FILM PROJECT # 3
STATUS: Pre-Production
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
WINGMEN
Think Old School meets Hangover with a little Office Space – about, Simon, a 'boomerang kid,' 30's, recently divorced and back living with his parents. After a chance meeting with an old flame goes badly, Simon’s pals begin basic training in the art of dating. It’s a fresh turn on the classic Pygmalion story.
The Filmmakers
Jonathan Wright
Writer, Producer and Director
Jonathan has recently completed directing, producing and writing the feature thriller “Nostrum.” A financial success that is being distributed by Alliance Films and will be released late this fall.
17 years of film production on more than 50 feature films.
Jonathan has had the good fortune to work closely with and learn from legendary producers such as Joel Silver, Jerry Bruckheimer, and directors such as Richard Donner, Guillermo Del Toro, John Landis and Roland Joffe. While working on Studio films, Jonathan directed 2nd units which include the final fight scenes of Joel Silver’s “Exit Wounds,” various scenes with Robert Duvall and Gary Oldman in the “Scarlet Letter” and the Gene Hackman, Ray Romano starrer “Welcome to Mooseport” (Comedy Unit). Jonathan has also directed numerous shorts including a comedy pilot entitled “Royal Blood.”
Michael Klawitter
Producer
After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, with a B.S. in Business Management and an M.F.A. in Film Production, Michael Klawitter was hired by Martin Bregman during the filming of SCARFACE.
Under Bregman’s tutelage, Michael learned script development, budgets, film production, post-production, and film marketing. In 1992 Michael was named VP of Post Production for Bregman-Baer Productions, delivering WHISPERS IN THE DARK to Paramount, BLUE ICE to HBO, and THE REAL McCOY, CARLITO'S WAY, THE SHADOW and GOLDDIGGERS to Universal Studios. In 1996 he took his first producing credit, delivering NOTHING TO LOSE to Disney Studios. In 1997 he was promoted to Senior VP of Production for Bregman Productions, supervising the making of the independent films ONE TOUGH COP and CAROLINA, and THE BONE COLLECTOR for Universal Studios.
In 2006, Michael was promoted to President of Bregman Productions.
Michael Baker
Executive Producer
Michael served as Vice President of Acquisitions & Development at ThinkFilm, an independent film distributor where he worked directly with writers, directors and producers to develop their scripts for production, negotiated deals, oversaw productions, assisted in financing, sold Canadian television rights, screened films, and attended major international film festivals including, Sundance, Toronto and Cannes. Michael helped grow the business, spearheading countless profitable films and projects, through several rounds of financing and the company’s eventual sale.
Michael has Executive Produced several features including EVERYTHING’S GONE GREEN, WEIRDSVILLE, YOUNG PEOPLE FUCKING, GOING TO PIECES and NOSTRUM. He was also producer on the feature film SNAPPED, Co-Producer on FARCE OF THE PENGUINS, and Associate Producer on the film HALLOW’S END.
The Stars
Attached - Danny Masterson as Simon
Most recognizable as one of the stars of the hit TV show “That 70’s Show” (Syndicated in over 100 countries and one of the most watched television show between 1998 and 2006 and plays numerous times per day in North America) and most recently starred along side Jim Carrey in “Yes Man” Danny is in love with the project so much he’s working on getting his movie star friends to costar in Wingmen.
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Attached –
Ethan Suplle as “Steve”– Earl’s brother in “My Name Is Earl” among countless feature films. Ethan just recently wrapped Denzel Washington’s latest film
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Alicia Witt as Bailey– recently starred in 88 Minutes opposite Al Pacino
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Vik Sahay as Bittou – Vik is one of the stars fo NBC’s Hit series “Chuck”
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Offers out to –
United Talent Agency – one of the largest and most prestigious talent agencies in Hollywood are helping package the film with stars. Below are the current offers.
Meghan – Elisha Cuthbert – “The Girl Next Door” “House of Wax” and “24”
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SYNOPSIS
Simon is out of style, out of touch and is the under-performer in a financial management office in a suburban strip mall in Chicago. His office is shared with Hal, the silver haired “Veteran Earner” and Bittou, an East Indian man with a bevy of clients. They share office space with a travel agency run by a cute square girl, Bailey.
Today would have been Simon’s three-year wedding anniversary. Simon’s best friend Steve takes him out to lunch where Steve commits to getting Simon back into the social scene by taking him to out to the hottest club in town.
At Club Fluid, Simon (dropped off by his dad) meets up with Steve, Curtis (African American with a British accent), Antonio (thirty, Latino, long smooth hair) and Trevor (shockingly handsome, well kept, and impeccably dressed). Inside the club, Simon literally runs into his high school sweetheart, Meghan. He fails so badly that his friends drag him out of the club and hold an impromptu intervention. His buddies, the Wingmen, commit to getting him back into dating shape. Simon’s goal – Meghan.
They start with fixing his hair, followed by a night out at a cougar bar where the “Bay City Roller’s” are playing a comeback gig. Simon scores a “cougar” and gets some confidence back in the “sack”.
Meanwhile, Simon continues to develop his friendship with Bailey the Travel Agent.
The Wingmen don’t let up. They are determined to continue Simon’s training and transformation. They take him to a College Pub filled with drunken “girls gone wild.” It’s not for him. They go to a run down eclectic suburban disco where he scores with a pseudo hippie girl. Simon can’t dance but she, and her hippie roommates don’t care.
Dancing lessons take place at a gay bar. It turns out that Wingman Trevor is gay. But being a Wingman transcends race, religion and sexual orientation.
Finally he is ready for Meghan. The Wingmen return to Club Fluid with the new and improved Simon. Unfortunately, disaster strikes and it looks like Simon has missed the boat. On the big night of Simon looking to score Meghan, his nemesis, Karmouche has beaten him to the punch. Worlds collide when Simon, spinning out of control and drunk out of his mind, hooks up with (against the Wingmen’s advice) his ex-wife, Allison. He moves back in for a short stint.
It seems as if things are back to the way they should be in a relationship, boring and safe. A man has got to have some self-respect though, and when Allison hides him shivering and naked in the bathroom for hours so that her parents won’t find out they are back together he realizes that he has to “grow a pair.” Simon leaves her once and for all. Alone and humiliated he turns back to his best friend Steve for help.
He heads to Steve’s place and finds Meghan there with Steve. Meghan follows Simon out after he storms off and offers him the opportunity to be with her. He misses it again. Defeated he goes back to his parents’ house in the middle of the night. He arrives to a full swingers party in progress.
Simon wakes up in his office – Bailey comes to the rescue and cleans him up. After getting cleaned up he decides to go after Meghan again. He sets up a romantic evening, sends a limo (Steve drives) and sings on stage at a jazz club - a horrendous yet heartfelt version of Sinead O’Connor’s nineties classic “Nothing Compares 2U.”
It worked. Meghan can’t resist him. They skip dinner and head back to her place. Once back at Meghan’s place, Simon discovers that Meghan is not everything that he had built her up to be. Truth be told, although she is fantastically hot, she is actually very dirty, disgusting almost.
Cut to: Simon racing back to Bailey for the romantic, passionate climax
WINGMEN
