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Are these people MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD? A sequel?!?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a bizarre trade story. Ed Bass, a producer of BOBBY, apparently really loves the ensemble cast style.
He's teamed with Stanley Kramer's (director of the original film) widow to make a sequel, which he began planning with Kramer himself starting in the early '90s. Kramer got ill and passed and the project went with him... until now.
The flick is about the descendants of the original team who are thrust into another big crazy chase when they find out that the money found in the original was counterfeit.
The plan is to stick to the formula of the first movie and mix dramatic actors and comic actors. It will be independently financed and no director is attached yet. They also want surviving cast members to cameo. George Barris is once again designing the automobiles for the flick.
Well, at least it's not a remake and the revelation that Kramer himself had input on the story and was optimistic about it might take this out of the "what the hell are they thinking" category.
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Nice scoop and an intriguing premise. I look forward to hearing more, provided I don't read the names, 'Rowan Atkinson' or 'Steve Martin'...
By the way, who still survives from the original? -
not have to look at the talkback to find out what film you are talking about Quint
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The real question is, will it be twelve hours long like the original?? Okay, only 192 minutes according to IMDB, but still. My butt gets numb just thinking about that movie. Discussion point for the group- Was the original Mad Mad Mad Mad World the longest comedy ever? I can't think of any others over 3 hours...
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...with comic appeal...they should redo Scooby Doo....totally Batman Begins it...it could be a dark humour style..The Mystery Machine driving in the Hills with the Eyes...ooooh....Maaaaaaaaaad.....radioactive scooby snacks all round!
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....this sounds like a Vans sneaker...trying to be cool, but just clunky.
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If they have the Meat Machine in this one, I'll go despite the seeming sacrilige. Leon should be in it as well, wearing the same shirt.
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What to I know...
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Mickey Rooney is still kickin' apparently. Jerry Lewis had a cameo as the nut who ran over Spencer Tracy's hat. Johnathan Winters is somewhere.
Edie Adams and Sid Caesar could reprise thier roles as the Crumps. Peter Falk could run the cab company he used to drive for and Carl Reiner could get even with those who said "The Jerk" was a piece of crap.
All of the other major players are gone and won't make any cameos of any sort. -
"Your bugg'n me man! Your bugg'n me!" Hee hee. No one, NO ONE one earth can match Dick Shawn's character "Silvester". I just can't imagine it holding a candle to the original. There's just no way. But I am intrigued.
Sylvester rules! -
Danny DeVito could play Mickey Rooney's loudmouth son "Louie". He would work as a dispatcher for Peter Falk.
That might make a good sitcom. -
Dorothy Provine is still around. She played Milton Berle's wife. Looking at the list of names from the original surviving cast makes me interested. I would like to see them together in some form or another. But man, they better get on it.
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That motorized wheelchair company "Jazzie" needs to do some product placement.
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DIED. Footballs are passed, people DIE. DIE, DIE, DIE. Our ears won't explode if we hear the word. We won't burst into tears. Be a man, say DIED.
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gotta eat is so yesterday! you know this man! its sad, but I'm not even reading the stories now, just posting taint anywhere and everywhere. this could severly impact/impede my workday, to say the least.
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And Mel Gibson's taint.
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... when it was called Rat Race.
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Rowan Atkinson, and Paul Rodriguez. See Edward Bock above.
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"You should have bought a squirrel!"
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The first one was pretty good. I think a sequel would be completely different, but I wouldn't say it's a horrible idea.
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...on WEED.
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If the people in the sequel are descendants, that means it takes place in present day. So why would it have taken that long to discover the money was counterfeit?
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Starring Cedric. Tom Arnold has a cameo as the guy who runs over Steve Harvey's hat.
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I actually toyed with the idea of writing a remake but then Rat Race came out. This sequel to the original though, would certainly be the best way to take the crown from the funny but flawed Rat Race.I love the original movie and for those who have never seen it, go out , and rent, or get it on Netflix, or hell, just go buy it. It is truly a comedic gem and nothing can top the one man destruction of a gas station. Brilliant filmmaking all the way through and easily one of the absolute funniest movies EVER made in a time when there was little or no reliance on stupid sex, gross-out, or fart jokes.
