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OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
OMG OMG OMG OMG

http://www.slashfilm.com/phil-lord-chris-miller-clone-high-movie-sequel/

quote:

Before they were the acclaimed directors behind 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Chris Miller were the creators (with Bill Lawrence) of an offbeat animated series called Clone High. The show lasted just one season, but over the years it’s amassed enough of a following that fans have started to speculate about the possibility of a revival. As it turns out, they aren’t the only ones.

In a recent interview, Lord and Miller revealed that they have had actual conversations about bringing back the property, maybe for a Clone High movie. But there are a few things they’ll have to sort out first, much of it involving lawyers and “business affairs people.” Hit the jump to see what the pair had to say.

Lord and Miller offered the Clone High status update in a chat with Collider. “We talk very regularly now with Bill every few months or so, we talk about ‘How are we going to get this back in whatever form we can?’’ We get our lawyers to talk to each other, and business affairs people to talk to each other,” said Miller.

Some of the complications stem from the various studios involved. “Because it’s at Viacom/MTV, we have a TV deal at Fox, he has a TV deal at Warner Bros,” Miller explained. “It’s all very complicated, and then it’s ‘should we do a movie, or a TV show, or whatever?’ But, we’re working on it! It’s hard!”

For the time being, it sounds like a movie is the likelier outcome. However, that opens up a whole bunch of other questions, like what they should do about the rating.

Lord: It’s also a tricky thing because we basically made a PG-13 TV series, and if you’re gonna do a movie you wonder, ‘Am I gonna have to justify the budget that it’s gonna take by trying to broaden this to a family audience, and is that gonna kill what was fun about the original thing?’ Because there’s so much blood in the original series (laughs).

Miller: And innuendo or whatever.

Lord: And JFK sex jokes. Are you going to wind up defanging it?

Miller: Are you gonna make it R? PG-13?

Lord: It’s trying to cross-reference what it’s gonna cost and what it’s gonna make.

Overall, it’s clear that Lord and Miller really want a Clone High revival, but it’s equally clear that they’ve still got some work to do before they can start prepping the movie (or new season) for real. So we’ve probably got a while to wait before the Clone High movie becomes a reality.

OMG OMG OMG

Although, screw them if this doesn't eventually become a reality. I've long ago made my peace with never getting closure to the cliffhanger that ended the series, so there better be a drat good reason for them to re-open those old wounds.

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OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

IRQ posted:

I want a second Beavis and Butthead revival.

I'm fine with B&B being a Curb Your Enthusiasm type series from here on out. Whenever Mike Judge feels like making another season, MTV should let him.

However, I imagine he's pretty busy with Silicon Valley right now, and if he can make a second season as good as the first, I fully support him focusing on that.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Slamhound posted:

Goddamnit, I almost had it.

OTOH, good luck with the Game of Thrones thread.

I wouldn't subject a new mod to this!

PS I think I'm gonna make posting the word "book" probatable in the next thread.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
FUN? In MY forum? NOT ON MY WATCH!!

TV is serious business and if you're not over analyzing it to hell and calling everyone that disagrees with you a poo poo-for-brains spawn of Satan and Hitler you're doing it wrong


"SHANNON WAS STABBED" / "KENNETH IS RACIST" 4 LYFE

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Dead Snoopy posted:

50 Cent's pet project POWER on Starz has already been renewed for a 2nd season.

I heard this show is basically Cinemax porn true or false

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Chris James 2 posted:

The premiere just ended, and I'm not surprised. gently caress this shitshow. I'll never get the 71 hours I spent watching it back, and there's still 9 more hours to go. If you've never seen True Blood before, that's not a mistake, and it doesn't need correcting. Stay away.

VV Stopped reading after "pretty", but thanks for the unwanted critique, it'll go in handy with the DVDs (in the trash bin)

Meh, True Blood was never good TV, but it was often fun TV. I'm pretty surprised there's no thread for the last season.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
OH THANK GOD

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Irish Joe posted:

Finally, an excuse to watch Friday Night Lights!


