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HEATHERS To Be Remade ... As A TV Series!!
Merrick here...
The 1988 film HEATHERS - directed by Michael Lehmann (THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW, TRUE BLOOD) and scripted by Daniel Waters - is being resurrected as a television series.
Dark comedy will be adapted for TV by scribe Mark Rizzo, with an assist from "Sex and the City" alum Jenny Bicks. Sony Pictures TV, where Bicks is based, will produce, along with Lakeshore Entertainment, which holds the rights to "Heathers."
Rizzo is still kicking around ideas on how to update "Heathers" 20 years after the film became a favorite among the underground set. But the characters from the movie are all expected to be there -- Veronica Sawyer (played in the movie by Ryder), J.D. (Slater) and the "Heathers."
...says Variety HERE.
The movie dealt with the sometimes disquieting social machinations of Westerburg High School - where three girls named Heather have formed a bitchy clique (one of them is played by Shannen Doherty). The arrival of Christian Slater's character...and his encounter with Veronica (Winona Ryder)...portend "mysterious" deaths amidst the school's student body. Like asshole jocks Kurt and Ram, who are found deceased in a compromising position...
Rizzo is still kicking around ideas on how to update "Heathers" 20 years after the film became a favorite among the underground set. But the characters from the movie are all expected to be there -- Veronica Sawyer (played in the movie by Ryder), J.D. (Slater) and the "Heathers."
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This is one of the more interesting remakes we've been hearing about lately. I'm curious about how they are going to transport the plot into TV and keep it going for a numbers of years versus the several months the film took place durring.
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What's next? Breakfast Club The animated series?
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Unless Winona Ryder reprises her role....or if its not a sequel but a remake, if she's not involved in at least some capacity...I'm not watching.
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Loved the movie, still one of my all-time favorites (and Ryder was at her hotness peak), but can they keep it interesting and dark without going through their main cast members mid-season?
Maybe if there was a piemaker in the town who could resurrect the "suicidal" teens... -
Why the fuck not, Hollywood? Why. The. Fuck. Not?
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Martha Dumptruck for Westerburg High School Prez 2010!!!!
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That is my favorite high school movie of all time. Not that I was in high school at the time. But the flick still feels timeless in terms of the angst and emotion it deals with. Someone must pay.
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It never ends.
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No NO no NO no NO no NO no NO no.
Stupid. Leave well enough alone.
Oh wait, Hollywood don't know how.
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this is the best news ever. if only they could make Winona young again. no actress will come close to how much she owned Veronica.
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The best jokes write themselves, folks.
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you KNOW its coming~!
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you KNOW its coming~!
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Sex and the City...oooo I bet she was the dark one on set.
Here's an idea: have an idea. -
Really.
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Nobody has watched that movie in 20 years. Nobody is going to care about how close it is to the original. It might even generate interest in a Blu-Ray release of it that wasn't there before. This is meant for the current generation of teenagers. This movie actually seems ripe for an update, but the tricky part as has been mentioned is stringing along the murders. Especially if they think they can do multiple seasons of this.
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Aug 27, 2009 12:45:22 PM CDT
Could be sharp satire in Pay TV, will be teenie shit on a networ
by ev1ldead
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Not only doesn't it need a remake, but I can't imagine a show involving high school kids killing each other and trying to blow up their school is really going to go over all that well.
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It must be. What an awful idea. Jawbreaker, Mean Girls, Juno--without Heathers they would not exist. So why craft an almost certainly inferior TV show out of a minor masterpiece of a film?
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Unless someone can freely say "fuck me gently with a chainsaw", this will be FAIL.
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It is on TV all the time and there are constantly screenings of it.
It's not even that I'm opposed to series based on movies but the material needs to lend itself. That movie works as a singular event, with singular characters from a singular time.
JD blows up at the end. It's the ultimate teenage suicide(don't do it.) -
Made for the CW after 90210 & Vampire Diaries. NO MORE FUCKING REMAKES! NO MORE FUCKING REMAKES. NO MORE FUCKING REMAKES! Hollywood writers & producers have always been a vapid soulless entities in recent years, but this just proves that their entire creative staff of TV development & production is simply getting their "brilliant" ideas by rummaging through that box of VHS tapes they stored in their garage or attic.
Coming soon "No Man's Land" the TV series. -
I know its been said, but it bears repeating. Make "Mean Girls" a series, but leave Heathers alone!
