Coming To Atlanta -- Comcast Cable Channel 24 Atlanta
A docu-style reality show based on characters from the book.
Written by Adrian Collins
Art imitates life when a successful author films a famous rapper
in Atlanta. Life imitates art when the author gets reality-style footage of the
rapper and adapts their story into a screenplay.
Demography: 18-49
Comcast Cable Channel 24 in ATL
Time Slot: Prime-Time
Length: 60 min.
100 episodes (5 seasons)
Genre: Documentary/Reality Scripted and Unscripted
Adrian Collins’ second
autobiography Coming To Atlanta was practically begging for an adaptation. Two years after
self-published author turned playwright Adrian decides to move to Atlanta to
pursue his dreams, he finds himself going from a prospect back to suspect as
soon as he gets there. On September 11, 2015, his life changes overnight.
Adrian is now stuck with two options: to go back home in Jersey or end up
homeless. After a 4-year struggle to get back on his feet, a stage play and
book review inspires the author to write about his second autobiography.
Get inside the lives of people who came to Atlanta to pursue their
dreams. See them juggling the drama taking place every day in Atlanta. Watch
their assertive demeanors as Adrian goes around promoting his products through
his story. Go on his journey of how he came to Atlanta and what life is really
like in Atlanta. Participate in the chess game scheming and juggling of drama
via relationships, family, and the downtown scene he is frequenting each night.
Relive the best part of it all, recapping the previous night’s adventures with
stories over a chess game.
And when you disagree wildly with the author or his friends’
decisions… let them know! The audience will be instructed to vote on a key
moment of their lives in that episode. Should they leave? Take their skills or
talents and move out of Atlanta or relocate to another area? After the audience
votes with a phone call, text message, or website poll, the author and the
characters from his book will be pulled aside and given the feedback from the
audience real-time. Watch how they deal with the audience scrutiny. Then have
the audience take to the website forums to discuss how it all played out.
ADRIAN COLLINS is sitting at the biggest
table located directly in front of the Burger King in the food court section.
There is a lot of paper scattered on Adrian’s table. The camera zooms in on the
one-sleeve black AVP TV brochure that he is working on. There is a poster of
Coming To Atlanta web series, one From Suspect To Prospect flyer-as-eBook
product, several brochures and some other promo on the table.
LIL BABY and G5 walks past him going to Burger King. Adrian looks up in time just to notice Lil Baby wearing a big Gucci blanket and lot of jewelry. He only glance and goes back to what he was doing at the table.
CUTE TO:
Moments later, Lil Baby followed by G5 walks back past and is now looking over Adrian shoulder. Adrian turns back in time for Lil Baby to be fixing his Gucci blanket. He stops at the table, after Adrian notices him standing there looking and was about to say something to him.
LIL BABY
What’s that you got going on there?
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Damn. What yall Coming To America?
Lil Baby and G5 start laughing together.
ADRIAN COLLINS
Where yall from?
Where you from young blood?
LIL
BABY
New York. Brooklyn.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Oh, yeah? I’m from New Jersey, Plainfield. I write books, plays, scripts,
working on a reality show.
Adrian is practically giving Lil Baby and G5 his entire
presentation of four books on the poster, along with the stage play tickets,
while at the same advertising the From Suspect To Prospect flyer-as-eBook with
the book and a book review from JACK, the book critic.
LIL
BABY
Oh, yeah? You write books?
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Yeah. I got four of them. This is how I advertise my eBooks.
Adrian is now turning his flyer-as-eBook product around
to where part of a one-dollar bill is shown.
ADRIAN
COLLINS (cont’d)
How it works is, whoever give me a dollar, they get my eBook. This back
says how they gotta take a selfie with this flyer. Then email it to me, and I
will email them the book.
Lil Baby goes in his pocket and pulls out
one crisp one hundred-dollar bill. He is standing there with the money in his
hand.
LIL
BABY
A-look, I got a catch this flight. I need a book. But it gotta be some hard
shit. I want something real. From the streets. You feel me?
Adrian cuts his eyes at Lil Baby, without knowing who this is, looking at him as if he was crazy. Adrian turns back around the book flyer side.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Oh, that’s all I got. This one white guy name Jack said this…
DIRECTOR NOTES: SEE Jack’s book review on the flyer or
his video saying it. After Adrian finishes reading Jack’s book review, he
starts to give his elevator pitch.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
It’s about me being 21 years old on a 3rd grade reading level.
(pause)
Selling drugs, shot five times. In New Jersey. Went to jail, taught myself
how to read and write. I write three books in 2007.
