WICKED Television Series Pilot Madeline Newberry Cynthia Noury North Carolina State University
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WICKED Television Series Pilot Madeline Newberry Cynthia Noury North Carolina State University TV PILOT 2 Table of content Log line ........................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Premise ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Proposal .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Main characters ............................................................................................................................................................ 9 Secondary characters ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Development of the series over the first season ............................................................................................. 12 Concept art .................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Treatment of the first episode ............................................................................................................................... 15 Script ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 TV PILOT 3 WICKED Television Series Pilot Log line You can't have good without evil. Premise After dying from tragic deaths, seven women are brought together and reincarnate as the seven deadly sins, influencing others to commit the unforgivable sin they represent. TV PILOT 4 Proposal Overview - WICKED is a TV-MA (mature audience) series meant to reach adults (18-54 years old). This original programming was developed to be broadcasted along side HBO’s out-of-the- box, surprising and graphic series’ such as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, etc. The first season consist of 12 22-minutes episodes, as the viewers follow the seven deadly sinners through their mission to spread their sins. Timeline - The pre-production for the first season of WICKED will take place over eight months from the pitch and initial writing of the series. Filming and editing for each episode will take place each month thereafter (refer to Figure 1). For the sake of time purposes, there is a small bit of leeway given for actors in case of illness or injury. The completion of the overall first season will require approximately 21 months (84 weeks). TV PILOT 5 WICKED season 1 TIMELINE Task Duration Pre-Production Location scouts, department head meetings (including but not 6 Months limited to: casting, special FX, stunts, costumes, concept overview, script meeting, transportation, meeting with actors and crew). Go through script scene-by scene with director, submit list of all 1 Month special equipment needed (steadycam, circle track, special lenses, etc.) to the AD and location of equipment. Production coordinator consults team about travel, hotel 1 Week arrangements, family travel, etc. Extra casting, budget re-adjustment, assess any problems with 1 Week costumes, set, etc. Production meeting, review all arrangements and director’s 1 Week concepts, script run-through, anything else needed by director. Shooting schedule determined. 2 Weeks Production Script Overview / Editing / Rehearsing 1 Week/Episode Shooting 2 Weeks/Episode Editing / Soundtrack / Mastering 1 Week/Episode Post-production Screening 1 Day/Episode Client approval 1 Day/Episode Episode delivered to the distributor Figure 1 - Timeline TV PILOT 6 Budget - The budget for WICKED is quite average being that it features known actors as headliners and is shot using a cinematographic approach (in contrast with a in-studio sitcom approach). The main objective in this report is merely to provide a rough estimate of the total cost of production for the first season (refer to Figure 2). The cost per episode is approximately $3.4 million. TV PILOT 7 WICKED SEASON 1 BUDGET (USD) RATE UNIT X Total PERSONNEL Producer / Executive Producer 10,000 Week 84 840,000 Associate Producer 5,000 Week 84 420,000 Production Assistant 4,000 Week 84 336,000 Business Affairs / Accounting 2,000 Week 84 168,000 TOTAL 1,764,000 OPERATING EXPENSES Building Sets 1,000,000 Allowance 1 1,000,000 Extra Set rental / Equipment Rental 30,000 Week 48 1,440,000 Petty Cash 5,000 Allowance 1 5,000 Research Materials 5,000 Allowance 1 5,000 Tape Stock / Drives 4,000 Allowance 1 4,000 TOTAL 2,454,000 PRODUCTION Graphics 10,000 Allowance 1 10,000 Main Cast (7 x 250,000$) 1,750,000 Episode 12 21,000,000 Secondary cast 200,000 Episode 12 2,400,000 Director 50,000 Episode 12 600,000 Field crews 700,000 Episode 12 8,400,000 