(Scene begins with a smartwatch screen and a finger as it taps the screen and the 1994 American Gladiators plays as the scene cuts to a hand as it taps an app on his phone as it opens a portal, and it cuts to James and the characters he’s played until it cut to his face and the credit of “James Faraci” is shown as it cuts to “The Last Of The Americans’” current iteration then slides away to different images of Paulo Fonseca, Brenda Fonseca, Rebecca Yaun, Nick Yaun and Doug Yaun and the characters they’ve played until it cut to their faces and the credits of “Paulo and Brenda Fonseca & Doug Yaun, Rebecca and Nick Yaun” is shown as it then slides away to different images of Andrew Beach Eric Kurtzke, Renee Miller and Olivia Horvath and the credits of “Andrew Beach, Eric Kurtzke, Renee Miller, Olivia Horvath” is shown as the 0:00-0:21 mark of the theme song plays. Everything becomes a swirl of Reds, Whites, and Blues as the credits “Produced by First Choice Productions in association with Manic-Expression.com” “Executive Producers: James Faraci, Paulo Fonseca, Brenda Fonseca, Rebecca Yaun, Nick Yaun, Eric Kurtzke, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Olivia Horvath” “Editing by Eric Kurtzke and James Faraci” “Written and Directed by James Faraci” are shown as the 0:21-0:26 mark of the theme song plays. We then see an image of James as he jumps through the portal and lands with half of his team on his right. The other half on his left is on a black background, and the title “THE LAST OF THE AMERICANS” is shown Lazer etched into Titanium as the last six seconds of the American Gladiators 1994 theme song plays. Cut to James in his office)
TLOTA:
I’m James Faraci, The Last Of The Americans, and The Views that I’m about to express are that of my own and some of yours, and welcome once again to “In Defense Of…(Show pics of maligned pieces of pop culture while the fanfare from the Olympics plays and James comes up after Vanilla Ice slides back and his right-hand thumbs up and the words “In Defense Of…” Cut to James Physically) And a Connect The Plots (Of Sorts). (Cut to a scene of James trying to connect certain things together like the theatrical version of “Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers” & “Halloween: H20”, All the movie adaptations of Stephen King, Superman Returns to the original Salkind Superman movies, the first three X-Men movies to the newer ones and the “Wolverine” & “Deadpool” movies before cutting to James strapped down in a straight jacket all the while a kid sings “Connect The Plots La-La-La!” before panning down to see anything that might have a minor connection spell the words “Connect The Plots (Sort of)” and a another set of words in smaller text “(We will have a real “Connect The Plots” later this year.)” before cutting to clips of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” as James does a voiceover)
TLOTA (V.O.):
Sometimes, some things are not going to work out for the best; case in point, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” From what has been discovered, this had a lot of trouble going into the production and between the Writer’s Strike of 2008, causing a last-minute rewrite. This leaked workprint was downloaded by a minimum of fifteen MILLION people. Then we have the minimum amount of time with its cast, a hostile critical reception, and the box office of its predecessor “X-Men: The Last Stand” underperforming compared to “X2: X-Men United.” The audience let Fox know that this movie was a sitting duck. So, what did it do right? For starters, it did give us our first live-action attempt to tell Wolverine’s backstory. Hugh Jackman was good at continuing his role as the Clawed Canadian. We saw what Wade Wilson played by Ryan Reynolds, would evolve to as he fought to get the Deadpool Character right. Liev Schreiber was more like Sabretooth in his personality than Tyler Mane. Yeah, Tyler looked it but didn’t embody the other aspects of Sabretooth. (Cut to James physically)
TLOTA:
As for what this movie did wrong, so many have gone into such detail I can save my breath. But let’s play Devil’s Advocate. What would have happened if the movie had succeeded in the way everyone wanted it to?
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