The Fall Guy Movie: Yes, The Horror Is Real...

[Buck-Beaver]

:eek: See, I wasn't making this up....the latest on this is from Filmforce (http://filmforce.ign.com):

According to The World Entertainment News Network (via the IMDb), Warner Brothers has set its sights high for its planned feature film version of the TV series, The Fall Guy. WENN claims that Warners is "in talks" with none other than George Clooney to take over from Lee Majors as the titular stuntman/bounty hunter, "Colt Seavers."

In addition, the site suggests that British athlete-turned-thesp Jason Statham (The Italian Job, Snatch) is "set to co-star as Colt's sidekick Howie." No word yet on who is in the running to play Seavers' pretty sidekick, Judy.

Tristan Patterson (The Regulators) will pen the screenplay for The Fall Guy. Glenn Larson, the creator of the 1980's TV series, will serve as executive producer.

WENN claims that The Fall Guy "is set to go into production next year."

:eek: :eek: :eek:

[Fozzie Bear]

I only barely remember this series at all.

It's amazing that they spend all this money on lame TV-Movies and never produce anything good.

[Buck-Beaver]

I think it's actually going to be a feature film, but yeah it's pretty sad. I don't remember the series that well either, but I know I was a fan of it as a little kid. It's one of those shows like Emergency! where I watch them now and don't understand what I ever saw in them.

I actually think they might do something decent with this, but until someone proves otherwise I'll be making fun of this whole notion (a Fall Guy Movie indeed!) lol


:zany:

[wolfy]

Just like with "McGyver," I never really got into "The Fall Guy."

Wasn't it about a stuntman? Starred Lee Majors, I know that, whom I DO remember watching more in the series "Six Million Dollar Man." Oh, those booooiiiinnnnggggssss when he would jump and move. How dense was I back then?

But then, I DID love "Emergency!" Crazy about Randolph Mantooth, whom is now doing soap operas if I remember correctly (or just finished doing one). Kevin Tighe was the kind of guy I always hoped would be a "good father" type; I didn't have one at the time, so I was dreaming...

Okay, so they've done a remake of "The Brady Bunch," "Bewitched is coming out soon (with Jim Carrey as "Darrin" so far and Nicole Kidmann as "Samantha"), there have been numerous "Lucy" stories, and I have even heard they are going to redo "The Honeymooners" with a black lead (which I can't really see, personally, but hey, these are modern times so if they buy the script, okay, they have every right to put in whomever they please to play Ralph Kramden, but personally, I am still a Gleason fan).

Now...what old show would you really like to see someone do, and do a good job of it?

I would have like a good "Get Smart," but that idea was pretty well killed with the making of the two "Inspector Gadget" movies...

"Fantasy Island" was already redone with Malcolm Macdonald in the role of Mr. Roark, formerly played by my favorite "Star Trek" villian, Ricardo Montalban. "Twilight Zone" has been done several times over...from what I heard, the new one went down the tubes quite quickly. I enjoy Forest Whitaker's work, but he's not Rod Serling, and a lot of people want someone like Rod to do the show. Guess it's because they are all fans of the 50s-60s version.

I know that "Dark Shadows" was remade once, but I'd truly love to see it done the way it had been in the 1960s. Goofs and all. I understand that there is a portrait of Jonathan Frid in the WRS Movie Studios in Pittsburgh, and I am going to see if I can get the people there to just let me go and see it. I was a big Frid fan, and a big "DS" fan as a kid (I even faked being ill in the afternoons when I got hooked on the show so I could get out of going to school and be home to watch it, wasn't I horrid?), and I would LOVE to see this painting. I'm thinking it was the one that hung in the living room...I can't wait to see it...I'll ask my son if he can ask his boss this week if I can come see it. We'll see, and then I'll let you know...

Anyway...what old show would you like to see redone, but redone WELL?
wolfy

[Fozzie Bear]

Anyway...what old show would you like to see redone, but redone WELL?
wolfy

I wouldn't mind a movie about The Honeymooners as long as they get John Goodman to play Ralph Kramden. While they still can, they should do it and have Art Carney come in as a cameo for Ed Norton's father! I'd get a kick out of that. Of course, to maintain the integrity of the original series, they need to have the same guy portray like 3 different characters! LOL!

I wish they would have remade Scooby Doo into live-action with more emphasis on the original series, but modernized as much as they did for the movie. I didn't like the direction they took for the film.

