Stories by @danepeplinski

American Crime Story: The Murders of Tupac & Biggie Smalls

A season taking on what led up to Tupac and Biggies feud and murders.

Fairyland: A Memoir of my Father

A young girl moves to San Francisco with her single gay dad after her mother passes away.

American Crime Story: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

A season taking on the trial and the investigation of Cayley Anthony’s missing timeline.

Meghan & Harry

A movie about Meghan and Harry’s relationship leading up to leaving the royal family and coming out with their story.

A Class Divided

A biopic about the legendary Jane Elliot who taught a class of kids an exercise on racism where they were put into perspective of what it’s like to be a poc in those days. It goes from her teacher years to her activism and teachings after her retirement to in the present day during the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Neon Demon

A retelling of the 2016 cult classic. This version tells the story of Jessie who moves to New York City to get into the fashion modeling industry. There, she meets 3 mysterious girls who seem friendly but something is up with them and they might be out to get her. They are actually in a witch coven that eats the hearts and souls of young virgins so they can stay young and beautiful for the rest of their lives. The coven is ran by a fashion mogul and she is out to eat Jessie’s heart and soul. Jessie must save herself before it’s too late.

Showgirls

A retelling of the 1995 cult classic. The story takes place in 2001 in Las Vegas. A runaway hooker named Nomi runs away to Vegas to get into the live show industry so she can get her foot in the door to be a dancer. She gets a job working as a dancer at a high end strip club in Vegas where she meets molly, another dancer who works there as a side job. They become roommates and molly gets nomi introduced to the director of the show and where she gets a spot as a backup dancer. Nomi meets the main star of the show Krystal, a female rapper who is starring in the show to help promote her upcoming album that’s coming out at the end of the year. Nomi is a fan until she meets her. They have tension with eachother and krystal immediately is jealous of her and feels threatened by her after finding out the director likes her too. She does anything to help take her down and piss get off when she suspects Nomi had sex with the director that Krystal likes as well. Nomi is just using him to get ahead though. Nomi and krystals feud builds up tension until the director does Krystal and Nomi dirty. He beats Krystal up and screws Nomi out of a spot along with blind siding her into something dangerous. Krystal and Nomi become friends and plot against him planning to empty his bank account and murder him. They have a lot to do to get their plan fulfilled.

The Only 7

Following the 2nd impeachment trial of Donald Trump and how it failed. It follows the 7 Republican politicians who actually voted to convict him while the rest of their party screwed the country over by letting trump off easy after he incited murders on the Capitol Congress and senate.

American Crime Story: The Impeachments of Donald Trump

This season would open up the first episode on Donald Trumps impeachment in 2019 and how he got acquitted letting him get away with his incompetence and ignorance. The rest of the season would focus on Donald trumps second impeachment starting on January 11, 2021 while we also get flashbacks of January 6, 2021 on the day of the insurrection where terrorists stormed the Capitol while congress and senate were declaring the final election results and how congress was escorted into safety but other politicians in the Capitol didn’t have much safety and were fearing that they were going to be killed by the terrorist insurrectionists. It will cut back and forth of the day of the insurrection to the days of impeachment process and the 5 day trial where trump was acquitted again when they had evidence of him being involved in the insurrection. This is a heartbreaking day in America and it reminds us that we need to vote and not downplay any election that comes up!

American Crime Story: The Slandering of Britney Spears

The season would take place during the late 2000s with some flashbacks of the early 2000s when Britney Spears was a new name and a big name. It would focus on Britney Spears but also 2 other perspectives. It would take on how tabloid media moguls Harvey Levin and Perez Hilton used their power to destroy Britney Spears and not only use her as a piggy bank to profit off of her suffering but also how they painted her to be a bad person and had the paparazzi smother her to mentally damage her to get worse so they can get more famous and make more money off of her. As a gay man myself, I want to put out a message of fragile egos and insecurity in gay men along with how misogynistic, racist, and internally homophobic they can be. The other story perspective would take on the horrible men in Britney’s life. Her father who used her to make money off of her, Kevin Federline and Sam Lufti who mentally damaged her which caused her to lose herself and her mental health to decline.

Tim Burton’s The Witches

Taking place in the year of the books release date. 1983. It’s a very loyal to the book adaption.

