December - 2010 Slaversize-the movie is in preproduction, Principal Photography is scheduled before the end of Summer 2011. We will be announcing the production schedule in the coming months.
SLAVERSIZE
You Will Get in Shape
A comedy
SYNOPSIS
Four
men, friends and acquaintances since their college days, pool their
resources, financial and skill sets, to start a new business catering to
the huge market craving physical perfection.
Barry
Feldman, a psychiatrist, bases the program on Freudian concepts, which
involve reducing the client to the natural state at birth, the Id. The
mechanics of the business are designed/invented by Del Lugo , a brilliant man with a PhD in physics yet verbally
challenged and now has been forced to drive a taxicab in Venice for a
living. Will Johnson, an expert physical trainer whose
"A" list clients have disappeared and has been delegated to
training 'pugs' for children's birthday parties in Santa Monica, oversees
the implementation of the exercise program. An out of work former award
winning PR/Marketing Executive, Bogart “Bogey” Woodwind, is the comic
catalyst for bringing them together and pointing his team in the
direction of the weight loss & physical perfection market with the
irony of hatching such a politically incorrect idea and business plan that
can only be compared to Zero Mostel launching the musical “Springtime for
Hitler” on Broadway in the movie The Producers. The
executive-in-charge of the office, Sue Rydell, is an aggressive
empowering feminist who likens the training to creating a cadre of elitists
and powerful overachievers as well as reaching goals for clients.
The
training/weight loss/addiction eradication regime is portrayed as the
film follows a new employee, Carol Robinson, learning and observing the
program by videotaping three trainers and their respective clients.
The
program itself involves treating the clients in a total immersion
scenario and is as controversial as it is successful. Only female clients
are accepted and are issued a burlap sack to improvise as a garment and
the most basic of necessities are provided. The cost is high but
non-celebrity or non-VIP clients may agree to have their 'training'
viewed on a pay-per-view website for reduced fees. The training takes
place at a plantation in the bayou of Louisiana that not only grows
cotton, fresh fruit and vegetables but also has a military style extreme
obstacle course. The owner of the rough yet beautiful plantation island
is David Mayers, a Ricardo Montalban like character. The clients undergo
a six-week regime patterned after a military boot camp/Navy Seals camp.
They are scientifically monitored, exercised and fed to produce
significant results in the shortest amount of time.
The
crux of the story is how much women will pay, how far they will go and
how much they will endure to recreate themselves into their version of
physical perfection. The twist occurs during the final phase of the
program when the women learn self-defense and the knowledge they can
dominate men physically also empowers them in all other parts of their
lives, both professional and personal. The women control their
environment in and out of SLZ.
Barry's
ex-wife (Janice Dickerson)* has managed to sabotage the employees at SLZ
(collaborating with Sue and Carol) in order to get back at Barry for the
money he has hidden from her during their divorce settlement. She springs
in at the last to upstage him and brings in Homeland Security, the IRS
and the medical/cosmetic industry to destroy SLZ.
The
experience of working on a real plantation lends itself to a historical
perspective of how hard slaves had to sacrifice in order to enhance the
United States and produce regional as well as national wealth. An
appreciation of what a working plantation's life coupled with getting in
the best shape possible results in Slaversize being herald as the
'hip' place course to enroll in.
From
the writer/director of the acclaimed controversial movie The
Pet, D Stevens again takes a daring leap into human dynamics in Slaversize.