Homework: My Film pitch (updated)

Working Title : Mystery/ M for Mystery

Plot: It first starts off by seeing Mystery leaving MI6 headquarters towards her flat in central London overlooking the River Thames. Then we hear a bullet being shot, and we see Mystery lose consciousness(inside her flat) and pass out. Then a flashback occurs.The movie is focused upon Mystery when she was younger and was on an important mission when she started out at MI6. The mission was to prevent Volita, a wealthy female Argentinian Business tycoon, from arming nuclear weapons in Argentina, which would have helped them defeat England. Volita does this so that if Argentina win the war she is promised land in the Falklands, which contain valuable resources such as oil and coal. In Argentina she works with the JC, of that time, to defeat Volita. She ends up falling in love with JC, but he always question her about her name, and she never tells him (always replying mystery). Both JC and Mystery fight off the evil henchman, with gadgets supplied from G-man, and end up in the heart of Volita's lair. The lair is upon Cerro Aconcagua, the highest mountain peak in Argentina. She manages to, with hidden henchmen, to tie up Mystery and JC on chairs back to back. Volita then explains the reason for arming the weapons, Mystery tries to reason with her but Volita straightaway disregards its, and we see her memory come up on screen if how she became so ruthless. It was because when she was young her village, in the Falklands, was attacked by the British and they killled everyone and left her alone as she was only 5. This led to her hatred of the british, as well as a reason to have land on the Falkland Island. Volita then leaves to get her plan fully under way. JC and Mystery will then escape from the lair and kill Volita and prevent the launch of the nuclear missile. But Volita was not dead and her last act was to shoot JC in the heart. Mystery is torn - emotionally - and wanted to leave MI6. But JC asks, as his dying wish, for her to stay at MI6 and leave him to die there. Slowly the screen turns sepia, and crinckles up to look old fashioned and tattered. Mystery then wakes up from the flashback - everything looks blurry currently - the doctor appears and looks very familiar to JC but we cannot see as he is blurred out. The movie then ends with a fade to black.

The show the difference between the flashback and current day, at the flashback a bright light appears and as it fades away the flashback starts to occur. From the flashback back to current day it willl go from sepia to black and then the current day events will start to happen.


Cast
Current Mystery - Dame Helen Mirren or Barbara Hershey
John Crayton - Jason Statham or Tom Cruise or (for younger audiences)  Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon or Channing Tatum
Young Mystery - Isabel Lucas
G-man - David Koechner
Volita - Adrianne Palicki
Producer - Albert R. Brocoli
Director - Michael Apted or Christopher Nolan

Audience
I feel younger people, around the age of 25 will be more into the movie as it is a niche idea, which young people may appreciate more as well as they are the main target audience for action adventure films. They also are the most predominant cinema goers which means it is better to focus the movie upon them. I feel the idea of a female idea will appeal to the female audience more as they will connect with the heroine better. However, the strong association with the spy genre will also attract the male audience.

Marketing
For my marketing plan I will have a trailer, poster and website. The poster will have Mystery at a desk reading through her papers, but in the top right a bit of sepia starts to seep in. The trailer will contain important clips from the movie which will help give the audience an idea of the story as well setting the atmosphere. The website will have the usual pages , from videos to pictures to synopsis. A competition on the website could be trying to find Mystery behind a letter in the alphabet (one guess only) and the winner will get tickets to the premier. The movie will be released in either summertime or near halloween time, therefore the marketing elements would have to be released to the general public around 2 to 3 months before release. The total film budget will be around $100,000,000 (£62,000,000) and the marketing budget would be around a fifth of this ($20,000,000).


(the highlighted sections are the changes made to the pitch)