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And that's Phil Silvers. No-one alive today can compensate for that shortcoming.
By the way, JerseyBoy, Didn't Sid Caesar die a year or so back (apologies to his family and friends if I'm mistaken)? -
Why do they have to keep messing with classics? Are they so badly out of new ideas that they can't think of any more or are they just being lazy? SO irritating.
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"I'm only interested in Mad Mad Mad Mad Max
And Mel Gibson's taint."
It will only be "Mad Mad Mad Mad Max" in Australia. In the states it will be known as "The Choad Warrior".
As others have said... why? "Rat Race" sucked(mediocre), and I have little faith in this. Without getting a bunch of B-listers it would be wildly expensive, too. -
The writers of Rat Race originally were trying to do a modern version of "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World," only they couldn't get Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, and Eddie Murphy so they settled for Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, and Seth Green. I remember the original being so long that on TV it played for 2 nights - half one night, half the next. And Jonathon Winters is dead, isn't he? No offense to his family. That guy was crazy funny when he on, just plain crazy when he wasn't.
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A recipe for success! Look at "The Two Jakes". Or "Godfather III". Or the Star Wars prequels. Or "Return to Oz." Or better yet, just forget I said anything.
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MKiro,
To my knowledge, Sid is still with us. IMDB doesn't have him listed as dead. Yet.
I agree about Phil Silvers. He was part of the "glue" that made the original so great.
Most comedians these days pale in comparisson to the old bunch...
When I watch the original, I get a little melancholy towards the end thinking that the Golden Age of comics was being ushered out and would one day be forgotten.
One day about 8 years ago I was talking to a co-worker (20 years younger then me) about Ernie Kovacs. His reply was "who's he"?
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Don't forget "Texasville" and "Psycho 2." Plus all those Disney DTV gems like "Cinderella 2," "Bambi 2" and "Lady and the Tramp 2 - Scamp's Tale" or whatever the heck that was called.
Durhay -that made me laugh out loud at work. Good one! -
COME ON!!
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So's that damn you Michael Bay shite.
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So...what's the title of the sequel going to be I wonder? Either "It's STILL a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" or "It's a Madder, Madder, Madder, Madder World".
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That the original director wanted to do it and had input on it is a plus. As it's independently financed, is also a plus that the studio should have less input. For sure keeping an eye on this one.
As to Sid Caesar and Johnny Winters, they're both still alive and kicking. The confusion with Johnny I think comes from Shelly Winters passed away not that long ago. Sid, well, he's 84. You don't see him all that often, he pops up and you think, "I thought he died". I loved his bit on Who's Line a few yeas back. Tore Drew a new one in the Film Dub game. Nobody can match Sid when it comes to faking other languages. -
Hard to imagine it working today but I would still see it!
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Who didn't want a pistol that shot rolls of quarters? Or that kickass van that Team Fagabeefy had? No Harold, there aren't any cookies left!
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He's our only hope against the madness!
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That was great man hahaha.
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this could be awesome...I absolutely LOVE the original, I don't care how long it is.
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This has got John Goodman and Janeane Garofalo written all over it.
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So Jerry Lewis will appear in this one? Jonathan Winters? Who else is left???
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...of the original characters is the only thing that leads me to believe this might work. If Star Wars had gone that route, it might've been a better second trilogy. Of course, the heirs in Godfather III were all five flavors of fucked up and that turned the movie into a joke. I guess maybe that ain't such a hot idea.
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"W"hat a bad idea. By the way, who did kill the electric car?
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Dick Smith, the veteran makeup artists who did masks of all the major actors for their doubles to use in long/action shots is still around. In fact, so are the molds for the masks, which hung in his studio for many years, and I think are now in the position of the studio museum in Astoria, Queens, NY.
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Meat Machine, "Look between two large melons."("Hug Me?!"), "LEON?!", "(in a spooky voice)The Bonaventure Hotel.", the whole Pabst Blue Ribbon stuff, "Emilio, fagabeefe." It gets no better than MIDNIGHT MADNESS.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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Hey, Lebron23, I have a friend that looks exactly like Leon and I've been trying to puzzle through how to get a replica "GAME MASTER" shirt made up for him. How did you get yours?
