On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:01:19 -0500, Xena
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>On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:23:28 -0600, Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
>>Amy Sherman-Palladino wants to do a movie, the cast is up for it IF
>>she does it -- and ASP herself said in an interview with TV Guide's
>>Michael Ausiello on the WGA picket line to write to Warner's Peter
>>Roth. Ausiello also brings the subject up around once per month in
>>his Ask Ausiello column, which I take as an indicator that he
>>continues to be in contact with ASP and others on the show who still
>>want to give it a real ending.
>Translation: we'll get the GG thing just after we get the
>two Angel movies that they promised to make.
No promise was given. The WB/CW was never a serious contender for the
movies due to the great animosity between Fox and Warner going back to
Buffy jumping ****p to UPN. That left direct-to-DVD and the VFX-heavy
nature of the Angel property made Fox decide (stupidly, of course)
that they couldn't afford to make the movies. Fox still doesn't
experiment with direct-to-DVD movies.
Meanwhile . . .
1) Amy wants to do it; the actors all say that they will do it for
her.
2) The CW desperately wanted to keep Gilmore Girls in the first place
3) Gilmore Girls is in the Warner half of the CW cor****ate family
whereas Angel was not
4) ABC Family continues to want the show so much that it continually
tries to rip it off
5) Warner is experimenting with direct-to-DVD movies, both animated
and live-action in their new Warner Premiere line -- the Dukes prequal
and the Babylon 5: Lost Tales movie being two of the live-action
experiments.
6) Gilmore Girls is not a VFX-heavy show and one whose sets could be
easily rebuilt due to half of them being standing exteriors on the
Warner backlot anyway (even the Gazebo is a permanent set, dating all
the way back to the original Dukes of Hazzard.) and a good ****tion of
the other half no longer being needed after the end of season 7 anyway
(the Yale sets, since Rory had graduated.
7) Except for the back-up Jeep (there were two and I think they kept
the main Jeep) most of the props were generic stock items that were
returned to stock. The few idiosyncratic things that were
appropriated as souveniers -- such as Lauren taking the Monkey Lamp
with her at somebody's prompting -- would/could easily be returned and
used in a reunion movie by said actors and other personnel.
So there are *far* fewer impediments to restarting Gg than there have
ever been for Angel in terms of the economics.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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