THE KING OF HOLLYWOOD
WRITTEN BY: Tom Schulman
LOGLINE: A major studio’s AI comes up with the idea to digitally merge the two biggest stars in the world into a once-in-a-lifetime box office sensation. The problem is that the two stars were once married and now hate each other with a passion. Can those two actors possibly work together even for the boatloads of money they’re being offered? And can either of their agents, who may hate each other even more, somehow leverage this opportunity to make himself THE most powerful person in Hollywood?
FORMAT: 8 Half-Hour Episodes (Full Series)
WORLD PREMIERE
The Stunt List is proud to present the first ever TV show to be premiered in script format. The King of Hollywood was written by Oscar Winner Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society, What About Bob?, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) and is being presented like weekly episodes of a television season. If you’re a fan of Apple TV’s The Studio, then you don’t want to miss this! Be the first in town to read the pilot and then sign up to be the first to receive the next episodes in our weekly drop over four weeks or check back Sunday nights at 5pm-ish EST / 2pm PST as they drop live!
EPISODE 1 - Pilot - HAvaHart
After a nasty public break-up, the two biggest movie stars in the world, Ava Grant and Hart Higgins, are offered a movie that will combine their images into one by using AI.
EPISODE 2 - The Rumors Are Always True
Someone has leaked news of the movie to the press. AI begins the process of merging Ava and Hart.
EPISODE 3 - Hart-throb in Pass-adena
Ava appears on The Colbert Show, while LatvianAI sizes up Jerry.
EPISODE 4 - In Utero
Hart practices radical honesty and expresses his concerns about the movie to the Dylans.
EPISODE 5 - Dead Dylan
Ava and Hart talk, but Jerry has a plan to keep them from getting back together.
EPISODE 6 - An Agent Walks Into a Bar...
Jerry makes an impromptu trip to the Grand Canyon, causing him to miss an important meeting.
EPISODE 7 - Mud-Covered Brioni Suit
Hart holds auditions while Jerry scrambles to make it to a top client’s play.
EPISODE 8 - The Death of Your Ego
Hart and Ava make last minute changes to their AI movie, while Jerry meets with a Tarot card reader.
THIS IS A WORLD PREMIERE OF AN 8 EPISODE ORIGINAL SERIES.
TUNE IN AS WE DROP A NEW SCRIPT EPISODE OVER FOUR CONSECUTIVE WEEKS!
REPRESENTATION: Repped by Industry Entertainment.
MEET THE WRITER
Tom Schulman graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Philosophy. He studied at the USC Graduate School of Cinema, the Actors and Directors Lab with Jack Garfein, and more recently with director Joan Darling. He directed the Actors' Studio, West production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.
Tom wrote the film Dead Poets Society for which he received an Academy Award. He also wrote What About Bob?, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Medicine Man, and Holy Man. He wrote and directed Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag. He was an executive producer on Indecent Proposal and Me, Myself and Irene. He was the writer/producer of Welcome to Mooseport. He co-wrote and co-produced The Anatomy of Hope, a pilot for HBO.
Tom served on the board of directors and then as vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West. Tom served on the board of directors and then as president of the Writers Guild Foundation.
- IMDb mini biography by: Humanitas Official Website
