As you may remember, I've been on
Trigger Street for a few months, reviewing screenplays and yadda yadda. Out of my eight work-in-progress screenplays, I finally finished one and posted it.
Behold the wonder of
Comicon Pimps.
The whole idea is that I want
Christopher Guest and his crew to make a movie about comic book fans, and it doesn't look like he will do this any time soon. So I wrote a wish-fulfillment screenplay for his acting group. (For fun, see if you can figure out the actors I had in mind for the parts.
Eugene Levy and
Catherine O'Hara should be easy to spot.)
I am also fascinated with the common insult to comic book / fantasy / sci-fi fans - you just need to get laid and all your obsessions / problems will go away. This insult is patently untrue.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I have participated in all-night
Dungeons and Dragons games where the wife / girlfriend of the host made it pretty clear that if the host would just kick out all of his loser
D&D friends, she will be more than willing to... ah... be... um... intimate.
And EVERY TIME that happens, the host is always, "Honey, PLEASE. I'm trying to PLAY A GAME here."
A lot of humor from the script comes from the fact that given the choice to have a moment of physical pleasure and owning a
Limited Edition Star Trek Collector's Plate, certain people will always go with the plate.
Love fades, but those plates will last forever, man.
