A Cheap, Fairly Generic Thriller Idea

 Who says you need "AI" to come up with ideas?  Here's an idea I thought of after reading that Codename: Chandler book referenced in the last entry.  I'm not going to say it's original, because I think this is kinda generic, but it'd be easy for someone to turn into a book or even a cheap movie.

Created by Wombo "AI"

The McGuffin of that Chandler book was a phone that was basically like the "nuclear football" the president is supposed to have nearby at all times.  Whoever had this phone and the code could launch a nuclear strike instantly.  Which I really hope is not a thing because that would just make it ridiculously easy to start WWIII.

Anyway, so let's say such a thing exists and some spy has it.  Bad guys find out and chase the spy.  To throw the bad guys off, the spy drops it in some random dude's pocket or random woman's purse.  Random person is going about his/her day later when bad guys attack!  And then the spy saves him/her but is badly wounded.  He explains that random person has to get it to someone for safe keeping.

Random person then is on the run from bad guys like Cary Grant in North by Northwest.  Mayhem ensues!  And maybe the person he/she is supposed to give it to turns out to be a bad guy and random person has to get the phone back.  And eventually random person gets the phone back and maybe the spy shows up again having survived the attack.  Or maybe the spy is a bad guy too.  Whatever.

Eventually random person saves the day and is invited to become a spy or something but turns it down to go back to the mundane life that seems a lot better now.  The end?

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And now here's an Eric Filler version!  Instead of a nuclear football phone, let's say that there's some kind of magical artifact that can grant someone a wish, sort of like Wonder Woman 1984.  The thief doesn't have time to make a wish after stealing it from a museum.  He drops it in some random guy's pocket/purse or whatever and random guy finds it and turns into a hot girl!

Bad guys get after the hot girl since she has the valuable stone.  She has to go on the run and try to get help.  In the end the bad guys are taken down and the girl decides she likes being a girl and starts a new life, probably with a love interest developed along the way.  The end?

So there you go.  Now to wait for someone to put that first idea on Hulu or Tubi or whatever in a movie starring Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, and Kevin Dillon.