Michael Bay Wants To Make A Play by Ruben Diaz | Script Revolution

Michael Bay Wants To Make A Play

A delusional blockbuster filmmaker wants to redefine his career by going back to the theatre, but pitches a million-dollar project to a local theatre company that's desperate to find a spectacular story to tell.

Type:

  • Short

Status:

  • Seeking finance
Page Count: 
15pp

Genre:

  • Comedy

Budget:

  • Shoestring

Age Rating:

  • 13+
Synopsis/Details: 

No matter our success, there are parts of our pasts which haunt us. Sometimes these ghosts hold a person back, but for blockbuster filmmaker Michael Benjamin Bay, it's only inspired him to create bigger and bolder films. But it's all in quiet revenge of the movie he was never allowed to make -- BABE. Bay is on his way to meet Gerry Martinez, a theatre director looking to fill his schedule of shows for the upcoming season. Is this oil meeting water or will the pair mix into something greater than either of them expected? The road to discovering Michael Bay's true intentions reveals the cinematic soul of a story that needs to be told. Michael Bay's journey begins as a pompous director turned broken soul turned artist with renewed energy. And Gerry, he finds the last piece of the puzzle, a play from Michael Bay.

All Accolades & Coverage: 

Written as a short play, it has been performed three times (New Theatre, Artistic Vibes, Naked Angels). Three different casts and directors but the same fun reaction from audiences of 30+ people.

Submitted: July 6, 2019
Last Updated: July 6, 2019

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The Writer: Ruben Diaz
Ruben R. Diaz hails from the “magic” city of Miami, Florida. Born to Cuban immigrants, Ruben fell in love with storytelling, first through books, then through the films of Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Danny Boyle. But it was in the most peculiar of high school classrooms — a health class — where an assignment to write a story inspired him to create a tale that would circulate throughout the school. It was then writing became a career choice. For the next 20 years, he served as a web content creator, copywriter, and pop-culture journalist, and blogger. Over the past several years he’s written several TV pilots, plays, graphic novels, and five award-winning short films, including... Go to bio

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