KILLER MOTH- Movie Pitch

In the nineties, a twelve-year-old Drury Walker finds himself caught up in a bank heist performed by the charismatic costumed villain Mr Moth (Donald Glover). Drury is inspired by the villain after he gives him his jacket, and watches as he escapes on his motorbike into the sunset, only to crash into a gas station and die in the explosion.

 

In the present day, Drury (Dave Franco) has become a supervillain, calling himself The Killer Moth, though finds himself overshadowed by many more prominent villains. After a bank heist gone wrong, Drury is arrested by the GCPD and thrown into Blackgate Prison but is bailed out by his girlfriend Miranda Gaige (Alison Brie), the daughter of a high-ranking mob boss known as Tiger Shark (Eric Roberts). Miranda confronts him about his obsession with costumed villainy, saying that he isn’t cut out for it, and offers him a job as a plainclothes henchman for her father. Drury refuses however, and Miranda offers to get him a place on a crew of villains her father is forming for a heist but states she will leave him if he screws it up.

 

Drury arrives at Tiger Shark’s compound and, after an awkward lie about his relationship with the mobster’s daughter (claiming to be her gay best friend), is introduced to the rest of the crew: Garfield Lynns AKA Firefly (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), an arsonist and professional safe-cracker; Leonard Fiasko AKA the Eraser (Joe Thomas), the clean-up guy; Noah Kuttler AKA the Calculator (Ed Helms), the information gatherer and hacker and Paul Dekker AKA Crazy Quilt (Matt Berry), Gaige’s best friend and a ‘Master of Seduction’. After being introduced, with Gar displaying an intense distain towards Drury, the group sets off in a crudely armoured camper van which Drury dubs the Moth Mobile.

 

The crew attempts to begin the job, robbing a Wayne enterprises storage facility (Mr Wayne is on a business trip) on the outskirts of Gotham. The job seemingly goes well, but an argument between Drury and Gar causes security to catch wind of their presence, and the crew are forced to flee from the police, managing to get hold of an experimental bomb (though they don’t know this), eventually escaping by driving into the Badlands.

 

The police, led by deputy chief Clancy O’Hara (Ardal O’Hanlon) (Jim Gordon is out of town, alongside his daughter Barbara, her boyfriend Dick and pretty much all of his brothers), begin a manhunt for the crew of misfits, but the case is poached by Argus agents Katarina Armstrong (Mia Rudolph) and King Faraday (Will Arnett). Hoping to spite the agents, O’Hara activates the Bat Signal, and alerts Cassandra Cain AKA Orphan (Jing Tian) to the situation.

 

Meanwhile, in the Badlands, the moth-mobile breaks down, and Drury and Gar venture out to try and find supplies. The two begin to put aside their differences after learning of their respective differences, before siphoning gas from a nearby vehicle, before returning and discovering millions of dollars in stolen money hidden in a camper van brought by Dekker. Dekker reveals that he stole the money from Tiger Shark and had planned to frame the rest of the crew for it. The group restrains Dekker and plans to return to Gaige and expose him, only to be surrounded by men working for the gangster black mask (Gaige’s arch-nemesis), whom the vehicle they stole from belonged to. Dekker convinces them to let him go by alerting them to the stolen money, and he gets away while Black Mask’s men get away with the cash. Before they can kill Drury and his crew, Orphan arrives, giving the crew an opportunity to escape.

 

Meanwhile, Tiger Shark is alerted to the stolen money situation, and assumes that Drury had betrayed him and joined forces with Black Mask. Having also discovered Drury’s relationship with Miranda, he decides to form an alliance with Warren White AKA the Great White Shark (Doug Jones) to get the money back and hires Catalina Flores AKA Tarantula (Stephanie Beatriz) to kill Drury.

 

Drury and the crew arrive back in Gotham City, and prepare to go their separate ways to escape the wrath of Tiger Shark. Drury, however, refuses to give up, and decides to make up for the lost money by robbing Bruce Wayne’s personal vault. The group arrive at Wayne Manor, where a charity gala is being held, Drury having stolen the identity and invite of socialite Cameron Van Cleer (Dan Aykroyd), while Gar, Lenny and Noah pose as staff. At the same party, Miranda attends with her father, who is using it to meet with GWS. Upon seeing Drury Miranda confronts him, and after he explains everything she warns him to get out of there. Lenny, Noah and Gar successfully make away with half of the vaults contents but are spotted while trying to get away, resulting in Tiger Shark and his men attacking him. Drury, Miranda and Gar escape while Lenny is left behind tending to a shot Noah.

 

Drury, Miranda and Gar take off in the moth mobile, pursued by Tiger Shark and GWS’s men, a bloodthirsty Tarantula and a hijacked police helicopter piloted by Dekker. After an intense car chase, Drury seemingly escapes the swarm of mobsters, only to be forced to swerve to avoid a blockade of police officers and ARGUS agents (though it had broken down into a riot incited by O’Hara, Armstrong and King). The Moth Mobile crashes into the same gas station Mr Moth was killed in. Drury is knocked unconscious and sees the ghost of Mr Moth, who makes some bizarre ramblings about a croque monsieur which somehow motivates him. Drury wakes up and saves Miranda and Gar from the flames, while Dekker makes off with what he thinks is the bounty of the heist, but is actually the stolen bomb, which detonates killing him and causing the police blockade to collapse. Orphan confronts Drury, but upon hearing his codename bursts into uproarious laughter and runs off. The next day Killer Moth is deemed the greatest villain in Gotham, fulfilling Drury’s childhood dream, and, with Tiger Shark’s begrudging blessing, the incident with the money having been cleared up, he proposes to Miranda, as the ghost of Mr Moth watches over.

 

In a mid-credits scene, Cameron Van Cleer sits tied up, still mocking Drury’s codename by yelling ‘I’m a Bug!’.

 

In a post credits scene, a mysterious figures watches Drury’s exploits on the news. Disgusted that such an incompetent villain is getting so much praise, Larry Loman AKA the Squid (Tommy Wiseau) declares that Killer Moth should ‘wait until he gets a load of me’.

 

Done