Monday 10 March 2014

Shane Black Multi-Movie Crossover Idea

Dear Shane Black, 

Please oh please write a movie that crosses over the majority of your smart mouth detective characters, revealing them to all be living in the same universe.


Here is a suggestion for the plot:-



Riggs & Murtaugh (from Lethal Weapon), having finally retired, still have the itch to help people & solve crimes. So they start up their own Private Investigation agency.
Whilst on a case commissioned by their old captain to gather some evidence that will help towards solving a murder they are shot/blown up/thrown off a building/killed to death with murder.
BOOM! Plot twist!

At the funeral we see Murtaugh's old partner we never met, cos he left the force to join the secret service, Joe Hallenbeck (from The Last Boy Scout) there to pay his respects. He quizzes the captain about the mystery surrounding the deaths and returns to his LA offices and his PI partner Jimmy Dix, incensed and ready to find Murtaugh's killer.
At the same time, Gay Perry and Harry Lockhart (from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) are working on a case on the other side of town that is seemingly unrelated, investigating a client's apartment burglary. They're attacked and manage to fend off their attackers, but their client goes missing. With what clues they have they seek to find who is behind both mysteries.

The two pairs of detectives cross paths with each other as their respective investigations overlap.
Fun and fights and a profound use of 'fucks' ensue.

Turns out someone is killing off Private Eye's. Both teams try to track down the killers, each two butting heads with the others while still butting heads with their own partners, but their efforts are helped by some information from Mitch Henessey (from Long Kiss Goodnight).

They all meet up to discuss what is happening when they are attacked again. Mitch is hurt bad and ends up in hospital while the other guys try to figure everything out and who/where the main bad guy is.
As they head into the final fray, the big showdown, they are helped out by Mitch's former client Samantha Caine aka Charly Baltimore an ex-CIA assassin, there to settle an old debt to Mitch.

This muti-combo-meta-mashup will of course allow you to thoroughly pepper the script with 5-6 times your usual amount of your trademarked smart-mouthed quick-witted banter and gloriously well designed ridiculous set pieces of action.

Also, though it's surely redundant for me to mention this, it should of course be set around Christmas.

I ask this as a fan and a lover of great characters and action.
It would be awesome if you could find your way to complying to my wishes. I believe many many others would sincerely appreciate it besides myself.



Might I also humbly suggest a title:

Big Bunch Of Dicks

Yours hopefully,

Pete

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