Hold onto your pratfalls, kids...they announced a movie version of this late 70's early 80's sitcom.
Now...the catchy thing about this movie...back in the day, was a dude who lived with two chicks...whom he wasn't banging. If you recall Jack Tripper (aptly named after John Ritter) was a homeless guy living on the beaches of Santa Monica, before one hard party night he ended up at the apartment of two post college girls. One a bubble headed blonde named Krissy (Suzanne Somers), the other a straight-laced stick in the mud Janet (Joyce DeWitt). This was salacious at the time, since no father in their right mind would let a man...who neither was married to, live with them.
What's the new boundaries in 2016? Transgender/gay or Muslim...take your pick. Or Black. Make Jack Tripper Black and he has to live in a Southern apartment complex with two lily White women. His landlord being a ex-biker who flies the Confederate flag. Hilarity ensues
No seriously, don't do this, if at least for the memory of comic genius Ritter. The pratfall was re-imagined by him and taken to Buster Keaton levels, despite the fact that the material wasn't worth it. But whatever, no one who this is made for is going to remember the source material. And those of us who grew up watching it, would rather do re-runs.
Come and knock on deez nuts, Hollywood.
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