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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 14:59:04 GMT
Think about it. Memorial Day (kickoff to summer) until Labor Day (end of summer) when the beaches start to get packed. Can have a group of college kids going up to Amity for their last summer who plan on going to college up in Boston that Autumn. One by one bathers get picked up every week. Not only a giant Great White Shark hunting the beaches of New England - but you've got characters to get invested in on a weekly basis. Yay? or Nay? Big 'Yay' for me - love summer, beaches and sharks
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 7, 2018 15:24:04 GMT
Absolutely not. The movie is perfect as is. Stretching out the story with a lot of useless fluff and padding will not improve anything.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 15:46:59 GMT
Absolutely not. The movie is perfect as is. Stretching out the story with a lot of useless fluff and padding will not improve anything. Who's talking about improving anything - we get this same argument with haters against 'remakes'. I'm just looking to have some summer popcorn fun watching a killer shark, the beach and hot babes
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 7, 2018 16:08:37 GMT
Well then I suggest they write a whole new story for the mini-series instead of adapting Jaws .
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 7, 2018 16:23:39 GMT
Nay. If there was a series about a shark, fine. It'd be a challenge making it make sense week to week, but whatever. But calling it Jaws would guarantee everyone would hate it, and your proposal absolutely wouldn't need to be Jaws since it has nothing to do with the story of Jaws.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 16:24:51 GMT
Well then I suggest they write a whole new story for the mini-series instead of adapting Jaws . Can we still use the Jaws name?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 16:28:27 GMT
Nay. If there was a series about a shark, fine. It'd be a challenge making it make sense week to week, but whatever. But calling it Jaws would guarantee everyone would hate it, and your proposal absolutely wouldn't need to be Jaws since it has nothing to do with the story of Jaws. Why not? Rogue shark hunting swimmers at Amity. Sounds the same to me - we just introduce new characters around Chief Brody - Played by Rob Lowe....from Salem's Lot fame. Lowe did a great job putting the original Salems Lot to shame and I'm sure he could do the same in this role as Chief Brody.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 7, 2018 16:43:56 GMT
He's hardly 'of Salem's Lot fame.'
And the reason why is that it's stupid. If you're not using the same characters it's not really the same story, and if the setting is being riddled with a shark problem again you're dealing with the same issues the shitty sequels had. Why would this happen again in the same place, or with the same people, and why would people react just as stupidly again? It would be very difficult to make any sense of that, especially stretched out to a week to week format.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 16:53:12 GMT
He's hardly 'of Salem's Lot fame.' And the reason why is that it's stupid. If you're not using the same characters it's not really the same story, and if the setting is being riddled with a shark problem again you're dealing with the same issues the shitty sequels had. Why would this happen again in the same place, or with the same people, and why would people react just as stupidly again? It would be very difficult to make any sense of that, especially stretched out to a week to week format. How so? Please elaborate.....
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 7, 2018 17:59:07 GMT
About what?
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Post by dirtypillows on Mar 7, 2018 18:17:55 GMT
Think about it. Memorial Day (kickoff to summer) until Labor Day (end of summer) when the beaches start to get packed. Can have a group of college kids going up to Amity for their last summer who plan on going to college up in Boston that Autumn. One by one bathers get picked up every week. Not only a giant Great White Shark hunting the beaches of New England - but you've got characters to get invested in on a weekly basis. Yay? or Nay? Big 'Yay' for me - love summer, beaches and sharks Wow! What a fun idea! Really exhilarating, in fact. I would not miss an episode! I think this idea could be promoted. For starters, you could get the fantastic New Zealand late 70s New Wavers, Split Enz, classic crazy tune from 1980 to be the theme song that got played at the end of the show. SHARK ATTACK www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2dslwQ29w
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 18:28:21 GMT
Think about it. Memorial Day (kickoff to summer) until Labor Day (end of summer) when the beaches start to get packed. Can have a group of college kids going up to Amity for their last summer who plan on going to college up in Boston that Autumn. One by one bathers get picked up every week. Not only a giant Great White Shark hunting the beaches of New England - but you've got characters to get invested in on a weekly basis. Yay? or Nay? Big 'Yay' for me - love summer, beaches and sharks Wow! What a fun idea! Really exhilarating, in fact. I would not miss an episode! I think this idea could be promoted. For starters, you could get the fantastic New Zealand late 70s New Wavers, Split Enz, classic crazy tune from 1980 to be the theme song that got played at the end of the show. SHARK ATTACK www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2dslwQ29w i like it! we can keep it light hearted at the right times
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 7, 2018 21:09:48 GMT
Think about it. Memorial Day (kickoff to summer) until Labor Day (end of summer) when the beaches start to get packed. Can have a group of college kids going up to Amity for their last summer who plan on going to college up in Boston that Autumn. One by one bathers get picked up every week. Not only a giant Great White Shark hunting the beaches of New England - but you've got characters to get invested in on a weekly basis. Yay? or Nay? Big 'Yay' for me - love summer, beaches and sharks All I can say is that I didn't think they could make an award winning multi-season tv show out of 'Psycho' but they managed to pull it off and did so quite well. So yeah, I would be interested.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 7, 2018 21:10:32 GMT
Yes it could work as one of those melodrama mini series. But it would have had to be in the 80s and starring Richard Chamberlain, Jane Seymour, and whoever else was doing tons of tv mini series back then.
