The Contestants:
a group of partying friends in las vegas are identified by an employee at their hotel they must reach a set of prerequisites, they must all be in their 20's-mid 30's no more than 5 of them, must cover some of the basic demographics (a black guy,a married guy,a fuckup, a success golden boy etc), once they return from a night of partying and are wasted from their night out, they are all drugged roofied or whatever... they must all be unconscious and unable to remember the night before... The Location:
The hotel room is fulled with hidden cameras etc to capture everything that goes on within the suite,
The Setup:
The Shows season opener starts with them awakening in the morning a la` hangover one by one.. the camera angles are as to be expected fly on the wall type shots controlled live from another room, as they awake or if it is just one person they discover the suite is trashed... disorganized... like after a rock star had partied there.. empty bottles of booze everywhere... drug paraphernalia on counter tops, bizarre shit that cant be explained right away, and in the en suite; a body tied to a chair, gagged and covered in blood unclear whether it is alive... in front but across the room is a camera on a tripod facing the body... beside that, on a table is a large messy stack of casino chips from this hotel's casino several hundred thousand dollars worth... in another room tucked away in a sports bag are several handguns none of which have any ammo left (all spent rounds and the guns wreak of gunpowder as if they had recently been fired) once all contestants have been awoken and are aware of their surroundings and that something has happened, eventually the camera video is watched to see if it can shed light on what happened.. its mayhem.. starts with an unknown woman laughing and waving at the camera , talking to whoever is filming, swapping cameras to show its her husband and they are on a trip to Vegas as tourists then rough cuts to her screaming and the camera unclear like roughly shown being taken from them...lots of screaming and shouting and shots of the ground and feet running...cuts to shots of the guys dancing with random chicks in a club then rough cut to back in the hotel suite, music loud,then what looks like one of the guys puking all over the sidewalk somewhere unknown,laughing,rough cuts again this time other shoddy footage is seen in the foyer of the casino filming a pitboss watching a table momentarily before a security guard approaches with his hands towards the camera shouting "you cant film in here" then flickering to a guy tied to a chair swearing at the camera man who you can hear breathing, moving around..footage is real shaky... amateur, obviously done by someone drunk/drugged out of their mind...fists fly and you see the guy in the chair getting hit in the face a few times...we never see the face of the camera man only his hand and arm come into shot at one point, its worked out from the shirt pattern that its one of the guys filming..another man (another shirt pattern and hairstyle but no facial shots) starts beating the guy, all the while they are watching this, we are watching them, how they deal with it...one of them with the recognizable patterned shirts looks at his knuckles, they are freshly scuffed,cut,bruised, he knows it was him punching, but cant remember it....long story short: the video incriminates them all, in some crime but for one surreptitious reason or another they only identify themselves in the video by shirt pattern, bleeding knuckles, one guy with a mirror on his lap and coke spilled all over him passed out on a sofa,another one with blood all over him , cut into what we see them doing is their individual back stories told by a narrator, hidden footage of their homes, families.. any criminal history... certain cues are forced... like house keeping.. the front desk ringing, police in the lobby questioning the front desk, people they don't recognize approaching them.. to be eliminated from the show you chose to act only for yourself...the moment you stop keeping to the groups plan whatever it may be.. example: you try to run by yourself, if it looks like you would get away you are immediately quarantined from being able to contact the rest and are filled in to the setup... you now become a puppet to be played in the story, you get a flat fee in order of your "demise/exit" (first out gets 100k per episode he makes..an episode is 1 hour from waking up and additional 50k for being a puppet in on the game but you can choose to not play anymore role in the game) the game evolves as it plays out, if someone runs they could be caught and end up on the news that the others see "has been apprehended in connection with a robbery and assault, illegal firearms etc" could be hospitalized by police to give a timeline or advance the story giving more details of the night before... the object? last man standing or escape.. "getting away with it" or dealing with the consequences of turning yourself in if that's what they choose
things to note:
several people have been shot
the details the writers can work out as we go....
i figure this production will cost about 50 million including prize money... I'll embezzle the rest and move to Monaco.