Thursday, February 5, 2009

Movie Script-The Monkees (just the overview premise)

One of my favorite tv shows as a kid was The Monkees starring Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones and since I was about five I saw this video they made "Heart And Soul" that lasted about 40 minutes I used to watch it over and over and in brief passing Micky mentioned the possibility of a new Monkees movie, well since then there's been a Get Smart, two Flintstones, two Addams Family, two Brady Bunch, two Charlie's Angels movies but no new Monkees movie so I wrote one in case anyone's interested. As with every tv to film adaptations there's a few changes. First they are four unknown musicians living together in their early thirties still but they met in college in California and Mike Nesmith is married to his college sweetheart Mary, and Micky is dating a stripper who's been with him a few years. Davy is still promiscuous and successful at it and Peter still has trouble with women. The main plots are their relationship problems, their ego problems with their place in the band and their struggle to get on a reality show hosted by Ryan Seacrest called the Next Great American Band. Davy plays bass and Peter just plays keyboards in the band versus Peter playing both and Davy just standing around with a tambourine
Songlist
  1. Theme From The Monkees (Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart)
  2. Pleasant Valley Sunday (Gerry Goffin/Carole King)
  3. Daydream Believer (John Stewart)
  4. I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone (Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart)
  5. Take A Giant Step (Gerry Goffin/Carole King)
  6. Valleri (Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart)
  7. Mommy And Daddy (Micky Dolenz)
  8. Goin' Down (Diane Hildebrand/Peter Tork/Mike Nesmith/Micky Dolenz/Davy Jones)
  9. Listen To The Band (Mike Nesmith)
  10. Oh My My (Jeff Barry/Andy Kim)
  11. I'm A Believer (Neil Diamond)
  12. Tear Drop City (Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart)
  13. Someday Man (Paul Williams/Roger Nichols)
  14. It's Nice To Be With You (Jerry Goldstein)
  15. Tapioca Tundra (Mike Nesmith)
  16. As We Go Along (Carole King/Toni Stern)
  17. A Man Without A Dream (Gerry Goffin/Carole King)
  18. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (Neil Diamond)
  19. Last Train To Clarksville (Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart)
  20. The Girl I Knew Somewhere (Mike Nesmith)
  21. I Love You Better (Jeff Barry/Andy Kim)
  22. D. W. Washburn (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
  23. Good Clean Fun (Mike Nesmith)
  24. Words (Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart)
  25. Porpoise Song (Gerry Goffin/Carole King)
  26. For Pete's Sake (Peter Tork/Joseph Richards)
  27. Randy Scouse Git (Micky Dolenz)
  28. Forget That Girl (Chip Douglas)
PS The songs are evenly distributed between the four characters rather than giving Micky the bulk of songs since the songs are set for each character's storyline

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