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"Revenge of the Nerds" Remake Cancelled
An anonymous reader writes, "Fox Atomic has pulled the plug on the Revenge of the Nerds remake. The movie was into two weeks of shooting when Emory University, the place where it was shooting, decided it no longer wanted to be part of the film."
Maybe now Hollywod will come up with, dare I say it, an original movie idea.
If you can read this, it's already too late.
Frankly, with as many spoiled rich kids that come to Emory's undergrad program, we need all the geek credibility we can get.
Plus, imagine all the Coca-Cola product placements!
Could they not film it somewhere else?
Someone wrote "Da Moon Rulez #1" on the President of Emory's new car.
We all know the Jocks hate the Nerds (they go around screaming NERRRRDDDSS! and foaming at the mouth, or is that just beer?)
So they probably said that they'd dunk the filmmakers heads in the toilets or something and since filmmakers are basically Artsie-Nerd crosses (look at Steven Spielberg) they relented.
TDz.
Now that will be real and oh so funny
I suspect it was really pulled because they couldn't get Lisa Simpson for the movie. (and they were smart enough to not even try for Paris Hilton...)
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Thanks to Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez. This whole tri-lambda hatin' on the Alpha Betas and vice versa just doesn't work.
They showed us that we're all in this together and if jocks want to sing or bake, or if the nerds want to get down to hip hop, or skaters dudes want to play the cello...we gotta be there for them!
This whole new outlook could be the start of something new.
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Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
OK, this is a bit out there, but bear with me.
Couldn't they maybe...make an original movie?
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"No one's really gonna to be free until nerd persecution ends."
-Revenge of the Nerds, 1984
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Hollywood just announced a new movie that's going into production: Attack of the 50-Foot Geek Girls!
We're spared from another craptastic Hollywood remake. Excuse me if I don't shed a tear.
It's blatantly obvious that Denmark is trying to identify the geeks "out there".
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I thought they simply moved filming to a different school, Agnes Scott College. I saw several sets on the campus a month or so ago.
The real Revenge of the Nerds will be when Georgia Tech beats Georgia in football today ...
It's not nerd any more. It's geek. But, some people may confuse it with greek, since it's a college campus.
Greek geeks? "Greeks don't want no geeks"?
The original flick was a great film about "nerd persecution" in the 1980s. Back then, being a "nerd" was something that was truly dreaded. Not like today's "cool nerd" or "geek chic" like Weezer or Marc Cuban. Seriously, go watch the original movie, an substitute "nerd" for "black" or any other group. They were persecuted, driven out of their homes, had basically a direct-allusion to a burning cross outside their house (a burning "Nerds" sign), rocks thrown in their windows ("Nerds Get Out"), etc.
The 2nd movie was "ok" and the 3rd and 4th were awful. But all three of those were simply comedies, not in the same manner as the first one, which was a funny comedy, but subtly wrapped in a deeper social message. No, I'm not saying RotN was some amazingly socially insightful movie. But that doesn't mean that it didn't have some surprising amount of depth to it either...
I really disliked the idea of remaking 'Revenge of the nerds' there is no way they can improve on the original... It seems there are too many remakes around these days, it's just awfull...
If there's one place that they shouldn't have filmed this, it's at Emory University. Emory is that school across town with a billion dollar endowment, where the girls' rich daddies give them credit cards with $2000-dollar limits. They max out their cards at Lenox Mall every Saturday, and by the following Monday, daddy has paid them off. There are a lot of liberal arts majors and a lot of people going into law and medicine. I know this--I have a few dozen Emory friends. My brother attends.
Now where they really should have been filming was Georgia Tech. You have a good mix of nerds, geeks, regular persons, snoody persons, and people who can't fit any description. At Tech, it is not uncommon to hear some guy talk about how he just mastered gradients, another guy start proclaiming how VHDL is the savior of the universe, and then some ZTA girl talk about how many guys she "serviced" last night. It's a more down to earth public university with the sort of diversity that this particular movie would need for a remake.
Anyway. No offense to Emory students, but isn't that school full of nerds anyway. Only place that I could see it happen (in Georgia) is Ga. Tech.
Why didn't you just put "Being John Malkovich" and "Bubba Ho-tep" in your post instead of using unnamed links? It's not like it makes your point any better; in fact, it makes it weaker to those who don't click on links. At the very least, you could have anchored the links to the film titles.
What does this have to do with us?
