Game / activity
Pitch Die Hard 6
How this one works
How it works
- Installment: diehard six; Characters: the guys we created last week; Resolution: ultimately greenlight
- Method: participants select a pitch to greenlight; Self selection: excluded
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Vitaliy
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded exchange
RECORDED EXCHANGE
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Let's hear the pitch for; the next classic; installment of this; franchise.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Jim wins
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- Winner statement: Good win.
- Final adjudication: jim pitch
Follow the round structure (1)
Three pitches and the green-light selection
Source excerpt ↗ 56:25Opportunity domain: present the prepared successor pitches; Result domain: choose among those pitches for one greenlight
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
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- Response context: Name: Jim; Appearance: bald; jeans; t-shirt; sneakers; Attitude: Takes no shits.; Skill: fly an Apache helicopter
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
trailer pitch
Protagonist: Jim; Location: the Maldives; Occasion: the eve of the first day of Hanukkah; Missing relative: cousin Jose; Opposition: Maldivian mafia; Abu Bakura; Abu Bakuru
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- Submission type: trailer pitch
- Important beats: Transport: Apache helicopter; Battle: Apache versus Apache; Escape equipment: parachute; Cousin location: back room
- Ending or payoff: Will Jim be able to; defeat Abu Bakuru; and save his cousin?
- Notable references: Jim; Dwayne The Rock Johnson; Jose; Wilmer; Val Derrama; Abu Bakuru; Michael B. Jordan
- No movie title was supplied.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Alternatives: most of the movie; the first five minutes; Subject: the narrated rescue and finding the cousin
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I think it was over; the course of the; whole movie,; leaving out all the; boring shit.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
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- Adjudication: I love that your; trailer is like,; I'm going to explain; everything but the; last 20 minutes of; the film.
- Response context: Suggestion: put exposition in the trailer and omit it from the film; Cast clarification: Michael B. Jordan; Abu Bukuru; Wilmer Valderrama; Jose; the cousin
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
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- Response context: Name: Jonathan Mclynn; Hair: wig; Dress: modern pirate; Comparison: modern Jack Sparrow; Attitude: indifference; nonchalance; Premise: vacation where he thought something was going down, but it was not
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
It's only the good; die hard.
Protagonist: Jonathan Mclynn; Vacation: cruise to Bermuda; Trigger: passenger confession; Obstacles: passengers; corrupt maritime crew; Pursuit: justice for America; Qualification: international waters
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- Submission type: performed trailer pitch
- Notable references: Direct to streaming; on Tubi.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
Apparent crime: misunderstood; Apparent bad guys: completely innocent; Hero behavior: same carnage that John McClane does
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- Ending or payoff: Agent: Jonathan; Action: kills; Patient: the quoted passenger
- Notable references: Frazier
- Response context: Reported voices: Curtis; Jonathan; one passenger
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
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- Response context: Name: smoke; Clothes: hoodie with no sleeves; Type: reluctant hero; Fireproof qualification: we're pretty sure; Hair: Big, big, big hair.
- Part of the handwritten note could not be read.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Die Hard 6: Get rich or die hard trying
Prisoner: 50 Cent; Curtis Jackson; Trigger: botched deal with the Saudis; Requester: the president; First choice: John McClain; First choice unavailable: on vacation; Replacement: smoke
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- Submission type: trailer pitch
- Important beats: nothing is safe.; Not malls,; not waterfalls,; not even waterfalls; in malls.
- Ending or payoff: Will smoke save; Curtis Jackson or; will Middle East; have a little feast?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Alternate title: Dubai Hard; Status: not chosen
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- Claim: I didn't put a title; in there.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
We do have to pick which; one we're going to; ultimately greenlight.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Get rich or die hard trying
RECORDED EXCHANGE
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
jim pitch
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- Answer qualification: opportunity to watch; an entire 90 minute; film of just pure; action like that.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
jim pitch
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- Answer qualification: because I don't; have a tiebreaker; sequence and I; don't know what we; would possibly do.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, which is not; the name of it, but; yeah.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Adjudication method: Method: participants select a pitch to greenlight; Self selection: excluded