I could see Gilligan's Island, The Munsters, or The Addams Family as a movie since this is the genre of television they're wanting to pull from.

Of course, I always did say that they should do The Muppet Show as a motion picture, but the screen is the theater, and you see the full bodies of the characters as they walk onto the stage etc. The bottom couple of feet of the screen is the orchestra pit and you see everyone's heads unless they're going to go up to the stage, and hanging over the side of the screen is the box seats of Statler and Waldorf who watch the film, and the left side of the screen is the backstage desk area. Too complicated, and too tiny for TV screens, so it would only work on big screen.

[Buck-Beaver]

I'd love to see the old Filmmation "Masters of the Universe" animated series remade as a live action feature film.

Check that, remade as a good live action feature film.

[Erine81981]

I wouldn't mind to see a Mr. Ed movie. I've always watched it everynight they reran it.

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Shyes! LOVED "The Fall Guy"!

Really!

I did!

I have a lunchbox to prove it! :D

But man, I don't think they could ever find a hotter chick to play Jody...that woman was sssssssssizzlinnnnnnn'...

Never have I forgotten that part of the theme song where she comes through the swingin' half-doors in that green bikini!

:flirt:

Oh yeah, and the theme song totally rocked.

"Well I'm not the kind to kiss 'n tell, but I've seen with Faraaaaah..." :sing:

[Super Scooter]

Welcome back, Byron.

:flirt:

[Fozzie Bear]

YAY!

Byron is home!
:flirt: :excited:

(The role of Mokey is being played by Red)

[Super Scooter]

(The role of Mokey is being played by Red)

Yes. Red is the resident Mokey.

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Awwww, thanks, y'all. :)

:o

:)

[Don'tLiveonMoon]

Yay! Byron's back!! :D :) We missed ya!
Erin

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Thanks Erin!

:)

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Yes. Red is the resident Mokey.

Excuse me?

:attitude:

[Fozzie Bear]

Excuse me?

:attitude:

Red is the only female Fraggle we gots, so we have to use her to substitute for Mokey. It's kind of like going from real Mokey to generic Mokey, but only for you since no Mokey emoticon exists.

Otherwise, it's always Red, because Karen Prell RULZ!

[Beauregard]

Hi Bryon,

I was afraid we had chased you off with all our teasing. I did think you were gone.

Really!

I did!

[wolfy]

Okay...did some checking into various movies and so forth to see what was done already and what might be coming...

"Mr. Ed:" Seems there was supposed to be a "Mr. Ed" movie; someone wrote a script and had planned for it to come out in 2000, but things just never came to be.

"Gilligan's Island" had many TV movies and specials from 1964 to 2001, but I guess they never did get off that island...

"The Munsters" actually had two movies, one for television and one for the theater; "Munster's Revenge" was on TV and "Munster, Go Home" was at the theater. That one was when Herman found out he was an English Lord and went and raced just outside London. Not a bad movie, but nothing to really write home about...

When it comes to "The Honeymooners," there were actually several movies made from 1911-1915! Six, to be exact. The ones people really remember, however, started in 1955 with the series, "The Honeymooners," and then went to "The Jackie Gleason Show" in 1966. The various "lost episodes" were found in 1984, 1991 and 1994, respectively. As for a movie, this was the only article I had found about a possible one, although I know I read about Eddie Murphy wanting to be in an all-black version of "The Honeymooners" somewhere...

This article was found at Celebrity News at Hollywood.com:
To the moon, Carmela! James Gandolfini wants to shed his Tony Soprano image for awhile and take on a new role: Ralph Kramden in the big-screen adaptation of The Honeymooners. Variety reports he has put out the word to Paramount and the producers that he is interested, looking to fill up his time during The Sopranos hiatus, which starts in May. The filming for the fifth season of the hit HBO show won't begin until January 2003.
wolfy

[Beauregard]

Okay...did some checking into various movies and so forth to see what was done already and what might be coming...

"Mr. Ed:" Seems there was supposed to be a "Mr. Ed" movie; someone wrote a script and had planned for it to come out in 2000, but things just never came to be.

"Gilligan's Island" had many TV movies and specials from 1964 to 2001, but I guess they never did get off that island...

"The Munsters" actually had two movies, one for television and one for the theater; "Munster's Revenge" was on TV and "Munster, Go Home" was at the theater. That one was when Herman found out he was an English Lord and went and raced just outside London. Not a bad movie, but nothing to really write home about...