(pause)
Came home in 2010, still had money. My young boys had money. I started up a
publishing company. Best of the Best Publishing. I got 1,000 of my first book
printed out and sold them in 3 months.
LIL
BABY
That’s good. That’s good as hell…
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Yeah. Then somebody who read my book in 2013. He inspired me to write a
one-man stage play.
(pause)
It takes place in jail.
CUT TO:
Several people starting to walk over. MALE
FAN #1, young black male, heavy set, early 20’s, walks up first with his phone
out in his hand.
MALE
FAN #1
Can I get a pic?
CUT TO
LIL
BABY
Sure… Come on!
Lil Baby walks over to Male Fan #1, they
take several pictures. Some pictures are also with G5.
CUT TO:
Adrian is looking confused. Adrian starts
to look around. He is lost as he is looking around. Adrian is now focused on
them.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Yo, who the fuck is you?
Lil Baby is silent. He does not say nothing
as he poses for more pictures. Adrian then looks at MALE FAN #1.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Who the fuck is he?
Male Fan #1 is quiet. He does not say
nothing before walking away. Male Fan #1 walks away. FEMALE FAN #1, young light
brown heavy-set woman, early 20’s, is already in line fixing to take the next
picture. Lil Baby pose again for a selfie.
Adrian looking around again. Now Adrian is
growing impatient.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Dog, who the fuck is he? Who is the nigga?
FEMALE
FAN #1
This Lil Baby. You don’t know who this is!
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Oh, that’s Lil Baby…
Adrian cuts off the camera. Adrian is offended, he knows
who Lil Baby is after listen to his music and watching his documentary last
year in Plainfield, New Jersey.
FEMALE
FAN #1
Thank you, Baby.
Female Fan #1 walks away. Lil Baby is back
standing at the table reading something.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Nigga, why you lie to me? I know who you is… You dope. You crack. You hard
white…
Lil Baby and his partner both start
laughing. Adrian hits the record button to start filming them. Opposed to
taking a picture as in a selfie, Adrian is now recording Lil Baby and G5, who
pauses and slides in there for a pic. After one moment, Lil Baby is turning
back to this table, just as Adrian is about to turn the camera off.
LIL
BABY
How I do it? I want to read that book.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Okay. I got you. I don’t got change for a hundred right now. Where you want
me to drop the book off at? I will have it by later today.
LIL
BABY
I’m about to go out of state. Keep it. That’s you…
Adrian is surprised. He sits back in the
chair.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Damn. Good looking out.
Lil Baby is back examining what’s on the
table. He picks up the web series poster. He is reading the poster while it’s
on the table.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
I print everything out at home. I do everything myself. My money…
CUT TO:
Adrian pulls out his phone. Adrian hits the
record button while Lil Baby is still reading the posters and/or whatever it is
on the table with it. At first Adrian is holding his phone down with the camera
pointing on his feet. Adrian is waiting for the right time to start bringing it
up to point the camera at Lil Baby and say something for the camera.
LIL
BABY
If you got it together, you got it all together. I see…
ADRIAN
COLLINS
It might look shitty, but it's real…
LIL
BABY
I don't go off of looks.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Lil Baby in the building.
ZOOM IN: Camera slowly rolls up towards Lil
Baby’s face. Lil Baby immediately starts to flash the poster for the world to
see. Just as Adrian is talking to him, Lil Baby is holding the poster up while
he is talking to Adrian.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
That’s crazy, brah… I wish you a ton of money, brah.
LIL
BABY
Likewise… I wish you the same thing.
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Much success… Much happiness…
Lil Baby places the poster back down. Lil
Baby starts back examining the flyer and everything on the table, again. Next,
Lil Baby starts pointing his figure indirectly at something near the poster.
LIL
BABY
Ah, look. I’m a get, take a picture of that.
ZOOM IN:(B-Roll) In on Lil Baby pointing
his finger at the laminated black one-sleeve AVP TV brochure.
LIL
BABY
I don’t give a fuck. How I do it? You feel me?
ADRIAN
COLLINS
No doubt. You can have it. You can take what you want. I can also write you
a script.
LIL
BABY
Hell yeah. That’s what I want. That’s to make sure you call me.
Lil Baby is referring to the money. He
takes the black one-sleeve AVP TV brochure. Lil Baby is looking at it in his
hand.
LIL
BABY
Your number on here?
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Yeah. It should be. Everything is me. I do it all myself. My money…
LIL
BABY
Say no more, then. I’m a call you for that script. You feel me?
ADRIAN
COLLINS
Doubt…
CUT TO:
Adrian is cutting the camera off. He goes to contacts in the phone.
ADRIAN COLLINS
Matter of fact. Give me your number…
FADE OUT.
THE END
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