The Boss Baby Pitch Meeting

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**The Boss Baby Pitch Meeting** is the twelfth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant.

## Description

DreamWorks Animation invites you to meet a most unusual baby. The Boss Baby is a hilariously universal story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a very imaginative 7-year-old named Tim. With a sly, heart-filled message about the importance of family, The Boss Baby is an original, broadly appealing comedy for all ages.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

**Producer Guy:** So you have a pitch for a kids' movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir I do, it's called *The Boss Baby*.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* But… babies aren't bosses.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Nope, they're not, but in this movie there's a baby that *is* a boss.

**Producer Guy:** *[more confused]* But… You are blowing my mind right now.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You need a minute?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, maybe just a minute? *[long silence as he thinks it over]* Okay, so the baby is a boss?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, he's got a little suit and a little briefcase and a really deep voice.

**Producer Guy:** Why does he have a deep voice?

**Screenwriter Guy:** 'Cause he's the boss.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah but men get deeper voices during puberty when their larynx grows thicker and larger.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah he's the boss though so, he needs a deep voice.

**Producer Guy:** So you're saying that physically he's a baby in every way but he's got like… a man throat?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, I guess so.

**Producer Guy:** Okay, just checking.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anyway, the Boss Baby's in middle management at Baby Corp, and he infiltrates this family.

**Producer Guy:** Wawawait, "Baby Corp"?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, when babies are made they're either sent into families or they work at the Baby Corporation.

**Producer Guy:** What kind of company is it?

**Screenwriter Guy:** It's like a… business… company.

**Producer Guy:** But what do they sell? Like what's their product or service?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I guess the product is the babies themselves?

**Producer Guy:** *[dubious]* So they… sell… children?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well yeah, but it's much cuter than that. Like the babies are very concerned that puppies are getting more love than they are. They've got like love charts and stuff.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, so like instead of dealing in money they deal in love.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well not exactly because the Boss Baby's gonna have like a lot of money, he- he's very rich.

**Producer Guy:** So they *are* making money off of these babies.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Somehow, yes.

**Producer Guy:** So… they sell children?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well, we're not gonna call it that because I feel like that might have some human rights implications.

**Producer Guy:** But they make money off the distribution of babies.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right but in a cute way.

**Producer Guy:** Sure.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Also because it's babies selling babies, it's probably okay.

**Producer Guy:** Maybe. So anyway what's the story about?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Boss Baby goes into this family where there's a seven-year-old named Tim, and Tim is not happy about that.

**Producer Guy:** How come?

**Screenwriter Guy:** He's mad that the Boss Baby is stealing his parents' affection, and he's also freaked out about the fact that he has a briefcase and wears a suit all the time.

**Producer Guy:** The parents don't seem concerned about all that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** They do not.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anyway, Tim finds out that the little Boss Baby can talk so he's like "What?" and then we're gonna have a bunch of business jokes.

**Producer Guy:** Nice.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah you know how kids these days respond really well to business jokes?

**Producer Guy:** Do you have an example of a funny scene?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well for example, we'll have Tim spy on the Boss Baby as he's trying to run a meeting with other babies.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, Boss Baby meets with other babies?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah but it doesn't go well for him.

**Producer Guy:** How come?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well he's meeting with a bunch of babies, so they're all super incompetent.

**Producer Guy:** But *he's* a baby.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah but these babies won't have any of his skills for some reason.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway, we find out that the puppies getting too much love thing is a serious problem for the baby business.

**Producer Guy:** Oh no.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and apparently a company called Puppy Co. that Tim's parents work for are launching a new type of dog in Las Vegas.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* They're launching a new type of dog?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly.

**Producer Guy:** What does that even mean?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Like they made a new dog, and they're having a product launch.

**Producer Guy:** That doesn't make any sense.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[smugly]* Oh, I know.

**Producer Guy:** Why do you sound so proud about that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Because at the end of the film, we're gonna reveal that this whole movie was just Tim telling his daughter his super imaginative recollection of how his baby brother came into the family.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, so nothing in the movie actually has to make sense.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly, so I basically gave myself a free pass to write literally anything I wanted.

**Producer Guy:** Amazing.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah so the script is gonna contradict itself, it's gonna have worldbuilding that falls apart if you think about it even a little bit,-

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** -and it's gonna be *very* unclear what's real and what's not.

**Producer Guy:** And it's all okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** It's all okay 'cause it's not real and nothing matters.

**Producer Guy:** That's very smart.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right?

**Producer Guy:** Either that or very lazy.

**Screenwriter Guy:** No it's very smart.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway so Boss Baby and Tim start working together, 'cause if they find some info on the new puppy, Boss Baby can finish his job and leave the family.

**Producer Guy:** So what do they do?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well they go to this Bring Your Kids To Work Day at Puppy Co., but then they discover that the CEO wants to use this formula that keeps Boss Baby a baby to create a Forever Puppy to boost sales and put the babies out of business.

**Producer Guy:** None of that makes much sense at all.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Nope. Doesn't have to.

**Producer Guy:** What would happen if the babies got put out of business? Like there'd be no more babies?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I guess?

**Producer Guy:** Humans would just love puppies so much that they wouldn't wanna have babies anymore?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Essentially yeah.

**Producer Guy:** The human race would come to an end because now there are puppies that don't age?

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's what we're going with.

**Producer Guy:** Alright.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway so the bad guy kidnaps Tim's parents and brings them to Vegas, so you know Tim and Boss Baby have to find a way there too.

**Producer Guy:** Is that gonna be hard for them to do?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** How so?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well they pretend to be an Elvis impersonator so the Elvis impersonator working at the airport just lets them in.

**Producer Guy:** Why is there an Elvis working at the-?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Doesn't have to make sense.

**Producer Guy:** Right, I keep trying to make sense of the stuff you're saying.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You gotta stop doing that.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, I'll try.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway, so they manage to stop the bad guy before he can launch all the Forever Puppies. And so he falls into a vat of formula and turns into a baby himself.

**Producer Guy:** *[concerned]* That is… horrifying.

**Screenwriter Guy:** It's pretty terrifying, yeah.

**Producer Guy:** What happens to all the Forever Puppies?

**Screenwriter Guy:** What do you mean?

**Producer Guy:** Well they're still alive, right? Are they gonna be adopted?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No because if they did the babies would get less love, remember?

**Producer Guy:** Right, so does that mean that the puppies are gonna die?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well I mean we're not gonna go that far, but I guess they'd either have to die or be homeless for the babies to stay in business.

**Producer Guy:** *[saddened]* Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[saddened]* Yeah.

**Producer Guy:** *[reassuring himself]* But anyway, nothing matters.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[perking back up]* Exactly, nothing makes sense and nothing matters.

**Producer Guy:** So it's all good.

**Screenwriter Guy:** All good. So what do you think?

**Producer Guy:** Well I think people'll enjoy it despite its flaws, so… what the hell, let's make it.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Great!

**Producer Guy:** I mean we shouldn't expect any Oscar nominations on a project like this, but, it'll be a fun little movie.

*[cut to headline: **The Boss Baby Oscar Nomination Broke The Internet**]*