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"Revenge of the Nerds" Remake Cancelled

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the louis-and-gilbert dept.

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."

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  1. Good. by hadhad69 · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:Good. by wbren · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.
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    2. Re:Good. by Salvance · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!

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    3. Re:Good. by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I am a firm believer that we make better documentaries

            What, better than the British? I rather doubt that, mate.

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    4. Re:Good. by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Informative

      I don't know exactly where your tastes in movies lie, but last year alone we had:

      Munich
      Capote
      Crash
      Brokeback Mountain
      Murderball
      Wallace and Grommit
      Constant Gardener
      Squid and the Whale
      History of Violence
      Good Night, and Good Luck
      Hustle and Flow
      The New World
      Walk the Line
      Jarhead
      King Kong
      Sin City
      The Devil's Rejects
      Pride and Prejudice
      Hotel Rwanda
      March of the Penguins
      War of the Worlds
      Episode III (before you bitch, it was easily the best of the prequels)
      Mirrormask
      Batman Begins
      Broken Flowers
      House of Flying Daggers
      Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
      Syriana
      Layer Cake
      Match Point
      Goblet of Fire
      Cache
      Cinderella Man
      40 Year Old Virgin
      Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
      Serenity
      The Upside of Anger
      Shopgirl
      Chronicles of Narnia
      Wedding Crashers
      Corpse Bride
      Memoirs of a Geisha
      Proof
      Millions

      As far as I'm concerned, Citizen Kane is horribly overrated. You spotted me three good movies in the entire history of mankind, and I gave you over 40 that came out last year alone.

      Truly no one makes good movies anymore.

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    5. Re:Good. by BaltikaTroika · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on, this is slashdot. Here's a list that will speak to the masses:

      Internal Cumbustion 8
      Housewife Bangers 2
      Who's Your Daddy? 9
      First Time Swallows 2
      Sweet Cream Pies 1
      Perverted POV 10
      Two Big Two Be True 2
      My Sister's Hot Friend 5
      Bubblin Brown Suga
      Dude Your Girlfriend Is In A Porno 4

    6. Re:Good. by Tim+C · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Wallace and Grommit

      A British film, and based on existing characters; not a sequel as such, but not entirely original either.

      King Kong

      A remake.

      Sin City

      Based on a graphic novel.

      Pride and Prejudice

      Made at least once before, if not more, and based on a book.

      War of the Worlds

      Remake of a film based on a book.

      House of Flying Daggers

      Was that a Hollywood film? (Genuine question)

      Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

      A remake of a film based on a book.

      Layer Cake

      British.

      Match Point

      I thought this was British, but could be wrong.

      Chronicles of Narnia

      Remake.

      Now, I'm not saying that they're not good films, but I don't think that that list is really a good example of original Hollywood films of the last year...

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  2. Poor move on Emory's part... by soapbox · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  3. Casting problem by Gription · · Score: 4, 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...)

    see> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/22/133825 5

  4. Re:The new outsourcing paradigm by Zaphod2016 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  5. Re:The new outsourcing paradigm by middlemen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  6. Wouldn't have worked anyway... by BTWR · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I didn't see the script for this, but I dount the new RotN would have been good anyway.

    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...