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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2012, 07:52:33 AM »
Why? 
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2012, 08:17:07 AM »
 how can they reboot the perfection of Marcia? :heart:

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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2012, 09:36:37 AM »
How would this even work today?
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2012, 10:39:02 AM »
How would this even work today?
Here's how: change it into something that barely even resembles the original so that instead of making it work today, you have an entirely different "it" than the one you started with that mysteriously bears the same title.
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 11:56:38 AM »
The way I see it, It would work with some tweaking.

First off: it can't be called The Brady Bunch 
And using the name Brady in the title will only invite unfair comparisons with the original show.
So rename it:  Something like 4222 Clinton Way will work nicely.
Next: the house, if still standing on the back lot will need rebuilding.  Make it huge and imposing. The original one was so suburbia.

The Original was a sitcom and that is so out of date.  It needs to be an hour long drama--with an edge.

Widowed man with three sons marries single mom with three daughters.  Its been done to death.

 This time, make the Dad a wanna be polygamist married to a woman with three daughters, two of whom he eventually marries as well.   The third daughter becomes a militant lesbian who leaves on a cross-country crime spree.  His sons all have issues. The eldest has "mother issues" whose hobby/obsession is taxidermy.  The middle son feels constantly ignored, so he lashes out by being a serial killer. The third son works for the LA County Coroner's Office, a position he uses each week, to cover up his family's err---misbehavior.
And the maid, Alice: an illegal alien living in the Bradys'  attic and dispensing sage advice whether asked for or not.  She is a real illegal alien--from another planet--and is hiding from NASA, the FBI, and the Men In Black.

It'll work, I tell ya!  We're talking Olympics-sized market share and Emmy material!




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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2012, 12:16:39 PM »
I will say though, it does have a great writer behind it. And it doesn't seem to go TOO far off the mark. The biggest difference is having the exes involved. Hm... I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2012, 12:35:42 PM »
I will say though, it does have a great writer behind it. And it doesn't seem to go TOO far off the mark. The biggest difference is having the exes involved. Hm... I'm cautiously optimistic.

Mike Mariano, listed as the writer for this reboot has 5 episodes of Raising Hope and 5 episodes of My Name is Earl! to his credit.  Not sure how great a writer that makes him--but then I'm not a fan of either show.  If you're referring to Vince Vaughn, the producer, well he did write the story for The BreakUp, wrote Couples Retreat and the screenplay for The Internship.   Obviously the network is not pulling out the big guns for this project.

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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2012, 12:38:35 PM »
Mike Mariano, listed as the writer for this reboot has 5 episodes of Raising Hope and 5 episodes of My Name is Earl! to his credit.  Not sure how great a writer that makes him--but then I'm not a fan of either show.  If you're referring to Vince Vaughn, the producer, well he did write the story for The BreakUp, wrote Couples Retreat and the screenplay for The Internship.   Obviously the network is not pulling out the big guns for this project.

I'm referring to Mike Mariano. I loved My Name is Earl. Absolutely brilliant.

The Internship is filming now actually. First they said they wanted me, then they said they didn't, then they did, then they didn't. Ugh :P
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2012, 03:15:26 PM »
Lloyd Schwartz, son of the late Sherwood Schwartz, is also an executive producer on the project. Since this will be a half-hour sitcom, it might have a shot. Wonder if they attempt to get any surviving cast members from the original series in cameo or recurring roles? Guess they'll recast Bobby Brady. I recall Mike Lookinland not being a very strong actor in "A Very Brady Christmas" and that weird hour-long dramedy, "The Bradys."
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2012, 05:04:22 PM »
The way I see it, It would work with some tweaking.

First off: it can't be called The Brady Bunch 
And using the name Brady in the title will only invite unfair comparisons with the original show.
So rename it:  Something like 4222 Clinton Way will work nicely.
Next: the house, if still standing on the back lot will need rebuilding.  Make it huge and imposing. The original one was so suburbia.

The Original was a sitcom and that is so out of date.  It needs to be an hour long drama--with an edge.

Widowed man with three sons marries single mom with three daughters.  Its been done to death.

 This time, make the Dad a wanna be polygamist married to a woman with three daughters, two of whom he eventually marries as well.   The third daughter becomes a militant lesbian who leaves on a cross-country crime spree.  His sons all have issues. The eldest has "mother issues" whose hobby/obsession is taxidermy.  The middle son feels constantly ignored, so he lashes out by being a serial killer. The third son works for the LA County Coroner's Office, a position he uses each week, to cover up his family's err---misbehavior.
And the maid, Alice: an illegal alien living in the Bradys'  attic and dispensing sage advice whether asked for or not.  She is a real illegal alien--from another planet--and is hiding from NASA, the FBI, and the Men In Black.

It'll work, I tell ya!  We're talking Olympics-sized market share and Emmy material!

How I long for the days when this treatment could never be made. But you probably just nailed it.
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2012, 07:13:03 PM »
I think it was around this time last year that a "Bewitched" half-hour sitcom reboot was announced at CBS. Don't think it ever got past the scripting phase. Now, they could make it an hour-long "dramedy," and have Samantha and her coven as child-eating, Satan-worshipping harlots from Hades. And, of course, wackiness ensues.
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2012, 07:41:00 PM »
I think it was around this time last year that a "Bewitched" half-hour sitcom reboot was announced at CBS. Don't think it ever got past the scripting phase. Now, they could make it an hour-long "dramedy," and have Samantha and her coven as child-eating, Satan-worshipping harlots from Hades. And, of course, wackiness ensues.

Well, the harlot part has possibilities.
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2012, 09:31:32 PM »
Well, the harlot part has possibilities.
There was a really funny comic in National Lampoon in the late '70s that parodied "Bewitched." Samantha and Endora have sex with a demon to reverse a spell, Mrs. Kravitz peeks in the window, and her eyes explode! It ends with Abner and the other neighbors burning Sam, Endora, and a bewildered Darren at the stake.
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Re: 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2012, 09:45:27 PM »
There was a really funny comic in National Lampoon in the late '70s that parodied "Bewitched." Samantha and Endora have sex with a demon to reverse a spell, Mrs. Kravitz peeks in the window, and her eyes explode! It ends with Abner and the other neighbors burning Sam, Endora, and a bewildered Darren at the stake.

Now THAT'S a series pilot right there!!
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