Howdy folks! Long time no see. Its been a rough year so far, with both my work and my health. But things have have greatly improved on both fronts and I'm finally back writing again.
Disclaimer: I do not own Peacemaker (Major Spoiler Ahead) or Pitch Meetings which are made by Ryan George on his you tube channel Pitch Meeting.
Peacemaker Pitch Meeting
Producer Guy "So you have a new show for me?"
Screenwriter Guy "Yes sir I do. Remember at the end of the Suicide Squad we revealed Peacemaker was still alive?"
Producer Guy "Oh Peacemaker. I liked him until he killed Rick Flag."
Screenwriter Guy "Well I thought we'd give him his own spin off series."
Producer Guy "Neat. So what happens in this thing?"
Screenwriter Guy "Well after Peacemaker recovers in hospital he has a funny conversation with a janitor that went to MIT, then he makes his escape."
Producer Guy "The janitor went to MIT?"
Screenwriter Guy "Don't worry sir he'll be back."
Producer Guy "Oh good."
Screenwriter Guy "With absolutely no explanation about his past."
Producer Guy "Oh."
Screenwriter Guy "So Peacemaker gets home to his trailer but he gets ambushed by a team of agents sent by Amanda Waller."
Producer Guy "Huh... that was a short series."
Screenwriter Guy "What?"
Producer Guy "Couldn't they have just set off the bomb in his head to kill him?"
Screenwriter Guy "Oh no they're not here to kill Peacemaker. They're here to recruit him to save the world."
Producer Guy "Even better. So whose on this team?"
Screenwriter Guy "Well we got some familiar faces like Emilia Harcourt and John Economos."
Producer Guy "They from the movie."
Screenwriter Guy "They were and we got some new ones like Leota Adebayo and Clemson Murn."
Producer Guy "Who are they?"
Screenwriter Guy "Well Murn is a mercenary with a scary reputation. While Adebayo is pretty new at this and later we find out shes Amanda Wallers daughter.
Producer Guy "Oh there a twist."
Screenwriter Guy "The mission is called Project Butterfly. And its to stop an alien invasion."
Producer Guy "Oh what kind of aliens?"
Screenwriter Guy "There are these bug like aliens that look like butterflies, but they enter peoples bodies through an orifice, kill them and take control of their bodies."
Producer Guy "Very rude. Wait you said orifice like… the butt?"
Screenwriter Guy "More like the mouth. But we are going to have a joke about the butt."
Producer Guy "Oh butts are tight!"
Screenwriter Guy "What?"
Producer Guy "Oh boy that came out wrong."
Screenwriter Guy "It did. So once in a persons brain they get the persons memories and make the body stronger."
Producer Guy "Ok so when do we meet these Butterflies?"
Screenwriter Guy "Episode 1 when Peacemaker has sex with one."
Producer Guy "Wait what?"
Screenwriter Guy "Yeah he meets one controlling a girl in a bar, has sex with her and then she tries to kill him so he has to kill her."
Producer Guy "Oh man, its going to be tough to fight these Butterflies if it means killing the innocent people they're controlling."
Screenwriter Guy "Oh no sir they're already dead."
Producer Guy "Oh they are?"
Screenwriter Guy "Yeah, the host is dead by the time the butterfly takes over. Its actually pretty bloody."
Producer Guy "Oh well that's convenient."
Screenwriter Guy "So the Butterflies have taken over celebrities, businessmen and politicians. They working from the shadows to take over the world so they can save it."
Producer Guy "Did you say save it?"
Screenwriter Guy "Yeah since humans are doing such a lousy job with the planet, they're going to take over and save us from ourselves."
Producer Guy "Wait, then why not just directly take over ever world leaders and just make changes they want?"
Screenwriter Guy "Oh yeah would have made more sense, whoops."
Producer Guy "Whoopsie."
Screenwriter Guy "We also have a new called character Vigilante."
Producer Guy "Oh whats he like?"
Screenwriter Guy "Picture Deadpool in blue, but without the cancer, healing factor and fourth wall breaking."
Producer Guy "So… crazy and great at killing people?"
Screenwriter Guy "Pretty much yeah. He works as a waiter and he really looks up to Peacemaker and wants to be his best friend."
