ALF to be a movie

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Yeah, we all know that Hollywood is out of ideas... but the ALF movie that Sony wants to make is most welcome to me. The original show was a source of great levity. It was cynical but not pretentious, and didn't have any exaggerated ideas about its own importance. Supposedly the creator and voice of ALF will be back for this. I can't imagine anyone else doing it.

ALF was a part of my childhood, and we got our dog around the time the show started to air, and we named him ALF. He lived to be 15 and was my best friend for all that time. He is pictured below.

 

[Redfern]

Similar fur color, anyway. Did your dog ever try to eat the family cat?

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Similar fur color, anyway. Did your dog ever try to eat the family cat?

Sincerely,

Bill

He was a bit small for that LOL

 

[Captaindemotion]

A Brady Bunch reboot and an ALF remake announced in the same week.

Okay, Satan, you may now start the apocalypse.

 

[Silvercrest]

A friend of mine, Rebecca, said that her son was the "baby actor" for Eric Tanner at certain times in Season 4. Supposedly Rebecca is visible in a few of the episodes when she stood in for Anne Schedeen to hold the baby. But I can't confirm this one way or the other. There's a different name for Eric on imdb.

 

[MacLeod]

The question is will they end an ALF movie like they did the TV show?

 

[ToddKent]

I don't have the link handy but supposedly the ALF set was one of the most miserable in Hollywood. The working conditions were supposed to have been deplorable and everyone hated it (and each other). I'll Google the article when I have a minute.

 

[The Wormhole]

I don't have the link handy but supposedly the ALF set was one of the most miserable in Hollywood. The working conditions were supposed to have been deplorable and everyone hated it (and each other). I'll Google the article when I have a minute.

That reminds me of an episode of Family Guy (I think) where they're interviewing ALF. "By the third season I was so wasted. They acutally had to cut the crap out of my fur."

So the important question about this remake: will ALF be CG?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ The article says CG. Personally, I'd rather see a puppet.

I wonder if this will be a contemporary remake, or a sequel showing us what ALF is up to 25 or 30 years later.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

I'd prefer a prequel set on Melmac. I always like Gordon Shumway's family in the Alf comic book and cartoon.

 

[Holdfast]

Holy crap. I feared this would be a joke title; I'm delighted it's real! ALF was awesome; let's see how many cats he can eat in feature-length format!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I wonder if this will be a contemporary remake, or a sequel showing us what ALF is up to 25 or 30 years later.

I guess that depends if they follow up from where the series ended or from the TV movie. If they go from the (unintended) series finale, ALF probably ended up dissected and ironically turned into cat food.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18490_the-7-most-soul-crushing-series-finales-in-tv-history.html

 

[Reverend]

This is one of those shows from my childhood that I can remember existing, but can't remember if I ever actually saw the thing. Mostly I remember the merchandise. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it just wasn't as popular on this side of the pond?

 

[davejames]

I remember loving this show as a kid, but watching it now, it's just absolutely freakin awful.

The jokes are lame, and ALF comes across as annoying as hell.

 

[JD]

I love the character, so I'm hoping this is good. The fact that this actually has ALF's creator and voice actor involved has me hopeful, but I've felt this way before and still been disappointed. As for the puppet vs CG question, I'd definitely prefer a puppet, although I have a feeling they'd probably want to redesign it to be more realistic.

 

[ryan123450]

Alf? Wow. Just...wow.

 

[Eddie Roth]

Oh I love this. ALF was my childhood hero. I recently bought a Season 1 DVD set and seeing the opening with the theme song brought a tear to my eye. If they do this right, this is going to be awesome.

 

[BillJ]

Having seen the TV series, I'll pass on the film.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I had a crush on the daughter. She was quite cute, if I remember correctly.

 

[ALF]

I had a crush on the daughter. She was quite cute, if I remember correctly.

She was and you do.

It's like my last straight twenty years of my feverish prayers have been answered.
You know how badass ALF is?



He came to Earth and had four years' worth of hilarious misadventures. Blowing up the kitchen, trying to eat all the cats and then blowing up the kitchen again. Willie's boss comes over, everything goes terrible and then ALF averts the crisis in a series of blunders. Etc, etc.

The series ends in a cliffhanger as the show goes on hiatus, then canceled because all the actors are burnt out working with the complicated muppet.

I don't have the link handy but supposedly the ALF set was one of the most miserable in Hollywood. The working conditions were supposed to have been deplorable and everyone hated it (and each other). I'll Google the article when I have a minute.

Then Willie Tanner (Max Wright) slips into a delusional world of homosexual prostitution and crack cocaine. All the while... my belief is that ALF is responsible for all his problems, manifested in the physical world. Both through the method acting technique of being the emotional punching bag on the series and as well, the gut wrenching conditions on the set of the very technical TV series. Although it did ultimately seem to help his stage career....

Anyway I look forward to Gordon Shumway to come back and make everything right. I've been sitting here on the fucking sofa since 1990 waiting for a proper conclusion.

There is something almost like a classic tragedy in that the silly, fun loving alien ends up incarcerated by federal agents... lost from the only family he had left (his civilization was wiped out when everyone plugged in their hair dryers at once). In all ends on such a sour, helpless note that I can't help but bask in the brilliance of it all.

Oh I love this. ALF was my childhood hero. I recently bought a Season 1 DVD set and seeing the opening with the theme song brought a tear to my eye. If they do this right, this is going to be awesome.

With absolutely no sarcasm... I am so excited I feel I could scream.