Absolutely. Let’s build a world-class, globally appealing, high-energy action-comedy that feels like:
• Rush Hour meets The Hangover
• With the charm of Kevin Hart
• Paired with rising star Ronny Chieng (from Hulu’s “Interior Chinatown”)
• Set in wild, colorful, chaotic Thailand
• Fueled by mismatched energy, martial arts, conspiracies, and hilarious panic
• Perfect for theaters, Netflix, or Amazon Prime
MOVIE TITLE: TWO TICKING FOOLS™
Tagline: “One’s always loud. One’s always missing. Together… they might survive Bangkok.”
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FORMAT
Feature Film | Action Comedy | 1h 47min
Streaming & Theatrical Hybrid | Global Distribution Potential
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TONE
• Rush Hour + The Nice Guys
• With shades of The Hangover (Thailand chaos)
• Buddy cop-style — but neither are cops
• Hilarious, fast-paced, heartfelt under the surface
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CORE CAST
Kevin Hart as “Dex Matthews”
• A hyped-up, unlucky American vacationer who thought Thailand would be his “healing journey” after a messy divorce
• All mouth. No chill. Wears too much sunscreen. Never reads instructions.
• Accidentally stumbles into a weapons deal and gets mistaken for an international arms broker named “The Dealer”
• Doesn’t run away — he sprints away
• Weapon of choice: his mouth, a bicycle lock, and random hotel slippers
Ronny Chieng as “Jason Tao”
• A lowkey Malaysian-Chinese translator working at a luxury resort who’s always in the background (he narrates museum tours… in silence)
• Sarcastic, dry, brilliant, emotionally repressed
• Fluent in 7 languages, but prefers not to speak to people
• Secretly ex-military intelligence… sort of
• Gets dragged into Kevin’s mess because Kevin borrowed his phone
PLOT SUMMARY
ACT I – VACATION GONE WRONG
• Dex Matthews arrives in Thailand for “soul searching”
• Jason Tao is doing a boring double-shift at a tourist temple
• Dex stumbles into a secret arms deal and accidentally triggers a hidden vault code
• Jason gets caught in the crossfire when Dex steals his messenger bag thinking it’s his own
• Now they’re both marked by the Golden Fang Triad, the Interpol Taskforce, and a corrupt American ambassador
ACT II – UNLIKELY ALLIES, IMPOSSIBLE MISSIONS
• Dex just wants to go home. Jason just wants his bag back.
• But they realize:
• There’s a bomb
• There’s a flash drive hidden in the jade amulet Dex picked up
• There’s a monk that speaks only in riddles who’s protecting them
• From tuk-tuk chases to boat fights on floating markets to being hunted during a lantern festival — they learn to work together (sort of)
• Kevin learns to shut up and listen
• Ronny learns to punch people again
ACT III – THE CLOCK TICKS
• The flash drive contains the location of Project Hannya — a doomsday AI sale to global mercenaries
• Dex and Jason become the only people who know how to stop it
• They crash an auction disguised as “The Dealer” and his translator
• Final battle in a glass sky temple in Chiang Mai
• Kevin throws himself off a building to land in a decorative koi pond (by accident)
• Ronny defeats the final villain using interpretation software and a slingshot
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HIGHLIGHT SCENES
• Kevin trapped in a spa with massage oils fighting off three assassins
• Ronny sarcastically translating as Kevin gives an emotional speech to the wrong crowd
• A street vendor becomes their unexpected sidekick
• A slow-mo fight scene with Muay Thai monks
• Final scene: both of them sitting on plastic chairs drinking cheap beer watching the sunrise
• Kevin: “We should do this again.”
• Ronny: “God, please no.”
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SOUNDTRACK
• Original score by Ludwig Göransson (Tenet, Black Panther)
• With Thai hip-hop, K-Pop, and US trap crossovers
• DJ Khaled cameo remix of traditional Thai instruments with trap drums
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BUSINESS & BOX OFFICE POTENTIAL
Revenue Stream
Potential
Theatrical Worldwide
$250M–$400M gross
Streaming Exclusive Deal
$80M+ (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu)
Merch / Apparel
$20M+ (shirts, phrases, plush tuk-tuks)
Spinoff series
Greenlight: Jason’s ex-spy past
Game tie-in (comedy action)
$12M+
Total Franchise Potential: $500M+ with 2-sequel arc and spinoff series
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SEQUEL TITLE IDEAS
• Two Ticking Fools: Havana Moon
• Three Ticking Fools (Add Awkwafina or Simu Liu)
• Ticked Off: The Bangkok Job
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STUDIO TARGETS
• Netflix Originals
• Amazon MGM
• Sony Pictures
• A24 if stylized
• Will Packer Productions
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Would you like to:
• Generate the official poster image for Two Ticking Fools™?
• Write the trailer in cinematic script format?
• Or begin the pitch deck to license to Netflix, Sony, or Prime?
This is the beginning of your comedy-action franchise empire.
And these two fools… are the only ones dumb enough to save the world.
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