Producer Guy "Does Peace maker consider him his best friend?"
Screenwriter Guy "No that would be his sidekick, an Eagle named Eagly."
Producer Guy "…. I cant tell what I should think about that. Does he like, help Peacemaker fight crime?"
Screenwriter Guy "Well hes pretty effective at pecking peoples eyes out."
Producer Guy "Oh my god. I guess they "can't see him" coming."
Screenwriter Guy just stares at him
Producer Guy "Because of the eye pecking and John Cenas catchphrase."
Screenwriter Guy "Oh no still get it sir, but I hate it even more than last time."
Producer Guy "Okay. So how do they fight these Butterflies?"
Screenwriter Guy "Well they murder a senator and his family, they find out about a factory that's making this goo that they saw the family eating before being murdered. Turns out it's the Butterflies food source and if they can find the source called the Cow and destroy it, stop the invasion."
Producer Guy "Very cool. Is there going to be a lot of action?"
Screenwriter Guy "Oh yeah. Lots of violence. We even have a fun montage where Peacemaker and Vigilante play with guns and explosives."
Producer Guy "Aw that reminds me of my childhood."
Screenwriter Guy "Ah… okay. Oh get this, Peacemaker actually different helmets that each have different powers."
Producer Guy "What kinda powers?"
Screenwriter Guy "Theres one with a force field, anti-gravity, x-ray vision and even one that can create a sonic boom."
Producer Guy "That sounds amazing but how can he fit all those helmets on his head at once?"
Screenwriter Guy "No sir he only wears one at a time."
Producer Guy "That makes more sense. But where does he get these magic helmets?"
Screenwriter Guy "Oh there not magic. They're super hi tech and were made by Peacemakers father, Auggie Smith."
Producer Guy "Oh whats he like?"
Screenwriter Guy "He used to be a supervillain called the White Dragon, had a battle suit and everything. He even made Dr Who Technology."
Producer Guy "He can travel through time?"
Screenwriter Guy "No the other Dr Who technology, the bigger on the inside part."
Producer Guy "Wow that's amazing."
Screenwriter Guy "Oh hes also a white supremacist."
Producer Guy "Oh my God what?"
Screenwriter Guy "Yeah, it's as bad as it sounds. Like every scene this guys in people are going to say, "Wow, its amazing Peacemaker turned out as good as he did."
Producer Guy "Yeah, this really shed a new light on his character."
Screenwriter Guy "That's actually a big part of the show cause we learn about Peacemakers past. Like as kids, his dad made him and his older brother Keith, fight each other and he accidentally killed him."
Producer Guy "Oh my god!"
Screenwriter Guy "Infact when he died was when he made his vow to kill for peace so no one would die for no reason."
Producer Guy "Oh. But wait shouldn't such a traumatic event have led to him vowing to never kill again?"
Screenwriter Guy "Probably, but if comics have taught me anything its that if characters got therapy, then we wouldn't have anything to make tv and movies about."
Producer Guy "No further questions."
Screenwriter Guy "So Peacemaker has a rough start with the rest of the team but they start warming up to each other. they bond over stuff like music and killing a gorilla with a chainsaw."
Producer Guy "Classic bonding activities."
Screenwriter Guy "But then a lot of twists happen."
Producer Guy "Oh really?"
Screenwriter Guy "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like how Murn is actually a Butterfly who turned against his people."
Producer Guy "Oh shocking."
Screenwriter Guy "And Waller actually sent Adebayo to set up Peacemaker as the fall guy if the mission failed."
Producer Guy "Very rude."
Screenwriter Guy "Now Murn is dead and Peacemakers dad has his battle suit and is leading his followers to kill Peacemaker because hes just the worst."
Producer Guy "Man its going to be tough to take on a super villain with high tech weapons and a bunch of armed followers."
Screenwriter Guy "Actually super easy, barley and inconvenience."
Producer Guy "Oh really."
Screenwriter Guy "Vigilante stabs the White Dragon armor in the back and disables its weapons while Economos guns down his followers. Then Peacemaker shoots his dad in the head killing him."
Producer Guy "I have that head headshots can be fatale."
