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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.
RO-BOT HOOOOOUSE!!!
The real Revenge of the Nerds will be when Georgia Tech beats Georgia in football today ...
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...
Scheduling the production of a full-blown feature film is - to say the least - a bitch. From what what I've read (which is little, since I wouldn't have gone to see the remake if you held a gun to my head) they were shooting 99% of the movie on the Emory campus, so they essentially had their entire schedule tossed out the window when their location got yanked. That means shutting the entire movie down until it's reset / rescheduled, and at that point things only get worse. Are any of your actors scheduled to work on any other shows during your new schedule? Gotta recast or offer them enough cash to quit the other job, which they won't do because that'll get them blacklisted for being unreliable (and let's face it, if you're starring in a ROTN remake you probably need all the good press you can get.) Same with crew. Do you keep them on the clock while you reschedule? If not, they all go find new jobs and you now have to find an all-new crew. Plus, all this delay is eating into your post-production schedule. The movie is already scheduled for release next summer and you just lost - what, a month? Two? If the studio was fully behind the movie and was willing to throw piles of cash at it those are all obstacles that can be overcome, but if the studio was fully behind the movie then it would be being made by Fox proper and not Fox Moonbat or whatever the sub-studio is called. Emory pulled the plug, the accountants said "write it off," and that was the end for that movie. All for the best, frankly. The original is perfect as it is. They'd make more money by re-releasing the first one then a remake would ever see.
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.