A CHRISTMAS COP is to be shot on location in Chicago and Los Angeles. It is necessary to schedule principle photography to coincide with natural snowfall, by February or March 2004.
Cast members include Michael Madsen (Lead and also Producing), Robert Forster, Harvey Keitel (Subject to funding and scheduling) and Daniel Baldwin.
I am sure you are aware, Mr. Madsen has played lead characters in such films as FREE WILLY and SPECIES. He has just returned from London where he played the one of the lead villains in the last James Bond film
Die Another Day, and is contracted for the next two Bond film's thereafter. He is slated to play the same role in the next three Bond films. He is also playing in the next Quentin Tarantino film
Kill Bill with David Carradine, Uma Thurman and Daryl Hannah.
CHRISTMAS COP is an action/comedy shot in the mobster style. A rewrite of the classic Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol. The lead character, Nino Scroogelino (played by Madsen) is a tough Chicago cop who hates Christmas!
There is an ancillary CD with music from the legendary Thom Bishop and James Lee Stanley, A Christmas recording with musicians of this magnitude should also generate good profits. The closing track is available.
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Concept - A CHRISTMAS COP:
It's an updated version of A Christmas Carol, with an over-the-top cop as Scrooge. Or, in this case, "Scroogelino." It's the contemporary story of the reformation of a vigilante cop. Because isn't that kind of movie character really the ultimate modern-day Scrooge?
Budget - A CHRISTMAS COP: $4-6 million. With 25% Gap finance (Second Place secured. We are seeking between 75 to 100% Depending on how you would like to see the picture shot, and whether you would like to use the gap finance.
Synopsis - A CHRISTMAS COP:
It's Christmas Eve in the big city - the least favorite day of the year for vigilante cop Nino Scroogelino. But he knows how he'll celebrate the holiday this year. After a typical day of roughing up criminals, innocent bystanders, and Christmas shoppers, Scroogelino plans on staking out the mob compound to which his paroled half-brother is returning this very night. When Nino's captain nixes this and orders him to go home and have a Merry Christmas "by the book," Nino's long-suffering partner, Bob Cratchitinez, is ecstatic. Deeply disappointed, Nino goes home to his empty apartment on Christmas Eve.
While at home cleaning his gun, however, Nino is visited by the ghost of Jake Marley, his dead partner who got whacked seven years ago. He is inspired by Jake to go off on his deadly Christmas errand, and so suits up in bulletproof vest and drives to the abandoned old house across the street from the mob compound where the orphaned cop grew up.
During the stakeout, Scroogelino falls asleep, and is visited by three cop ghosts, this time with the right attitude - the Ghosts of Cop Past, of Cop Present, and of Cop Future. By the end of his night's fantastical journey, Scoorgelino has learned the error of his ways - he should never have gone over the top - and so he celebrates Christmas Day, a warmer, kinder… vigilante.
Cast - A CHRISTMAS COP:
Michael Madsen as "Nino Scroogelino"
Daniel Baldwin as "Jake Marley"
Robert Forster as "Captain Carroll"
Harvey Keitel as "Freddie DeNephew"
Writer - A CHRISTMAS COP: Scott Fivelson is a screenwriter, fiction writer, and author whose stories and satirical pieces have appeared in Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Playboy, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly, New Harvest (an anthology), and other publications. In a satirical tribute to Spielberg, he was also the author of Guess What's Coming to Dinner?: The Extraterrestrial Etiquette Guide, from Bantam Books.
As a Screenwriter/Producer, his first film, AMERICAN REEL, starring David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway, and the distinguished British actor Michael Maloney (Truly, Madly, Deeply, Hamlet): directed by Mark Archer (producer, In the Company of Men), distribution by Liberty International Entertainment.
Scott is currently following AMERICAN REEL, (co-written with Junior Burke: DVD release schheduled Fall/Winter 2003) with Fivelson's second film as a screenwriter, ROUTE 666, for Lion's Gate Pictures, co-written with Thomas N. Weber and the director William Wesley, and starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Steven Williams, and L.Q. Jones.
A full package is available including the final cut soundtrack. Contact: CT Costilow. 
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