Blue Beetle Pitch Meeting
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00:00 >>Adam - So, you have a new movie for me?
00:04 >>Crazy Nate - Yes sir, I do.
00:05 See I was thinking what DC really needs is a movie about a young guy who gets chosen
00:09 by a super powerful being to have super powers and there's a big focus on family.
00:13 >>Adam - Shazam.
00:14 >>Crazy Nate - Yeah, we just did that twice.
00:16 Well, this would be a different family and they're Mexican.
00:19 Oh, okay, that's probably different enough that it won't be affected by this whole
00:21 superhero fatigue everybody's talking about.
00:24 Yeah, and I'm pretty sure that superhero fatigue is a myth.
00:27 You're telling me people could get tired of seeing energy beams?
00:30 But like, what if there's...
00:32 I don't know, what if there's more to movie making than wisecracking characters shooting
00:36 energy beams?
00:38 You sound crazy.
00:39 >>Adam - That did sound crazy.
00:41 I don't know what the heck I was talking about just there.
00:43 >>Crazy Nate - So anyway, the main character, Jaime, is coming back from college and he
00:46 needs a job fast.
00:47 >>Adam - Why doesn't he just ask his father for a million dollars?
00:49 >>Crazy Nate - Well, see that's the thing, his parents don't have any money either.
00:53 I don't get it.
00:54 >>Adam - Well sir, some people need to work for stuff.
00:56 >>Crazy Nate - Oh, okay, this is like a fictional thing.
00:58 No, actually this is real life.
00:59 They're living in poverty.
01:00 >>Adam - I've never heard that word and let me tell you, I don't like it.
01:03 >>Crazy Nate - Right, you might want to leave your rich person bubble from time to time.
01:06 You mean like Tui Bitha?
01:07 Never mind.
01:08 So this guy gets a job cleaning this rich lady Victoria Kord's house, but this lady
01:12 is the bad guy of the movie.
01:14 She's super evil.
01:15 >>Adam - Oh she is, huh?
01:16 What's her deal?
01:17 >>Crazy Nate - Oh, let me tell you something about how evil this lady is.
01:19 She's so evil...
01:22 That works.
01:23 So she wants to use this blue scarab technology to build an army of super soldiers.
01:27 >>Adam - I feel like I've seen this before.
01:29 >>Crazy Nate - Oh yeah, absolutely have sir.
01:31 And that's a feeling you're going to get in most scenes in this film?
01:33 >>Adam - Oh, well that's kind of comforting.
01:34 >>Crazy Nate - It is, isn't it?
01:36 Nice and cozy.
01:37 So Victoria's niece Jenny finds out about the evil plan and decides to try and stop
01:41 it.
01:42 >>Adam - What does she do?
01:43 >>Crazy Nate - She freaking sneaks into this secret lab in the Kord building by stealing
01:45 a scientist's key card and she takes the blue beetle and puts it inside a Big Belly
01:50 Burger fast food box.
01:51 >>Adam - What the?
01:52 Was that you on the box?
01:54 >>Crazy Nate - What are you talking about?
01:55 >>Adam - The Big Belly Burger box, was that you on the packaging?
01:58 What are you doing on the packaging?
01:59 >>Crazy Nate - I didn't show you anything.
02:01 Are you saying that when I said Big Belly Burger, the image that popped into your head
02:05 for the logo was me?
02:06 >>Adam - Oh, yeah, I guess that must be what happened.
02:08 >>Crazy Nate - What the hell, man?
02:09 >>Adam - I'm sorry, I feel like you'd be a good logo for the Big Belly Burger.
02:13 >>Crazy Nate - We're like the exact same weight.
02:14 >>Adam - Nah, you've got 20 pounds on me at least.
02:17 >>Crazy Nate - Why?
02:18 That's pretty hurtful.
02:19 >>Adam - Anyway, so what else happens?
02:20 >>Crazy Nate - Well, okay, so then scientist guy goes back into his lab and he's like,
02:24 "Oh no, the Blue Beetle is gone, let's lock down the building."
02:27 >>Adam - How'd he get back inside the lab if she had his key card?
02:29 >>Crazy Nate - Hey, shut up.
02:30 And so Jenny gives this fast food box to Jaime who was in the building because she said she
02:33 could get him a job.
02:34 >>Adam - How's it a scarab's gonna turn him into Blue Beetle?
02:37 >>Crazy Nate - It is, it's gonna go in his butt.
02:39 >>Adam - Oh, super butt bugs are tight.
02:40 >>Crazy Nate - And choose him as a host and make him into a superhero.
