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Whew!! The LAND OF THE LOST Movie Has Finally Found Its Chaka!!

Published at:  Mar 07, 2008 4:50:19 AM CST


Merrick here...


The Will Ferrell LAND OF THE LOST movie has thrown SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Jorma Taccone into the mix as Chaka. Taccone recently appeared in HOT ROD.

This news per JoBlo.

You can find footage of Chaka from the original LAND OF THE LOST television series HERE. "Embedding disabled by request" says this particular clip; who are they to contain Chaka greatness?

I really, really want to see what a Sleestack looks like in the new movie. I couldn't find a YouTube video of one of them.








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  • Mar 07, 2008 4:53:15 AM CST

    Clint Howard

    by mrfan

    Should have been the one

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:04:14 AM CST

    LAND OF THE LOST.... THAT'S LOS ANGELES.. RIGHT..?

    by greigy just wanted to say

  • Mar 07, 2008 5:06:28 AM CST

    Another crap movie on the way

    by kwisatzhaderach

    Thank the maker for Jim Cameron and Avatar.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:07:18 AM CST

    What about Peter Dinkalige?

    by bungion boy

    That wasn't spelled correctly but I'm too sleepy to look it up.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:22:10 AM CST

    Sleestak Master Mix

    by kafka07

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpNd-Dg6_zQ&feature= related

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:40:13 AM CST

    DAMN ITS NOT THE CREEPY KID!!!

    by redfive!

    I was hoping Cameron Bright "aka The Creepy Kid",would wear the suit.That would defantly be creepy.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:42:31 AM CST

    Creepy Ellen Page IS Chaka!

    by uncle stan

    Or get creepier with Crispin Glover.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:42:57 AM CST

    YEAH, HE LOOKS LIKE CHA-KA

    by babba-booey

    creepy little phuck.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:44:23 AM CST

    Why do people like Will ferrell

    by d o o d

    I mean I even like him but pretty much all his films are unfunny and crap. Yet the man still takes my dollars..!!

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:52:17 AM CST

    yup,

    by disfigurehead

    Another movie to ruin a classic legacy.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 6:20:46 AM CST

    They should've just waited...

    by lou stools

    ...'till American Idol was over and hired David Archuleta.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 6:24:26 AM CST

    Chaka Khan is Chaka..

    by nolan bautista

  • Mar 07, 2008 7:12:13 AM CST

    What? It's not Warwick Davis?

    by abominable snowcone

    I hope Holly has sex with him / it.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 7:15:06 AM CST

    It should have been Warwick, Abom

    by kloipy

    it's just not fair

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  • Mar 07, 2008 7:55:55 AM CST

    Just as long as they all yell "AAAAAHHHHH!!.."

    by flickapoo

    ...in perfect four part harmony as they go over the giant waterfall...all will be well. This is the PERFECT type of old crap to remake...it can be stupid, funny, have some kick ass adventure stuff and gigantic over the top corny special effects. Perfect material for Will Farrell. Can't wait.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 8:08:16 AM CST

    As long as they Tenacious D to cover the theme song

    by indyjonez100

    They did that song in concert and they ruled, I think it would be a great fit if they did the cover of the Land of the Lost tune for the movie.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 8:11:07 AM CST

    Let me take you in my arms, Chaka

    by bobo_vision

    Let me keep you nice and warm, Chaka.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 8:19:06 AM CST

    Me dumb, my last post should read "as longas they get the D to c

    by indyjonez100

  • Mar 07, 2008 8:19:51 AM CST

    Real life Sleestack

    by gorguts

    American Idol contestant Elliott Yamins Mother
    http://www.geocities.com/cinephilia2/yamin/elliott_mom.jpg

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  • Mar 07, 2008 8:29:26 AM CST

    In the words of Dirk Calloway...