The producing company understood that nowdays nerds don't go to the cinema at all!
They download it from amule/bittorrent/kazaa(?)/other p2p progz, that's why the movie wouldn't be making profit at all
So they canceled the movie.
Like Mr. Holmes once said : Easy solution for easy problem [well, he never actually said it... but ignore that I've invented this quote].
Which Police Academy? The one with the guy who makes the funny sounds with his mouth or the one where the uptight captain is always hassling the new recruits?
They'll probably just replace it with a reality show of the same name.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Whenever a movie gets scrapped after some photography has been completed, they should do a rough edit and put it on You Tube. They could even make a contest out of editing it.
There really is a god!
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Here would be an interesting movie that could be partially filmed around emory.
Suppose there was a cabal of the world's elite who decided that there was just too many humans, that it wasn't going to work out in the long run having huge population increases. Say they were heavy into eugenics, they didn't like humans of certain races or who lived in places where a lot of raw materials were (they are ruthless businessmen as well obviously). Also suppose they didn't like certain "social proclivities" of some others. And so on. Say they had a secret government/military/industry biolab, where they developed a weapon that killed slowly, and made it look some some weird disease that just mysteriously appeared. Maybe they could hide the weapon inside something else, say call it a treatment for some other disease? Then perhaps they had an official super health agency, where at the top levels they kept this covered up and worked the con for years, did their best to keep the truth from coming out, but then one day the truth did come out with some leaked documents and a whistleblower or two from the super health agency, who then has to go on the lam and somehow convince people, without getting tagged by the government/military/business eugenics folks, that something this evil could and did happen, and he decided to come out because he found out they were close to phase two of their project, which was going to be even *worse* than phase one, say something like a huge pandemic that was going to sweep the globe, maybe something like that. One guy against the worlds most evil and powerful people.
That would be an interesting action movie.
So what they're basically saying is: Emory U was interested at first, and now that the film has been shot they've changed their mind ?
What the hell happened during those 2 weeks that brought about the change ? This would have gone through an executive board, and fines probably paid for breach of contract. Cancelling a movie isn't something you do on a whim.
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Here's a list that will speak to the masses:
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Is that where they make porn?
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What a miscarriage of justice. Just when you think nerds are getting some respect, some grumpy old Dean keeps us down again. How many times must we make our revenge? Even nerds don't have calculators that count that high.
... and then they built the supercollider.
I'd expect alternative locations to be actively scouted within an hour of the announcement, if they hadn't already been before selecting this one in the first place. They should have been back on track within a week -- two at the outside. There's just too much money already committed to this project to end it at this point. Makes me question the entire premise of this article.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
The article says that production was ceased, not cancelled
... is because it isn't cool to make fun of nerds anymore!
To quote Billy Madison: "if peeing in your pants is cool, then I'm Miles Davis"
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Oh thank you sweet merciful God!
Well, you got the Nerds, The Geeks, the Dweebs and the Beautiful People.
My 10 year old daughter was explaining the difference to me recently.
I thin kthe order of preference is
1> The Beautiful People
2> Nerds
3> Geeks
4> Dweeb
She showed me a Ven diagram she made.
Disconnected, of course. One circle was the Beautiful people, the other was
an interesection of the Nerds and the Geeks. And she said where the nerds and geeks overlapped, well, those
were the Dweebs.
So, no nerds, geeks or dweebs are beautiful people, but some nerds are geeks, and vice versa, and those are the dweebs.
Oh, and then there were the Dorks. Dorks were subsets of the Dweebs? Or maybe disconected from them all. It's all so confusing.
"She showed me a Ven diagram she made."
well, she'll be ripe for middle managment. You might want to get that child a toy... or a book on getting VC* money.
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Anybody who thinks that's 'Van Cleef' needs to stop playing WoW forever.
:) Hey, nice call on that. The Van Cleef nation rules!!!!! (1665 and on!)
That's hitting below the belt
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Marge: This campus is so lush and verdant.
Emory professor: Yes, you probably recognize it from the film "Calling All Co-eds".
Marge: [pointing] Oh, is that where Boozer drank the pee?
Emory professor: It's *one* of the places.
University of Georgia just signed a contract with MGM to be the primary filming location for the remake of "Animal House"...
Seemed appropriate.
What about the sportos, motorheads, sluts, bloods, waistoids and dickheads?
They think he's a righteous dude.
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