Heather Locklear as Chrissie Lloyd Bridges as the Mayor
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Post by dirtypillows on Mar 8, 2018 0:33:09 GMT
Wow! What a fun idea! Really exhilarating, in fact. I would not miss an episode! I think this idea could be promoted. For starters, you could get the fantastic New Zealand late 70s New Wavers, Split Enz, classic crazy tune from 1980 to be the theme song that got played at the end of the show. SHARK ATTACK www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2dslwQ29w i like it! we can keep it light hearted at the right times Cool! How much of this do you envision being part of the corrupt small town mayor/paranoia theme that the movie somewhat touched on? Would there be litigations left and right? Have Chrissie be a royal princess. who dies tragically and unthinkably. Her death was always so poignant, anyway. Sad Mrs. Kintner becomes the town drunk before (with the help of Polly, who likes a little nip of gin) bringing AA to Amity. She writes her autobiography, which is a scandal to Amity, ala "Peyton Place" A 6 year old girl scout, ala "The Brownies", is eaten alive by JAWS right in front of her girl scout troop when she defies the troop leader and falls off the dock. It's a national scandal. Her name was Heidi Hymenheymer. It is a completely disgustingly bloody demise. I think that the show could have a couple characters that were actually introduced in 1978, JAWS 2. Like have "Eddie" (my favorite of the teens) be friends with Mike Brody since the 5th grade. Eddie lives alone with his sweet widowed father, ala Bill Bixby. Tina is a sweet girl, who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. Her widowed father is a mean drunk who likely smacks Tina around for fun-sies. The fact that they both have lost their mothers at such an early age brings Eddie and Tina together. What other deaths could occur? Do you see Hooper or Quint being part of the show? The only thing with the idea (and I don't know if this would count as a real thing or not) is that it really could only be a show that lasted one summer, one season. One episode has "Orca, the Killer Whale" coming through and skirmishing with JAWS. Have totally random moments where Frankie Avalon is offering Annette Funicello a bite of his hot dog. There could be a couple clips of stock footage of "The Horror of Party Beach", ala BEACH BLANKET BINGO, with the teenagers' terrified and hilarious reactions to gruesome sea monster. Every episode, have Ellen Brody have a different hairdo. One week she'd have a shag, the next week she'd have a Doris Day bubble do. One week she'd have a short, curly perm, the next week it would be completely down to her butt, hippies' hair, parted down the middle, like Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkle. It would have to be really obvious. I would personally love to see Quint turn out to be a homosexual. He is quiet about it, and also doesn't really have a problem with it. It was just the way things were. Would people have a problem with that? I think it could be done so well. Quint was so masculine. What charisma!
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 8, 2018 10:23:46 GMT
If they don't have a problem with him being perceived as heterosexual, then they shouldn't have one with him being homosexual. Deep down, we know that they would though. Quint can be caught by Brodie, getting it on with Hooper and Brodie blackmails them somehow.
Brody: "You two are going to need a bigger boat!"
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 8, 2018 11:55:06 GMT
There could be different "washed up" victims/guest stars each week, like The Love Boat.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 8, 2018 15:54:22 GMT
There could be different "washed up" victims/guest stars each week, like The Love Boat. And each episode ends with the shark eating them in flashback. I like it.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 8, 2018 15:55:45 GMT
Or they could combine Fantasy Island with Jabberjaw--the shark could be the host. A talking shark with Ricardo Montalban's voice.
Doesn't need a white suit. The great white is already dressed.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 8, 2018 16:22:55 GMT
All I can say is that I didn't think they could make an award winning multi-season tv show out of 'Psycho' but they managed to pull it off and did so quite well. So yeah, I would be interested. Fair enough. People seem to like the The Exorcist series too. And they loved Hannibal. But the logistics are a bit different with this strange idea.
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