When it comes to "The Honeymooners," there were actually several movies made from 1911-1915! Six, to be exact. The ones people really remember, however, started in 1955 with the series, "The Honeymooners," and then went to "The Jackie Gleason Show" in 1966. The various "lost episodes" were found in 1984, 1991 and 1994, respectively. As for a movie, this was the only article I had found about a possible one, although I know I read about Eddie Murphy wanting to be in an all-black version of "The Honeymooners" somewhere...

This article was found at Celebrity News at Hollywood.com:
To the moon, Carmela! James Gandolfini wants to shed his Tony Soprano image for awhile and take on a new role: Ralph Kramden in the big-screen adaptation of The Honeymooners. Variety reports he has put out the word to Paramount and the producers that he is interested, looking to fill up his time during The Sopranos hiatus, which starts in May. The filming for the fifth season of the hit HBO show won't begin until January 2003.
wolfy

Was that intended for the New Movies Coming out thread?

[wolfy]

Was that intended for the New Movies Coming out thread?

No, it was in reply to Fozzie's post where he stated what old shows he would have liked to have seen made into a movie. It was just something that was asked and he replied to earlier in this discussion.
wolfy

PS "Labyrinth" is spelled l-a-b-y-r-i-n-t-h, just for GPs...

[Erine81981]

I wouldn't mind seeing a Pink Panther movie w/ the panther. I figured they would have made one by now. I would like to see it done the same way they did Bullwinkle and Rocky even though everyone here didn't like it. I liked it very well. It was better then some movies they do like that. But Pink Panther? Would anyone want to see a movie of him and the other characters in that cartoon show?

[Fozzie Bear]

I always thought the Inspector cartoons and The Ant and the Anteater cartoons were funnier.

[wolfy]

I always thought the Inspector cartoons and The Ant and the Anteater cartoons were funnier.

I remember those!

I liked the Ant and the Anteater cartoons, too. Wasn't the Ant's voice done by someone like Shecky Green or Joey Bishop? They were cute.

Boy, those take me back a looooong way! I think I remember seeing some "Pink" cartoons with the Inspector in them when we went to drive-in movies with the parents in the mid-60s!

Pajamas, blankets and popcorn in the back of the station wagon, tailgate down, misquitoes buzzing, icy cold Coca-colas with straws and falling asleep before the second feature...

*sigh*

Those were the days, my friend....
wolfy

[DirthNader]

I'd love to see the old Filmmation "Masters of the Universe" animated series remade as a live action feature film.

Check that, remade as a good live action feature film.

Ah. Your wish is granted. I don't remember the date, exactly, but Dolph Lundgrin played the live version of this cartoon legend. It costarred a much younger Courtney Cox as a hapless teen caught in the middle of an inter galactic battle between good and evil.

I think it was a total bust at the theaters.

[DirthNader]

I wouldn't mind to see a Mr. Ed movie. I've always watched it everynight they reran it.

Did you ever see Hot to Trot? It was about a talking horse, voiced by John Candy, who falls in league with none other than Bobcat Goldthwait. Some references to Mr. Ed were made in this less than watchable film (note: any statements made directly about said film are strictly the oppinion of the author of this post). As to your suggestion, I think it's a winning idea. It would be great if they went ahead and did it in B&W, to maintain the original quality of the series.

[Drtooth]

I would have like a good "Get Smart," but that idea was pretty well killed with the making of the two "Inspector Gadget" movies...


Inspector Gadget could have worked if Disney didn't Make it go "Hollywood." If they got the guy who plays MONK, it would have worked.

I mean, and the Bullwinkle Movie... all I ever Hear is b*** and Moans. OOh CGI Bullwinkle and Rocky Boo Hoo! How about the live action Brain the Dog as a real dog, huh? They could have done that with the moose and squirrel or they could have had 20 year old actors play them.

[wolfy]

While I'm not big on Inspector Gadget (the one with Matt Broderick), I do enjoy going past the area that it was filmed at least once every couple months. Pittsburgh is a fun movie area, and I never knew how many films were done here until my kid started working at WRS Studios!

I mean, I knew about the ones done in the past 7 years, of course, but the ones prior to that...well, you just don't realize how many are filmed in America unless you really know the area or really check the fine print on the screen for "filmed in *whatever* location"...

Anyone got good news about old shows being remade into good movies?
wolfy