This movie idea is for a murder/mystery, one that’s set in today’s time frame where financial and economic circumstances in America are causing large corporations to evaluate their financial positions and come up with viable alternatives to offsetting the company’s financial collapse. In one large corporation which has tens of thousands if not over a hundred thousand employees spread across America, two unscrupulous upper management types who over see the company’s retirement program are hell bent on making names for themselves and positioning themselves to take over senior management positions at any cost; come up with a scheme whereby they figure they can hire the services of a professional hit man (played by Javier Bardem of “No Country for Old Men”, fame.) and his partners to murder retired employees and their spouses, starting with the oldest retirees and eliminating annually a hundred or so of the approximately 300 to 400 employees who retire each year, possible saving the company millions of dollars every year in retirement benefits.
The challenge is to make the murders look like accidents so as not to raise any suspicions. The elimination cost of $20,000 per couple compared to the $50,000 to $100,000 paid out annually in retirement benefits that could now be saved annually makes it a very viable solution to save the company millions and at the same time this diabolical plan makes these two executives secretly look very good to the top executives who have no idea of this horrendous scheme. The two executives give Javier Bardem the names, addresses and information regarding the retired employees and have them begin eliminating them and their spouses. They have great success initially with the plan, as a result of starting out on a small scale with only a handful of murders spread out across America not arousing any suspicion and perfecting the methods they use for creating the accidents. But greed takes over as the executives want to speed up the process – so instead of eliminating a moderate amount of people to avoid detection they push the numbers to well over a hundred a year.
Mark Wagner an account auditor with the company and while doing his yearly audit of the company’s retirement program becomes curious as to why so many retiree names dropped off the books this year. This raises a red flag when last years numbers of retirees who dropped off as a result of death were 6 times less than this years numbers. Curious as to why, Mark begins to research after hours on his own time through the internet the cause of death of these retirees and he finds some startling similarities in the majority of the causes of death. Corresponding with the average yearly deaths, there was a variety of causes consistent with older age, but in the remainder of the deaths there were 5 consistent causes. 5 types of accidents and if the retiree was currently married, their spouse was always, also killed in the accident. Troubled by his findings Mark takes this information to an FBI agent who Mark knows from the gym where he works out at each day. The agent (played by Denzel Washington) also finds it interesting and a bit too coincidental. He begins looking into the information and sees patterns rising not consistent with typical mortality rates and suspects that there’s more to this. Patterns such as higher deaths rates among retirees in one state followed by the same pattern the next month in a neighboring state and then the same thing the following month in the next neighboring state suggesting that these deaths could be murders by someone hunting these retirees from state to state. Mark secretly gives Denzel copies of current retiree’s information which he then uses to anticipate upcoming staged accidents in the next state – but which state. Eventually as the FBI and local authority’s stake out numerous people, they catch one of the hit men in the act of setting up an accident. He cuts a deal with the FBI and begins to help Denzel try to catch the rest of these hit men – Denzel eventually catches them and they also turn on the 2 corporate executives. The exposure of this scheme sends shivers across America as others corporations look into similar possibilities of cutting costs at any expense.
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Last update: 23-02-2010 12:50 |
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this would be an interesting action and mystery if it was done right - good choice of leading good guys and bad guys. 