02:43 >>Adam - So why did this thing choose him as a host?
02:45 >>Crazy Nate - Because.
02:46 >>Adam - Great, so what can he do now?
02:47 >>Crazy Nate - Well, he can fly and he's bulletproof and most importantly, the suit can create
02:51 anything he can imagine.
02:52 >>Adam - What kind of crazy stuff is he gonna imagine?
02:54 >>Crazy Nate - Literally just blades and various energy blasters.
02:57 >>Adam - Oh, yeah, okay.
02:58 >>Crazy Nate - So anyway, now to try to get this Blue Beetle thing out of him, they need
03:01 this smartwatch that's inside the cord building, so they gotta break in.
03:05 >>Adam - Well, that's gonna be hard to do, I mean, they must be on super high alert.
03:07 >>Crazy Nate - Actually, it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
03:10 >>Adam - Oh, really?
03:11 >>Crazy Nate - Yeah, it turns out his uncle Rudy had already built the exact kind of machine
03:14 they need to break past security, so they just use that.
03:17 >>Adam - Well, fantastic.
03:18 >>Crazy Nate - But then Victoria's henchman Carapax gets into a fight with Blue Beetle
03:22 and he's got a freaking super suit as well.
03:23 >>Adam - Uh oh.
03:24 >>Crazy Nate - And the Blue Beetle super suit wants to kill this guy, but Jaime's like,
03:27 "No, we're not killers."
03:28 >>Adam - Oh, very good, noble moral code or whatever.
03:32 >>Crazy Nate - Yeah, but then later the bad guys attack the whole family and his father's
03:36 gonna die.
03:37 >>Adam - So that's why he can't give his son a million dollars.
03:39 >>Crazy Nate - What?
03:40 >>Adam - Now I'm getting it.
03:41 >>Crazy Nate - No, you're not.
03:42 >>Adam - So they have a very sad moment and then Jaime's gonna get kidnapped because Victoria
03:45 wants to steal the Blue Beetle technology.
03:47 >>Crazy Nate - Oh no.
03:48 >>Adam - And so the rest of the family's gonna have to band together to go rescue him.
03:51 >>Crazy Nate - How are they gonna do that?
03:52 >>Adam - Well, it turns out Jenny's father used to be Blue Beetle, so they use some of
03:55 his old tech.
03:56 >>Crazy Nate - Oh.
03:57 >>Adam - To murder a bunch of henchmen.
03:58 >>Crazy Nate - Oh my god.
03:59 >>Adam - Yeah, it's a freaking slaughter, sir.
04:00 They shoot people and impale them and stomp them.
04:02 >>Crazy Nate - What about that moral code thing?
04:04 >>Adam - Oh, that doesn't apply to them.
04:05 They seem to have a wonderful time taking lives.
04:07 >>Crazy Nate - Well, good for them, I guess. Good to have a good time.
04:10 >>Adam - And so Carapax is gonna end up also getting Blue Beetle powers, so then there's
04:13 gonna be a big final fight.
04:14 >>Crazy Nate - Uh oh.
04:15 >>Adam - And so we're gonna do this really neat thing where the good guy's fighting the
04:18 bad guy and the bad guy has similar powers, but he's a different color.
04:22 And so there's like a CGI fight that happens.
04:24 >>Crazy Nate - Oh, I feel so freaking cozy right now.
04:27 >>Adam - Me too, sir.
04:29 And so then Carapax is gonna realize that Victoria's not a nice lady, so he's gonna drag her into
04:33 some fire to be burned alive.
04:35 >>Crazy Nate - Oh my god.
04:36 >>Adam - And so then everybody's happy and Jenny becomes the head of the cord company
04:39 and now they're only gonna do nice stuff.
04:41 >>Crazy Nate - Wow, wow, wow. Wow.
04:42 >>Adam - So what do you think?
04:43 >>Crazy Nate - Oh, I mean, it's a superhero movie with an ever so slight twist. How can
04:47 anyone resist?
04:48 >>Adam - Okay, great. So you're really not worried about superhero fatigue then?
04:51 >>Crazy Nate - You know what? Superhero fatigue, schmooper-fero fatigue.
04:56 >>Adam - What?
04:57 [outro music]
05:02 >>Ryan - Hi everybody, Ryan George here. Thank you so much for watching that pitch meeting.
05:05 If you know me, you know I like to hide little Easter eggs in these things, so in this one
05:09 particular I did this thing where if you play it in reverse, all the audio will sound just
05:17 nonsensical. It'll just be backwards. So you won't be able to understand it.