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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 BaltikaTroika · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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      First Time Swallows 2
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  2. 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.

  3. 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...