    by cotton mcknight

    With friends like you, who needs friends? Geez the guy who posted that video is just mean. Did you guys read the description? He made a video of chaka, something his friend loves, and mixed in clips of a movie that gives him nightmares, just to fuck him up. Real nice. I actually had completely forgotten about Chaka until now, by the way.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 8:36:57 AM CST

    When I watch Lost...and the simple white type...

    by flickapoo

    ...logo appears on the black screen after the intro...I feel an overwhelming compulsion to sing out "...in the laaaaand oooooof thuuu looooowaoooostt!..." I find that it tends to annoy the people around me but I can't seem to stop.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 8:46:43 AM CST

    Remakes are getting more ridicuous

    by metiphislabs

    The past few days on this site, seeing the slew of remakes and re-imaginings... it makes me sick to my stomach.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:11:35 AM CST

    Sleestaks in action!

    by gotilk

    http://tinyurl.com/3xyq3m

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:15:04 AM CST

    Sleestacks

    by ralphmerrye

    Sid and Marty used members of the UCLA basketball team for the Sleestacks.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:17:13 AM CST

    I forgot to mention..that clip is WEIRD

    by gotilk

    "the smoke.. it's doing something to his MIIIIND!"

    The little known LSD episode of Land of the Lost, in which the Sleestaks contemplate the concept that the atomic world is just another universe, only tiny.. populated with Nano-Sleestaks.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:39:15 AM CST

    Does Chaka...

    by shozo

    eat machaca?

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:42:35 AM CST

    Chaka...

    by shozo

    ...is Pakuni.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:44:48 AM CST

    I really don't find Will Ferrell

    by godmars

    Or any of his movies very funny.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:50:46 AM CST

    Go the "I'm Not There" route...

    by shozo

    ...and get several different actors to "interpret" Chaka.
    I would like to see the Lawrence Tierney version.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 9:52:51 AM CST

    I was always more of a Tarzan/Lone Ranger...

    by flickapoo

    ...Adventure Hour man myself.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 10:22:08 AM CST

    "Skylons...

    by engelhast

    They look just like Pylons but in the sky." Sweet Neanderthal Jesus that show was stupid but it was stupid in the perfect way it should have been. I want stop action dinos in the movie none of that CGI stuff.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 11:42:08 AM CST

    I think instead of popcorn they should serverve...

    by flickapoo

    ...Pacman cereal and Frankenberry by the giant soggy bowl...

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  • Mar 07, 2008 11:43:34 AM CST

    "serve"..."offer"..."sell"....not serverve. Fuck.

    by flickapoo

  • Mar 07, 2008 12:00:20 PM CST

    re: GodMars

    by _maltheus_

    I'm with you man. He's the most mind bogglingly overrated funny man or all time. I don't even get where I'm suppose to laugh when he's on the screen. He'd needs laugh tracks following him so I know where the funny moments are suppose to be cause I can't even guess, let alone laugh.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 12:02:07 PM CST

    After "Semi Pro"...

    by boggycreekbeast

    I will never waste my time on a Will Ferrell "comedy" again!

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  • Mar 07, 2008 12:08:19 PM CST

    Boggy

    by gorguts

    So which Ferrell comedies do you like/dislike? Semi-Pro is not as bad as youre acting. Its no Anchorman, but still

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  • Mar 07, 2008 12:08:37 PM CST

    Clint freaking Howard

    by dahveed1972

    Jesus tapdancing Chris, Clint Howard was is and forever will be the ONE TRUE CHAKA! I would accept a sober Gary Coleman (or a drunk Corey Feldman), but why should we compromise?

