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What Do You Get When A Remake Isn't A Remake...But A Sequel?? MEATBALLS!!
Merrick here...
Moviehole has an interview with director John Whitesell, who was developing a new MEATBALLS film before the writer's strike.
We've hard of this project's existence for a while now, but it was generally understood to be a remake.
Apparently, this may not be the case. Seems the plan, at least in the scripting stage, is to meet up with Bill Murray's Tripper Harrison character (from Ivan Reitman's 1979 original) in present day...
“Bill Murray’s character now owns the camp. He’s not like he used to be – he’s changed; he doesn’t let kids do what they used to be able to do because he fears those things are ‘too dangerous’”
...says the interview, which you can find HERE.
Wonder if this project will discount the series continuity established by MEATBALLS 2, 3, and 4? Because, you know, their continuity was so well-honed and carefully structured. Actually, I've repressed all but the first film. WAS their any continuity? I think they were more or less unrelated/stand alone projects.
I have a really, really tough time imagining them getting Murray back for another MEATBALLS. Of course, a few days ago I would've said the same thing about his coming back for more GHOSTBUSTERS.
MEATBALLS has been stalled by the strike, but it'll be interesting to see what happens when work resumes. Between this and GHOSTBUSTERS, is it vaguely feasible that Murray will be returning to his roots in the future?
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Yeah boyee!
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but i'm still bitter about the ghostbusters thing
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Whitesell sounds like the world's biggest fucking retard. Back to the Jiffy Lube with you, assbasket!
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If they actually get Murray back, I will suck the balls of everyone that posts on this talkback. Sorry, ladies.
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Nov 15, 2007 1:53:58 PM CST
I'd like to thank my obsessive compulsive disorder...
by micturatingbenjamin
My agent, of course...Skora the gentle shark....Tennessee Ernie Ford...Rum...Uh, what was this about? Oh yeah, Meatballs Part...Oh god, is this going to ignore the alien...the ghost of the porn star, etc? Because that shit was 'too dangerous'. Are you ready for the Summer? Are you ready for the Sunshine? You wascally wabbit. And that kid went on to get his ass handed to him for like an hour and a half by that dude from Something About Mary until Jane from Serenity teaches him how to be a badass. Wow. Can't wait for the pussified Tripper.
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shitty
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One of the things I like about the original Meatballs is that it's not about being totally crazy with the off-the-wall antics...It's very realistic to what summer camp was really like (if you had someone as funnay as Bill Murray as a counselor). The second one has a damn *alien from outer space* in it. Can a series ever really recover from something like that?
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'cause I'm pretty tired of Bill Murray "dramatic actor"...
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Meatballs is seriously overrated. I recommended it to a couple of wiseass 13 year olds when it came out on DVD recently. When I saw them next they said the movie blew ass and wasn't funny. I rewatched it and have to agree: it's way tamer than I remember, except for the part where Bill nearly rapes a co-counselor. The one with the alien and tits brings far more memories. I can definitely see Murray returning for this, it's unexpected and he'd have some fun. It's about time Bill played the Brian Doyle role for a change, eh?
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As much as I loved the first movie I don't see them pulling this off. Even if Murray's character reverts to his old self to save the day, still sounds lame. I hope I'm wrong. Maybe this is the year that Fink beats the stomach.
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Which is sad. Honestly, if I was him I'd pass and they just turned this into a remake starring Sandler.
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That was very funny, but the original MEatballs was really the funnier movie. Would love to see what Bill Murray would do in this updated universe of PC crap, realizing how lame camp would have become. Get Apatow involved!
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Someone must be thinking of the meatballs movies with lost of tail in it. Nice Freudian slip!
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the 2nd one was the ailen right, I remember that one, my memory of seeing it is at a church lockin thing but I may be remmebering something else, and the 4th one was the one with the ghost of the porn star with the mom from Who's the Boss that went on to Coach...am I rmeembering this right? What was the 3rd one aboutalso something sad, I used to get Porkeys and Meatballs and Caddyshack mixed up
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I would do it ONLY to see blackhole4140 suck the talkbackers balls. He ought to do it for scale, just to see that alone.
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with all these Murray projects, have any of the Murray brothers been in a project togather except the Comedy Central golf thing, I know Brian Doyle was in Ground Hog Day but what about the fat one that was in Dharma and Greg and Still Standing?
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I'm down for some tongue-to-nut action. C'mon, Murray! No whammies! No whammies!
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That is all.
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That would be SO awesome! I wonder if Fred Savage is available to direct.
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Starring alot of very femmy CW actors and Shia as the camp counciler. Hijinx ensue when the local bar near the camp holds a ladies night free beer special event with a reunited Kansas headlining the event. The cheeky boys from camp dress up as women to get free beer and hear the reunited Kansas, while one of the boys and asspiring hip hop artist played by Nick Cannon has high hopes of passing his demo tape ( A hip hop version of Dust in the Wind) to the band's manager. Little do the boys know that the event is actually the states biggest annual Tranny Bash!!! And it's up to Shia to save the boys from becoming the butch tranny's personal playthings. In the climax of the film Nick Cannon's character has to sleep with the band's drummer in order to pass the demo tape which becomes an international hit and spurs a new wave of turning classic rock ballands into Hip Hop.
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Wasn't Corey in the last one? You know, I actually want to see that guy on the big screen again. After watching the 2 Coreys, he seems half-way normal again and the guy hasn't aged a drop. When he was on Howard Stern it was depressing, but I'm looking forward to Lost Boys 2 and hope it gets a theatrical release.
