Max Landis "Classic Reboot" Pitch

[@Uptomyknees]

haha cool

[@p0rq]

neat

[@MikeDillon003]

Uptomyknees kzbin.info/www/bejne/amOYfmeDaLSjoc0 3 years later

[@johnulcer]

Still cool, dude?

[@Uptomyknees]

I wish I hadn't done the fucking voice

[@GregBlunt]

I can re-shoot it for you if you want. or we can do ADR.

[@bender_cigar]

+Uptomyknees When you came up with this pitch, did you directly copy from the Robin Williams film, Hook or at least take some form of inspiration from it?

[@joshmills8354]

+Uptomyknees Max that is just how you sound. huehuehue

[@connollybrosproduction8838]

Please Make this movie sir. i will throw money at this.

[@saturn_qwertydawn5429]

GET BACK TO WORK ,IT'S MY TIME YOUR WASTING BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@goblingilmartin3703]

After listening to his Lord of the Rings pitch video this morning, I smelled that twist a mile away.

[@ubermensch826]

this nigga really just pitched a "dark" winnie the pooh movie.

[@ebiljebus]

+ubermensch826 Shit, a friend and me thought up a dark Wizard of Oz a few years ago. Oz was a city, and the Wizard and Wicked Witches were drug lords.

[@MichaelO2000]

Actually, this isn't supposed to be "dark". Max Landis had said he is sick of "dark" adaptions. This pitch is supposed to be more of an adventure styled film, different from "dark".

[@matman000000]

For a while there I thought he predicted Gone Girl.

[@THOMAS2910able]

Gone Girl was a book though.

[@MrCompassionate01]

Whether or not you like the idea you have to admit Max has an innate talent for visualising and explaining his pitches both inside his head and outside. Not everybody can construct such vivid stories so often or so clearly. Honestly I wish I could write like that.

[@Andhaira]

I was waiting for the part where his daughter transforms into the she red hulk and he calls down his Hulk Buster Armor and shit gets real.

[@thesoundunit]

one of the coolest dudes, he redefined cool !

[@connorpotasse4203]

Every pitch I ever hear him do is always something that starts in the real world then leads to some other fantasy franchise. He did real world to Lord Of The Rings, real world to Peter Pan, real world to Whinnie The Pooh... I mean, when you watch these videos, you're just waiting for that reveal to come lol.

[@BullitCake]

i knew it was Pooh when he said initials CR. High Five :-)

[@ryankirk2180]

Fuck!! I want this dudes brain

[@robjabbaz]

love the collective groan when he gets to the punchline.... "uuuh... ok, so the twist is that ive been watching a winnie the pooh movie this whole time."

[@ryezio3637]

And now we have Disney's Christopher Robin... bet Max is piiiiissed.

[@louierubio]

Haha this is so much better

[@dcrownso2]

Oh my god! I love this idea! THIS MOVIE NEEDS TO BE MADE NOW! !! Awesome idea Uptomyknees !!!!

[@shaneraine8081]

Max Landis is so fucking brilliant.

[@PonyboyInNewZealand]

+Shane Lees But also painfully obnoxious, unfortunately.

[@shaneraine8081]

Yeah he is isn't he. For me his brilliance trumps how obnoxious he is.

[@dcrownso2]

Again I LOVE Uptomyknees pitches! EVERYBODY! Vote up if you want to see Max pitch a Batman VS Superman story!

[@illminds2378]

Why The fuck did I just get chills over a Winnie the Pooh. Hook pitch

[@robinhilliker4461]

"Hook" -Dependent pitch... Haha I just got that

[@IAmNMFlores]

This is to Christopher Robin (2018), like what Mowgli (2019) is to The Jungle Book (2016) remake

[@jaeeproductions]

That was a very good pitch.

[@cauliflowerjam7730]

Called it from the moment he did the voice.

[@ElderlyPossum]

As soon as I heard him say the initials were C.R. and him talk about woods I was like 60% sure it was Winnie the Pooh but it was still an interesting pitch.

[@fgd7ygf7dg]

This niggas the best guy out there rip his me too movement

[@loganthomson8243]

That was pretty awesome

[@aimeenasryn9773]

For anybody watching this in 2019: did someone at Disney watch this or did Max actually write it for them without getting any credit?

[@CHOOCHYT]

Max had nothing to do with Christopher Robin

[@Junteeela]

the second he mentioned the initials I put it together. still cool though

[@bender_cigar]

Sounds very similar to robin Williams in Hook

[@2sallads]

i was thinking the same thing.

[@bender_cigar]

Sed1er sounds like an almost total rip off actually....

