Seeing this press release on Deadline makes me wonder how separate the Weinstein Company actually is from Miramax, now. Is it a de facto vs. de jure situation? Because it looks like they’re basically getting brought back in to manage all these properties they created, but no longer have the exact rights to? They’ve already been working together in this capacity on the latest sequels to Scream, Spy Kids and Scary Movie - - this is just making it official, apparently.
This partnership deal’s first creating sequels to…
And then it’s developing sequels and/or TV versions of…
- Cop Land
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- Clerks
- Shall We Dance
- The Amityville Horror
- Bridget Jones’ Diary
- Swingers
You know, some of these would seem really hard to continue (Rounders) or they’re so centered around specific actors that it’s almost impossible to imagine them with anybody else (Bad Santa, Clerks.) However, a few them have already been serialized (Bridget Jones, Amittyville, Dusk Till Dawn,) so it’s not that novel idea to wrap your head around that there could be more. Hell, if you can make a series out of Crash, I don’t see why you can’t do the same with Cop Land and, yeah, I could even see a whole series about a young Willy Shake’s love life that weaved in cute little adapations of his many, many plays.
The Clerks TV series was actually pretty good. I wouldn't mind a TV series over another View Askew movie.
Apparently they make a fortune off them. Especially considering the seven AMERICAN PIE movies they've released.
As for Clerks, that was ALREADY a TV show...and it was cancelled. It also already had a sequel, and I believe Smith specifically said that he wouldn't pursue the Clerks storyline any further, as he had told what he needed to tell.
Beyond that, I would be completely down for a Cop Land TV show...but only if Sly was in it.
and by the way, that was not a joke. He is actually planning to do it.
@jakob187 said:
Smith said that if he has something to say about life in your 40s, he will do it with Dante and Randal. No guarantee of a Clerks 3, but its definitely possible.
Lol, loved the series, bought the DVDs twice. Hopefully it doesn't get screwed over like ABC did to it. They also need to bring back Charles Barkley....Is it safe?
Absolutely, the cartoon was fantastic. Though, this could go bad real fast.
Also, everything said below. I'm still a huge fan of SModcast and, admittedly, Clerks and Clerks II were his only films I really liked, but I still pine for the early SModcasts where he wasn't so bleh.
@DivineCC said: