Board Thread:Pitches/@comment-25375217-20150228220931

(Yes, I am aware pitches are on hold, but I didn't want to forget this before they opened it. So now it's out there so I can remember it.)

I'm pitching a movie based off of the book by Gordon Korman, Why Did The Underwear Cross The Road?. It's um, a special book, but I think it could be a good movie.

Book Summary: Justin Zeckendorf has lots of ideas on how to win the fourth-grade Good Deed Contest. There's only one problem. He's been teamed up with Jessica Zander and Margaret Zachary--two of the drippiest girls on the planet! Still, Justin's not about to give up. He manages  to talk Jessica and Margaret into one crazy scheme after another. Too bad Justin's ideas are turning his team's GOOD deeds into major BAD ones!

Movie Summary: Justin Zeckendorf is an Idea Man. When the entire school participates in a Good Deed Competition, he's intent on winning. Too bad Justin's ideas are turning his team's good deads into major bad ones!

Jessica Zander is an actress. She loves to be in the spotlight, and hates it when someone doesn't recognize her. Remember that hand you saw dial the 800 number in the commercial for Santa's Wish List Hotline? That was her! Now all she wants to do is land a role in Gregory Ashford's newest movie- until she accidentally almost gets Gregory Ashford arrested.

Margaret Zachary is a teacher's pet. She hates it when someone else is better at something than she is, and she always has to prove herself. She knows she can win the Good Deed Contest, as long as Justin Zeckendorf doesn't get in her way.

When these three 7th graders team up to win a trip to the coolest water park ever, chaos is sure to follow. Between scattering Mrs. Milarchuk's underwear across the street, selling 60 fake raffle tickets, and flooding the McClintock's living room, their hopes of winning the Good Deed Contest seem doomed. Unless, of course, Justin can pull off the greatest good deed of all time- catching the ring of car thieves. He's hot on their trail- or so he thinks. Will this be the good deed to beat all good deeds? Or will it lead to another horrible accident?

CHARACTER LIST : Idk how old Seth, Nicole, Harvey, Alita, Becky, and Derek will be. In the book they're five, but I think casting 8-10 would be easier.
 * Justin Zeckendorf - One of the three 13 year-old protagonists of the movie. He's a little childish, and considers himself an "Idea Man". He comes up with "ingenius" ideas that no one else has thought of before.
 * Margaret Zachary - One of the three 13 year-old protagonists of the movie. She's mature and smart, but a little full of herself and very competitive. While Justin wants to do big good deeds like catching thieves, Margaret is convinced that simple things like chores would work- but, she still gets dragged into Justin's chaotic schemes.
 * Jessica Zander - One of the three 13 year-old protagonists of the movie. A bit of a diva, she loves performing and being recognized. She doesn't care much about the contest, more about getting cast in Gregory Ashford's movie.
 * Byron Bigelow - A bully from Justin's class. Byron is the spitball champion, and uses his skills on Justin regularly. He's somewhat of the antagonist, and is on the winning team for most of the movie. He mocks the "Z team" throughout the plot.
 * Mr. Ortiz - Justin's teacher. His car was stolen recently by a ring of car thieves, and he's pretty constantly angry as a result. The chaos called by Justin, Margaret, and Jessica only makes his anger worse.
 * Trevor Zeckendorf - Justin's 8 year-old brother. Trevor is constantly getting himself sick, and is the reason Justin's never been able to go to a water park.
 * Mrs. Milarchuk - The first person the Z team tries to help. They try to help her cross the road to the bus stop, and end up dropping her suitcases and scattering her underwear everywhere.
 * Ms. Zachary - Margaret's mom, and the second person the Z team tries to help. They sell raffle tickets for her, but when they run out too soon, Justin makes copies of them so they can sell more, which causes trouble when 60 (61, counting the original ticket) people have the same number on their ticket.
 * Mr. & Mrs. McClintock - The third good deed the Z team attempts is washing the McClintock's windows- without asking first. Or checking to see if the window was closed. Or making sure the couch is dry before trying to vacuum the tissue shreds off of it.
 * Gregory Ashford, AKA Mr. Smith - Justin's top suspect, Mr. John Smith, is new in town and staying in the Dover Hotel across the street from the school. When Justin overhears him talking about shooting, he's convinced that he's found the thieves- unless, of course, it's movie director Gregory Ashford filming auditions.
 * Seth, Nicole, and Harvey - Three younger kids who the Z team trains for their field day. Due to Justin's snooping, he discovers that the 7th graders will be coaching teams for field day, and all get points for it, before its announced, so he and the girls deduce that the last three alphabetical kids in that group will be on their team. Unfortunately, they end up with...
 * Alita, Becky, and Derek - Three younger kids who end up on the Z team's team for field day. Alita has chicken pox and has to leave early, Becky has "clumsy child syndrome" and is constantly falling over or otherwise making mistakes, and Derek is the younger brother of Byron Bigham. When Derek throws a tantrum over losing and runs away while under Justin's supervision, the Z team loses even more points.

Also, I'm thinking I'm going to add some romance between Justin and Margaret. The implications are there in the book but they're 9, so nothing happens. Aging them up to 13 makes it more plausible for them to end up holding hands or hugging :P 