JudynTX
08-10-2012, 10:10 AM
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Sony Pictures Animation to Make 'ALF' Movie
Is ALF coming to the big screen?
Just when you thought Hollywood had really run out of ideas, comes news that the 80s TV series ALF will soon be a movie.
I so wish I was kidding.
Few details are known about the scope of the ALF movie, but The Hollywood Reporter notes that Sony Pictures Animation has closed a deal to acquire the rights of the 80s sitcom.
Look for ALF to get a combo CG and live action feature treatment (you know, what they did with The Smurfs movie).
Jordan Kerner, who produced The Smurfs, is on board the ALF movie project, with show creator Tom Patchett and puppeteer Paul Fusco also involved.
If you've long scratched the show's premise from your memory banks, here's a refresher: ALF was about an extraterrestrial named Gordon Shumway from the planet Melmac who crash-landed in a family's garage. The Tanner family took him in and hid ALF from neighbors and the Alien Task Force while he repaired his spaceship. The nickname ALF stood for Alien Life Form.
Of course, this all provides the perfect opportunity to share that YouTube video of ALF outtakes, which included swearing and racial slurs.
http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/ALF-Movie-Based-on-the-80s-Sitcom-In-the-Works--Hollywood-Is-Officially-OUT-of-Ideas/140041.html
You can bet none of that will make it to the movie version.
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It doesn't end there........
'National Lampoon's Vacation' Sequel Planned
The classic Vacation movie is back, but this time with a new spin.
Ed Helms is set to take on the role of a grown-up Rusty Griswold -- the Griswold family tradition continues ...
One of the best movies about family vacations ever is .. well ... Vacation.
But over the course of the franchise, the Vacation formula got a little worn out and watered down.
This looks promising though.
Helms, who never fails to delight on The Office and was hilarious in The Hangover, can certainly get the job done if the writing is good.
The plot would follow the now adult Rusty taking his own family on a vacation experience, Griswold style.
No doubt he's learned a thing or two about vacationing from his pop, played in the franchise by Chevy Chase.
Will we see a role (at least a cameo) from Chase? Bless the comedy gods that Community has made Chase funny again -- I wouldn't mind seeing him as Grandpa Clark in the newest Vacation.
Helms is currently in negotiations to play the role, so it's not a done deal just yet, but it sounds likely.
The Hollywood Reporter describes the project as "both a sequel and a reboot of the Chevy Chase franchise that began with the 1983 Harold Ramis-directed comedy National Lampoon's Vacation."
Of course, the original Vacation was writen by John Hughes and Rusty was played by Anthony Michael Hall, so it'll be interesting to see how the new version compares.
Ooh, a Hall cameo would be pretty sweet too, come to think of it.
Following Vacation, the franchise saw European Vacation in 1985, Christmas Vacation (1989) and Vegas Vacation (1997).
I'd say it's about time for the Griswolds to hit the road again.
http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/Ed-Helms-to-Star-in-New-Vacation-Movie-as-Clark-Griswolds-Son-Rusty/139817.html
Sony Pictures Animation to Make 'ALF' Movie
Is ALF coming to the big screen?
Just when you thought Hollywood had really run out of ideas, comes news that the 80s TV series ALF will soon be a movie.
I so wish I was kidding.
Few details are known about the scope of the ALF movie, but The Hollywood Reporter notes that Sony Pictures Animation has closed a deal to acquire the rights of the 80s sitcom.
Look for ALF to get a combo CG and live action feature treatment (you know, what they did with The Smurfs movie).
Jordan Kerner, who produced The Smurfs, is on board the ALF movie project, with show creator Tom Patchett and puppeteer Paul Fusco also involved.
If you've long scratched the show's premise from your memory banks, here's a refresher: ALF was about an extraterrestrial named Gordon Shumway from the planet Melmac who crash-landed in a family's garage. The Tanner family took him in and hid ALF from neighbors and the Alien Task Force while he repaired his spaceship. The nickname ALF stood for Alien Life Form.
Of course, this all provides the perfect opportunity to share that YouTube video of ALF outtakes, which included swearing and racial slurs.
http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/ALF-Movie-Based-on-the-80s-Sitcom-In-the-Works--Hollywood-Is-Officially-OUT-of-Ideas/140041.html
You can bet none of that will make it to the movie version.
----------------
It doesn't end there........
'National Lampoon's Vacation' Sequel Planned
The classic Vacation movie is back, but this time with a new spin.
Ed Helms is set to take on the role of a grown-up Rusty Griswold -- the Griswold family tradition continues ...
One of the best movies about family vacations ever is .. well ... Vacation.
But over the course of the franchise, the Vacation formula got a little worn out and watered down.
This looks promising though.
Helms, who never fails to delight on The Office and was hilarious in The Hangover, can certainly get the job done if the writing is good.
The plot would follow the now adult Rusty taking his own family on a vacation experience, Griswold style.
No doubt he's learned a thing or two about vacationing from his pop, played in the franchise by Chevy Chase.
Will we see a role (at least a cameo) from Chase? Bless the comedy gods that Community has made Chase funny again -- I wouldn't mind seeing him as Grandpa Clark in the newest Vacation.
Helms is currently in negotiations to play the role, so it's not a done deal just yet, but it sounds likely.
The Hollywood Reporter describes the project as "both a sequel and a reboot of the Chevy Chase franchise that began with the 1983 Harold Ramis-directed comedy National Lampoon's Vacation."
Of course, the original Vacation was writen by John Hughes and Rusty was played by Anthony Michael Hall, so it'll be interesting to see how the new version compares.
Ooh, a Hall cameo would be pretty sweet too, come to think of it.
Following Vacation, the franchise saw European Vacation in 1985, Christmas Vacation (1989) and Vegas Vacation (1997).
I'd say it's about time for the Griswolds to hit the road again.
http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/Ed-Helms-to-Star-in-New-Vacation-Movie-as-Clark-Griswolds-Son-Rusty/139817.html