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PREMISE:
Seven sets of parents lose their children in a Columbine-type massacre. Outraged beyond what some would call "reason," they form a blood-pact and call themselves the "GODS OF JUSTICE" or just, the GODS, for short. Together they vow to teach the movie industry a lesson. This spoof is comprised of violent shots from successful Hollywood movies that were only made to "make money and give the public what it wants".

STORY SYNOPSIS:
After selling their houses and most of their possessions, seven sets of parents who have lost their children in a Columbine-type massacre, form a blood-pact and vowel to teach the movie industry a lesson it will never forget. They use their sale proceeds to plan and execute a first-class kidnapping of the PARENTS of the children whose kids murdered their own kids. As they brutally torture and kill some of the kidnapped parents in a warehouse (exactly like in RESERVOIR DOGS), the GODS separate into a number of distinct teams, each with its own mission. The first team begins pushing the rest of the parents out the window of a high-rise office building. They film the entire event, complete with pleas and screaming, in high-def, great prime-time footage. After everyone is splattered all over the street, they messenger the footage to each of the top executives at the major studios. As the executives look it over (like in the movie NETWORK), one of them is sure to recognize the production values and importance of the "story" unfolding before their eyes. The GODS carefully watch the Hollywood ants to see who will be the first to exploit the massacre. Finally STUDIO A bites.

The GODS are on their asses like a ton of bricks. Exploding into the studio lobby with rapid-fire machine guns under long raincoats (as learned in THE MATRIX), the GODS make their way up the elevator to the top executive suites to administer some Podunk, Iowa justice.

As the world rivets its attention on the "breaking news," the GODS secure 5 or 6 studio executives. They marshal them to the roof of the black tower and, after finding out what movies each executive was responsible for green-lighting, start pushing them off in appropriate order. The first exec falls only 26 stories before hitting the windshield of a parked taxi cab, like in DIE HARD. As the "action" unfolds, the GODS, of course, film the exec falling, again in nice broadcast, high-def quality (the GODS wouldn't want THIS project to be "passed on" by Hollywood distribution executives for "low production values").

As the public in the street below becomes aware of what's happening -- a studio executive, who green-lit over 13 popular money-making blade films, is plastered all over a taxi -- they inform the media. More and more media arrive at the "location" and begin filming. They feed the "story" to their stations and affiliates and it's immediately aired nationally without question. As the chaos spreads, the GODS begin to throw more studio execs out the window in exactly the same fashion. The media continues covering the "breaking story" and the affiliates continue to beam it all over the nation. As the police and media begins massively assembling at the base of the building, another set of parents stationed at one of the other studios across town, begins pushing other studio executives out a window onto a taxi. The GODS have made certain to place an exact, same-colored taxi at the base of this building so the "live" story seems like its one in the same event. Eventually media arrives at this second location and begins covering this "story" as well, but the police don't show up because they think that they are just watching re-runs of the earlier event, after all it's the exact, same-colored taxi.

Simultaneously, a third set of parents across the country at studio headquarters in New York City, put on a similar show pushing more execs out windows. The media continues filming as a procession of executives splat on yet another exact, same-colored taxi. Predictably, the police in New York do nothing either, as they think they are just watching network replays of the horror going on "out on that nutty West Coast." Pretty soon all the networks are jammed with so many identical but confusing events NO ONE, not even the CIA, has any idea what's going on. FINALLY, the public figures out what's happening: it's just a big media put-on. Just more violence-oriented programming from Hollywood and the media, but with very realistic special effects.

As the media, various police departments, the FBI, White House and goons at Homeland Security go nuts, the public starts clamoring for more. Over the Net, they get wind of the fact that the splattered execs are the very same ones that green-lit the following list of movies: (The GODS have leaked out the list of each execs' filmography and itemized the reasons they deserved justice in the priority received). The excitement and buzz intensifies, the picks and rationale couldn't be more spot on. Soon parades, even midnight vigils, spontaneously break out in every small town across America with citizens chanting "Get those studio fucks."

After several days (and 105 studio executives from seven studios are dead), the police, the media and the public finally figure out what has happened. The GODS then decide to proudly give themselves up as they want society to decide whether it wants to execute them for their deeds or make them national heroes. The televised trial gets about 100 times more attention than the O.J. and Michael Jackson trials combined and no one goes to work for months. The economy crashes, but after the verdict is in, the GODS are sentenced to only 5 years and a wink from the judge to "not execute any more studio executives." The public cheers!

The picture ends with all 14 parents watching NATURAL BORN KILLERS on prison TV. Ironically, Oliver Stone, who just happened to be one of the GODS, is sitting there with them as one of the other GODS nonchalantly flips through the channels . . . channel after channel with nothing but flowers, smooth roads and fair weather, cartoons, love stories, wondrous fantasies, positive news, happy books and people dancing. Yes, the GODS have made GOD'S universe a better place. The stock market skyrockets!

TECHNICAL NOTE:
The producers of GODS OF REVENGE, may have no need to actually shoot more violence-oriented footage as they will just purchase stock footage from Hollywood's pre-existing pictures, such as DIE HARD, THE MATRIX, RESIVOIR DOGS, ETC, ETC, ETC.

PRODUCER UNIT:
Andrew Silverthorne

STORY:
Alexandra Cohen

SCREENPLAY:
Spec Writer Wanted

PRODUCTION COMPANY:
Nasti Entertainment
9663 Santa Monica Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

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