[@bender_cigar]

Firelite906 still not entirely that remarkable or original

[@bender_cigar]

Firelite906 Lol did I fucking say things arent copied regularly? No. However his idea is weak as it follows almost the EXACT format of Hook. Grown ass adult male who's out of connection with his inner youth must journey back to his fantastical adventures when he was a boy in order to reconnect with both himself and his own children. Oh and a family member is kidnapped or missing, gone off into said fantastical land. Lmao they even LIVE in San Francisco, California just like in Hook.... "it's less about finding his youth again and more about finding himself as an adult" At no point in time was that stated by max or implied, seeing as though the whole point was CR connecting BACK to his youth. He had forgotten who he was..... Which is again, the exact theme of Hook. And he does this ALL the fucking time with his movie pitch ideas, they're hardly ever remarkable. They usually just leave me scratching my head as I point out every single film he's taken that idea from. It's 90% of the time an awkward hodgepodge of movie ideas put into one film. Just look at his lord of the rings set in modern day idea. I'll admit, the idea of exploring the characters of winnie the pooh as different aspects of his psyche is good (i mean that's been a long established concept), it still does little to deter the fact this is indeed an almost straight rip off of Hook in both plot structure and themes. That being said I do not hate max landis or think he's a terrible at ideas because he has demonstrated in his movie scripts he can think of great scripts like Chronicle. But in my opinion he works better as a comic book authority than a script writer.

[@ScarlettNour]

I WANNA WATCH THIS SO MUCH HOLY SHIT.

[@RedRockShane]

So, basically the plot for Hook...

[@edgar2dnd]

Putting aside if I did like this movie pitch or not, I have to admit that I really enjoy the way Max tells his stories.

[@takingstraylight]

Please make this film. Could also cast Johnny Depp as Chris Robinson. His work in Secret Window reminds me of Tony Starks anxiety in Iron Man 3

[@Courier_333]

He predicted Christopher Robin

[@sampletext5927]

Holy shit i love this

[@AdraTheGhost]

really would love to see this since now Disney has been doing those live action remake/revisions

[@JC-ev2ns]

This is a good pitch but the pitch relies so heavily on the twist

[@orynzarael6411]

Here's a Pitch: A Child Grows up with Happiness Even though in Reality it is Terrible. He is able to Grow Up but Slowly the Crushing Reality that Happiness is Not What Everyone Else Wants Sinks In. At his Darkest Moment, He Prays to God and Everything Else for Protection and Salvation Only to Eventually Find a Mogo (Or did it Find Him). The Mogo Cannot Understand Why this Human is Emitting Such a Strong Frequency So it Bestows Power Upon the Boy/Man in Order to Understand More. Thus Chronicle 2 is About the Relationship Between a Mogo and Hurt Human Child.

[@Xskills16]

This is really reminiscent of Hook to me: take an everyman whose mysterious past you ignore because of the immediate family troubles. This tumultuous status quo ceases when a loved one goes missing and in attempt to this person, he is pulled (somewhat literally) back into the magical world where it is revealed this guy is actually just a character from well-known children's property who left that world and grew up but must find a balance between that iconic boy and that adult he is today on his journey to rescue this loved one.

[@reneflores24]

And now it's being made

[@Blarmenify]

its called a hook pitch cuz its just the plot to HOOK

[@userasdf]

Isn't this basically Hook but with Winnie the Pooh? Almost the exact same set up except it's the kids kidnapped instead of the wife.

[@ZyxthePest]

Exactly what I was thinking. Max bases a lot of his material on already existing content, Chronicle being the obvious exception. I can say that he'd probably make some high caliber fan fiction, but that's about it. I will say, the way he pitched a Captain Hook movie on the Nerdist podcast felt far more inspired and original.

[@Blastaar7]

userasdf "the hook pitch".

[@OreoBrawl]

+ZyxthePest High quality fan fiction? I think this guy has a 20 chapter story about Marvel's The Shocker

[@themovierad]

great

[@inthefade]

A Hook pitch because it hooks you, or because this is the movie Hook redone with Winnie the Pooh?

[@zambonicharles9201]

well now this is happening

[@rovhallet7491]

Ostentatious, that's the word I'd use to describe him.

[@BratacOfChulak]

Anyone else look this video up after the new Christopher Robin movie trailer came out

[@codyhill9914]

Bro... I want to see the movie

[@nickolasbelliveau7095]

WHY DID I ACTUALLY KNOW THAT WAS WINNIE THE POO WHEN HE SAID CR?

[@perciful1936]

There making a Christopher robin movie but it’s a lot different then what you explained

[@epic897]

congratz max, they're making it, just not as dark.

[@corndair]

There's already a live-action Winnie the Pooh in the works at Disney but holy shit I want this to be a thing.

[@LiquidShamanMan]

That's the twist in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

[@edmunds1875]

This must've been a kinda inspiration for the shitty horror they released

[@ULYSSES-31]

Alan Moore wants his schtick back...

[@gianni206]

First that Lord of the Rings, now this? I'm shooken.

[@gianni206]

It's Hook meets Gone Girl.