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Sounds great, but I gotta motor or I'll be late for Heather's funeral
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Haven't they figured out that redoing old "favorites" is bound to fail, ala Knight Rider, Bionic Woman, etc. Shows and movies such as this, with such a rabid fan base tend to be overtly critical.
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Is nothing fucking sacred???
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The only way to make this work is to blow up the school, and have the same bitchy clique's bullying nerds in heaven, like the original ending was supposed to be.
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But I don't see how they can really do it justice as a series. They can't really let the characters say too much on network tv with all the censoring. I am curious as to how they would do this show.
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I'm guessing lame. It'd be really cool if there was a murder of the week of various high school types. Instead it will be a dramedy about a high school girl who could be one of the "cool" kids but hangs with the masses. Yawn.
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Is it Breakfast Club? Heathers? Just one of the Guys? Licence to Drive? Zapped? Yes, we all know everybody is devoid of original ideas and everything sucks, but what is sacred and what can be updated/remade to a different format/etc.? As has been stated, this movie has already been reimagined with Mean Girls. So what if they take a semi-recognizable title and use it as a springboard for a series. Maybe they'll come up with a good series that goes in original directions and isn't just a 26 hour Heathers with a bunch of comericals. If a freaking Christian Slater vehicle can't be remade, what can?
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I think it could be good if they do it right and I love the original movie. I don't know how they could keep it going for long though and I think it would be better on a cable network.
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They are missing and opportunity here: set it in the 1980s.
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I really wish Winona would ditch the pixie look and let her hair grow out again..
But beacuse she looked damn fine in that flick...
Don't really think this can be remade though. Part of it's charm was how over the top the dialogue was. And somehow I can't see lines like, 'Fuck me gently with a chain saw..' ever making it into an American tv show.. -
probably weren't fans of this movie, but the actual plans they had for their school were disturbingly similar to Christian Slater's final scheme in Heathers.
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How long can this show last when the plot is offing Heathers and their coresponding jocks? Then again Prison Break ran for several inexplicable seasons. Since when is network TV so ballsy to green light teen suicide and gay bashing jokes?
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in Square Pegs..agree?
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Welcome to pedophilia all you boys drooling over it. Me, I don't have to deal with that because I saw the movie for the first time when I was 14 so I can just contextualize those thoughts as, well, me at 14.
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How the hell is this going to be different from any of the umpteen other high school based movies or TV shows since the Original was released? Answer: It won't.
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CLUELESS into a TV show? And yes, Hollywood is creatively bankrupt
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You know it's true
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But these bozos will!
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I'm not defending "Clueles", but the difference between doing Clueless then and Heathers now is that UPN made clueless right after the film was made to cash in on the film's success and try to import the same audience from the film. Sure it showed a lack of creativity, but at least the pitch was probably "This film is a recent hit,the TV show could potentially be a hit as well." But dredging up "Heathers" after 20 odd-some years more likely indicates a bunch of creative people going around saying "I don't have an idea for a TV show. Hey what's in the box of old VHS tapes...Heathers? I liked that when I was in High School, maybe it could be a good remake for TV." It's never been unusual to make TV shows based on movies, many do fail, but it's usually within a year or so of the movie, so it's fresh in the audience's heads. At least when it's done quickly, there's always hopes that it will be a hit (anybody remember M*A*S*H or Alice?)
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... to run this thing on, 'cause part of the charm of the original is that it, well, goes kablooie.
Literal Self-destuction doesn't lend itself well to serialised storytelling. At least, you would think...
If it just exists for its own sake, and let us speak plainly, so the makers and the actors can profit from the oh so human instinct to watch the digustingly young and the offensively pretty, in any combination of shiny, advertisement-segmented contexts,
once you take away the ending, that final sneer in the face of Heather, then it just becomes... The Hills.
And nobody wants that.
OK, it would seem they do, but I suppose that I mean that I, dearest Heatherwood, do not.
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And thank me in the morning. Especially any Patton fans out there.
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Heathers was, itself, already pretty much a reimagining of the 70's cult classic, "Massacre at Central High", starring Andrew Stevens and Robert Carradine.
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As if American TV is going to air a TV show about a kid who murders his class mates and tries to blow up the school. The closest thing to Heathers on TV in tone is the school kids from Twin Peaks.
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Entertainment eats its own vomit once again. Because all the smarmy high school "dark comedies" on TV and film over the last 20 years haven't regurgitated every shred of "Heathers" ad nauseum.
