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Post by Ace on Jun 30, 2005 11:32:23 GMT -5
Make your own TV-movie mix-upWith “Bewitched” open and “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Miami Vice” on the way, Sean L. McCarthy of the Boston Herald wondered what’s keeping Hollywood from remaking even more TV shows. He even offered some suggestions for how to do it. “Fantasy Island”: Ramp up the thriller/horror aspects. For Mr. Roarke, go with Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas or heck, even Ricardo Montalban, still working at 84 (Which would add an extra dose of creepiness). For Tattoo, how about Peter Dinklage? No, wait, we need someone jumpy. Make it Tom Cruise. BAWAHAAHAHA!!!]“Scarecrow and Mrs. King”: A bored suburban divorced housewife falls in league with a secret agent man. Calling Teri Hatcher. For fun, reunite her with either Dean Cain or Howie Long. [Fun for the audience maybe but nor for Cain or Long who couldn't stand her-- but then who can?]“The Greatest American Hero”: Believe it or not, nobody has tried adapting this superhero spoof (unless you count Jackie Chan’s “The Tuxedo”). Oh, well. This was the superhero flick Ben Affleck should have made. “Diff’rent Strokes”: (They should) flip the premise and have two adorable white kids (with Jonathan Lipnicki as Arnold) adopted by a wealthy black bachelor (Will Smith). But they’d cast the kid from “Lost” as Arnold and Will Ferrell as Drummond. “Remington Steele”: The ultimate in stunt casting. Pierce Brosnan spoofed James Bond in the show. How would he play it now that he has been Bond? Jennifer Aniston co-stars as Laura Holt. [Interesting -- but can Aniston run in high heels?]Ace
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Post by sparklingblue on Jun 30, 2005 13:03:59 GMT -5
Oh please, not Aniston!  As if Pierce wouldn't be worried enough about how to get away with it.  |
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Post by Barbara on Jun 30, 2005 14:44:46 GMT -5
If they did Remington Steele, they could do it with Laura's niece and nephew picking up where auntie left off....
I'm thinking the Glynaaal children. :-D
I personally would like to see Pierce and Ted Danson doing a remake of "The Persauders."
-- B
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Post by sparklingblue on Jun 30, 2005 15:02:36 GMT -5
Pierce as Lord Brett Sinclair! That would be a riot! ;D Shock! Horror! Ben Stiller wants to steal Pierce's role!  |
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Post by Barbara on Jun 30, 2005 15:34:47 GMT -5
Hopefully Steve Coogan will be playing Lord Sinclair, and Ben Stiller will take on Danny Wilde role.
One can only pray....
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Post by Ace on Jun 30, 2005 19:06:42 GMT -5
I don't get doing The Persuaders. The series main hook was the popularity and charm of it's two stars and didn't last very long. And with Stiller/Coogan doing it I can't imagine it will be anything but serious tongue in cheek camp, like Stiller's Starsky & Hutch. And a big NAY to PB as Steele working with a nephew or niece. Where's the sex appeal in that unless Mindy (or whatever her name was) realizes her life long dream and bags Mr Steele. I'm sure old time RS fans would be thrilled.  If PB were to star in an old TV show I want it to be The Prisoner. Heck I just want him to do the Prisoner, full stop. He'd make a brilliant #6 . Ace |
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Post by curious george on Jun 30, 2005 21:05:30 GMT -5
Jennifer Aniston with PB in anything, much less as Laura Holt?? Ace, you got a barfing icon??  cg |
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Post by Yuliya on Jun 30, 2005 22:27:20 GMT -5
I think Ace censored a barfing icon. Or was it a drooling one? Something to do with it being too, er, picturesque.  PB would make a great #6, but I don't know if I'd want a remake of Prisoner. Only if it were a good one (surprise!) with good writing and lots of new ideas. There has to be an element of uncertainity left for those who's seen the original. |
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Post by sparklingblue on Jul 1, 2005 4:53:42 GMT -5
Jennifer Aniston with PB in anything, much less as Laura Holt?? Ace, you got a barfing icon?? cg I agree. But it could steele be worse--they might have suggested Teri the-desperate-housewife Hatcher. I think they should let Salma Hayek realise her old fantasy and let her play LH. |
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Post by Kristýna on Jul 1, 2005 15:27:48 GMT -5
Salma Hayek is completely great! What about to make After the Sunset two? As Brett said: After the Sunrise? ;D
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Post by Lauryn on Jul 2, 2005 15:34:39 GMT -5
Yes, someone could explain what that last episode was about. Or not, LOL! As to a film version, we should, as YS suggests, approach with caution. The movie's trail seems to have gone cold. Several years back Simon West was rumoured to direct. That's Simon *cough* hack *cough* West of Tomb Raider, Con Air, and The General's Daughter, the latter being the most patently exploitative celluloid dungheap since Showgirls (which at least had camp value).
