Pitch Perfect Posters 18: Macho Man
Back in the seventies and eighties, film posters offered so much but the movies they advertised delivered so little. Well, not any more. Cutting-edge technology, next generation CGI and sheer balls-out chutzpah means we can now bring those films to celluloid life.
When Pitch Perfect Posters finds one of these beauties, we unveil the poster, a new logline, casting suggestions and a synopsis of the film. And someone in Hollywood is going to see this and make the films that these amazing posters deserve. Today’s film…Macho Man.
Title: Macho Man
Logline: Spiderman meets The Fly (I mean, come on. That’s good, right)
Synopsis: Timothy Id (Timothy Chalamet) is a nerdy high schooler with just one friend, the equally geeky Jung (Jung Kook); a pack of bullies queueing up to flush his head down the nearest toilet; and a yearning for fellow student Janey-Mare (Millie Bobby Brown) — of course, it’s unrequited.
After a particularly brutal series of Chinese burns, swirlies and wedgies, Tim and Jung decide to use their digital skills to create their own protector. Of course, things do not go according to plan. A surge of electricity hits Tim, scrambling his DNA, feathering his hair and turning him into MACHO MAN.
Complete with voluminous bouffant, sleek pencil moustache and a magic medallion, Tim is now ready to take on the bullies, get the girl and win the day. Popularity is just a kung-fu kick away.
However, Tim didn't count on the emergence of a nemesis, the evil Drakkar Noir, who will stop at nothing to destroy Macho Man and the school itself.
After a lifetime of bullying, can Tim be the Macho Man the world needs right now? As his aunt Benita always says: With mighty machismo comes mighty obligation (Ed: This is in no way similar to that other superhero catchphrase).
Why it should be made: You even need to ask? The world is crying out for more superhero stories. The world is screaming for throwback teen epics. The world is hollering for the MACHOVERSE. You’ve got my number, Netflix. Use it.
