What's It All About?
Pitch:
A small town high school football team has gone largely unrecognized after forty years of consecutive wins. A young, ambitious reporter uncovers a stunning secret—behind the small town values and string of impressive athletic victories hides a bizarre pre-game ritual: each player must rub the bulging tumor of their school janitor for good luck. As the janitor's health begins to fade, the town unites around the local body politic to push for the world's first ever tumor transplant in a crazed attempt to save their winning streak. The transplant fails, creating even more fevered desperation to win at least one more game. The town’s proposed solution is both as sickening as it is outrageous: players will consume the tumor during a special called Eucharist served up by the town minister, thereby demonstrating just how far a group will go to stay on top in the ‘dog eat dog’ world of high school athletics.
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This piece is based on my completed film script, which is registered with the Writer's Guild of America and guaranteed by the protections therein.
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The BLT is in no way meant to make light of the horrible disease of cancer.
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The idea for this story was born at the bottom of a bottle of Amber Boch, reached alongside my good friend, Sam Moore Jr. who receives credit as its catalyst -- and for much of the mischievous time in which it was born.
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