Tom Cruise - idea for Collateral2

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In this idea for a TV Series, Felix is the bad guy and the DA lawyer wife is the good guy leaving Max in the middle.

Max is now married and doing cab work mostly supported by his wife's job's money which makes for a very "useful" cab company to the DA's office. In an odd twist, his boss might actually do "useful" work for Felix at the same time.

Vincent has been found out. He survived the lucky hit from Max's weapon which was a police weapon and used rounds more meant as stopping power than killing power. This weapon from the "nice" cop that asked Max to sit down cuz "these things happen" after the cab is wrecked.

He and his wife go back and, in a supreme measure of compassion, take his body back to Felix who, knowing Vincent's background and the people he works for, saves his life.

With his ID made, Vincent now has to work for Felix and others but is still unknown to the cops. In the movie, Max and Vincent have to agree, quite impossibly that both are doing good things for the right reasons. Max is taking people to and from of their jobs, while Vincent is taking people in and out of their jobs and, is keeping his indifference as a shield to his obvious lack of morals. Even though Vincent is never around, he now has a problem with Felix and shows up often due to Felix knowing his secret.

The twist comes after that as Felix "the cat" is as cold blooded as he is evasive. His recurring theme is of course the Santa Claus argument where "you better not cry".

Vincent, "the undead price guy" is mostly about money but likes to find people that are respectable, ironically since he is not going to hope for someone to respect him. He retains his friendship with Max and perhaps steps into Max's life when his "problems with people" become too much to bear.

Max is the hero. Armed with his beautiful and powerful lawyer wife he has to take all the reins and keep them all together in some impossible way. He is still "Collateral". His wife knows that there is someone terrible out there and a recurring theme for her is the reality of her night in danger, as she proceeds to understand what her job stands for.

Felix is allowing them to live in the same city with his lawyer wife who is also under threat but is no longer in danger since she was the last witness that was left alive, but was not actually a witness for the case from the movie..

I believe Vincent, or Tom, should almost never appear except as an impossible "angel of death" that reminds Max of the necessity to put a "downpayment" on progress once in a while. He could do like the season finale which would allow the intensity to be there that would come from a Tom Cruise appearance.

In a perfect world, everyone lives, Max thinks. He believes that if he can just be lazy, there will be no trouble so he tries to stay lazy. Ironically, when he is not lazy, trouble comes, mostly from the usual place, Felix but not always. Maybe akin to Dexter, which is a complete rip-off of the Mr. Brooks movie btw and which as a TV series would have had Costner at least alive somewhere instead of where he is now which is offscreen, Felix could, from time to time, try and help Max from real other-world threats that present themselves from out-of-town folk that are new to the area but that have "ambitious" intentions for some of the people of Los Angeles.

On a side note, there could be a middle-aged fat but attractive black lady that comes across as arrogant and demeaning who noone can stand, and use her as a comedy relief.

PS. I think this is a new method for me to express myself and my interpretations and instead of using FFXI as a backdrop, I am just gonna rate movies once in a while. The next one I post is going to be for Dark Honeymoon. Sadly, now that I am watching Direct TV, I don't become the characters in the movies so much anymore so my focus is probably going to be a lot less drawn out. That's me though, 110% at the start and then poof, on the ropes middle of the first round. I usually write better when I have had some scotch anyways but I am almost out of money so who knows when I am going to have my next bit of scotch..