Ahaha, who am I kidding. I'm never going to watch FNL.

I tried watching FNL once. Watched almost the whole first season. Just couldn't get into it. I could see how other people liked it, it just wasn't for me.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to lock my door so DivisionPost doesn't track me down with a shotgun.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
My first thought was :wtc: , but this actually makes a lot of sense for Yahoo. I'm one of the I'm sure tons of people who had no idea they were getting into original programming. Now I know that they are, and since I'm gonna watch the new season of Community, they'll be able to show me ads for their new shows. Plus it's a push for me to figure out how the hell to watch their shows in the first place. Do they have an AppleTV app?

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Jack Gladney posted:

Is the Fringe thread the only Aatrek OP left on the forums? I checked it out one day and was surprised to see it, though I don't know why. People really liked his OPs before they found out he raped a child.

While I'm not a big fan of 10 page long OPs, he did make some good graphics.

Too bad he was a lunatic kiddy fucker.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
SUCK IT GARY WITH THE POINT, MOTHERFUCKERS

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

DivisionPost posted:

You just relish being a quasi-mythical figure around here, don't you?

:lost:

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Was that show any good?

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
So SNL fired two more guys: John Milhiser and Noel Wells.

When they fired the other guy whose name I don't remember, I remembered that he was the bland guy. I don't even remember who Milhisner is, so that says all there is to say about him.

Noel Wells I remember thinking was ok, but SNL actually has an extremely strong female cast right now, so maybe she was a casualty of not living up to their standards?

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
What the hell thread did I wander into?

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
The thing is, there's not really anything wrong with the Simpsons show, it's as good as ever. But after so many years, the characters just can't have the same impact they once had.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
I had cousins that weren't allowed to watch the simpsons. They were (and still are) jerks and I was (and still am) pretty great.

QED if you didn't watch the simpsons you're a jerk

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

FactsAreUseless posted:

What's the problem? One of the most interesting things about the Manhattan Project is that the government created three artificial towns, moved a ton of people and their families there, lied to most of them about what they were doing, and swore the rest to secrecy. That's without getting into figures like Fermi, Szilard, and obviously Oppenheimer. Family life and personal drama is a lot more interesting than watching them figure out the mechanics behind the bombs or produce plutonium.

Rabbit Hill posted:

What is this show called, what channel will it be on, and what day and time will it air?

E: Never heard of the WGN channel

The show is called "Manhattan" ( though all the promo materials call it "Manh(A)ttan") and it premieres next week on WGN. While the setting and subject matter sounds interesting, the trailer for the show is not great. It looked to me like Melrose Place set in the desert. I'll probably still give it a shot, though.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

ashpanash posted:

He's the internet personified, for good or ill.

Did someone mention Chris Hardwick?

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

raditts posted:

Yes you've fin-ly-made-a-mon-key-out-of-meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Isn't that how Netflix did their first series or two?

From what I remember, Netflix's first show was Lilyhammer and it came out all at once.

Has there been confirmation that Community on Yahoo Screen will be ad-free?

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Kraps posted:

What shows are there similar to The Booth at the End, understated, one location, dialog-heavy etc?

What ever happened to The Booth at the End, anyway? From what i remember, they were setting some stuff up at the end of the second season, then I never heard anything about a third season.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
I've asked it before, and I'm asking it again:

When does Continuum get good? I'm trying it again tonight, and the last episode was some boring political whodunnit murder with Helo from BSG, and this next episode is some dumb VR poo poo that's giving me flashbacks to the First Person Shooter episode of X-Files.

Does the show get better at the start of season 2, or what? There's only two episodes left in this season, and I feel like I'm watching Castle except with the comedy dialed down about 50% and the sci-fi dialed up about 25%. A show about time travel should have the sci-fi dialed up way more than 25%.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

muscles like this? posted:

Season 2 has Alec start to get more involved in stories and introduces a third time travel faction with their own poo poo going on.

That does sound better. I guess I figured a show based on time travel would have a lot more time travel shenanigans. Good to hear that's supposedly coming?

