"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."

Comments

Poor move on Emory's part...

[soapbox]

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!

Re:Good.

[wbren]

Maybe now Hollywod will come up with, dare I say it, an original movie idea.

No, it's much more likely that Fox will decide to make a documentary about filming the remake of Revenge of the Nerds, the struggle to gain support for the project, and its ultimate defeat. Rated PG-13.

Re:Good.

[Salvance]

Not original? Apparently you didn't read Fox's teaser bits ... they were going to have Booger be the one staying up all night to spy on the ladies instead of Louis, and then Poindexter was going to get the girl on the Moonbounce. These are earth shaking plot twists!

Casting problem

[Gription]

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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[Zaphod2016]

This sounds like a great flick. They could call it "Harold and Kumar explain why you should have bought the extended warranty".

Re:Good.

[BaltikaTroika]

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