Lipshitz Saves the World
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Lipshitz Saves the World is a comedy television pilot that was produced for NBC
. The show was given the green light to shoot a pilot by NBC in July 2006. The show was not picked up for air. It is believed that the tagline and the tone of the series was not suitable.
The premise of the show is that teenage outcast Adam Lipshitz (played by Jack Carpenter) discovers that he may be the one person who can save the world. Creator Dan Fogelman
describes the show as similar to The Matrix
"if Keanu Reeves wasn't good looking."
Veteran comedy actor Leslie Nielsen
had signed on to play Lipshitz's mentor.
Tagline:
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
. The show was given the green light to shoot a pilot by NBC in July 2006. The show was not picked up for air. It is believed that the tagline and the tone of the series was not suitable.
The premise of the show is that teenage outcast Adam Lipshitz (played by Jack Carpenter) discovers that he may be the one person who can save the world. Creator Dan Fogelman
Dan Fogelman
Dan Fogelman a River Vale, New Jersey native is a American screenwriter, producer, novelist and actor. He is best known for the writing of screenplay for the Disney animated movie Tangled and the Pixar movie Cars....
describes the show as similar to The Matrix
The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...
"if Keanu Reeves wasn't good looking."
Veteran comedy actor Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in more than one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying more than 220 characters...
had signed on to play Lipshitz's mentor.
Tagline:
- Who's the Shitz, He's the Shitz