blueneumann at 2016-04-15 21:23:36:
You know what's funny? I literally JUST got back home from seeing the Tony Robbins documentary, and I kept having this stray thought "this kind of person would be interesting for The Rock to play." And lo and behold, your idea. Combining a Tony Robbins energy type with an SEAL level of dedication and procedure would make him distinct enough, yeah... And the idea of him doing a sort of Reboot Your Life Boot Camp could be like a grown-up version of all those "crazy kids at camp" movies that seemed to be around when I was a kid that no one makes anymore ("Wet Hot American Summer" aside). "Meatballs" meets "Your Date With Destiny."
blueneumann at 2016-04-15 21:30:15:
Not "Meatballs," "Heavyweights." Got 'em mixed up.
Scott at 2016-04-16 01:26:21:
If this were the 80s, I'd be all over this story, extremely high concept. Maybe it could work nowadays. Some current comedies remind me of the 'old' days with retro high concepts at the core. This could be What About Bob meets Major Payne.
blueneumann at 2016-04-16 01:48:21:
Right... and it would be for the adults who were kids watching that, like the ones who would have been kids when those original movies came out (again, like Wet Hot American Summer's cast). Or it could be a corporate retreat, they do those kinds of things. It would be adults, probably the character actors who do stuff like Drunk History or Adult Swim like Jason Mantzoukas, Paul Scheer, Patton Oswalt, Casey Wilson, etc etc.
Yvetta at 2016-04-16 07:19:49:
When a struggling chocaholic artist is invited to her older sister’s jet-set wedding, her only hope to get in shape in less than two months is her paranoic retired Navy Seal neighbor. Bridget Jones meets Karate Kid