Friday, March 30, 2012

TO BE FOLLOWED BY QUADS, WITH BEN STILLER:  In something sure to make you question yet again whether Hollywood has, in fact, run out of ideas, a sequel to the 1988 comedy Twins is apparently on the fast track.  Schwarzenegger and DeVito would return as the mismatched twins, and the story would revolve around their discovery of a third member of their clan, to be played by Eddie Murphy.

13 comments:

  1. Watts9:52 AM

    Are you sure this post didn't run two days early?

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  2. Adam C.10:21 AM

    I, or rather my sequel-bot, would say "Oh, for fuck's sake" here, but I do remember enjoying Twins (though I am somewhat shocked and appalled to realize that next year it will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of release; I am fucking old), and adding funny Eddie - note that qualifier - to that dynamic could really work, with the right screenwriter and director in place.  

    Note: realistic odds of this convergence of events actually happening approach zero.

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  3. I had the exact same thought!  I literally looked over at my calendar....

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  4. This is so ill-advised.  The ONLY reason to do a sequel is if there's more story to tell.  This is basically trying to re-tell the same story, and that almost never works. 

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  5. isaac_spaceman12:20 PM

    Stiller is too much in between Schwarzenegger and DeVito to star in Quads.  My guess is that it would be Dat Pham, that unfunny Vietnamese guy who impersonated his mom to win Last Comic Standing, which infuriated all of the other unfunny comics because unfunny jokes about bad wives and how white people can't dance and how single women are desparate are better than unfunny jokes about Vietnamese moms.  Anyway, Dat Pham would fit the movie's central premise, which is that the movie must be nothing more than a 90-minute version of the joke told on its poster.  Exception:  the one thing that doesn't show up on the poster is that, at the end, each character presumptively will be paired up with a beautiful woman of his own race, except that you can get an extra joke out of the movie if an ugly white guy or an Asian guy is paired up with an exaggerated black-woman stereotype or a giant muscular blonde woman. 

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  6. isaac_spaceman12:21 PM

    So I take it you don't still watch House

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  7. Which leads, as always, to Trading Places, and the anonymous black women who Valentine and Coleman are with at the end on that island presumably out of the US jurisdiction so that they can evade prosecution for insider trading.

    Also, both Dat Phan and Harlemm Lee have been disappeared from the nation's consciousness.

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  8. isaac_spaceman1:25 PM

    Did I type "Desparate"?  Yuck.  I regret the error, people.

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  9. Dave S2:46 PM

    I want to see Elementary School Cop next.

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  10. Watts3:38 PM

    I'd hope for "Trey" - the sequel to "Junior" - just to see if Emma Thompson would come back.

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  11. Aimee3:53 PM

    Nope. :)  There are plenty of sub-par TV shoes that do that, and even good TV shows that do it -- to wit, Northern Exposure after Rob Morrow left.  Add new doctor, lather, rinse, repeat.  It just irritates me as somebody who's writing original stuff and still not able to make a living doing it.  Grr...

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  12. Aimee3:54 PM

    I'm hoping for Throw Momma From Another Train.

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  13. I'd like to see them update Running Man, only with teenagers (maybe: female lead?) and Lenny Kravitz.

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