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The original is a classic. It's been ripped off so many times now that seeing yet another rehash of this shouldn't be exciting to anyone. Might as well call it RAT RACE 2.
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"Fag-a-beefy"?
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Let's face it, it won't be done right.
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I love the idea, as long as they can get A list stars, but if it's just a bunch of people like Paulie Shore and Corey Feldman running around like jackasses, then they shouldn't even bother.
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Heartbreaking, man. If any of you other talkbackers have similar places that you can recommend, let me know. All this Midnight Madness chat has reawakened my interest in finally taking care of this matter. Why? Because I have a taste for livin'. I'm drinking cold Blue Ribbon.
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In solidarity with MCMLXXVI I say TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO!
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DAMN YOU, BAY!
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Did he have a close encounters of the Lost His Freaking Mind kind?
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where M. Night and James Cameron duke it out on the Surreal Life to deicde who gets to use the title.
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And neither will this remake.
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...would just start crying. What a baby! Cries because some Disney Exec doesn't get his crappy script. "Lady In the Water" is one of the worst films I've ever seen. And I WANTED to like it. How could someone so talented (Unbreakable, Signs) make such CRAP (The Village, Lady In The Water)
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I think this would be a great remake/sequel/whatever. So many bad movies have ripped off the Mad Mad Mad Mad formula (like Rat Race), might as well go back to the original team. But you'll never replace Jonathan Winters, Spencer Tracy, and Ethel Merman.
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I detest the original movie. Not hate. Not loathe. Detest. DETEST, I SAY!!! Why, you ask? Because it was aired to death during my formative years. Wake up you dumbass film studios and do SOMETHING ORIGINAL FOR ONCE IN YOUR PATHETIC LIVES!!!!
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Hollywood hasnt had an original idea since Birth of a Nation. every movie since then has been a rip off of this classic. got news for ya..their aint nuthin new under the sun
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I can't stand this film either! I have tried several times to watch it but cannot force myself to sit still for more than 45min of it. It simply is NOT funny. The only reason it's a 'classic' is because of the 'big names' involved in it. If it had been cast with nobodies people would have stayed away in droves. It's loud, chaotic, the men are all greedy, hateful bastards, the women are all shrieking harpies. In short it's just overwhelmingly and unforgivably unfunny. I'd only watch the sequel if Bruce Campbell were in it!
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I won't watch his movies anymore.
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Or "The Amazing Mr. Limpet Swims AGAIN"?
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I want it, you want it. Let's make it happen.
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a sequel to this movie would be so awesome! they should put larry the cable guy in it.
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Well- wasn't it?
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Well boys in scanning the most recent posts on the most recent stories it saddens me to say that no one has used any version of taint in hours.
Apparently then dorothy's taint is now officially dead as the lastest AICN catchphrase
I've been reading this site for six years and never before have I seen a catchphrase set the world on fire so fast, and burn out just as quickly
oh my dear dorothy's taint, we hardly knew ye...
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It actually had a few funny moments, but if it had actually acknowledged that it was associated with the original Mad Mad..., then it would have been a disgrace.
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not the biggest names in Hollywood but imagine if the extended cast of Arrested Development played the characters in this sequel with a few big names added in the mix. It would be cinematic greatness.
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A few feet more
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..Ashton Kutcher, Brandon Routh, Steve Martin(he's always up for tarnishing fondly remembered comic creations)
In this day and age to get a cast that approaches anything like the original would put the budget into the stratosphere....hence Brandon Routh...he'll work for peanuts, and does -
You'll laugh! You'll Cry! You'll Kiss eight bucks goodbye. Before VCR's I would stop on this film when checking the 5 TV stations we had to choose from back then. I hope Baris makes some cool cars for this new one.
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good "name dropping". Quint would be proud.
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'scuse me while i throw up after that last thought....
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Stan, get away from my taint!
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of hurt.
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gonna get a jump to the big screen?
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huh?
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as his TAINT
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Obvious title. And this could be great or it could be awful, I'll hope for something so funny that it hurts. Please be better than RAT RACE!!!
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There. I said it.
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Get the entire extended cast of Lost in this. Gold, Alvar, gold! I'll bet some of your heads would explode just TRYING to think of new ways to bitch about it.
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