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Blues Brothers TV series in development

Temis the Vorta

Temis the Vorta

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It saddens me to have to type the thread title. :rommie: I guess I know which remake idea is the most maddening possible, because unless they want to remake The Graduate as a first-person shooter, I can't think of any idea as cockamaimie as this one.

It's not April Fool's Day, is it?
The project would see Jake and Elwood out of jail, with the latter searching for his real father.
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And the joke wears thin in 3...2...
 
Aw, c'mon! Wasn't Blues Brothers 2000 enough punishment? the original movie is a classic. Let's just leave well enough alone, shall we?
 
The link doesn't work for me, so I might be missing something. But is this meant to be a re-casted re-imaging thing? If so, how would that even work?

Normally, I'm not nearly as fussy about this type of thing as some tend to be, but I think this is a special case.

"Jake" and "Elwood" were never really characters. They were more like costumes/stage names that Aykroyd and Belushi wore. It's no different for them, than say, "Lady Gaga" is for Sefani Germanotta. In otherwords, you can go to a Blues Brothers Concert, but it's really just Aykroyd and John (Now Jim) in a suit, hat, and shades.

Or when Aykroyd does interviews on blues/classic rock radio stations. You can see him in costume, but the way he talks you'd almost think he's "in character." But he isn't.

Hope that makes sense.
 
The link came up as "not found" for me, too. Hopefully that means their report was wrong so they yanked it; the idea of there being a TV series is just awful. The first movie was a classic, let's not further tarnish it.
 
Mysterion said:
Aw, c'mon! Wasn't Blues Brothers 2000 enough punishment? the original movie is a classic. Let's just leave well enough alone, shall we?
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Well said. I cannot imagine how the BB's could be sustained as a series. They couldn't even do a sequel movie.
 
^ To be fair, they waited about 20 years too long for the sequel, even without John.

It might have been OK in the 90's with Jack.

This TV idea....it's not a good idea. One more example that Hollywood is a black hole for originality.
 
Yeah, a TV series wouldn't last. I could just see it losing steam quickly. The movie worked because it was novel, but it's the perfect example of something that doesn't and didn't need a sequel or anything to continue their adventures.
 
CorporalClegg said:
The link doesn't work for me, so I might be missing something. But is this meant to be a re-casted re-imaging thing? If so, how would that even work?
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Looks like they're frakking with the website. :rommie: Deadline hasn't picked the story up (seems odd, they usually do just that type of story) but here's another article.

The story follows brothers Jake and Elwood, who have been recently released from prison. It turns out that Elwood was actually raised in an orphanage, and so the show opens on him trying to find his real father. Aykroyd won’t reprise his old SNL role, but he’ll apparently lend his voice to the show as Jake and Elwood’s parole officer.


I’m still trying to figure out why this is happening.
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That makes two of us, and I'm sure, many, many others. CorporalClegg got it exactly right, that Jake and Elwood are stage personas, not characters who can transcend their status as a hip in-joke that can work for a couple hours but not a full TV season.

And Variety has it, too. So, sorry - it's real.

I suppose there's a way to make even this forelorn idea work, by developing characters for Jake and Elwood, and giving them some hi-larious Illinois Nazis to fight.
 
Did Ackroyd lose a lot of money the stock market or something? Because, man, he's really desperate to whore out all his old work all of a sudden.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
The story follows brothers Jake and Elwood, who have been recently released from prison. It turns out that Elwood was actually raised in an orphanage, and so the show opens on him trying to find his real father. Aykroyd won’t reprise his old SNL role, but he’ll apparently lend his voice to the show as Jake and Elwood’s parole officer.
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Wait.. voice? Does that mean it's likely to be a cartoon? Or am I reading too much into it? Nobody's really said it it would be live action either. It might work better as a cartoon. Or matybe even a variety show which would include them performing with musical guests and have skits.
 
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Warped9 said:
Mysterion said:
Aw, c'mon! Wasn't Blues Brothers 2000 enough punishment? the original movie is a classic. Let's just leave well enough alone, shall we?
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Well said. I cannot imagine how the BB's could be sustained as a series. They couldn't even do a sequel movie.
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Some movies should never have sequels. Especially when one of the stars is gone. I don't think I could watch a series, even out of curiosity.
 
This idea gives me flashbacks to all those cheap movie-based synicated shows from back in the 90's. (War of the Worlds, Freddy's Nightmares, Friday the 13th: The Series, etc)
 
Leaving aside whether or not it's a bad idea (I think it is). I'm curious that the article mentions one of them is searching for his real father.

Now I know the characters were never really developed, but I was always under the impression that they were meant to be brothers?
 
They aren't real brothers, both were orphans at the same orphanage. They became each others family.
 
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