How do you hold a meeting with financiers for a movie like this...
"It's going to about Santa, except he's going to be Goldberg, and kill people."
"Elvis and a black man who thinks he's John F. Kennedy are going to square off with a mummy."
"Years ago, a bunch of moderately educated farmer/statesmen formed a cult of massive wealth and symbolism, drawing on tons of pagan mythology, even though it supposedly doomed their souls...and used this cult to hide a bunch of money, and developed super invisible ink that allowed them to put a map on the back of the declaration of independence. Oh, and a bunch of still working underground vaults and lairs. All this, when they all lived to be 50 at most. 200 years later, Nicholas Cage spends infinitely more money then the treasure was worth, and goes through ten times the danger to find it."
I mean, would you approve a bank loan for these?
-TMP
(P.S. Bubba Ho-Tep is an excellant movie, and is available on DVD. Go get it already. Bruce could use the royalties.)