Mu Zeta posted:

If you don't like it by now then you won't like Season 2.

I don't hate it now, it's just kinda dull and like a second-rate Castle.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
I usually don't advocate skipping episodes of serialized shows but I'm really tempted now.

now they're planning on using her HUD to control her this episode is terrible


i thought it was bad last episode when they used recorded cell signals to recreate everything that happened in that apartment but i rolled with it

this is worse

oh god now the kid is putting on a vr helmet from the 90's and it looks like tempest how is this so baaaaaaaad

"SOMEONE IS HIDING CODE WITHIN THE CODE"

HAXXXXING

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

muscles like this? posted:

Yeah, maybe just skip to the season finale, which changes up some stuff for season 2.

There's only one more episode between where I am and the finale. And there's no way I'm turning this episode off - I need to see how terrible it gets.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Mu Zeta posted:

I'm not sure why you think it's terrible, Have you ever seen a scifi/syfy show before?

Orphan Black is like Breaking Bad compared to this.

EDIT: How was that show Charlie Jade? Better or worse than Continuum?

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
This episode of Continuum, while much better, is still pretty funny because our heroes are being held hostage by a bunch of angsty 16 year olds with guns

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
Her suit just made her turn invisible even though it doesn't cover her head :confused:

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

OldSenileGuy posted:

Her suit just made her turn invisible even though it doesn't cover her head :confused:

Her suit is also bulletproof, and has the ability to be zipped up to her neck, but is unzipped down to her cleavage in the middle of a hostage situation where several people have guns pointed at her

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
Also her master plan involved covering up her shot and dying partner with sacks of grain and corn and poo poo

GreenNight posted:

Even us in the Continuum thread are all like "how did a show as faulty as the first season get so good by season three".

I'M TRUSTING YOU PEOPLE

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
This guy that kinda looks like chic Abed is pretty cool

EDIT: AND THEY'RE TOTALLY GONNA DO ITTT OH SNAAAAAPPPP

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
HOLY poo poo IT'S KRYCEK

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
Aahahha Krycek saw her use future tech I hope he becomes the Gladys Kravitz of the Continuum universe

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Ravane posted:

I thought the season finale of season 1 was pretty amazing, and season 2 was pretty great throughout. However, season 3 truly changes everything. Definitely do not think this series has hit its peak, but it's gradually going up in quality.

Yeah, the finale was pretty good. If the show can keep up this quality, I'll stick with it. But if it delves back into procedural crap, it's gonna be tough.

EDIT: Looking back on the season, it looks like the first 5 episodes were pretty decent and actually contributed something to the overall plot. and 9 and 10 were both good. It just hit a pretty bad rough patch from episodes 6-8 that was tough to get through.

OldSenileGuy fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Jul 29, 2014

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

...of SCIENCE! posted:

"all the good stuff" being:
-anime back before anime was mainstream/for pedophiles
-Star Trek reruns
-Twilight Zone marathons
-co-producing the Battlestar Galactica remake
-???

They didn't cancel the Twilight Zone marathons.

Dramatically scaled back, sure, but not cancelled.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
Psh, you guys post?! What losers :smug:

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSqOpjrjOoM

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

xcore posted:


The former seems to have a thread here where the feedback is positive but does anyone have some words on Penny Dreadful and whether it's worth checking out?

Penny Dreadful was OK, but I was basically bored to tears anytime Eva Green or Timothy Dalton weren't on screen. By the end of the season, I felt like I had watched a prequel season to a much better show. A second season is coming, so I guess we'll see if that's true or not.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001

Deadpool posted:

That sounds like an apt description of something with Josh Hartnett in it to me.

He wasnt even the worst part. In fact, I'm expecting/hoping that he will be one of the better parts of season 2.

But anytime Frankenstein or his monster were on screen :barf:

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OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
Also, since it is currently being discussed in two different Netflix threads, this thread, and a GPS thread, someone totally needs to make a Black Mirror thread.

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