Dear HBO
hire me to consult on a Goodfellas or Narcos type treatment of modern Malacca Straits piracy. A portrait of organized crime, government corruption, finance fraud, and local jetski gangs. Where you get to know the international shipping magnates and the guys waiting out on the water for a giant container ship to pass by. The action starts with petty officials and bandanna-wearing gunmen but by mid season you can tell the money en at Lloyds and Capitol Hill are deep in the plot too.
Investigative journalist goes missing in Bangladesh because he gets too interested in a ship that’s gone to the breakers. Insurance money paid out for the tramp steamer that’s now a ferry in rural Indonesia, making the local boss a local hero. That sort of thing.
Obviously hire proper writers with the right voice – I could provide research clippings and… maybe location scouting?
Tattered Remains of Tartary 
Write a script, pitch it?
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I’d need creative partners to make it any good. At the very least someone who can write dialogue.
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That sounds so good.
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I have watched a lot of ‘Sweeny’ episodes and think I could probably write gangster, but might be bit anachronistic for Malacca.
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