When they come to their senses maybe they could approach someone like Ridley Scott, who at least has visual panache and the requisite fierce intelligence. Plus, he never skimps on the atmos and look of a film. This endorsement is with the caveat that he doesn't tip Orlando Bloom for Number 6. <wink> Terry Gilliam is a Prisoner aficionado, naturellement, and its themes are right up his street but his projects do have a way of going off the rails or ending with ads in the trades against the studios, LOL! I'd be a bit afraid that if the project got off the ground his vision might be too Kafka-esque even for me. Danny Boyle could be interesting; even when the territory is unorthodox, his films have a moral center. And here's fun! John Boorman could re-unite with Brosnan and they could do it very trippy, a la Zardoz, LOL!
As for the script, Patrick McGoohan has been tinkering with story ideas for years (in-line with a sequel) while the film's backers have preferred a more "stand alone" scenario. I would think they'd be inviting a fan backlash not to involve him on some consultory level.
Be still my fibrillating heart! I googled a bit more to check on the film's non-progress and Julian McMahon's name popped up. It would take me weeks of work to think of anyone wronger for Number Six, but hold the paddles, nurse! He's signed for Prisoner, a movie that is no apparent relation.
Whew! I should stop scaring myself like that!
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Post by Lauryn on Jul 2, 2005 16:36:56 GMT -5
It's everywhere you look! Oh, dear. Tom Cruise would never have become a punchline when Pat Kingsley, his former publicist, guarded the drawbridge (and kept her client on movie message and his feet off the everlovin' sofa). I could care less about Cruise's private life or beliefs but I can't see his appeal as an actor, never could. Maybe, just maybe, a percentage of the plum scripts and projects he gets offered as a matter of course might be offered to someone else now. Someone who can do more with drama than just look as if he's concentrating really, really hard or more with comedy than just having a grin at the camera.
Don't know about the high heels thing, but, could it be that Anniston was paired with PB because she's quite used to squiring around men who are more decorative than she is?
Since it's hard to take any of this seriously (and the article doesn't LOL!) I'm thinking PB, just after RS, could have starred in a movie version of Three's Company -- you remember, two single girls co-habiting with one pretend gay male. It would be a great double act: the un-closeted Harley Ferguson from Grappling Steele (Didn't Jack Tripper wear lots of casuals / jogging outfits and stuff? Velvet sweats, anyone?) who morphs, once society's back is turned, into sexually available certifiably gorgeous roommate running around the place in a towel. The poor girls' resistance would never stand a chance. You'd have to raise the level of the sexual quippage and add a touch more class, less sniggering, and more smolder -- but it could work! Who should play the sex-crazed neighbor?
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Post by Yuliya on Jul 5, 2005 10:24:54 GMT -5
Yes, someone could explain what that last episode was about. Or not, LOL! Et tu? If you ever get the explanation, do send it my way. I didn't like the last episode; maybe it would help to know they really did have something in mind when they were making it. |
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Post by dalrymple on Jul 6, 2005 12:45:54 GMT -5
Pierce as Lord Brett Sinclair! well, this particular piece of casting would have persuaded me to watch it... let's hope for a good original script - they should spare us messy uninspired adaptations like the ones they did for The Avengers and The Saint... i can see him tackle that part, Lauryn - just to imagine his mock-flirting with Mr. Roper. priceless! ;D  that's all i'm going to say without my lawyer!  |
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Post by Lauryn on Jul 11, 2005 19:49:11 GMT -5
Coincidentally, have any of you seen those new commercials for www.water.com? Their motto is "purely refreshing -- personally delivered." To sum up, a hunky delivery guy is a real johnny on the spot whenever anyone in the family unit gets thirsty. Always a bottle of H2O on hand, for example, when mom needs to cool down after a long, hard bout of .... exercise. Day or night, no worries, he sleeps over. One can imagine the domestic drama if PB played the Filter-Pure, err I mean, water dot com delivery man. "Don't worry, honey," the wife reassures her suspicious spouse (while winking to the camera) "He's gay!" |
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As if Pierce wouldn't be worried enough about how to get away with it. 
that's all i'm going to say without my lawyer! 