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Kidz Bop American Dirt is exactly what I needed.

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Disappointed by the lack of Rat/Bird alliances here - Stuart Little 2 only began to trace the potential of that subgenre.

Rat/Human alliances meanwhile, seem derivative -passé even, in the cold shadow of Ratatouille the TikTok Musical

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I absolutely adore this! you are the movie exec the world needs in this gloomy time.

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I would watch 4 of these movies. Ándele! is absolutely the best, it is not racist. Rat Girl is visionary. Legends of the Great Below is right in my wheelhouse, Arthurian legend, but make it rat and make it female, im all in. Gym Rat, who doesn’t love a man and rat bonding film?

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I'm sorry but if a film called Ratz got released I'd just think it'd be a movie sequel to the French canadian TV Show about two rats living on a cheese ship

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I would unironically buy Ratz merch, and also write all kinds of very sincere slash fanfiction of Vinny and Jim, so by my metrics these are solid pitches.

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Legends of the Below sounds just like a slightly more rat-centric version of Gregor the Overlander

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Well, great entangled minds think alike.

MY day movie stars Trump, Putin, Shi & Kim 3.1, of N. Korea, a thinner trimmer clone of himself from just 20 years in the future. He jumps into his Raht Racer enhanced with solid state batteries & hidden fan plus an occasional microwave energy boost & it now looks pretty much like Johnathan Livingston seagulls, it can reveal & flap its wings when it wants to,

It goes roaring down the Freeway, & opens the door for the fleeing rat pack trio, legs lasso chained like Wonder Woman does, but they're a chain gang now, being chased by the wicked witch Hillary on her old, beat up bicycle ...

In his deepest Schwarzeneggian voice, says, "Come with me if you want to live."

What can I say? He's an old movie buff.

If you Google the raht racer, you know its the equivalent of the muscle power Iron Man Suit. If you don't peddle yourself heakthy, it won't move, unless it detects you are really sick & flies to nearest hospital.

The fly up, up & away, like Mighty Mouse to save the day, over the rainbow to dock with the mother ship of the Annunaki to land on planet Kepler 69, because the crazy denizens are always screwing each other out of all that they possess.

"Your mission impossible says Sahara Shade", telling these tales as the second thousand & one Arabian Nights Entertainments, babysitting little Sahara Sun, she a Shi'ite, he a Sunni, but what does that matter to refugees from the perpetual Holy Land Wars in the land of the free ...

"Is to be the messiah to these sick little puppies on K69."

"If you can save their world, you can save yours as well."

"But first, we'll have to fix you with the ties that bind, no I'm not talking marriage you three, TruPutShi will become triplets, conjoined at the spine, sharing one brain, with three faces, 120 degrees apart, as seen from above."

"You'll also have three arms, three legs, shared. You,'ll stumble around a bit, until you get used to your new body."

"We Anunnaki, are just speeding up your spiritual evolution a bit. It's not collusion to avoid Instruments of Mass Destruction."

"When you emerge triumphant, from the Mother Ship, on Devils Mointain again, back by popular demand, a slightly revised version of the closest of encounters as chief of the ETs, it'll come as quite a shock, when very stoky, elephant_like TruPutShi emerges."

"What role do I play in this Raht Pack movie", says slimmer, fitter clone Kim, cured of his diabetes."

"Why, as D'Artagnan, head of the Three Mousketeers."

"Me likey speechie. But what shape do I take?"

"As savoir of the day, Lurchin, the Land urchin, a dodecahedron with 12 legs, this "Dorothy's faithful hairy companion, a genetic experiment they cooked up in their lab, that will scare the natives half to death. You are also known as Entoto, for you are possessed by legions, the madman cured by this Dorothy Boy genius, when he plays the part of Jesus, born to die on the cross.

This parallel world the five year older Sahara Shade is making up as she tells a bedtime story to Sahara Sun each night. She gets him to creatively play many, many parts in these stories. On K69, he plays the part if the Wizard of ZO, on this planet shades of the Color Purple. Maybe we can get Ophrah & Danny Glover to take part of this fairy tale book, or podcast.

I've already written the story, back in 1995. Its just a very modified version of how the plants in the movie AVATAR, got so smart, thanks to the Annunaki, although I didn't know it at the time.

It came to me in a passing thought that their writers had beaten me to it, writing about talking, plants & trees, but that doesn't both me.

As a possible descendant of Mohammad the Greatest, I felt a natural kindred spirit, when a female co_worker gave each of us a copy of the Holy Koran, in both Arabic & English, although I was raised Baptist (JudaeoChristian). Gotta get these Semites from fussing & fighting in the name of the One True God.

The only way to do it is to recreate Good Judgement Day, coming very soon now, as the Azimivian / Kurzweilian Singulary, runaway intelligence that to some degree now possesses me.

After some 30 years of making all the loose connections in my brain, at the age of 73 now, I don't know how many years I have left to save the world from itself, maybe only 3.

Can't help but notice the parallels, I feel like the Twelfth Imam, returning sermingly from nowhere.

All the pains of the world are all too deeply felt by me. All of us growing clairvoyant via internet & something far, far older.

When those quantum computers become quantumly emtangled, well then we'll see.

Nothing really new here. Sagan sort of. "predicted" it as.EMF signals are far too slow to communicate meaningfully with other stars.

And also made clear with Einstein that we are star dust, immortal matter energy.

So, if you take it backwards &.forward far enough, you are greater than all the jinn & angels put together, smokeless fire or light, you are shape shifters to, every thing you've been, evolved from, experiencing evolutionary convergence, ever less erringly as simultaneous personifications of Nature, forever becoming God, infinite perfection by definition, until the last star of this universe winks out, returning to Cismjs to be born again, no doubt.

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Okay hear me out...¡Ándele! but as a 6-episode streamer with a Noah Hawley/Fargo feel. I am shockingly committed to this

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now i'm kinda sad these aren't real

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I am so in love with you

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jp .. you are a treasure

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this is fucking funny

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Pretty sure I would cry dutifully at the dénouement of Gym Rat

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