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LIMAMA
08-09-2005, 06:31 AM
Title: The Joy of Funerals
Log Line: Nina, a thirtysomething New Yorker, decides to look for love in all the wrong places by crashing funerals of complete strangers.
Writer: Alix Strauss
Agent: n/a
Buyer: Fortress Entertainment
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 8/9/05
More: Strauss will adapt from his own short story collection. Fortress Entertainment's Patrick Rizzotti & Brett Forbes, Liberty Films, Diana Kerew Productions and Stockard Channing will produce. Channing will also make her feature directorial debut.
kidcharlemagne
08-09-2005, 08:11 AM
So we have the crashing of weddings, funerals and self-help groups as movie idea. Mmmh...what else can be crashed?
santino2699
08-09-2005, 09:25 AM
Coming Soon...

THE INTERVENTION CRASHERS.



FADE IN:

INT. LIVING ROOM

MOM
Billy, your addiction is tearing this family apart.

DAD
We love you son. And we want you to join a--

Two wacky CZECH SWINGERS burst in!

SWINGERS
We're wild and curaaaazy guys! Where's the Champagne?

DAD
This is an intervention!

SWINGERS
Oh, okay. How bout some heroine, then?
Deus Ex Machine
08-09-2005, 10:21 AM
The Proctology Convention Crashers

"sometimes love needs a hand"

:)
Hasil Adkins
08-09-2005, 10:29 AM
THE CIRCUMCISION CRASHERS

"Take a tip from me"

Cast: Peter O'Toole
Deus Ex Machine
08-09-2005, 11:38 AM
I can see a scene with the hero singing with the band... "The first cut is the deepest..."


:)
Bad Liver
08-09-2005, 12:05 PM
I suppose it wouldn't seem so redundant if they didn't actually crash a funeral in Wedding Crashers.
elephant1978
08-09-2005, 01:15 PM
...and this is where Elephant starts hating Hollywood again.

Ele...
MacG
08-09-2005, 01:29 PM
...and this is where Elephant starts hating Hollywood again.

Ele...

...followed, in short order, by MacG.
toakel
08-09-2005, 02:47 PM
Actually they already did the Intervention Crashing in FIGHT CLUB...
refriedwhiskey
08-09-2005, 02:50 PM
Well, here's how I see it: This movie is based on a collection of short stories published in 2003. So it's not a ripoff of Wedding Crashers.

So what this may mean is that if a high-profile movie comes out (like Wedding Crashers) and has some vague similarities to something you were working on (or had already written, like The Joy of Funerals), it doesn't necessarily mean your work is dead in the water.

So that's a good thing, and writers should be happy about it.
bwdial
08-09-2005, 04:06 PM
Bridge Club Crashers
Knitting Circle Crashers
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Crashers (Ruin Johnny's Bar Mitzvah by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes could be the soundtrack)
Baby Shower Crashers
ExtHollywoodDay
08-09-2005, 04:27 PM
Don't forget the CRASH CRASHERS-

In the earlier film CRASH w James Spader :)
Deus Ex Machine
08-09-2005, 04:37 PM
Don't forget the CRASH CRASHERS

Two jaded claims adjusters pretend to be crash test dummies to hit on vulnerable crash test dummies and get some plastic lovin...
GreekSalad
08-09-2005, 05:06 PM
Don't forget to catch "The Scientology Convention Crashers". It's about two women who work together at a couch store who both get fired after jumping on couches. Together they crash a bunch of Scientology conventions in search of Tom Cruise. They're goal? To find and rescue Katie Holmes. Duh!

Is this Oscar-worthy or what? ;)
Bad Liver
08-09-2005, 05:21 PM
Well, here's how I see it: This movie is based on a collection of short stories published in 2003. So it's not a ripoff of Wedding Crashers.

So what this may mean is that if a high-profile movie comes out (like Wedding Crashers) and has some vague similarities to something you were working on (or had already written, like The Joy of Funerals), it doesn't necessarily mean your work is dead in the water.

So that's a good thing, and writers should be happy about it.

It's not a rip off, but it is redundant. No matter when the short stories were written, we've already heard the joke.

Whether it's good or bad for writers is open to debate (I think it's fairly indifferent) but I'll bet money this never makes it to the big screen.
ExtHollywoodDay
08-09-2005, 05:44 PM
Kidding aside, I agree that the project seems strangely moot now.

Sex And The City has a wonderful rival in Cynthia Heimel's Sex Tips For Girls books, but it may be pointless to try to make the Heimel books into a filmed project at this point.
LIMAMA
08-09-2005, 08:59 PM
How about THE EXERCISE CRASHERS?

Two guys pretend to be women to crash a ladies only exercise class. They then scope out the ladies and hit on them as men.

This is getting out of hand and slightly creepy.
le kilt
08-10-2005, 09:36 AM
HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) was also about a pair of funeral crashers, except they weren't looking for love, but found it anyway.
Pen Dragon
08-11-2005, 12:04 AM
What was 4 Weddings and a Funeral about?
refriedwhiskey
08-11-2005, 12:44 AM
It was about four weddings and some other thing a bunch of people got together at.
le kilt
08-11-2005, 04:35 AM
wasn't that the one where the dude in the kilt died?
velysai
08-14-2005, 12:11 AM
Actually they already did the Intervention Crashing in FIGHT CLUB...
No, they were the self-help crashers.

And I don't think there was any crashing in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
billythrilly7
08-16-2005, 02:18 PM
I've crashed Hotel Bars looking for lonely, horny, business women.

It soon became apparent that they usually stay in their rooms, take baths, watch some T.V. and go to sleep.

I stopped crashing.
velysai
08-20-2005, 07:07 PM
How about conference crashing? Doctors, lawyers, dentists, pharmaceudicals....
Frankclone
08-25-2005, 10:25 AM
...ORGY Crashers...
santino2699
08-25-2005, 10:30 AM
...ORGY Crashers...


Now THAT'S comedy.

S