A while back I saw this get posted on facebook. It’s a trailer for the upcoming movie FDR American Badass!



[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R898wegx6Y&w=560&h=315]



Okay. That looks kind of fun. Some low budget modern B movie fare that’ll do the independent theater rounds this summer. Count me in.



Then I saw this on IMDB



[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34x6m-ahGIo&w=560&h=315]



Wait… what? Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter? This one actually looks like a big production. Big budget, produced by Tim Burton. Is presidential historical paranormal fantasy a film genre now? I better hop on this and write some scripts (most of you know I bang out screenplays in my spare time for beer money).

TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND THE SASQUACH
A young Roosevelt is vacationing in the newly opened Yellowstone National Park with his father when his father is killed by “wild animals”. President Ulysses S. Grant, who commissioned the park, reveals to Teddy that his father was actually killed by the mythical beast Bigfoot who has been terrorizing Yellowstone. President Grant trains Teddy to lead an elite team of Bigfoot hunters to kill the beast once and for all. Like “Predator” but everybody has big mustaches.

JFK AND THE MOON MEN
President Kennedy, in a secret meeting with civil rights activist and psychic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., learns of a prophetic dream Dr. King had about the threat of Soviet Moon Men. President Kennedy assembles a crack espionage team including demolitions expert Dick Nixon and femme fatale Marilyn Monroe to fly an experimental rocket to the moon and face them head on.

ANDREW JACKSON: MUMMY EXTERMINATOR
Andrew Jackson kills all the Indians but it’s okay because they’re actually mummies.

Now if you’ll excuse me I have to take a bunch of calls from big time Hollywood producers.