Posted by Walnutman at 24.66.28.176.on.wave.home.com on June 25, 2000 at 23:03:19:
In Reply to: Bionic Chris Rock (repost for Kevin) posted by Keever on June 25, 2000 at 22:56:43:
Dude, a shot at Chris Reeve? Not cool man.
: Entertainment weekly, the Hollywood Stock Exchange, and the rest of the buzz sites are reporting that the Farrelly Brothers are going to make the Six Billion Dollar Man into a "Madcap Comedy" starring Chris Rock. Or at least have approached him about it.
: Now Kevin, I know you are a fan of the old show as I am. I am only a few months older than you are, so I bet you were running in slow motion in your elementary school the same time I was trying to bend monkey bars in mine.
: I also know you penned a script for a movie version I would love to find somewhere.
: So are you as afraid as I am that we will have a "Wicky Wicky Wild Bionic Man Rap" coming to MTV soon?
: I mean I love Chris Rock, and the Farrelly Brothers are hilarious at times, but I really wish that the Bionic franchise could be spared the shame that James West and Artimus Gordon had to endure a year or two ago.
: Wild Wild West with Will Smith was a Hollywood gang rape of the memory of a good show.
: You keep telling us about how screwed up Hollywood is, I guess this is just one more example of this.
: The Six Million Dollar Man was a good show, and even though it got campy, I think I would rather see The Rifleman starring Carrot Top than a comedic feature based on Cyborg.
: This is just the wrong way to go with this. Why Don't the Farrelly's just sign up Chris Reeve to do Numb and Number.
: Or how's this? Battlestar Galactica set to Gilbert and Sullivan... "The Pirates of Penzance take on the Cylons"
: There are plenty of old TV Shows to rape, why did they pick this one.
: Once this franchise goes comic, can it ever be done straight again?