[@ihatecorpsehusband7147]

Jonny Lupus Holy fuck lmao

[@bartholomew1096]

The movie Christopher Robin came out. Fuck lol

[@MaxProductionFilms]

Godamn I love him because his storue r never what u think it. He is the best screenwriter in the beisness

[@sammonroe882]

I thought it was called a "hook pitch" because its basically hook with the base fairy tale changed from Peter Pan to Winnie the Poo.

[@ryankeefe1236]

Holy fuck

[@TheMechwar88]

Eh, don't worry about it. Your pooh wasn't poo.

[@a.KniteOwl]

way to put the Hook ;) in hook pitch

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

wouldve been way better than the actual remake of poo

[@wachuwill4769]

Darn, I thought it was gonna be Alice and Wonderland... -C

[@codemeister2324]

+WachuWill When he did the weird voice for the scrawling stationary and his daughter seems to have knowledge of it and disappears into the roots of a large tree. Yeah I thought it was alice in wonderland too.

[@kyleplatz6295]

It's cool I guess. But only if they actually got Robert Downey Jr. to play Chris Robin. Only then would I see it.

[@sirjosephadorno4775]

it's two different movies. And Christopher Robin needs to be MORE interesting than the updated Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, etc..or falling into the same trap as "Hook", which has Robin Williams playing the dullest character in the movie.

[@shosho189]

Hmm mmmmmm kinda sound like the movie but with Winnie the Pooh

[@gba-sp6419]

genius simply genius

[@JuanJohn-Raytheon]

Landis wrote 1 solid script and everything else he did was garbage that died at the box office. At least he's blackballed from Hollywood for being a creep. Good riddance

[@ERICWAGNERSLUCID]

Great ... right up until the poo poo

[@calen4546]

It's a cool idea but not as a movie 😂

[@gnulen]

he s a great pitcher, but really creepy.

[@platinumpeyton]

This movie is actually happening

[@rubenolivares8345]

Isn't it a rip off of Hook?

[@myaheadhurts2]

+Ruben Olivares No. Not in the slightest.

[@collincorbean6357]

I was the 666th like 😳

[@BlueMaxx86]

This is a terrible idea. Sorry.

[@NDSIser]

+Punk Rock Penguin It's really not that bad as a quick idea

[@andrewwertz3335]

+Maladaptive Daydreamer yeah, the only way this works is if you buy the huge shamalyanian twist, which would be like 40 minutes in

[@e.m.francis6946]

It's an articulate idea for a trilogy of films, but they wouldn't be Peter Pan films. His pitch is in utter ignorance of the Peter Pan books and mythology, and the Freudian underpinnings of the original story. Clearly, he isn't a fan of the J.M. Barrie's work, and I'm glad he would never be able to touch it. Besides that, it more like a ripoff of the version of the characters from Once Upon A Time, which is also a betrayal of the original stories. I can't stand this post-modern bullshit where a classic story has to be completely reversed, and thus undone, in order to make it "edgy" or "modernized". If you have to butcher someone else's narrative, you aren't a good writer. Period.

[@GregBlunt]

This video is a pitch about a different property. The "Mayweather" video is about Hook's origin and is told from his perspective as opposed to Pan's.

[@Uptomyknees]

...was Winnie The Pooh in Peter Pan?

[@GregBlunt]

Uptomyknees my thoughts exactly. Troll bait, anyone?

[@e.m.francis6946]

I heard enough about the "Mayweather" pitch in this video to know it doesn't need to be made. Ever. Just like Channing Tatum's mockery of the original story he pitched where Pan and Hook are brothers. It's a complete slap to the face of everything the original story is and the symbolic, Freudian nature of the characters and setting. Bottom line: Uptomyknees is great pitch man, I'll give him that, but taking a pre-existing story and mangling it just for a twist ending or a gasp moment from the audience is the very definition of post-modern creative bankruptcy.

[@AlchemicSaiyan]

E. M. Francis Sir, you need to learn that you just DEFINED your own opinion on the matter and it is nothing more than that. Just because you aren't a fan of retellings of classic tales in a different form doesn't mean they're an insult. The world doesn't revolve around how you believe movies should be made.

[@AlexM-vt5pu]

He's annoying!

[@Jarnagua]

This is NOT a good idea. You don't just shit all over the themes, style and artistry of an existing beloved story in order to rape it for a new modern franchise. It's artistic heresy. It's the kind of un-originality that makes Hollywood so crappy today. The one he did about Tolkien was worse. So disrespectful. What kind of artist do you want to be, man? Max has good ideas. This isn't one of them.

[@christherocker89]

+Jarnagua This, much like his Lord of the Rings pitch are never supposed to be taken seriously in a "lets make a movie out of this" kind of way. They're just fun little stories he's telling with the twist being something familiar. He's literally just bullshitting a story in a way in which half of the fun is waiting for the other shoe to drop and to find out what form said shoe takes. It's a bit of fun, don't take it so seriously.

[@Jarnagua]

+Chris Hall I hope you're right. He IS a very entertaining pitch-man.

[@lilywaah101]

Eww