Airfare / Hotels 10,000 Episode 12 120,000 Meals 7,000 Episode 12 84,000 Travel expenses / Parking 5,000 Episode 12 60,000 TOTAL 32,674,000 POST-PRODUCTION Editing 10,000 Episode 12 120,000 Audio Mixdown 6,000 Episode 12 72,000 Music 5,000 Episode 12 60,000 Transcription 4,000 Allowance 1 4,000 Legal/Copyright 20,000 Allowance 1 20,000 TOTAL 276,000 BELOW THE LINE TOTAL $37,168,000 LEEWAY 10% of budget 3,716,800 TOTAL BUDGET $40,884,800 Figure 2 - Budget TV PILOT 8 Cast and crew – Here is a preview of WICKED first season cast and crew (refer to Figure 3). The series relies on an experienced director as well as renown casting for its seven main characters. Employees for many positions are still to be determined (TBD), as those positions will be filled during the pre-production process. WICKED SEASON 1 CAST and CREW Directed by Created by David Semel Madeline Newberry / Cynthia Noury Cast Produced by Lucy – Hayden Panettiere Madeline Newberry / Cynthia Noury Megan – Evan Rachel Wood Brittany – Naomie Harris Written by Natasha – Fairuza Balk Alan Ball Leah – Rachel Leigh Cook Ashley – Elisha Cuthbert Music by Beth – Ellen Page She Wants Revenge Secondary Cast – TBD Production manager – TBD Figurants – TBD Production assistant – TBD Costume designer – TBD Casting director – TBD Make-up artist – TBD Technical director – TBD Production designer – TBD Camera operator – TBD Set designer – TBD Stage manager – TBD Location manager – TBD Graphics coordinator – TBD Screenwriter – TBD Special effects coordinator – TBD Story editor – TBD Composer – TBD Runners – TBD Sound editor – TBD Figure 3 - Cast and crew TV PILOT 9 Main characters The seven main characters are the young women that died from their sins. They are all aged 18- 25. The following pictures, from an America’s Next Top Model photo shot, serve as an inspiration for the casting of those characters, each personifying one of the seven deadly sins. They are also referred as the seven sinners. LUCY (PRIDE) MEGAN (GREED) She’s a vain ex-beauty queen and always strives for Coming from a rich family, she wants it all. She has a perfection. Pushing the competition to madness, she complex where she never has enough of anything. tried to kill her rival pageant by injecting the girl's Over the years, she became kleptomaniac and laxative pills with arsenic. She mistakenly took the developed a cocaine addiction. She spent all her life pills after accidentally switching them with her own, stealing, but eventually stole the wrong person, which causing her death. caused her death. TV PILOT 10 BRITTANY (GLUTTONY) NATASHA (WRATH) She’s a ballerina striving for a perfect body. A Sexually abused as a child, she has a lot of inner anger. bulimic, she often binges eats, then makes herself A gothic girl, she gets into a lot of fights, while trying throw up. One day after years of binge eating, she eats to seek revenge on her abuser. The day she finds out too much and makes her stomach rupture. her abuser works at her new college, she murders him with a stolen gun. The police kill her while she’s trying to flee. LEAH (ENVY) ASHLEY (LUST) She’s a quiet humble bookworm and has a twin sister A nymphomaniac, she sleeps with everyone in college. named Maria who is everything she wishes to be. On One night at a fraternity party, a guy tries to sleep with prom night, Maria is crowned with the queen title. her but for once she isn't in the mood to do it with him, Maria goes outside to see her friends, ignoring Leah having her eye on someone else. He gets angry, puts a smoking beside her. Her jealousy reaches a climax as roofie in her drink, and takes advantage of her. As she she goes up to her sister and snatches the crown from regains consciousness, she threatens him to tell all her head. While fighting, Leah accidentally slips and the brothers what he did to her, so he kills her. falls off the balcony after being shoved by Maria. TV PILOT 11 BETH (SLOTH) A drug addict, she’s an unemployed 25 years-old school drop out. She destroyed all relationships she could have possibly had and is totally left alone. Sleeping by day, she does line after line by night chasing a constant high to relieve her from the real world and how she really is. Eventually she overdoses intentionally and dies. Secondary characters The boss - Among the secondary characters for the first season is “the boss”, an unidentified identity that brought the seven sinners to him and dictates their missions. In the series, the boss is only referred to at “he.” His real identity won’t be revealed