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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!
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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see> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/22/13382
This sounds like a great flick. They could call it "Harold and Kumar explain why you should have bought the extended warranty".
barack to the future?
RO-BOT HOOOOOUSE!!!
Well actually in India, unlike the USA, kids/students who are really good at academics are valued and respected as opposed to kids/students who are sportsmen. In fact, it is very common in India, that if a kid is good at sports, the first thing people ask is "Is that kid bad at academics ?". Academics comes first, and then comes everything else.
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)
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...
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 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.
The article says that production was ceased, not cancelled