From: ningynongy@nob.nob   
      
   "bewtifulfreak"  wrote in message   
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   >   
   > But really, isn't part of the problem with the film in the first place   
   > that RD isn't as well known in Hollywood circles?  I mean, yeah, there   
   > are a lot of American fans, but it's still not something that's   
   > generally known.  So while Craig's indiscretions might make it an   
   > issue if they were looking at a primary British release, it always   
   > sounded to me like Doug was intending for it to be bigger than that.   
   > And for however well known RD is in America, I'd bet the personal life   
   > of one of its cast is even less so, as fraught with drama as it's been   
   > here.  Certainly, though, that may have at least put a crimp in the   
   > already slow proceedings, I'd just be surprised if it had that much of   
   > an impact.  If anything, I'd assume product placement might not be   
   > forthcoming simply because the bigwigs at those companies don't   
   > realize what a phenomenon RD really is.  Hard to know for sure,   
   > though.   
      
   I think the big problem is that its time has gone.  Old TV shows are only   
   marketable as new movies in America as complete reimaginings that throw out   
   everything about the TV show and start almost from scratch - so the   
   Bewitched movie was actually about a real witch who gets a part in a   
   Hollywood remake of the Bewitched TV show.  The Dukes of Hazzard movie had   
   none of the appeal of the TV show; too raucous and noisy: they even got the   
   soundtrack wrong and went for rock rather than country.  The Starsky and   
   Hutch movie had only its 70s vibe (and score) to relate it to the show.   
   They remade the aged classic The Honeymooners - with an all black cast, and   
   it tanked quicker than a tank in a fishtank.  None of these featured the   
   stars of the originals unless in brief in-joke cameo appearances.   
      
   In the UK we've a pitiful reputation for remaking TV sitcoms for the big   
   screen.  Hammer churned out George And Mildred, three On The Buses movies   
   which ranged from terrible to even more terrible, Man About The House and   
   That's Your Funeral.  We also got three Steptoe movies, two Alf Garnett   
   movies (the one I saw late last year was cripplingly, criminally poor), Are   
   You Being Served (even worse).... However, these were done at the time with   
   most if not all of the TV casts.  They were also done on the cheap and   
   basically weren't done well.   
      
      
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