitch a King Kong prequel, Dave wastes LOADS of .wav looking for a tweet, and we figure out what other talking animals we'd need for a heist.

We're back in the reboot game and are joined by Dave Bulmer to revitalise some franchises whether they need it or not! Babe made the news as a Pig with a Job, but now it's time to assemble a crew and pull one last job to break some of his porcine brethren out of an evil farm run by a farmer (Tim Curry) that wants to turn them into meat! Honourable Mentions: John Carpenter's Garfield - It's an alien invasion, but we're far too late to stop it. Garfield has a plan to help the human race turn back the tide of invasive Lasagna, but could the cure be more disturbing than the problem? Thomas the Tank Engine, the Fat Controller's Revenge - the villain Sir Topham Hat has been cancelled and sent to a mysterious island, but as he plots his revenge against Britain, only his strangest experiment can stop the war machine of steam engines he's controlling,

We pitch another animation/live action feature in which people go into a megadrive and others come out. We also argue about Space Jam 2, then reminisce about the golden era of animation/live action and the renaissance the genre is having.

When animation crosses over into live-action, worlds collide and our worst anxieties are made manifest. Florence Pugh is struggling alone as her debt becomes an overflowing red problem, but is she really alone in her predicament? Glad we gave this one to David Cronenberg. Honorable Mentions: Draw Your Own Friends - Being a kid who's susceptible to everything means that making friends is incredibly difficult. One such child's imagination takes his classmates on incredible adventures, but their friendship is only in his imagination, or is it? Give Grandma the Rock - A family is struggling to get through to their aging grandmother, but after a "VR miracle solution" goes wrong, it's down to the family to come together on a long road trip to Blackpool so that they can figure out exactly what kind of Rock grandma needs to relive her glory days.

Frank Sinatra is running a competition for the masses, a space race to reach his moon-casino in under a million dollars. "It's like Wacky Races meets Scrapheap Challenge" - Empire, definitely. We also discuss our top three racing movies, and stay tuned for the after credits scene from this week's main pitch!

This week we pitched some big-race movies! Some of Australia's best love actors battle it out in a wacky race to be the first to do a full lap of the country. But does the race's founder Hugo Weaving have an ulterior motive? Honourable Mentions: Spit/Second - when a court case deemed that spitting across the finish line contained enough DNA to construe a win, the face of professional track athletics changed forever. This documentary looks at the fallout, following the former fastest man in the world as he hopes to change it again. The Man that Won the Wimbledon 500 - When Tim Henman has his last chance at Wimbledon glory robbed from him in fluke cross-sport mishap, a cricket batsman vows to win the competition in Tim's honour. But his misunderstanding of the rules might just turn this tennis tournament into a race that will change the sport forever.

A seasoned criminal and scourge of the London streets is being sat down for tea and a chat, but by the police? A rival? The press? Only Maggie Smith knows. We also talk about gangster movies and the perils of power!

This week we're creating gangster movies, cautionary tales involving power outside of the law? Or wild legends in which the underdog seizes power? Why not both? When a washed-up TV chef becomes the center of a popular meme, he uses It to launch an organisation that will have cosmic implications. Honourable mentions: Support Your Local Girl-Gang - An ensemble cast of underfunded girl-scouts accidentally find that they're more intimidating than they expected, but can they meet their targets before someone takes the racket too far? Vinny Two-Shoes and his Concrete Galoshes - Trying to pursue a life of crime as a normal guy is hard work in a world of heavily themed gangsters. When his normality gets him singled out by Grandpappy Revolvo, Vinny thinks his time is up, but perhaps sleeping with the fishes isn't the end?

We pitch some more heist movies, talk unearned cameo's in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and imagine where the money goes on a bank holiday.

This week we got sneaky and pitched some heist movies with grace and panache! There’s one last thing Keanu Reeves has on his bucket list, now he’s succeeded at becoming the nicest guy, he wants to pull off a heist! Of course this might get him into all kinds of trouble, but when he’s introduced to a consortium of actor/criminals by Jobs McGhilliger/Danny Devito (Danny Devito) it becomes clear that it might not be the sort of trouble he expected. Honourable Mentions: Heist Society - A heist comedy full of twists and turns in which Ian McShane runs the bar where all the heist crews hang out. The police (Lance Reddick) want Ian’s rolodex of criminals, and only his incompetent brother (John C Reilly/Liam Neeson) can stop them. Stollen Cake - Lee Evans and Nathan Lane have always loved Granny Stollen’s™ delicious Stollen. But when her son, a fantasy troll creature, (Ben Mendelsohn) takes over the factory, the two must break in to steal the secret recipe before it’s shredded and the factory sold for parts!

We pitch another couple of muppet movies with Dave Bulmer, including Three Muppets and a Baby, in which international relations are jeopardised by the loss of the president's child, little does she know that it's 'safe' in the hands of the muppets! Also, a bonus feature: Some Muppets Do 'Ave 'Em. A human child is born into a muppet world, how will they survive?!

A family start to renovate a mysterious old theatre, where impossible friends and forgotten dangers lurk in the shadows. This week we're joined by Dave Bulmer to pitch some brand new Muppet Movies, You can find Dave and his podcasts here: https://twitter.com/DemonTomatoDave Honourable Mentions: The Island of Doctor Honeydew - Rupert Grint plays B. Kerr, an investigative reporter looking into the mysterious island of a mad scientist who has reportedly been successful in making a frog play banjo. Little does he know that Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's experiments aren't going to stop there! A Muppet in Scotland Yard - There are some mysteries that only a muppet can solve. Well... one rotating cast of muppets portraying the same character every week, anyway.

We pitch a couple more ad-campaigns for products that would never get made, including one damage control PR campaign for some very dangerous hotdogs. This is the deleted scenes for episode 319 of the Life's a Pitch podcast, If this is your first time listening, we suggest you go back and listen to the main episode, it'll help give this nonsense some context!