Dear Zachary,This is your Instagram and Facebook correspondent Bob
MacLean with a proposal:
John Cleese is aboard to play Haze in this comedy series
about an American gigolo in Europe, The Many Loves of Toby Tucker.
Forgive my immodesty, but I think it will fly.
Browsing Breitbart yesterday I read that you are launching Wyldwood Studios in Texas, which was enough to get my attention, and then found—hah!—that
you yourself are an accomplished comic actor, and a handsome one. I immediately wanted you to consider playing Toby.
European pleasure zones + lazy useless American gigolo
Toby is irrepressible and irredeemable, a delightful comic creation whose most exasperating quality is also his most endearing: the more we get to know him the less we expect from him. —The Montreal Gazette
To quote Dan Reardon:Here is something completely
new and fresh.
Packaging this with talent
could be a snap - the material is that good.
Just check out the deck.
I am not officially attached
to this project but I am close with the writer and know his counterpart well.
Bernie and Robert have asked me to come on board and get this done.Hope you like it as much as I do.
To quote Bernie
Stampfer, “Don't be shocked. Toby is not exactly politically correct.”
And to quote Mel Brooks, “Political correctness killed comedy.” We're back.
Bernie and I have 19 scripts for two seasons, Dan's colleagues in Greece, the best production
manager in Athens, and a bankable 40%
of our budget.
SOME GOSSIP:
Peter Bogdanovich,
whose daughter was in my last film, was to
direct one of these when they were still features, though his directing
was my idea—his was to play Haze. On 5 January 22 he wrote me:
Hi, Robert --
I'm doing well. Thank you for checking in. How are you doing?? I
hope you had a great Christmas and New Year.
Thanks again for your kind words.
All the best,
Peter
That night he died.
He wanted Ethan Hawke
for Toby. Now we have John Cleese for Haze, your own choice of directors and, fingers
crossed, Zachary Levi for Toby.The series is based on these books—
—and these videos, which I mention only to show that we have an infinite amount of material, for an infinitely funny series, a wildly funny series. Check the book reviews.
Let me get into red:Toby is as charming as Cary,as seductive as Marcello,
as cheeky as Hamlet,
as klutzy as Lucy,
as wimpy as Woody,
as gullible as Goofy
and outrageously funny,
impossibly funny.
He travels with rich blonde bubble-head Marcie, and he's got it made, except that her 9-year-old daughter Andrea is smarter than he is.
As you can see, the
financing is not a problem. We need a lead producer and a star. You fit both
those descriptions admirably.
Here on the blog I can't
attach the deck or sample dialogue, but I did put them on a Facebook
message, assuming this is you.
We are not a large
production entity, so I can't go to your UTA guys. For the moment it has to
be person-to-person. But if Toby appeals to you we'll formalize it quickly.
Kindest regards,
Bob
Robert MacLean is a bad poet and an independent filmmaker. His The Light Touch is on Amazon Prime, Tubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a screamingly funny novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a reviewer of films, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. Committed to making movies that don't matter. No brains, but an intellectual snob.
Dear Zachary,
This is your Instagram and Facebook correspondent Bob
MacLean with a proposal:
John Cleese is aboard to play Haze in this comedy series about an American gigolo in Europe, The Many Loves of Toby Tucker.
Forgive my immodesty, but I think it will fly.
Browsing Breitbart yesterday I read that you are launching Wyldwood Studios in Texas, which was enough to get my attention, and then found—hah!—that you yourself are an accomplished comic actor, and a handsome one.
John Cleese is aboard to play Haze in this comedy series about an American gigolo in Europe, The Many Loves of Toby Tucker.
Forgive my immodesty, but I think it will fly.
Browsing Breitbart yesterday I read that you are launching Wyldwood Studios in Texas, which was enough to get my attention, and then found—hah!—that you yourself are an accomplished comic actor, and a handsome one.
I immediately wanted you to consider playing Toby.
European pleasure zones
+ lazy useless American gigolo
= Toby, a lovable cad
Toby is irrepressible and irredeemable, a delightful comic creation whose most exasperating quality is also his most endearing: the more we get to know him the less we expect from him.
—The Montreal Gazette
To quote Dan Reardon:
Here is something completely
new and fresh.
Packaging this with talent
could be a snap - the material is that good.
Just check out the deck.
I am not officially attached
to this project but I am close with the writer and know his counterpart well.
Bernie and Robert have asked me to come on board and get this done.
Hope you like it as much as I do.
To quote Bernie
Stampfer, “Don't be shocked. Toby is not exactly politically correct.”
And to quote Mel Brooks, “Political correctness killed comedy.” We're back.
Bernie and I have 19 scripts for two seasons, Dan's colleagues in Greece, the best production
manager in Athens, and a bankable 40%
of our budget.
SOME GOSSIP:
Peter Bogdanovich,
whose daughter was in my last film, was to
direct one of these when they were still features, though his directing
was my idea—his was to play Haze. On 5 January 22 he wrote me:
Hi, Robert --
I'm doing well. Thank you for checking in. How are you doing?? I
hope you had a great Christmas and New Year.
Thanks again for your kind words.
All the best,
Peter
That night he died.
He wanted Ethan Hawke
for Toby. Now we have John Cleese for Haze, your own choice of directors and, fingers
crossed, Zachary Levi for Toby.
The series is based on these books—
—and these videos, which I mention only to show that we have an infinite amount of material, for an infinitely funny series, a wildly funny series. Check the book reviews.
Let me get into red:
Toby is as charming as Cary,
as seductive as Marcello,
as cheeky as Hamlet,
as klutzy as Lucy,
as wimpy as Woody,
as gullible as Goofy
and outrageously funny,
impossibly funny.
as cheeky as Hamlet,
as klutzy as Lucy,
as wimpy as Woody,
as gullible as Goofy
and outrageously funny,
impossibly funny.
He travels with rich blonde bubble-head Marcie, and he's got it made, except that her 9-year-old daughter Andrea is smarter than he is.
As you can see, the
financing is not a problem. We need a lead producer and a star. You fit both
those descriptions admirably.
Here on the blog I can't
attach the deck or sample dialogue, but I did put them on a Facebook
message, assuming this is you.
We are not a large
production entity, so I can't go to your UTA guys. For the moment it has to
be person-to-person. But if Toby appeals to you we'll formalize it quickly.
Kindest regards,
Bob
Robert MacLean is a bad poet and an independent filmmaker. His The Light Touch is on Amazon Prime, Tubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a screamingly funny novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a reviewer of films, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. Committed to making movies that don't matter. No brains, but an intellectual snob.
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