This thread is going platinum son

Are you Mike's agent? Sorry you didnt make adeal, but that's very impressive that you didnt quit after the first or second rejection. It's also impressive that you could get 3 people who exec produce multiple feature films a year to take the time to read an unsolicited story idea. You must be extremely well connected in the biz. Were you hoping to get some sort of finders fee if someone had picked it up?

Feel free to refute what I posted.

You argued against a point I never made. I never stated that beggars wouldn't exist if there were no scammers.

This goes even if it's a forum Mod's that is asking.

I remember Midnight Cowboy as being about a sad guy with a life in ruins (like PSU), but it was a great movie.

Do you remember the thousands of other similar movies that sucked?

True, but writers keep trying.

Midnight Pai Gow Boy would be way better though

An honorable mention for that one.

I've been in the TV/film business for over 25 years, and let me say, funny stuff hearing how Mike's story is likely getting made into a movie. As if it's that easy. As if the story is that novel (there have been movies about gambling and degens before). As if writing a book and then having it picked up by a publisher and then turned around and picked up by a theatrical agent is that simple. And then, somehow after breaching that unlikely scenario, said book/script becomes a hot property, rising to the top of everyone's pile, amongst thousands of scripts and other literary properties. And then sells, and ends up in front of the cameras. Yeah, that's sure-fire stuff right there. I believe Mike pegged it at 70/30 it would happen? Uh-huh.

The chances of Mike winning the next One Drop are infinitely higher than him turning his depressing life story into a feature film. Getting a movie made (aside from the kind you shoot with a digital camera with 2-3 friends and upload to YouTube the same day) is one of the longest of long shots.

Writing a book may indeed be a positive, cathartic experience for Mike, but counting on it selling and making a windfall of money might be the most deluded thing he's said in this thread yet.

I said many post ago with Mike banned and not posting, leaving this thread open it would only leave trolls posting to trolls. this is what I mean...

Bravo

No, you condescending troll. I work in film/TV production and took time out of a lunch meeting to pitch a few bosses on Mike's story purely out of curiosity if they would find such a thing appealing.

Don't speak on issues you're totally ignorant on. Keep your nose where it belongs, in your own shat, dude.

Just for the record I wouldn't touch this story with a 50 foot pole, Mike is just not someone i would want to work with after watching his interactions with others through this thread, ever.

I think most reasonable people will agree that it is unlikely that a movie deal will happen, but it is possible. I don't think it will happen, but I would like to see Mike earn some money in a legitimate fashion, whether it be a book deal or a regular job. He wants to stop scamming, but he also needs money. Obviously, he should quit gambling, and so should everyone else. Why donate money to a casino? You have no shot at beating the house. That's why they have marble floors. Anyway, good luck to Mike in getting his life on track.

+infinity

Glad to see I'm not the only person on the inside of the business who sees this as obviously as it is.

Trolls will be trolls tho and stroke their tiny peckers from lame locations across the planet. Can't help that, just wish they'd stop spreading their ignorance and enabling false hope that would ultimately waste Mike's time and leave him no better off because he'll be let down by thinking he can sell this story and he won't unfortunately.

Again, you're not in the business you said so yourself. I'm sorry that your kind heart of empathy towards mike makes you feel defensive towards his prospects but you just don't know what you're taking about.

Sell or produce anything, even to NBC, and you can have an opinion. Otherwise you're just a trolling waste of everyone's time.

Sorry dude hitch your sympathy to a wagon worth rooting for :/

Seriously Mike, go away. No one believes you when a new poster thinks your movie or book idea is going to work. Go the **** away

Yea Mike, it's definitely not your fault, you're just a victim of society. Have you ever taken responsibility for your own actions? No, I doubt it. If you would have used your degree 15 years ago, you'd be making >$100,000 by now. Sucks knowing that you've wasted your life, huh? Seriously though, stop making these new fake accounts, I'm actually embarrassed for you. It's really pretty pathetic and sad.

Throw my hat into, I'm not sure you are who you say you are (feel like Dennis Green there)…Why are you so defensive? These trolls will work you until your brain is mush.

Ideas/stories are pitched to producers/studios everyday. It only takes one to say yes.

Stay Strong Mike….

B/c I let myself get trolled, PokerFan and really should know better than to be spending boredom time around NVG anyway and am now moving on

the book needs a dramatic ending, like in Leaving Las Vegas

I feel like Mike just posts back and forth between his many fake accounts. 95 percent of people are against him and the 5 percent in support are his fake accounts.

mike's story is not interesting for a movie.

the fascination as poker players is that we are in horror that a guy literally scammed his buyin at the airport or once in the bathroom before a tournament.

its not movie material at all.

mike is just a small time criminal loser not interesting at all.

A movie would be ok, but in all truth his life really needs to be turned into a weekly TV show. It would make a great drama series or sitcom. I hope HBO picks it up.