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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
THE LOVE BOAT SOON TO BE MAKING ANOTHER RUN
When there’s no more room in movie hell a LOVE BOAT movie will walk the earth. Set a course for crap everyone because Variety reports this morning that Paramount has officially run out of ideas for movies and has decided to make a big screen version of the 70’s TV series The Love Boat, which originally ran on ABC from 1977-1986. If I have to tell you what the basic premise of the show is then you’ve obviously been living in a cave for the past 20 years. A revamping of the series already took place several years ago on the UPN Network with the late Robert Urich in the Captain’s chair. The show, much like Mr. Urich, was not long for this world. But Paramount has a new game plan this time and that plan is to revamp the show into a satirical film along the lines of THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE, focusing on a potentially doomed voyage to the Bermuda Triangle. Ugh. Anyone want to take bets on how many TITANIC jokes they’ll manage to cram into the flick? I wonder if they’ll even drag Tom Bosley out of mothballs to appear on the show and you can pretty much guarantee a cameo by Charo. Or maybe they’ll just cast Penelope Cruz to play a character based on Charo. Oh, so many bad ideas you could use for this one. I’m fairly confident this project is damned to be more along the agonizingly bad lines of the big screen versions of CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? and MCHALE’S NAVY because the producers are already planning on featuring a hip-hop version of the television show’s theme song. Ugh, again. And for those of you wondering, this movie is getting the go ahead because of the success of the STARSKY & HUTCH movie. Didn’t I tell you people not to go see it?
- Scott Foy
posted by Scott 2:43 AM | Comments
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