There is occasionally talk of a new film but it never comes to fruition... who would hold the rights to such a film if it was ever made? NBC, Screen Gems (Sony)?
Who do you think would do the best job?
I imagine NBC would do it. If they ever did a remake it I pray it's not some dumb remake with horrible actors. It could be a good movie if they do it right with the heart of the original series.
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Better just left alone. There must be millions of new ideas. Why desecrate this?
shareExactly. The classic sound effects, the recordings of the original theme songs by Richard Wess, Hugo Montenegro and Buddy Kaye, and the frantic pace may not do for present-day producers.
shareThe Screen Gems logo animation and Moog jingle should also be left alone to boot.
shareSony has the rights to anything to do with I Dream of Jeannie, be that a movie, comic book, cartoon, book, television show, and whatever other media format I've forgotten. Sony owns Columbia Pictures, which owns Screen Gems. So, Sony owns everything associated with both.
NBC is owned by General Electric and has nothing to do with Sony or its corporations.
As for who would do a better job, that's up to the movie studio and their people, not to mention whomever they pick to write it. The script is the most important part of any movie. Without a quality script, you just cannot have a quality movie.
And I have no problems with them making this show into a movie. I've only been waiting for them to do it since 1996! I want to see it with modern effects, a new cast, and, of course, a quality script and plot
"Desecrate"? We ain't talking Shakespearean drama here.
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Were you replying to me? Because I never used the word "desecrate." I am emphatic about the script being of high quality, yet I'm also not of the purist mentality that it can only be made with the original actors, only in the time-period of the mid-60s, and whatever else the purists come up with as a "reason" not to make the movie.
My only other contention is that they don't make a script like the one some years back that turned Jeannie into a soldier in her past, and other insane character changes like that.
No, it's not a "Shakespearean drama" but it is a beloved sitcom by millions around the world
Personally, I hope NO ONE.... it would be an abomination like all the others....
shareYep. 99 times out of 100, a remake can't hold a candle to the original. You just can't catch lightning in a bottle. The movie Dukes of Hazzard? Thoroughly forgettable, unlike Wopat, Schneider, Bach, Pyle and company. Charlie's Angels? Cameron Diaz ain't no Farrah Fawcett. I have to check Google to be sure they made a Bewitched movie (they did). A-Team? Not the B-list actors in the movie. The odds are not in favor of a good remake.
It's fairly easy to take a bad movie or show and make something decent out of it. But trying to take a decent show and making something just as good or better is a hundred times harder. Even when they try to make a reunion movie with the original cast, it fails most of the time. Look at the awfulness that was The Odd Couple: Together Again, or the three Gilligan's Island movies. Or closer to home, the two very unfunny Jeannie reunion TV-movies.
I doubt I DREAM OF JEANNIE would be remade in our politically correct times. A show with a woman in a harem outfit serving a man and calling him "master" would outrage many people in our overly-sensitive times. It would be called sexist.
shareI doubt I DREAM OF JEANNIE would be remade in our politically correct times. A show with a woman in a harem outfit serving a man and calling him "master" would outrage many people in our overly-sensitive times. It would be called sexist