Creating Fake Plot Outlines from Friends’ Fake Titles

I asked random friends and patreons to give me three fake titles of movies. The instruction is simply to put together combinations of words that sound like a movie and I have to pick two of three:

Liz Gray (Friend from D.C. Film Circles, Podcaster: Archivists Bet on Sexy Witches Podcast):

The Bonk Within, There is a Mark, The Coward Returns:

The Coward Returns-This is an apt description for the Count of Monte Christo (or even The Lion King) so it could be a Monte Christo with Serial Numbers Filed Off, but we could do a genre switch so it will have a tinge of originality. Let’s set it in space and make it Star Wars adjacent with lots of alien races and the appearance of a large mythology. This will be the set in the back stages of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey with a Luke Skywalker-type coming through to save his homeland from an evil empire.

Directed by Colin Treverow (Jurassic World), starring Rob Arnell, Maya Hawke, Djimon Hounsou, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Diego Luna

There is a Mark-A continental con artist comedy in the style of lavish films like “Gambit”, “Topkapi”, or “Charade” from the 60s. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natasha Lyonne are the opposite of money launderers who have a reputable business that they use as a front for illicit doings. Instead, they pretend to be illicit operators so they can expose other bad guys and use the money for charity or to help clients. It will be partially set in…