All your best one-liners/borrowed from a film
If you have a good idea, it’s an even better idea to package it up for different audiences and syndicate it.
In fact, if the recent rash of remakes is anything to go by, there is much potential in repackaging old stories for new audiences.
One such film genre that gets a regular remake (sometimes seven times in one year) is the teen movie. And I’ve been thinking that there’s huge potential in the repackaging of hideously successful teen films to ensure they maximise their potential earning capabilities with new audiences. I've workshopped this idea extensively with Indeed (as is the way of the film-industry).
So here are our suggestions:
Grease
Synopsis: Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?*
New Audience: disaffected youth seeking inspiration for future careers (Education Department/Small Business Training Video)
Update: Neat freak Sandy and slacker Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover their common love of dry-cleaning, will they be able to pursue their passion into a career?
We will call it…..Crease
What’s eating gilbert grape?
Synopsis: Gilbert has care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life
New audience: musical theatre aficionados
Update: Gilbert has constant quarrels with his partner Sullivan and his entrepreneurial producer Carte, which gets in the way when he tries to poke fun at the ruling class who stupid, stinking Sullivan tries constantly to befriend before Carte robs them blind to keep the Savoy Theatre open.
We will call it….What’s eating Gilbert and Sullivan
I know what you did last summer
Synopsis: Four teens are in great danger one year after their car hits a stranger whose body they dump in the sea.
New Audience: The druids, England’s most mysterious religious sect
Update: Four teens are in great danger one year after they accidentally drop a menhir on a stranger whose body they bury under some standing stones.
We will call it…..I know what you did last summer (solstice)
St Elmo’s Fire
Synopsis: A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centred and obnoxious.
New audience: Gen Y counter-culture
Update: A Group of friends, just out of year seven, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centred and obnoxious and listen to way too much ‘A Simple Plan’
We will call it…..St Emo’s Fire
Dude, where’s my car?
Synopsis: Two potheads wake up from a night of partying and can't remember where they parked their car
New Audience: White Russian sympathisers, circa 1918
Update: Two Russian laudanum users charged with Royal security awake after a night of partying to discover that their leader and his entire family has been kidnapped and the country has “gone all Bolshevik”.
We will call it…..Dude, where’s my czar?
Now all I need is a time-machine and studio backing, and my career is SET. Does being distantly related to Paul Smith from the Henderson Kids give me industry cred?
* The original synopses here are from excellent movide database, imdb.com.
In fact, if the recent rash of remakes is anything to go by, there is much potential in repackaging old stories for new audiences.
One such film genre that gets a regular remake (sometimes seven times in one year) is the teen movie. And I’ve been thinking that there’s huge potential in the repackaging of hideously successful teen films to ensure they maximise their potential earning capabilities with new audiences. I've workshopped this idea extensively with Indeed (as is the way of the film-industry).
So here are our suggestions:
Grease
Synopsis: Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?*
New Audience: disaffected youth seeking inspiration for future careers (Education Department/Small Business Training Video)
Update: Neat freak Sandy and slacker Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover their common love of dry-cleaning, will they be able to pursue their passion into a career?
We will call it…..Crease
What’s eating gilbert grape?
Synopsis: Gilbert has care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life
New audience: musical theatre aficionados
Update: Gilbert has constant quarrels with his partner Sullivan and his entrepreneurial producer Carte, which gets in the way when he tries to poke fun at the ruling class who stupid, stinking Sullivan tries constantly to befriend before Carte robs them blind to keep the Savoy Theatre open.
We will call it….What’s eating Gilbert and Sullivan
I know what you did last summer
Synopsis: Four teens are in great danger one year after their car hits a stranger whose body they dump in the sea.
New Audience: The druids, England’s most mysterious religious sect
Update: Four teens are in great danger one year after they accidentally drop a menhir on a stranger whose body they bury under some standing stones.
We will call it…..I know what you did last summer (solstice)
St Elmo’s Fire
Synopsis: A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centred and obnoxious.
New audience: Gen Y counter-culture
Update: A Group of friends, just out of year seven, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centred and obnoxious and listen to way too much ‘A Simple Plan’
We will call it…..St Emo’s Fire
Dude, where’s my car?
Synopsis: Two potheads wake up from a night of partying and can't remember where they parked their car
New Audience: White Russian sympathisers, circa 1918
Update: Two Russian laudanum users charged with Royal security awake after a night of partying to discover that their leader and his entire family has been kidnapped and the country has “gone all Bolshevik”.
We will call it…..Dude, where’s my czar?
Now all I need is a time-machine and studio backing, and my career is SET. Does being distantly related to Paul Smith from the Henderson Kids give me industry cred?
* The original synopses here are from excellent movide database, imdb.com.
posted by gigglewick at
4:51 pm
12 Comments:
A time machine, eh? Can we call it Giggle and Wick's Excellent Adventure?
Dude, where's my czar? Would so beat having to go do russian history again.
Meva,
Ooooh. I hope so.
Phishez,
Yeah. And being an mass-produced American churn-em-out film they wouldn't even bother with accents/subtitles.
I think you should also do a remake of Twister, the target audience being lovers of mid 80s English guitar driven epic rock songs.
Original synposis
When Bill goes to have Jo sign the divorce papers so he can marry his new girl, Melissa, Jo finds a collection of record breaking tornados and Bill follows along, soon his duties shift from divorcing Jo to helping her with record breaking technology to create a better warning system.
Update
When Bill goes to have Jo sign the divorce papers so he can marry his new girl, Melissa, Jo finds a collection of record making geniuses and Bill follows along, soon his duties shift from divorcing Jo to helping her with record making technology to create a better song about holidays on the Costa del Magnifico.
It will be called Twisting (by the pool)
INCraig,
as they say in the classics, "I'm a twisting fool".
Nice work.
I mentioned this post as a must read in my weekly wrap up post today. Just so you know. ;)
Love your work!
Snoskred
http://snoskred.blogspot.com/
I liked this post very very much.
As did MrB, reading over my shoulder and telling me off for scrolling down too quickly (not my fault he's a slow reader), wile at the same time saying 'what was the point of that post? Other than the funny of course'
Which is why he'll never a Blogger make.
There is no point.
Indeed, that is the point.
I COULD have posted a deconstruction of Gray's Anatomy, which would have had the point of "sharing my views about Gray's Anatomy". But it wouldn't have made me laugh so hard on the phone while "workshopping" that I was incapable of speech for several minutes.
that, my dear Mr/Ms B, is the point, as I see it.
I agree entirely that the Point is to amuse - oneself mainly, but also bystanders if they happen along.
This is something that MrB will never comprehend. But he's the one Missing Out.
oooh. I love the use of the words Missing Out with capitals.
Very Enid Blyton and appropriately sharpish.
Also, this is the only way i don't lie awake giggling at my own jokes Dad-style til all hours of the morning.
I can't tell you how much I laughed at this post.
Rosanna,
Thank you.
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