7 DEADLY SINS – SERIES SYNOPSIS
With irreverence, insight, and gluttonous abandon, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock brings an intimate and searing look at the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath, Greed, and Sloth. Every episode will focus on a different sin, each through the experience of the “sinners,” who are either intentionally pursuing, or are already enraptured in, the thralls of their sordid afflictions.
GLUTTONY
Gluttony features Nikki, who at 700 pounds aspires to be the sexiest and heaviest entertainer in the world; Dr. John Basso, whose Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas offers free meals to anyone weighing over 350 pounds; and meet the craftsmen revolutionizing the coffin market for the morbidly obese.
ENVY
Envy introduces us to men that want to temporarily be women so bad that they turn themselves into living female dolls; a young man who envies the disabled so much that he uses a wheelchair despite his healthy legs; and women that treat hyper-realistic dolls as the newborn babies they desperately wish they had.
LUST
Lust introduces us to a handsome young man that prefers ladies thrice his age, a prostitute-promoting minister that practices what he preaches, and a sex toy craftsman that lovingly specializes in the only live-molded horse dildos in the entire country.
WRATH
What embodies Wrath more than a fight club full of angry amateurs willingly pummeling each other on a regular basis? How about the men that built a better bullet, upping the carnage factor and turning one shot into a weapon of mass destruction?
PRIDE
Pride gives us Elizabeth Starr, a porn star whose O-cup breast implants may likely be the death of her. We also visit the place where the dying go to be frozen until the distant future, hoping that as-of-yet unborn doctors can bring them back to life and make them healthy once again.
GREED
What’s a better example of Greed than a service that matches openly honest gold diggers with available men of means? How about a pastor that preaches avarice over affection? Or the hunters that want to kill every animal on the planet so badly that they pay someone to bring them to their own backyard?
SLOTH
Sloth shows us the tongue patch, a surgically implanted device that prevents users from tasting food; and a high-tech device for mutually masturbating with your partner without ever leaving your respective apartments.
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Bios
MORGAN SPURLOCK is a New York based writer, director and producer. His first film, Super Size Me, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, winning Best Directing honors. The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documentary. Since then he has directed, produced and distributed multiple film and TV projects, including the critically acclaimed FX television series, 30 Days, and the films Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, Confessions of a Superhero, Czech Dream, Chalk, The Future of Food, What Would Jesus Buy?, the WGA Award-winning and Emmy nominated The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice!, Freakonomics, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope, Mansome, and One Direction: This Is Us. He is currently working on the second season of Morgan Spurlock’s Inside Man on CNN.
JEREMY CHILNICK is an Emmy-nominated film and television producer. He is a partner in Morgan Spurlock’s production company, Warrior Poets, where he currently oversees all aspects of production. After co-producing the Shopocalpyse-chronicling documentary What Would Jesus Buy?, as well as the official Cannes selection The Third Wave, Chilnick has gone on to write, produce, and executive-produce multiple films and television shows. Since 2008, Chilnick has co-written and co-produced Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! on Ice!, the documentary adaptation of The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, Mansome, and the 3D concert documentary One Direction: This Is Us. Chilnick is currently Executive Producing the second season of Morgan Spurlock’s Inside Man for CNN.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
SERIES
Executive Producers........................................ MORGAN SPURLOCK
................................................................................... JEREMY CHILNICK
Created by............................................................... JEREMY CHILNICK
.............................................................................. MORGAN SPURLOCK
GLUTTONY
Directed by..................... JEREMIAH ZAGAR & NATHAN CASWELL
Written by.................. JEREMY CHILNICK & MORGAN SPURLOCK
Producers.................. JEREMY YACHES, SEBASTIAN WEINBERG
Director of Photography............................................... ZAK MULLIGAN
Production Designer..................................................... JEFF EVERETT
Edited by................................... BRIAN GOETZ, NATHAN CASWELL,
.................................................................................... JEREMIAH ZAGAR
Line Producers......................... CHRISTINA D. KING, ANNA PITMAN
Music by.......................................................................... JINGLE PUNKS
LUST
Directed by........................................................... ANTONIA SCARLATA
Written by.................. JEREMY CHILNICK & MORGAN SPURLOCK
Producers....................................................................... LAUREN SHER
............................................................................... ANTONIO SCARLATA
Co-Producer.................................................. SEBASTIAN WEINBERG
Director of Photography......................................... LUCA DEL PUPPO
Production Designer............................................ TIMOTHY WHIDBEE
Edited by........................................................................... BRIAN GOETZ
Associated Producers............. BRENT KUNKLE, DANNY WALTON,
.......................................................................................... ERIC ENRIGHT
Music by.......................................................................... JINGLE PUNKS