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If the cool kids are killed midway through the season, the show might be trouble. Perhaps they should make a quantum leap / heathers hybrid, where Christian Slater's character leaps into oppressed high school students across the country...
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JD's dad is in the military so he moves from school to school sowing chaos but always framing some poor sap for his misdeeds so nobody investigates him. But Veronica is on to him and runs off on a road trip determined to expose him. And she befriends a girl called Heather at every school or something. Or that's the alias she uses with different surnames. Oh fuck it remaking Heathers as a TV show is a terrible idea. Unless they let David Lynch do it, because that would rock.
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go to the can, and flush the cash straight down the 'mode? it would save time
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For me to poop on ! I will not watch it....unless SonicRiver writes the script !!!!
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But how are they going pull this off
After so many murders that occurred on school campuses since Columbine without pissing off one group or another?
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You know it's coming!
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could be good.
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At first glance it doesn't sound like an entirely bad idea to make this a series rather than a film, but I fear that this will just become a generic "goofy high school" show. How, for example, could they have a season or two of regular murders and maintain any sort of coherence? And how would it be HEATHERS without all the killing?
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They gonna get some shitty ironic hipster band to do the "Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It) song by Big Fun? Like maybe Franz Ferdinand or Of Montreal or whatever the fuck kids listen to nowadays? This is not gonna work, you couldn't make a sequel to this movie, how the hell are you going to drag faked suicides out over a season or longer? This movie came out my senior year...leave it the fuck alone.
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On the audio commentary, the director said he had an idea for a sequel where all the actors return, even the dead ones, but now they are adults working in a corporation or the government. It's an awesome idea and I read recently that Ryder and Slater had both talked to the director who said he's planning to go ahead with it and it's on the works, and both actors have agreed to return.
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Aug 28, 2009 7:05:38 AM CDT
Hey Ram, doesn't this cafeteria have a "No Fags Allowed" rule?
by themanwhocan
Slater:Well they, uh, seem to have an open door policy for assholes though, don't they? ..........Jock: What did you say, dickhead?
Slater: Ill repeat myself.(pulls out handgun)
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... which was only a short time after the movie came out, one dude imitated that scene from Heathers and boarded the school bus with a handgun, went up to some dudes who were harassing him, and fired blanks at them.
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just gotta say. this idea is just bad and wrong. leave this movie alone.
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Seriously, lol. If it was made for HBO I could see it working, any normal network though. I don't know. THAT'S WHAT I THINK AHHHHH!!!! :o|
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I loved the movie. How on earth will it work as a TV show unless they butcher it and turn it into an O.C. type crapfest?
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ES-KEE-MOE!
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if it doesnt have this. i wont watch. if it does this i wont watch..you sound like a bunch of spoiled shit heads.
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You can't do it.The next time someone shoots someone in a school there going to blame the TV show. And then Eminem. OOOH! I have an Idea for a TV show, A guy wakes up and can't remember the day before, and has all these tatoo's on him, and they are telling him a story and he has to figure it out before the day ends, or elsehe'llforget what happendandthenhefindsouthiswifewasmurderedandhehastogetthekiller. OH no wait that's Memento. You know some dick weed is saying yeah great idea for a show. And I say no it's not, it's done get something new. I'm seriously annoyed with hollywwood now. They can't think of anything that hasn't already been committed to celluloid or has been a book, comic book on or an online comic. Here's an idea. It's mine take it I don't care. Assuming anyone with clout actually reads these things. There is a bounty hunter in space(not fucking Fett.) He knows the job is so dangerous that he makes multiple clones of himself which he keeps in storage on a space station just in case he gets killed. Once he dies his memories get uploaded to a new clone body, and that new him continues the friggin mission. There are other hims older ones that quit the bounty business and just turned on a new clone to keep the cash flow coming in. Like I said its my idea but I don't care take it run with it. At least it's original.
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When the new clone discovers "someone" has been filching money from his account, isn't he going to get pissed and hunt that "someone" down? ;-)
Oh, and Heathers as TV show is cool, so long as they throw in vampires and zombies so we all know that it's not the REAL world. *wink, wink* LOL!
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They all know about each other, else it would be just the clone getting pissed someone's stealing all his hard earned money. And the whole thing with Heathers is just not a good deal. You would have to make some ridiculous plot decisions to keep the parent's council off the show's back for school yard murdering and such.
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