Buffy The Vampire Slayer Summoned To Destroy Jon & Kate
We got so carried away today with the NYT new appointment and announcing once again that print is dead that we totally forgot to peer into the trades and see what showbiz news there is that you need to know about. So here you go now, late afternoon edition.
Yes, yes, we know. Everyone watched the season premiere of Jon & Kate Plus Eight Kids, Several Lawyers, a Coupla Harrisburg Floozies, a Bald Bodyguard, and The Admonishing Visage of a Disappointed Jesus last night. Nine point eight million people who should be ashamed of themselves. Nine point eight million people who were giddy to see this marriage implode while eight poor halfsie children are cast to the winds of a world that will have little use for them when they grow older and stop being cute. What a cold dead place this ugly old rock is. [Variety]
Oh don’t stuff that handful of Halcyon down your gullet just yet. There’s some news the horizon! Fran Rubel Kuzui, who so ably directed the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, and her husband, Kaz Kuzui, are planning a relaunch of the Buffy film series. One that will have nothing to do with the much beloved TV series. It’s like vampires are popular these days or something! Actually, on second though, go ahead and swallow that maw of pills now. [THR]
No one’s watching anything stateside because all is reruns, except for old people who don’t remember that they already saw this episode. So, of course, CBS wins. [Variety]
Al Pacino would like to kill you. Humanely! Humanely. He’s said to be eying the lead role of Jack Kevorkian in an upcoming HBO biopic. As long as Steve Buscemi can play Fred Leuchter in a cameo or something, we’re happy. [THR]
If you’re some kinda fag or dorky fairy chick, you might care about this. Mackenzie Crook—Gareth from The Office, Wooden Eye Guy in Pirates of the Caribbean, and a wonderful Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplyov in this past winter’s The Seagull on Broadway—is gonna play in the second series of the BBC’s Merlin thing. So, yeah, homo out or have a nerd grog party or something. We’re gonna be over here lifting and thinking about Brooke Burns. [Variety]
Pissing On Your Childhood’s Grave, Part MCXIV: A remake of Flight of the Navigator. Probably with computer graphics! [THR]
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@Cecil's Wielder: There's a long long list, but that's at the top. It's how I wish cub scouts had turned out, rather than the boy fest it was. Sigh.
\@apocalypse-nowish: Yes, but that doesn't make it right.
@once: Yes -- I'm not disagreeing, but reiterating the point.
@a boy and his dog:
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Kitten_Witawip
@TedSez: I can only think that the (!) at the end of "There's a glimmer on the horizon!" was meant to be sarcastic
once
@TedSez: Pretty sure it was always her property.
There was a Buffy film series?
a boy and his dog
Heh. I'm kind of amused that anyone is really brave/stupid enough to mess with Whedonites.
We have a little saying in the real Buffyverse. From beneath you it devours.
I don't think the Buffy thing is gonna happen. I just can't imagine it proceeding, given the renewed attention the tv series has had lately. Whedon is also notoriously prone to throwing a hissy-fit about his properties.
eleusiswalks
Steve Buscemi stole my heart in Reservoir Dogs - he could play a scallop and I'd think it amazing.
Buffy without Joss Whedon or a sense of humor... hmmm. Why not just get rid of the heroine who actually does anything and you've got Twilight.
@MattyMcboy: Or Goonies. I'll get all Ma Fratelli on the studio that tries to remake that.
The fact that the woman who made the crappy original "Buffy" movie has wrested the property away from Joss Whedon and intends to ruin it further is terrible, terrible news. I genuinely expect a mob of fans to show up on her doorstep with stakes and torches.
@MattyMcboy: I think I would have a very negative reaction to a Gremlins remake (because Shia would be all over that) and a full on Point Break remake (because Shia would be all over that).
Cecil's Wielder
@uncivily obedient: Indeed.
Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be Buffy to me.
uncivily obedient
So here's the question, at what point can so many of us say that they finally gave up pissing on our childhood and just when a head and shit on it? If I hear the words remake and Troop Beverly Hills, the tears will not stop for days.
A remake of Flight of the Navigator? IF Michael Bay's name is anywhere NEAR that I will scream.
@TedSez: I know, I was so excited when I read the first sentence that I felt letdown, anyway
once
@a boy and his dog: Oh, it was great. Campy and stupid and irresistible. I never watched the series, 'cause I didn't have a TV then, but I could watch that stupid movie over and over.
@✪TheMac: I thought the same thing... and then there is my personal fav quote: "death is my gift." She should take a hint, politely give everything she has to joss so he can ceremoniously burn it and let him do his thing.
Amarain824
Buffy - Joss = FAIL