Pharaoh - The Pitch 2

"The most imaginative and potentially lucrative un-produced ‘Epic Trilogy’ since Star Wars for whoever decides to make it!"

Millions of people have diehard interest in exactly this subject matter.

It’s a story with global appeal and universal themes.

Super-hero style fantasy + History gives a feeling of realism, but the fun of being larger than life.

A story ahead of it’s time, that taps right into the lucrative pulse of controversy...

Connects science and religion. Controversial topics. Neutral yet incredible story.

PHARAOH is ground breaking and cutting edge in it’s detail, content and structure.
A classic hero's journey -- an outsider being brought in to save the world from the powers that be.

A PERFECT STORY TO UTILIZE 3-D TECHNOLOGY!

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A trilogy in the vein of Star Wars -- set right here in our very own galaxy, our world -- in that at it's core is a powerful empire (a Secret Society in PHARAOH's case) and a generational power-struggle.

The story connects Holy Blood, 2012, Nano-technology, Artificial Intelligence and Secret societies with the great Mysteries of Egypt...

These are the subject-matter of many of the most successful films AND books ever produced. But no book or film has brought them together quite like PHARAOH.

It draws on some of the most basic and fundamentals of Hollywood Blockbusters but spices and shakes them so well they taste totally fresh and new.

It gets people talking, because it’s so interesting...
Much like “The Da Vince Code” and “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” did… But it’s not any farther ‘out there’ than what is already being shown on TV (the History Channel) and in other classic blockbusters.

Taps into popular culture’s religious symbolism and conjecture.
PHARAOH is full of symbolism, but neither promotes nor denounces any religion or science. Rather, it incorporates both as part of the human experience and part of the story...

A story about secrets… Secrets we are all dying to know. Secrets that millions of people all over the world love to hear, see and talk about. Making this script:

"The most imaginative and potentially lucrative un-produced ‘Epic Trilogy’ since Star Wars for whoever decides to make it!"

When you read the script and you realize it's true:

PEOPLE WILL LOVE THE STORY

“This script has all the ingredients of a blockbuster film.”

IT IS EXACTLY WHAT HOLLYWOOD IS LOOKING FOR.

Why?

Because it's what THE AUDIENCE is looking for.

Can you explain?

Well... What defines the success of many films today is: CULT FOLLOWING

Whether it's Twilight, Comic-Books, Sex and the City, or The Da Vinci Code.

Success comes from tapping into and drawing out that base, that "cult following". By creating a product that appeals to them, and they will buy. They go/buy because it's something that they know about, and they want to see and weigh in on, or be a part of...

PHARAOH has just that. Stuff people are interested in and follow with cult like dedication and interest.

How so?

An inherently multi-prong approach. It deals with, and taps some of the largest and most lucrative cult-followings that are consuming media products today. Comic-book and Fantasy appeal in the youth. Intellectual controversy, speculation and religious symbolism appeal in the adults. It taps the more discerning, the crowd that doesn't go out and see every movie, but they will when it's about something that interests them...

The subject matter of PHARAOH has been the interest of young, old, poor and royalty... for over a 1000 years. Global appeal today. It would play well in every world market, because it's subject matter is universal.

What subject matter?

Secrets • Ancient History • Humanity, Mortality and Eternal Life...

And more recently:

Ever wonder how “The Matrix” and Artificial Intelligence comes in to be?

What happens when computer intelligence becomes greater that human intelligence "the Singularity"?

PHARAOH actually connects all these questions and answers into a thrill ride of 119 pages. As they say: You think you know... but you have no idea…

Okay... Huge cult following of those subjects. Lots of movies. Millions of books on those subjects are sold annually. Got it. But how does that translate into these 'cult-followings' buying into your script?

PHARAOH offers fascinating and fantastic answers to these questions. Questions people are paying money to read, hear and see answers too. As a film it becomes a powerful new kind of entertainment, a kind of postmodern religious experience. Something people pay good money for.

PHARAOH is a mythos of our (neo) real world, in the way that Lord of the Rings is a mythos of pre-industrial Europe.

A world where fantasy is the reality...

Visually and intellectually stimulating --perfect to be made in and utilize 3-D -- which makes it stronger cinematically, and more moving / enjoyable.
'The Dark Knight' was deep and engrossing because it felt plausible, realistic -- intellectually stimulating.

With the rate the world is changing, we are confronted daily with concepts and ideas that seem crazy, but we are learning are actually becoming real. FAST. Things like AI, cloning, and Secret Societies... Hence a new reality.

Neo-realism > "new-realism" > new way of looking at and projecting reality

IT SELLS. PEOPLE EAT IT UP.

Think AVATAR. It pretends to be the real world -- our actual future -- and it uses the story to take this "real world" or neo-real-world to a place of fantasy. The fantasy is the reality, the reality where we are exploring other realities... Get it? Doesn't matter, because the point is:

PEOPLE LOVE IT

Why do they love it? Because it's a deeper movie going experience when you connect to it. People feel they got more out of it when they connect -- like it was worth the money and they want to have the experience again... and also buy the DVD.

Some people say: "it was the cutting edge visual effects that got them in, not the subject matter."

True. But the effects are only as good as the story that employs them. Many films with the best visual effects but no story find little success. But the ones that can truly utilize and showcase cutting edge technology within the context of a great story find true Blockbuster "cult following" success. Think ‘The Matrix’ and the Renaissance in Super-hero movies it created in Hollywood. When a great story, can utilize great effects, the combined effect magnifies the profitability/marketability. The impact and selling power of it is much stronger.

It takes a good story to begin with...

PHARAOH is a good story.

Once you read it, you understand why it's

"The most imaginative and potentially lucrative un-produced ‘Epic Trilogy’ since Star Wars for whoever decides to make it!"

See Also: http://mr-postmodernistic.blogspot.com/2010/04/pharaoh-pitch.html