Screenwriter Guy "Yes they are. So they find the cow and its this gigantic alien creature hidden in a cave under a barn. But turns out that the Butterflies called in reinforcements that took over all the cops and all the people in jail so now theres an army guarding it."
Producer Guy "Man sounds like this would be a good time to call in the Justice League."
Screenwriter Guy "Oh yeah, Adebayo actually calls Waller with an update asking to call in the League."
Producer Guy "Oh yeah, calling in the big guns."
Screenwriter Guy "But she says no."
Producer Guy "What?"
Screenwriter Guy "Yeah theres not enough time to wait for backup so their own their own.
Producer Guy "The fate of the world is at stake and they're not calling in the superheroes, two of which have superspeed and could get their in literal seconds."
Screenwriter Guy "Look sir I'm going to need you to get all the way off my back about why these mortal people don't get help from super powered beings that could easily solve the problem."
Producer Guy "Okay let me get offa that thing."
Screenwriter Guy "Great."
Producer Guy "So do these Butterflies have like a mothership?"
Screenwriter Guy "No each one has their own ship that's about the size of a laptop."
Producer Guy "Then how did they get this giant creature to Earth?"
Screenwriter Guy "Oh the Butterflies have teleportation technology apparently."
Producer Guy "Oh well that's going to be a big game changer."
Screenwriter Guy "Not really."
Producer Guy "Oh no?"
Screenwriter Guy "No their just going to try using it once and that's it."
Producer Guy "So what do the good guys do?"
Screenwriter Guy "Well they sneak the sonic boom helmet into the barn and they set it off a few times to thin the Butterflies numbers."
Producer Guy "Wouldn't a sonic boom be detected on Batman's satellites or be picked up by Supermans superhearing?"
Screenwriter Guy "Oh theres a reason for that," looks at his notes "its cause of my back, please get off of it."
Producer Guy "Will do."
Screenwriter Guy "So we have a really cool scene where they fight and shoot their way through the Butterflies. Peacemaker makes it to the cow and the Butterfly who had been controlling that senator who is now controlling a detective lady tries to convince him to help save the Cow cause like him, they're doing this for peace no matter how many people they have to kill."
Producer Guy "That's like what Peacemaker says."
Screenwriter Guy "But Peacemaker uses another helmet called human torpedo to send Adebayo through the Cows body killing it and then shoots the other Butterflies."
Producer Guy "Oh wow."
Screenwriter Guy "Oh yeah, Adebayo falls back out along with a bunch of blood and some of its guts."
Producer Guy "Very gross."
Screenwriter Guy "Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Producer Guy "Wait is this Cow willingly taking part in this invasion? Or even sentient?"
Screenwriter Guy checks his notes "Uh, not really its basically a like a normal cow.
Producer Guy "So they good guys essentially murdered an innocent farm animal?"
Screenwriter Guy "Best not to think about it."
Producer Guy "Not thinking about stuff is how a like to live my life."
Screenwriter Guy "So in the end everybody gets medical attention, Peacemakers name is cleared and Adebayo tells the media about her mom and Task Force X."
Producer Guy "Wow, wow, wow, wow."
Screenwriter Guy "Oh Peacemaker is being haunted by visions of his father."
Producer Guy "Oh that's never good. I know from experience."
Screenwriter Guy "Wait what?"
Producer Guy looks to his side "For the last time I'm not avenging your death. Well you shouldn't have tried to steal those alligators eggs."
Screenwriter Guy "Oh my god."
Producer Guy "Sorry about that, family stuff. You were saying?"
Screenwriter Guy "Uh what do you think of the show?"
Producer Guy "Oh it sounds like a lot of fun and has lot of character development."
Screenwriter Guy "Great."
Producer Guy "But there is one thing I've noticed lately. Shows don't really have intro themes anymore. Think we could change that?"
Screenwriter Guy "I think we might be able to work something out."
The Peacemaker title sequence was made by James Gunn with the intention of creating something so strange and captivating that the audience would watch it every episode and never skip it. It's a welcome step away from the trend of reducing the title sequence to a few seconds with a title card.
I miss when shows had title sequences. I loved this show and greatly look forward to season 2. Be sure to check out the new poll on my profile.