Top Bun Maverick
Legendarily overweight ace Tom Chews returns to Top Bun Academy to out-eat and out-fly a squadron of slim new recruits in a pastry-packed aerial showdown that decides the fleet's fate.
Legendarily overweight ace Tom Chews returns to Top Bun Academy to out-eat and out-fly a squadron of slim new recruits in a pastry-packed aerial showdown that decides the fleet's fate.
Synopsis
Tom Chews, the heaviest and most decorated pilot in naval history, gets recalled when an elite new class of wafer-thin aviators threatens to sideline the old guard forever. Paired with a skeptical instructor and a suspiciously carb-loaded mission, Chews must rally his plus-sized skills for a high-stakes dogfight over the dessert zone where victory depends on who can carry the most calories through supersonic turns. What starts as a weight-loss ultimatum explodes into a glorious, grease-stained spectacle of barrel rolls, cream-puff barrages, and one man's refusal to be grounded by the scale.
The story
Tom Chews is dragged out of retirement and back to Top Bun Academy where he immediately clashes with the new crop of rail-thin recruits who mock his girth and demand he pass a brutal fitness eval or lose his wings. His old rival turned commander gives him one final shot at redemption if he can lead a team through increasingly ridiculous food-themed training drills.
Chews trains his misfit plus-sized unit while trading barbs and buttered biscuits with the arrogant slim recruits, culminating in a series of escalating pranks and mid-air snack ambushes that expose the academy's hidden pastry-smuggling ring. Personal stakes rise when a rival sabotages his jet with diet pills and forces him to confront whether his size is his greatest liability or secret weapon.
In the climactic pastry-laden dogfight over the dessert zone, Chews overloads enemy sensors with flung éclairs and proves that mass equals maneuverability, winning the fleet contract and inspiring the next generation to embrace both skill and second helpings.
The cast
A living legend whose G-tolerance is matched only by his love of bear claws, Chews returns for one last ride to prove girth can win wars.
dream cast: John Goodman
A zero-body-fat hotshot who believes thinness equals superiority until Chews shows him the power of a fully loaded pastry payload.
dream cast: Timothée Chalamet
The academy head who reluctantly bets on Chews while hiding his own secret craving for the old ways of flying and frying.
dream cast: Jon Hamm
The academy's dessert contractor who supplies both the ammunition and the emotional fuel for Chews's comeback.
dream cast: Melissa McCarthy
A rising star recruit who learns humility after getting creamed in a mid-air donut duel with Chews.
dream cast: Pete Davidson
Dream crew
in the style of Edgar Wright — kinetic action comedy
in the style of Simon Rich — rapid-fire absurdity
in the style of Michael Giacchino — soaring heroic themes
Cold open
INT. TOP BUN ACADEMY MESS HALL - DAY A squadron of razor-thin pilots in pristine flight suits hover over kale salads. The doors BLAST open. TOM CHEWS, 52, 300 pounds of pure aviator charisma in a straining jumpsuit, strides in carrying a tray stacked with bear claws. SLIM MCLEAN (rolling eyes) Gravity's gonna ground you before the jet does, old man. Chews drops into a chair that creaks ominously. He takes an enormous bite; crumbs explode like flak. TOM CHEWS (mouth full) Gravity and I have an understanding. It pulls. I push back with frosting. The room erupts as Chews launches a cream puff across the table, nailing Slim square in the forehead. Slow-motion splatter. Sirens wail. Training has begun.
Why now
In an era obsessed with wellness culture and Ozempic bodies, audiences are starved for unapologetic celebration of indulgence, making a gleeful satire about fat pilots winning with sheer caloric audacity feel like cathartic, crowd-pleasing rebellion.
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