Judd Apatow mentions "Freaks and Geeks" possibly coming to DVD in 2003 (1 Viewer)

[Matt Stone]

Okay, it's back up with sigs up to 4494.

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Closing in on 5000!

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

And we're now at 7100! Anybody wanna hazard a guess had to how many we're gonna need for Dreamworks to take it seriously?

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

15004

 

[Matt Stone]

I hope we see some new news soon.

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

Does anyone have any idea how many signatures will be needed before Dreamworks starts to consider an F&G release. As of now, 18826 people have signed up to the mailing list, which really is quite a lot.

Wasn't My So-Called Life released following a similar mailing list? Anyone know how many people signed up to that? (Just for comparison)

 

[GuruAskew]

I believe I saw somewhere that 15,000 was the goal but now that I try to verify it I can't remember where I saw it, so I can't be sure.

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Judd hasn't checked in at the boards over at freaksandgeeks.com for a while. Hopefully he and Paul are working out the details with Dreamworks and we'll get good news soon. I hope.

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

Just checked the site - the mailing list has over 20,000 people signed up! 20083 as of now.
Bill - you mentioned hearing that 15,000 signups was the goal. I'm just wondering whether that could be that fact that in post 43 Steve said "Anybody wanna hazard a guess had to how many we're gonna need for Dreamworks to take it seriously?", and then in the next post he updated us with the then-current total of 15,004. A quick reading of the thread might mislead one to assume that the 15,004 was a response to the eariler question.
Of course, if there is reference elsewhere to a target of 15,000, I would be interested as it is well exceeded by now.

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Actually, when I posted that it was at 15,004 I was just bumping (which had been dormant for about a month) the thread with an update of the number of e-mail addresses that had been aquired. Didn't mean to mislead anyone.

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

Steve - I knew you were bumping the thread, I was just suggesting that it might possibly have been misread by someone.
But the mailing list is still going strong. It's up to 20189, an increase of 100 in 24 hours. Not bad.

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Judd Apatow posted this over at the Freaks and Geeks message board

We are currently in discussions about how to get this done. The 20,000 signatures made a huge difference! It is still tough, but we are closer than we have ever been and I am hammering away. Thank you for all the hard work. IT WILL GET DONE.

Excellent news from Judd. Let's hope that all goes well and we get F+G on DVD ASAP.

 

[Matt Stone]

Good news!

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

Woo-Hoo!
For anyone wanting to see the actual post, here it is.
I cannot wait for the day when I can place a pre-order for this one.
Most anticipated DVD:
Star Wars OT? - No
Indiana Jones? - No
LOTR? No
FREAKS AND GEEKS!!!!

 

[Michael St. Clair]

Judd, you the man.

Gotta save the music, especially Van Halen (opener), The Who, and The Grateful Dead. Hang in there!!!!

 

[Marc_Savoie]

I thought Joan Jett did the opening song?...Yes? No?
"I don't give a damn about my BAD REPUTATION!..."

These are very cool words from Judd!

 

[Matt Stone]

Yes, the opening song is Joan Jett's Bad Reputation.

 

[Adam Tyner]

thought Joan Jett did the opening song?

I believe Michael's means "opener" as in "the first episode". The theme song aside, I believe the first song used in the first episode was "Runnin' With The Devil".

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

And another thousand sign up - we are now over 21,000.
21,016

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

11 days later, another thousand sign up.
22,013 people.