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  • Mar 07, 2008 12:17:04 PM CST

    I will watch this ONLY if it has horrible special effects.

    by gibsonusa

    I should see the fingers sticking out of the monster puppets. If it has good special effects, or typical Will Smith movie CG, then forget it.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 12:31:35 PM CST

    There can be only one...CLINT HOWARD as CHAKA!

    by uncapie

    While we're on the topic of nepotism; maybe Brooke Shields can play Chaka's mom. After all, the script was co-written by Chris Henchy her husband.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 1:20:45 PM CST

    Gorguts

    by boggycreekbeast

    I like Will when he isn't up front all of the time, like in Old School, but those days are long gone, I'm afraid. Semi Pro almost made that turd Bewitched look good. At least that one had Nicole Kidman.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 1:34:37 PM CST

    You guys keep forgetting about

    by grammaton cleric binks

  • Mar 07, 2008 1:36:14 PM CST

    You guys keep forgetting about Ta and Sa

    by grammaton cleric binks

    I don't recal if they were Chaka's parents,big brothers or what, but they were bullies. He needs to pull a Vito Andolini on them, escape, change identities, grow up, gain power, come back, and stick it to them.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 1:37:45 PM CST

    Who?

    by skywalkerfamily

    Some guy?

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  • Mar 07, 2008 2:19:15 PM CST

    Boggy

    by gorguts

    I understand that. Anchorman had his crew and everyone else. Nobody in Semi-Pro brought anything else (except the announcers), so he was up front. Stepbrothers hopefully will be better.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 3:28:33 PM CST

    Chris Kattan as Chaka!

    by wrecks

    Mr. Peepers, Gollum.. Hello?!?

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:16:54 PM CST

    Hilarious sleestacks-in-a-library clip from Robot Chicken

    by jollymorphic

    http://www.you tube.com/watch?v =vmJ0bVFjCng

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:34:38 PM CST

    SEMI-PRO tanked.

    by thegreatwhatzit

    Zip boxoffice. Upon viewing the E! reruns of SNL (now floundering in bad writing and hype for the corrupt Mrs. Clinton), I have unimpeachable evidence that Will Ferrell is NOT funny. Phil Hartman, class. Jon Lovitz, hilarious. Tim Meadows, extremely underrated. Will Ferrell, dated. His cheerleader routine looks like an outtake from ABBOTT AND COSTELLO IN THE FOREIGN LEGION.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:35:16 PM CST

    And Wrecks...

    by thegreatwhatzit

    You're spot on, i.w. Kattan as Chaka.

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  • Mar 07, 2008 5:53:26 PM CST

    I got yer sleestack right here

    by bswise

    No doubt they'll be some hilarity in how ridiculously slow the Sleestacks moved. The cast always had to back away from them for a few beats to keep the chase scene going. And didn’t you love there was always a convenient exit to their bottomless pit of despair?

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  • Mar 07, 2008 6:54:42 PM CST

    Land of

    by welsh12uk

    Shit. Another shit movie coming our way. Maybe if Shia was cast as Chaka, that's what I'm talking bout!

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  • Mar 07, 2008 10:10:24 PM CST

    RUN CHAKA RUN!!!

    by skywalkerfamily

  • Mar 07, 2008 10:36:13 PM CST

    Is this going to be a spoof?

    by antoniusbloc

    Taken seriously this could have been a better story than 10000 BC...is 10000 BC a spoof?

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  • Mar 07, 2008 11:35:58 PM CST

    WAKA CHAKA WAKA CHAKA WAKA CHAKA WAKA CHAKA

    by mrmysteryguest

  • Mar 08, 2008 12:45:32 PM CST

    I'm waiting for a "Lidsville" movie...

    by zerocorpse

    It will be a great day when a movie theater screen displays a bunch of talking, giant anthropomorphic hats, with Steve Carell playing the role of Hoodoo.

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  • Mar 09, 2008 2:33:54 PM CDT

    why the will ferell hate?

    by liljuniorbrown

    The man was Ron Burgundy,Frank the Tank and Ricky Bobby, not to mention all of his great SNL skits. Semi Pro is funny, hell even Kicking and Screaming had it's moments. I think when Will Ferrell is unrestrained he is awesome. This moive spooks me a bit but the tv series was horrendus so what could be worse? Also no one mentions the fact that the show was remade in the 90's and it sucked even worse.

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