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SIMPSONS Scribe Dana Gould To Pen SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTERS: THE MOTION PICTURE!!
I am – Hercules!!
Stand-up comedian and longtime “Simpsons” writer Dana Gould is penning the script for Universal’s big-screen adaptation of Sid & Marty Krofft’s Saturday-morning acid-trip comedy adventure “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.”
The Universal project comes hot on the heels of the big-screen “Land of the Lost,” also based on a Saturday-morning Krofft property. (The Will Ferrell vehicle coincidentally just moved its release date from July 17 to June 5 of next year.)
"Sigmund," which aired 1973-75 on NBC, depicted the adventures of two young humans who harbor a misfit monstrocity from the deep. From Thursday morning's Variety:
The Kroffts said they hope to follow with the remaining properties originated on "The Krofft Supershow," which include "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl," "Lidsville," "The Bugaloos," "Dr. Shrinker," "Bigfoot and Wildboy" and "Wonderbug."
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Seriously....everyone has a different opinion on when The Simpsons started to suck. For me personally it was the first time I noticed Dana Goulds name in the credits. His style of "comedy" is on par with Gallagher or Sinbad....only less edgy.
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For a second, Dana Gould registered as Judy Gold and my mind went a little janky.
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The big WTF moment for today...
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Please recreate the big bang so the black hole that results will swallow ANY chance of this movie being released. ;)
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... a live action version of The Great Space Coaster. No ga-news is good ga-news with Gary Gnu.
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For The Win.
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Those old Krofft shows were absolute shit. If you're not old enough to remember, you're not missing anything.
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he voiced Gex, bitches!
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Jesus Christ has it come to this? What's next a live action Groovey Ghoulies movie starring Chris Tucker?
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for putting that Sigmund clip in there you bastard!Now I can't get that freaking song out of my head!I can't believe that someone,somewhere, thought this would be a good idea for a feature film.
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I remember those cunts. Too bad that show was on many years before I discovered masturbation.
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Tell me about your mother.
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If you don't find this clip funny, then you really don't like dana gould. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nq2ehF76Dg
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Hollywood has fuck'n lost their fuck'n minds!!!!!!! I think I'm going to go back to reading those flat thingies with pages called BOOKS.
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...they adapt "Far Out Space Nuts".
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Starring Miley Cyrus & The Jonas Brothers.
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But his old Don Knotts making an obscene phone call stand-up bit is brilliant.
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Freaked me out as a kid. Scary people, those Krofts.
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I question the wisdom of making this into a movie, but I applaud the quirky choice of writer. Now, who to direct?
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That show use to creep me the hell out as well! The best thing about the show was Charles Nelson Reilly.
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non-narcotic induced hallucinations. These shows were like an LSD trip for a kid..and not a good trip either. Even as a child I knew that whomever made these shows had serious substance abuse issues, or were seriously just fucked up. Still, one of my fondest childhood memories was my own sexual awakening, as I discovered the joys of self manipulation whilst staring intently at Diedra Hall in her ELectra WOman outfit...so the Kroffts were not ALL bad.
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Isn't the point of remakes to pick something good to remake? A lot of the Krofft stuff lasted one season, maybe two. There's a reason for that, they largely sucked.
And it looked so goddamn cheap. It's somewhat appealing weirdness was the best thing about it.
Although having H.R.Pufnstuff show up on 'My Name is Earl' to help Randy with his superhero duties was pretty damn funny. -
..but there isn't enough Krofft love to sustain any films past that. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl were HOT, though.
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to keep Billy Barty employed.
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special guest appearance by Kaptain Kool and the Kongs. My fourth grader teacher got mad at me becaue I spelled cool incorrectly. I gues TV does rot your brain. Hey Kool-Aid.
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Bigfoot and Wildboy.... Any Kroft remake, including Land of the Lost will suck. To go from costumes and puppets to CGI will just rip the soul from all these properties.
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You know what I'm talkin' about...
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that scrunched up face and mop of seaweed..er..uh..I mean hair. And I do believe there was a overly loud and obnoxious female sea monster named Big MaMa in the original series...so yeah..Fergie would fit in nicely here.
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I remember, and man oh man, even at the age of 11 I thought they were absolute shit. All of em, without exception, were repulsive anti-humor. Were they like a drug trip, even a bad one, like some of the posters have stated? No. A drug trip at least has some level of the unknown. These Kroft shows were just....painful. They were the absolute bottom of bad 70's TV, and God Lord, there was some really really really really BAD 70's TV, from the Game Shows to Prime Time. Lets just say it wasnt the Golden Age of Television.
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He's got the mannerisms and the voice down to a 'T'. Plus, he's researched extensively.
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Well, one of them. Especially hilarious is his episode of "Pulp Comics" where his idea of purgatory is where they send all the souls in limbo to do the worst jobs ever, such as rodeo clown and meter reader. So yeah, I hope to see some hilarity here.
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I'm old Gregg.
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Glad someone is.
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i've been thinking the same thing. i mean after the coens, scorsese and allen shuffle off this mortal coil, what the fuck are we going to be left with? favrou (or whatever the hell he spells it) directing Iron Man 10? jj abrams bringing fringe to the big screen a year after it's cancelled? christ, ellison's title the glass teat may as well be applied to the movies these days (don't even bother calling our stuff "the cinema" anymore.) guess it's time for be to start stockpiling those old episodes of The Avengers if i want any clever sophistacation anymore. (or learn to love foreign filims). And as for books, the internet has turned my brain into tapioca so i can't even read anymore. thanks internet!
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Mikey Bay! Yes! You heard it here first people! We are gonna have 30mins of CGI sea monsters with 1 and a half hours worth of 'splosions. Vern Troyer as Sigmund. Any living ewoks for the rest of the monsters invading land.
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That show creeped the FUCK out of me! Even as a kid, I knew that show as just scaring the shit out of kids like me! But damn, if it wouldn't be one hell of scary movie if it was made into a horror movie. Have those fucking hats eat people, drinking blood and fucking then you have my attention. Otherwise, fuck it all to hell.
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