Look sometimes you just need to make a half hour of Grinch content and here's ours! In this video my friend Joan Ford and I outline our full movie idea for Grinch 2: The Grinchening. This is a sequel idea to the live action Jim Carrey movie The Grinch that was released in 2000 and directed by Ron Howard. Me and Joan walk you through our movie pitch as if you are the Universal execs we're desperately trying to impress.
We start off by checking back in on Whoville, years after the original movie took place. We get Jim Carrey back playing the Grinch, but he might as well be a Who because he's totally obsessed with Christmas and everything that brings. This movie follows his daughter, none other than Dancing with the Stars Jojo Siwa, who plays a half-Who, half-Grinch daughter between Jim Carrey and Christine Baranski.
Every pitch for a big budget movie needs to have stars, stars, and more stars, and the Grinch 2 does not disappoint. We've found a way to cram a bunch of celebrity cameos in this movie, because during this movie we'll be traveling to Grinchopolis, a stinky, grimy town occupied entirely by Grinches. Grinch society is totally obsessed with stand-up comedy and so every famous stand-up will appear in our film. Do these Grinches end up learning the true meaning of Christmas? You'll just have to watch to find out. But also, yes, of course they learn the true meaning of Christmas because this is a big budget Hollywood movie and it's not really optional.
Joan and I came up with this movie idea by just chit chatting on the phone during the middle of quarantine. Basically the idea of writing a movie where we check in on a town full of Grinches who are obsessed with stand-up comedy just really delighted us, and a year later, here we are! Hope you enjoy our attempts to get you to greenlight us!
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Edited by Tex Olsen