7:52 pm - 09/17/2012
Sony Pictures Animation has picked up the movie rights to Manimal, a short-lived 1983 NBC series, and is developing the project as a live action/CG hybrid film.
Midyear Awards Preview: Columbia/Sony Animation/Screen Gems/TriStar (Analysis)
Glen A. Larson, one of the most prolific TV producers of the '80s (Magnum P.I., Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica), created the show and is attached as a producer on the feature.
Manimal followed Dr. Jonathan Chase, a wealthy doctor with a mysterious past, who morphed into animals in order to help the police fight crime.
The show, which starred Brit Simon MacCorkindale and Melody Anderson (who played Dale Arden in the 1980 movie Flash Gordon), was slaughtered by critics and trounced when it aired in 1983 opposite Dallas, then a ratings juggernaut. It was canceled after just eight episodes.
But Manimal was campy -- Chase turned into a black panther in every episode and uttered lines like "I was a real pussycat" -- and developed a cult following even as it became a punchline. It aired during a pre-Must See TV time at NBC when the network was experimenting with such high-concept fare as Knight Rider and The A-Team to see what would stick.
Sony, which created a live-action/CG franchise last summer with the $500 million-grossing The Smurfs, seems to be raiding the 1980s TV library of late. The Hollywood Reporter reported last month that the studio is developing a live-action/CG adaptation of ALF with series creator Paul Fusco (who also voices the furry, cat-eating alien). A sequel to Smurfs is set for release next summer. (lmao that movie is getting a sequel???)
Sony is out to writers for a take on Manimal.
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ALF scared me as a kid. This Manimal movie will probably be so bad it is good. What awful TV shows do you want to see made into movies?
1983 TV Show 'Manimal' Being Turned Into CG/Live-Action Movie
Sony Pictures Animation has picked up the movie rights to Manimal, a short-lived 1983 NBC series, and is developing the project as a live action/CG hybrid film.
Midyear Awards Preview: Columbia/Sony Animation/Screen Gems/TriStar (Analysis)
Glen A. Larson, one of the most prolific TV producers of the '80s (Magnum P.I., Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica), created the show and is attached as a producer on the feature.
Manimal followed Dr. Jonathan Chase, a wealthy doctor with a mysterious past, who morphed into animals in order to help the police fight crime.
The show, which starred Brit Simon MacCorkindale and Melody Anderson (who played Dale Arden in the 1980 movie Flash Gordon), was slaughtered by critics and trounced when it aired in 1983 opposite Dallas, then a ratings juggernaut. It was canceled after just eight episodes.
But Manimal was campy -- Chase turned into a black panther in every episode and uttered lines like "I was a real pussycat" -- and developed a cult following even as it became a punchline. It aired during a pre-Must See TV time at NBC when the network was experimenting with such high-concept fare as Knight Rider and The A-Team to see what would stick.
Sony, which created a live-action/CG franchise last summer with the $500 million-grossing The Smurfs, seems to be raiding the 1980s TV library of late. The Hollywood Reporter reported last month that the studio is developing a live-action/CG adaptation of ALF with series creator Paul Fusco (who also voices the furry, cat-eating alien). A sequel to Smurfs is set for release next summer. (lmao that movie is getting a sequel???)
Sony is out to writers for a take on Manimal.
Source
ALF scared me as a kid. This Manimal movie will probably be so bad it is good. What awful TV shows do you want to see made into movies?
One of the episodes had a demon tattoo artist with knives for hands that was tattooing people then chopping of the bit with that tattoo and making a more evil demon with the parts.
and another was when a weird tree that ate people got chopped down and shipped to England, and a woman got skirting boards from it and then THE KNOT BECAME AN EYE AND THE SKIRTING BOARD TRIED TO EAT HER.
more cheesy fantasy/horror films are always good
I totally cannot wait for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Edited at 2012-09-18 12:13 am (UTC)
Edited at 2012-09-18 12:08 am (UTC)
Then make a "My Mother the Car" movie starring Channing Tatum and Betty White as the voice of the car! Make this happen, Hollywood!
good jobHAHAHAHAHA i want to watch some old crappy tv shows now
FABULOUS!
i can't wait to see the casting for this shit.
*PUTS UP THE NIC CAGE BAT SINGLE*
Also ia OP. Alf used to scare me so much as a child.