Life's a Pitch Podcast

We talk about a town Bruce Willis owned, Bible movies in general and pitch some more bible movies! Honourable mentions Mission: Forbidden Fruit - A casino heist set at the beginning of time. For Sale - Big Boat, Used Once - Who gets ownership of the boat once the waters subside!

Join us as we take selected stories from the apocryphal "book of pitch" in this biblical stories episode! Apocryphal mentions: Samson: Heavyweight Champion of the world - a man takes on an entire people after they kill his donkey. David Vs Kaiju - A Hero from the bible is brought to the future to take on a post apocalyptic threat. Gor Blimey! Herod Calm Down - We start the "Gor Blimey" comedy fran...

Tom reads a "pitch" for a movie idea he came up with in 2017 and wrote down and we play the first part of some bonus Patreon exclusive content for you all.

We go back to the old format this holiday season giving films to pitch to each other with a Christmas theme! Tom pitches "The clock that stopped for Christmas Crocs" Matt Pitches "A Stocking Full Of Bullets" Merry Holidays to you all!

We talk about xmas ads with Dave Bulmer and pitch an utterly silly advert for the shampoo that saved the holiday.

Come and witness the completely bonkers festive ad campaigns we cooked up this week with the help of Dave Bulmer! Music by Darren Curtis

THREE whole new pitches in this special Star Wars bonus bits. That's nearly a whole other episode of Ash Routh and us adding to Star Wars Legends year by year. Don't miss out!

This week we expanded the Star Wars universe as we discover that the Sarlacc isn't just a mouth, and it hates sand! Sandra Oh escorts the enormous space worm across the galaxy as the Hutt cartels hunt to claim it as their pet. Honourable Mentions: The Planet with like... a billion midochlorians - What are those little force thingies *really*. I mean how do they feel about this whole Jedi thing. An...

We pitch some more movies based on song titles and talk about what is the film that has a song title but is the furthest away from that song. The answer may surprise you. This is the deleted scenes for episode 355, it might be worth listening to that episode first before this one. Or not, your call.

We pitch a film where all Mark Addy wants to do is watch Love Island but Ridley Scott won't let him... Honourable Mentions Sandstorm: An archeologist finds an ancient beat which is also a cosmic warning. Hamantha: Listen and find out what this is about. Doctor Worm: A time travelling worm and a mole ask people to listen to their new beats as they lay down some mind bending drum and bass!

We pitch the most complicated space western imaginable as an amazon original Star Wars knock-off. Then we sort out what on earth we mean by a "modern western"

This week we pitch some modern westerns, seemingly just by transporting cowboys into the future. A pop culture convention is rocked as tensions in the queue start to mount and strange characters begin to wander the convention. But nobody expects the startling revelation when the doors to the most popular panel open. Honourable Mentions: Bury my spurs in Belper - A cowboy businessman intended to re...

A horrible highway based gameshow, a murder in a village in Derbyshire and a completion for the next cereal mascot all feature in this weeks food based deleted scenes! This is the deleted scenes for episode 344, it might be worth going back and listening to that podcast before this one... or you do you...

We pitch cooking competition movies this week and come up with an origin story/biopic for Guy Fieri! Honourable Mentions Creme-Brawl-ee - You've heard of the hunger/squid games? Well imagine that but with a certain kind of desert thrown in the mix! Pizza The Action - An Adam Sandler movie in which Adam Sandler has to prove he can make the best Pizza in New York.

We pitch a BUNCH more product placement movies, hate on some billionaires, and realise why we don't like Chris Pratt. The usual, then.

This week, we're placing products in the public imagination, such that every story is profitable, and every legend intensifies our love of corporate consumption. Hamburglar (Lin Manuel Miranda) has ousted the clown as the vain figurehead of McDonald's Town, but when an imperial threat comes knocking, he must put his trust in unexpected places to steal back their greatest prize. But will this caper...

In this deleted scenes we talk about pitching real movie titles, Matt goes through a list of his unused titles from the time we used to pitch movies at each other. We talk about Bond themes for some reason and talk about real movie titles we can't pitch without being like the original movie! Enjoy! This is the deleted scenes from episode 351, we'd recommend listening to that before this podcast, b...

We delve back into actual movie titles this week and pitch an Arthur Miller-esque drama about a salesman in "For A Few Dollars More". This weeks Honourable Mentions are both based on titles of Stanley Kubrick movies, except we make them better!! A Clockwork Orange - Will Holmes track down the their of a priceless piece of steampunk art? The Shining - How far are you willing to go to get exposure f...

What qualifies as a paranormal movie? How many spooky movies can Eden watch in a year? And why does Jack Black want to capture the California Raisins so badly? These are deleted scenes from the Life's a Pitch podcast episode 350, if this is your first time listening, we recommend going back and listening to the main episode first for context!

This week we pitch some paranormal horror movies with Eden MW! A childhood book club reunites under the strangest circumstances as they're haunted by the ghost of their local library! Honourable Mentions: The House without a Toilet - A pair of hopeful movie-makers visit an eminent producer in the hopes of having their script optioned. However when their bladders start to fill, they discover that t...

This week we discuss the Batman trailer, what we'd have like to have seen in the movie "The Lighthouse" and Lara Croft discovers something about a certain British landmark. Enjoy! This is the deleted scenes for episode 349 by the way. Might be worth listening to that before this, or it might work without it, who knows?

Horror month 2021 continues as Florence Pugh is compelled to return to her home town where she was beloved by everyone there. Only to find out that everything was not as it seemed. Honourable Mentions: I found God He was Behind the Sofa - A spiritual sequel to the John Carpenter film "They Live" - Simon Pegg finds an answer in the fluff behind his sofa. The Devil is in Beatles - The Beatles reflec...

This one's all about the devil, he's in an impossibly hot statue and in your coleslaw! This episode brought to you by MiPantis. This is the deleted scenes for episode 348, it might be worth listening to that first... Orrrrr maybe not, up to you.

In the second episode of this weeks Halloween Horror season, we get biblical and pitch what life was like for Judas after Jesus' death. Honourable Mentions: The Sins Are Coming From Inside The House: A portal to hell open in a black plague era orphanage, only Whoopi Goldberg can stop it Preacher Creature: A man is on the hunt for a cryptid who performs religious ceremonies

We talk about monster hour movies and pitch a film called Cryptid Currency! This is the deleted scenes for episode 347 - you may need to listen to that before listening to this one... Or not, who knows?