Feud: Pelosi vs Trump

The season would be taking on trumps years in the White House and how Nancy Pelosi helped keep America stable from him. The series would show us the time he was running along with the 2016 election and his presidency years going to a downfall and what Nancy Pelosi did to help us. (If they invoke the 25th amendment, we would see the part of that too)

Sucker Punch

A remake and a retelling of the story but it actually has a good plot and a longer length. Instead of it being sad, it would be a badass revenge movie but with more of a dark side. The movie would be bold and specific plot wise. Taking place in the mid to late 60s, the story revolves around Babydoll, who is a girl suffering with PTSD from her stepfathers sexual abuse towards her and her sister. After he kills her sister and her mother, he frames it on her having her sent to a crooked asylum that is run by evil men. The asylum manager; Blue, is a woman hater who lets the patients be abused and has them all be lobotomized by forging signatures so they can’t speak up. Babydoll sees it happening there and plans an escape with the other 4 girls. She imagines it as a brothel because she sees it like that with all of the sexual abuse going on. She imagines Dr. Vera Gorski as her choreographer. The lobotomy doctor has the same plot point as the 2011 movie but he’s actually a good guy. Babydoll teams up with the girls and Dr. Vera joins them along the way to help them escape and have the asylum exposed. Babydoll also plans to get revenge on her stepfather.

Feud: Rosie vs Elisabeth

A season taking on the feud between Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselback on The View from 2006-2007 and the tension they had between eachother. It will show Rosie’s timeline of her returning to the view where she left after coming back so she can take care of her family. The season will be Based on the book “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View" by Ramin Setoodeh

Drag me to Hell

A reimagining of Drag me to Hell as a serious movie. Not a campy horror feel the old one had.

Luca Guadagnino’s Scarface

Luca Guadagnino is confirmed to be remaking Scarface.

Fierce!

The story takes on the filming and post release of the hit documentary “Paris is Burning” where Jennie Livingston met two boys who showed her the ballroom scene. She started exploring the scene more and that sparked her interest to film the documentary. We would see how she befriended the members of the houses in the ballroom scene and the post release. After the movie was released, it got great critical reactions and the ballroom scene was shown to the world but there was controversy. The controversy was that Jennie was going to be hit with a lawsuit since the interviewees for the film weren’t paid. Dorian Corey and Willi Ninja were the only ones in the film who were paid which wasn’t fair to the others so several other people in the film retained an attorney and planned to sue for a share of the film's profits in 1991, but when their attorney saw they had all signed standard model releases generated by WNYC Television, they did not sue and accepted payment. Paris Dupree had planned to sue for $40 million. The story isn’t going to demonize anyone and will actually show Jennie and the main stars of PIB’s stories leading to where they all met up. More info about the documentary’s controversy here https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/24/burning-down-the-house-debate-paris-is-burning

Clubland

The movie tells the story of Michael Alig’s move to NYC where he started the club kid scene in the late 80s that got big until the late 90s. It would take on how snakey and manipulative Michael Alig was towards his friends and how the events led up to the horrible murder of Andre “Angel” Melendez where Michael and his friend Robert "Freeze" Riggs murdered Andre in cold blood. The movie would focus on racism, narcissism, elitism, classism, and the general horrible way gay men treat eachother.

Mommie Dearest

A mini series based on the book Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford where she tells a memoir of her physically and emotionally abusive adopted mother Joan Crawford and how she treated her behind the scenes. This adaption would also add on the rest of the episodes based on Christina Crawford’s book follow up “Survivor” where it takes on Christina’s adult life where she suffers mental damage, health issues, her failed marriage, and how she did everything she could to move on from her trauma.

Anita Bryant biopic

This would be a tv series like Mrs. America where it takes on Anita Bryant and her anti gay rights activism. It would tell us the story of how she got into politics starting a movement against Jim Morrison’s onstage activity in 1969 to her anti gay rights activism in 1977 to stop the gay liberation movement with some flashbacks of her when she was in pageants and doing singing too. It will mildly show us on her childhood and how her parents got her into religion which is where she found her hateful beliefs. The series would also show us how the gay liberation was being planned and planned against them with Anita during the time. It would also show how her orange juice brand was boycotted everywhere including gay bars where they stopped selling screwdrivers to boycott her.