NEWS: 41 Hours in Wal-Mart May Lead to Movie Deal

CULTURE: 41 Hours in Wal-Mart May Lead to Movie Deal

Skyler Bartels is a 20-year-old sophomore at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. An aspiring writer, Bartels came up with an idea for a magazine article: Spend a week living in a 24-hour Wal-Mart. His college advisor approved of the idea. So, for 41 hours, he wandered the Wal-Mart aisles, reading, watching movies, and playing video games. Eventually, employees got suspicious, and Bartels gave up before he got busted. Now, New Line Cinema is interested in turning his experiment into a movie.

via Boing Boing

why the hell would I want to watch some guy live on wallmart for 48 hours? I guess they will cast tom hanks as the lead and put catherine zeta jones as the aisle girl he falls in love with.

Too late.

The entire point is to get thrown out! I know I could make it to 48 hours. I can aspire ten times as hard as this guy.

And Natalie Portman does everything better.

What, exactly, would the magazine article be about? Even more to the point, what, in the living hell, would a movie be about?

spending 41 hours in a Wal-Mart is the work of a rookie, millions of people spend their whole lives there.

Heres an idea, lets make a movie about that stupif theif who got stuck in a chimney overnight. That'd make a great fucking movie. Jesus christ has everyone run out of ideas for movies already?

Next challenge: one week in a 24-hour truck stop.

They could do a reality series.

Re-hash is the new originality.

TV does everything best and first...

I will say this whole concept was much more entertaining on an episode of Malcom in the Middle from last year , where a guy literally, without anyone knowing, lives inside the Lucky Aide after having enough with the outside world. The guy at one point says he helps out whenever he can, restocking shelves, putting things back where they go, that kind of thing.

(episode 617 "Butterflies" Reese raises caterpillers. Malcolm works the graveyard shift with Lois and discovers a man living at the Lucky Aide.)

Funny that the two responses are:
"How are they going to make a movie out of this?"
and
"They already made a movie out of this!"

fuckin stupid.

Haha. Isn't there already some sorta trucker reality show? Or is that Pimp My Truck??

A movie deal?

Well, hey--my sister knows this guy--if he's going to be a movie star, maybe I ought to go make friends with him now.

On another note, this whole eating-at-Subway thing just shows the gross quality gap between those hallowed Super Wal-Marts and the crappy little Wal-Marts that those of us at school in the true middle of nowhere are forced to live at when we have to do a random experiment of that sort. You can bet your sweet ass that there's no Subway at the Wal-Mart near me; we have to walk a whole six blocks from Wal-Mart (at least) to get to the nearest Subway. *tear*

[Edited on Mar 31, 2006 11:56AM]

thats exactly what he did (except for the pretending part).

Waydowntown.

Yeah, this guy seems like a bit of a wuss. 41 hours isn't that long, even to stay awake. And if this was one of those huge ass Walmarts, he could probably camp out in some corner and nobody would even notice.

This guy has been living in an airport since 1988.

1) Guy Gets Interesting Idea
2) Acts On Idea
3) Writes Story
4) Gets a Great Offer to Write a Film
5) Message Board Posters Cry "Booo!!"

6) Profit!

you are lucky to have blocks.