Scream coming to TV
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 9:10AM Manuel here bringing you an in-depth look at Marvel's upcoming slate is what I would write if I wanted Nat to never invite me to write for TFE ever again.
Not that we're straying far from Hollywood cash-grabs. At least MTV seems to be having fun with its latest Scream TV show pickup order. In true 2014-fashion, they broke the news... with emoji:
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— MTV (@MTV) October 28, 2014
As with all rebooted, retooled, revamped, repurposed, remade, and rejiggered properties, we'll hold judgment until the series airs next October (why they couldn't wait an extra year to have it coincide with Scream's 20th anniversary is beyond me, though yes, understandable). The big question is whether Ghostface will actually make it to air. You read that right, because of copyright issues, we may be getting a Scream TV show without Ghostface to go with our Gotham TV show without Batman and our S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show without any Avengers.
Which got me thinking, if I ran Hollywood, what famous property would I adapt to a TV show only to strip it off its main selling point to make it more budget-friendly? Herewith are my top three pitches:
- Le Moulin! Before there was Satine, there was... the Moulin Rouge. Set at the turn of the century, this highly stylized musical show follows the burlesque performers at the infamous Paris cabaret. In a world of decadence, can a can-can girl really have it all-all?
- Lacuna, Inc. Before Clementine and Joel, there was a small start-up company called Lacuna, Inc. This mockumentary workplace comedy follows the shenanigans of Stan, Patrick and Mary, three twenty-something slackers whose dating life is put into relief every week by the grief-stricken people who visit their office to get their memories erased.
- Munchkinland. Before there was Dorothy, there were Glinda and Elphaba (or whichever name we can use without infringing copyright). But even before them, there was the mundane, if quirky life of the people of Munchkinland. Think Twin Peaks but without murder, or maybe there's a murder? There might be songs. I'm hoping we can do a crossover episode with Oompas the gritty reboot about slave labor in Wonka's factory.
Are you excited about Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's property getting the MTV treatment?Are you hoping it'll be more Bates Motel than Once Upon a Time? What series would you pitch and hope to see on screen?
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Reader Comments (11)
Baby Diego (Children of Men): Before there was Theo, there was a world confused when women stop being able to have babies, but one child provides hope-the youngest person on the planet, plucked from obscurity by being born last becomes the most unlikely of celebrities.
Crafty. Before moving to Los Angeles and learning she has witch powers, Robin Tunney gets way into knitting as a way of getting over the death of her mother. A head shaving scene that nods back to Empire Records is obligatory.
Le Moulin actually sounds like a good idea.
25 Shades of Mauve. Where a young man begins a treacherous road to deviancy by accidentally leaving the lights on when spanking the monkey.
John T: That's almost brilliant and might make an ACTUALLY GOOD TV show.
ben1283: Mmm, I like the idea of a nod to the actress who played Sarah Bailey, but it would be bizarre if Tunney actually reprised at 40. That's almost like Patricia Clarkson being the lead of Easy A or the Walk Hard joke where Dewey Cox is played by John C. Reilly from 12 to 80.
tom: The risk is the show would probably fail if the Zidler wasn't REALLY GOOD.
Henry: That's a sketch, not a series.
Volvagia: Series have been built on far less.
OMG. I am all in for that Lacuna Inc pitch. Brilliant.
Hell yeah to Le Moulin. Flesh out Nini and the other girls, Zidler as a protege, anachronistic song and dance numbers and maybe even Jack the Ripper can stop by! If it gets to HBO, the nudity and sex could be a draw too.
Runway: Miranda Priestly's presence looms over the office but our mail clerk has never seen her since she's nowhere near her level. But in Runway, our hero gets to meet pervy fashion photographers, fashion editors, stylists, famous designers, bitchy models, Miranda's latest assistant, celebrities (guest stars!) who come in to pose for the cover and a detailed look into the highs and lows of working in the fashion industry.
(Meryl can show up for the series finale.)
The Baby Diego and Lacuna Inc ideas are brilliant.
The script for the Scream tv show is terrible and it's not Scream at all. It's so forced and feels more like a My Bloody Valentine kind of slasher. They do not even mention Woodboro, Sidney or the Stab movies.
I would watch so many of these, guys! My mind continues to reel with ideas that are probably much too obscure for Hollywood but which would be a hit in TFE-land (like TV-Land but focused exclusively on juicy actressexual roles); anyone here would watch Dalloway's Richard (both prequel and sequel to The Hours, where we follow Richard meeting Clarissa in their youth) or The Kids Are Coming (about Jules and Nic's pregnancies), right?
Manuel - yes and holy goddess, yes.