The Trencherman
Ryan Clarke
Comedy Feature Screenplay
THE TRENCHERMAN
The Fierce, Epic Tale of Jimmy Robinson
Genre: Sports Comedy / Mockumentary Satire
Setting: Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and the competitive eating circuit
Awards: Semifinalist, 30th Annual Fade In Awards Comedy Competition
Target Audience: Adults 18-49, fans of absurd sports comedies, mockumentaries, underdog stories, food-world satire, and big-hearted dumb-smart comedy
Comps: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (mockumentary celebrity collapse), Dodgeball (ridiculous underdog sports world), Talladega Nights (comic ego and branding satire)
Logline: A couch-dwelling eating prodigy with a titanium spork rises from an Albuquerque garage to competitive-eating superstardom, but when fame costs him the film-student girlfriend who believed in him before anyone else, he must decide whether to keep feeding his ego or finally build a life that satisfies him.