Welcome to the show folks...
Still sick, but slowly feeling better. So here are some more short pieces to tide you over.
ROCKFORD REDUX WRECKED
NBC has finally officially passed on the rebooting of the legendary PI drama The Rockford Files. The excuse being given was that David Shore had to return to the reigns of House MD and was unable to complete the script.
Yeah, right, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the idea was doomed from the start. Why? Because it was a show that was literally custom tailored to the talents and charisma of original star James Garner. Any attempt to do it with someone else saddles the project with a level of animosity that any show, regardless of quality, can overcome.
Now the ironic thing is, if NBC had asked Shore to develop a new and original private eye show in the spirit of The Rockford Files, with a charismatic star, and pitched it as coming from the "Creator of House" and it might have actually sold.
IS HE REALLY WORTH IT?
18 year old Twilight star Taylor Lautner is making seven figures a picture, is the highest paid star in his age bracket and is going to produce and star in some major tent pole films.
Yet nobody actually knows if he can carry a non-Twilight film because he has yet to have one of these mega-projects released. Personally, I don't think the Twilight hysteria is worth such a huge investment before he's proven himself as a solo act at the box office.
Do you remember the non-Twilight movies released by his cast mates?
Neither do they!
Now he might break this hex and be a tremendous success, however, the odds are against him. Twilight fever is running too hot not to cool down and congeal into something gross and oozy, the fans of that franchise don't go to their non-Twilight movies. There's also been no "test case" of a smaller film where he can prove his appeal outside of playing the dog-faced boy who can't keep a shirt.
Instead, millions upon millions are being placed upon him in the hope that this time it will be different.
I hope he holds onto the $7.5 million a picture they're paying him now, because if he doesn't come out bigger than Gabby Hayes and Van Johnson combined, he might never work again.
TWO IDEAS ONE RESPONSE
ABC is green-lighting a Charlie's Angels remake.
Producers are developing a Pac-Man themed reality show.
Here is my response.
I think I've made myself clear on these issues.
Still sick, but slowly feeling better. So here are some more short pieces to tide you over.
ROCKFORD REDUX WRECKED
NBC has finally officially passed on the rebooting of the legendary PI drama The Rockford Files. The excuse being given was that David Shore had to return to the reigns of House MD and was unable to complete the script.
Yeah, right, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the idea was doomed from the start. Why? Because it was a show that was literally custom tailored to the talents and charisma of original star James Garner. Any attempt to do it with someone else saddles the project with a level of animosity that any show, regardless of quality, can overcome.Now the ironic thing is, if NBC had asked Shore to develop a new and original private eye show in the spirit of The Rockford Files, with a charismatic star, and pitched it as coming from the "Creator of House" and it might have actually sold.
IS HE REALLY WORTH IT?
18 year old Twilight star Taylor Lautner is making seven figures a picture, is the highest paid star in his age bracket and is going to produce and star in some major tent pole films.
Yet nobody actually knows if he can carry a non-Twilight film because he has yet to have one of these mega-projects released. Personally, I don't think the Twilight hysteria is worth such a huge investment before he's proven himself as a solo act at the box office.
Do you remember the non-Twilight movies released by his cast mates?
Neither do they!
Now he might break this hex and be a tremendous success, however, the odds are against him. Twilight fever is running too hot not to cool down and congeal into something gross and oozy, the fans of that franchise don't go to their non-Twilight movies. There's also been no "test case" of a smaller film where he can prove his appeal outside of playing the dog-faced boy who can't keep a shirt.
Instead, millions upon millions are being placed upon him in the hope that this time it will be different.
I hope he holds onto the $7.5 million a picture they're paying him now, because if he doesn't come out bigger than Gabby Hayes and Van Johnson combined, he might never work again.
TWO IDEAS ONE RESPONSE
ABC is green-lighting a Charlie's Angels remake.
Producers are developing a Pac-Man themed reality show.
Here is my response.
NO!
NO! NO!
NO! NO! NO!
BAD HOLLYWOOD!
BAD BAD HOLLYWOOD!
DON'T MAKE ME RUB YOUR NOSE IN IT!
NO! NO!
NO! NO! NO!
BAD HOLLYWOOD!
BAD BAD HOLLYWOOD!
DON'T MAKE ME RUB YOUR NOSE IN IT!
I think I've made myself clear on these issues.
Since he is from Michigan, I want to support Lautner, the only film I can really see him doing is playing the lead in a live action film version of the BraveStaar Cartoon.
ReplyDeletePac-Man that sounds more like a pac-man themed game show so it might work.
Charlies Angels, ABC why not defecate all over the memory of Farrah Fawcett, then again since she passed the same day as Wacko jacko and his death overshadowed everything including her's.
The execs at ABC probably have not gotten the word that she is dead, and are writing the episode where she and the rest of the original angels guest star as we speak.
Won't work to rub Hollywood's nose it, as that peculiar perversion is to their tastes.
ReplyDelete"a new and original private eye show in the spirit of The Rockford Files, with a charismatic star, "
The remake of the Rockford Files, without, alas, the charisma, is Burn Notice.