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Just please, for the love of all things holy, no Christopher Makepeace! I didn't understand his appeal in the 70's and looking back now, I REALLY don't understand it. He was such a brillo head looking troll doll. He couldn't act, and looks lost a lot of the time when he is on screen with Murray. Glad he hasn't done a Travolta and made a comeback. Surreal Life or otherwise.
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Honestly, that was the last movie of yours that made me laugh. I did dig you in ED WOOD, though.
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unless they get back Dustin Hoffman's little brother, Todd, to reprise his role as "Wheels."
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Ron Howard's brother is still available.
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Must've seen it a dozen times if not more. What made it so great though were the characters and the story/relationship between Murray and Makepeace. Most of the camp movies since have been about crafting a movie around a series of silly, stupid "comedy bits" and having shallow characters carry them out. If they're only using the Meatballs name to promote a generic summer camp movie, then I really wish they wouldn't.
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Nov 15, 2007 3:13:56 PM CST
OH FUCK US ALL TO HELL, WASN"T THE FIRST MEATBALLS MORE THAN ENO
by riddleman1674
...and after the first one, I'm ashamed to say I actually sat through the second one with that unfunny ridiculous and completely unnessassary alien, and to think there were TWO MORE sequels, and now this? For fuck's sake, who the fuck sits there and thinks sinking millions of dollars into making a sequel to a long dead mediocre camp comedy franchise is going to benefit anyone, filmmakers and viewers alike? I guess this just goes to show, the more money you accumulate in your lifetime, the more your fucking brain matter rots away. Boredom can be the only answer. "We have lots of cash, What can we do?...hmmm...tick tock tock tick....I KNOW, let's make a movie!" "And even better, let's make a SEQUEL!" Yeah you bored rich fuckheads, waste your fuckin money and waste vital space in the discount bargain basket at Blockbuster Video for this pointless schlock. You'd be better off whiping your asses with hundreds when it's time to go # 2....."*whew*...I'm tired.......
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"he fears those things are too dangerous" What a pussy!
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YES it did! So now take kinda suck and mulitply it by really suck (#2), suck so bad, i didn't even know about this one (#3), and suck enough to have to hire Corey Feldman of people to make it suck more (#4),..and now this fuckin shit. Unreal...
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If Murray's in this, I will be at the premiere, and I'll be taking Blackhole up on his offer.
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This is one of the first porns I saw when I nicked it from my dad's drawer. 70s-80s style bushies and complete cheese. I wonder if its still in my folks' house.
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at the camp where they filmed "Wet Hot American Summer", that movie with paul rudd
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... Murrays low-key demeanor in "Lost in Translation" brought as a an aged, more jaded camp owner who has gotten beaten down in life by overprotective parents and law suits, whose lost a little bit of himself... Provided this is well written it could be a really good summer film that would appeal to a pretty broad audience.
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So it'll be 29-30 years later. Anyhow the original had heart as well as being funny. I suspect I could watch it again today (remember what I do of it) and still enjoy it because it had a good story to tell. You faggots bitch slapping this move before there is even a script are a bunch of.. well faggots. As I said, if written well, and not just corny child shit and a bunch of fart jokes, this could be a fantastic follow-on to the original.
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Where Carl, the lowly, varmint-hatin greenskeeper ends up owning Bushwood Country Club (from the sales from his thriving hybrid weed sales) and re-teams with Ty Webb to take on some young, smug uppity golfers for $50k? Featuring Carmen Electra, Shia Lebeof and Snoop Dogg?
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We used to torment some neighborhood kid with that chant...good times!
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Since we're on the subject of movies starring Christopher Makepeace (were there even any others besides meatballs and bodyguard), how long do y'all suppose it'll be before we hear about the inevitable "My Bodyguard" remake?
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the mouths go shut."
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they have my ten bucks. no meat head. no dice.
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Did Whitesell actually say that "Malibu's Most Wanted" is the film he's made that he's most proud of? Well, that's lowering expectations!
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was a very young Kim Richards. (sigh)
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aannnnndddd... *yawn*
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It worked for Star Wars.
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That aint right.
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having to retread his old material. I love the original idea behind Ghostbusters 3 about fifteen years ago, but Meatballs I couldn't care less about. Murrays one of the few comedic actors who can actually cross over into drama, and realizes that the differences between the two are a matter of degrees (take note Jim Carey and Robin Williams).
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When he does drama.
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to something in Meatballs 2...was it Kim Richards? Was it Meathead? Was it Laroquette redoing his Stripes schtick?
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But maybe they can get his brother, no, not Brian, John Murray. That's what they did when they couldn't get Bill for Moving Violations, they just went down the family tree and found the least talented Murray.
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You know, I made the offer to suck all the talkbackers balls before I went to work. I expected to come home and find this the top rated talk back based soley on my unmatched ball sucking ability. IF Murray does come back, you guys are really missing out.
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Did I see this on HBO as a kid? Why is Bill Murray slumming, no more arty serious films in the inbox?
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Great speech.
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Yeah, let's go torment some poor kid. Then we he can't take it anymore and cracks you wonder why Columbine happens.
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Tthis was in, like, 1980. Columbine-style shit never occurred to anyone back then...
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by putting the unfunny, talent free jack black in it.
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And what about CADDYSHACK 3? He gonna come back for that one, too?
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