Tim Misny is a wrongful injury attorney. Tim Misny is finger-pointing, pinstripe suit-wearing Cleveland meme with the people’s eyebrow. Tim Misny is, well, Tim Misny.
And Tim Misny is an intergalactical astronaut traversing the universe to bring justice for his biggest fan’s father.
At least in the mind of filmmaker Moe Taylor, the head of Brain Dagger Films.
On December 28, on a screen at the Five O’Clock Lounge in Lakewood, Taylor will be debuting a short film with Misny as its centerpiece. It is, as Taylor described, a Sci-Fi-tinged, superhero-esque movie seven minutes long that explores Misny superfandom with other worlds and a helluva sense of camp.
“I guess the most important thing to say is it’s a lot of AI,” Taylor said, hesistantly.
“It’s got Misny exploring the Qui Gon System for insurance claims,” he said, “and fighting in Ancient Rome as a gladiator while the crowd cheers, ‘Make them pay!’”
All for the benefit of Super Fangirl, what both Taylor and Misny are calling the unnamed lead who, after her father gets into trouble, calls upon Cleveland’s best to fight on his behalf.
The project, which Misny gave the green light to, took about a year and a half to finish after the two met at Misnyland in Waite Hill.
“I call it a surreal romp,” Misny told Scene in a phone call.
“But it’s true to the message: I am an advocate for people, I am a defender of the little guy,” he added. “I give David a real chance against Goliath. And my winning record will substantiate that.”
Taylor’s short is a prologue to an “endless” amount of shorts to follow, he said, all putting Misny in hilarious and bizarre scenarios exploring what it means to be Misny, all in ways that are keenly in on the joke of his cultural image.
For example, a future installment called “Three Wise Guys” features three Italians from New Jersey, bearing cannoli and tiramisu, visiting him “because they’ve heard about my eyebrow.”
While the two originally planned to pack cheekily-told stories from Misny’s biography in a semi-feature film, Taylor and Misny pivoted earlier this summer. A creative split came after: Misny would pursue his own “pure documentary,” Taylor his own fictional take on Misny’s life. (Though the both would provide help with each other’s projects.)
Taylor hopes to land his shorts at film festivials. After running the circuit, he plans to hire a distributor and, sooner or later, have the full series of comedy vignettes up for everyone to see on YouTube.
The goofiness has a point: to bring the man behind the Make Them Pay billboards and commercials to a wider audience, if that’s possible.
“People are going to see this video and say, ‘That guy can’t be real. Who is this guy?’ They’re gonna look him up and think, Oh my God, that’s a real lawyer,” he said. “And then, you know, we’ll see what the world thinks.”
Taylor’s Misny homage debuts at the Five O’Clock Lounge at 3 p.m. on Dec. 28, and will follow a showing of a handful of other shorts. Admission is free.
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