In a nine-minute 'quarantine-style' video, the filmmakers behind last year's indie hit 'The Peanut Butter Falcon' are selling their next project in what may be the ultimate creative social-distance pitch
A producer who viewed the nine-minute video said it was an "unbelievable way to sell a project," adding that it inspired him to rethink how he takes out new material.
, on their own real-life experience living secretly in a park in the hills of Los Angeles while they developed the project that became. The pitch video now being circulated to prospective buyers includes photos from that experience. But in the prospective series, the protagonists would be two young women played by the stars. Robbie is exec producing.
In an obvious tongue-in-cheek feint at casting, Nilson and Schwartz use photos of Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Brad Pitt as potential stars to play Andy, while Blake Lively and Reese Witherspoon's images are used for Blair. Other characters include a mountain lion — who the filmmakers say should be voiced by Oprah or Benicio Del Toro — and a real racoon that the duo befriended during their time living in the park.
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