Here is a link to a clip that you may find amusing:

http://leakingmedia.com/vid/525.wmv *

This is a taping of a pitch of this film concept, Extreme Mormons, to several producers in LDS film in Utah - some HaleStorm folks, and the woman who at the end says “Yeah - I doubt it” is Stin Hansen who was a producer on God’s Army and States of Grace. The folks pitching it didn’t make the trailer - they had interviewed the HaleStorm folks about LDS film for a documentary about the LDS and offshoot religions, and they were showing it as a favor to an LDS filmmaker in Australia who had used some of their equipment to make this.

The concept trailer is apparently clips from, or based on, an episode of a television show in Australia entitled “Saffron vs. God” with a premise of a (discontented?) Jew trying out various religions, this round being mormonism.

This to me is very funny - especially that the producers were very charitable and didn’t laugh: they probably see stuff that rediculous pitched all the time that is not farce. I don’t know.. if I were a producer and that was pitched to me I think I would lack the charity to not laugh my head off. Or at least, I did when I saw what was being pitched.

I wonder if the folks pitching it weren’t pulling a gag on the producers - the whole tone of thier pitch is serious, but the concept trailer they show is completely over the top. It is just way too extreme to not be farce.

If I had money to burn I’d pick this up for production in a heartbeat. It’s made me laugh my head off. But I’d market it to non-mormons.

Not offending mormons is an absolutely hurculean if not generally impossible task that Mormon neighbors often have difficulty pulling off amongst themselves. That’s another story.

*I provide a direct link to the video because the web page that shows it has content I don’t want to link to.