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04-24-2005, 01:35 PM
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Ferrell to star in "Land of the Lost" film
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Will Ferrell (Bewitched) will star in a feature-film remake of the 1970s TV show Land of the Lost for Universal, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Universal acquired the feature rights from Sid and Marty Krofft, executive producers of the original NBC series, who will produce the feature for the studio, the trade paper reported.
Adam McKay, a former Saturday Night Live writer who directed Ferrell in Anchorman, is attached to direct, with Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas signing on to adapt the screenplay, the trade paper reported. |
Sigh...another favorite of my youth (along with "Bewitched") ruined by Will Ferrell. 
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04-24-2005, 02:15 PM
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Does Land of the Lost really need to be made into a movie? Are they going to let the creators take drugs like the original show 
I like Ferrell in original stuff like Old School and Elf.
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04-24-2005, 05:46 PM
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Does Land of the Lost really need to be made into a movie?
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Did Bewitched? Did Fat Albert? Did Scooby Doo? And to think, Hollywood execs get paid millions to come up with ideas like this. |
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04-24-2005, 06:10 PM
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Funny, I was watching "Land of the Lost" on DVD the other day and wondered why it hadn't been made into a movie yet.
Also funny how Will Ferrell played Marshall Willenholly in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"
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04-24-2005, 10:50 PM
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Lidsville and H.R. would be amazing on the big screen.
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04-25-2005, 01:16 PM
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The camp and cheese factor is what made LOTL and HR Pufnstuff and all of the Sid and Marty Krofft shows so great.
Just say "Sleestack" to a coworker that is the same age. Guarantee grin.
Ssssssss....Ssssssssssss...SSSSSS.......sssssssss. ...
My point is that the camp and cheese factor cannot be replicated with today's production values.
Think about how SIMPLE LOTL was. They had what, one set with four corners, the cave corner, the forest corner, the "outside the cave" corner, and the "underground in the Sleestacks lair" corner, that they rotated the camera around!?!
I'm not even sure I want to see The Dukes of Hazzard. There is only one Daisy Duke.
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04-25-2005, 01:52 PM
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Did Bewitched? Did Fat Albert? Did Scooby Doo? And to think, Hollywood execs get paid millions to come up with ideas like this.
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Of course, the upside is The Fugitive, Maverick, and Mission: Impossible. A financial and/or creative disaster isn't a given.
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04-25-2005, 05:42 PM
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Of course, the upside is The Fugitive, Maverick, and Mission: Impossible.
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The Fugitive I'll give you, but the other two were pretty ordinary (and Mission: Impossible had an only passing association with the TV series). Land of the Lost, however, is fodder for camp. And Hollywood isn't nearly as clever as it used to be when it comes to comedy. |
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04-26-2005, 11:30 AM
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Why make a campy remake of a show that is the pinnacle of camp (though, it was high drama to me as a kid)? This is a concept that would work well done seriously. To make it high-concept, it would be Jurassic Park meets Lost.
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04-26-2005, 01:05 PM
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Why make a campy remake of a show that is the pinnacle of camp (though, it was high drama to me as a kid)? This is a concept that would work well done seriously. To make it high-concept, it would be Jurassic Park meets Lost.
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Yea, kinda like the Six Million Dollar Man movie that Jim Carey is linked to. SMDM would make a kick ass serious action movie, but nooooo, we are going to get a campy komody with lots of che che che che che che jokes.
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