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Post by JeannieII on Dec 5, 2006 17:05:27 GMT -5
For the last 2+ years, I've heard that they are thinking about making a Jeannie movie. I've also heard that they've chosen Lindsay Lohan to play Jeannie. Can anybody confirm this to be positively true? I'm sorry, but I hope it isn't. Lindsay would make an aweful Jeannie. As of right now, I can't think of anyone who I'd like to play Jeannie. Maybe they'll get some young, unknown actress to play the part! If they chose right, it would be very refreshing to see a new face in Hollywood!
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Post by Patterson Lundquist on Dec 5, 2006 18:04:54 GMT -5
The Lindsay Lohan rumor is just that, a rumor. It was never confirmed not even remotely by anyone who was involved with the film that almost got started. Kate Hudson was a rumor that got a lot more attention when Entertainment Tonight helped spread it around when they did that Jeannie Reunion to promote the 1st Season DVD release.
The Jeannie movie has been talked about as far back as 1996. Barbara was asked countless times who she thought would be good in the roll. In the beginning she said she didn't want to see anyone play Jeannie other than her. In a People Magazine interview she even jokingly mentioned picketing and throwing mud to stop Sony. This was at a time though when Barbara, with the right lighting, angles and filters could still pull off looking pretty darn good in the costume.
As time progressed Barbara mentioned Alicia Silverstone as Jeannie, which no one liked except her. Names were tossed around, from Lisa Kudrow, to Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Garner etc. None of which would do a good job as Jeannie.
If a Jeannie movie was ever to be made, I truly feel that Jeannie would be best suited if played by an unknown, who no one had any previous ideals about. Casting a famous face will only project that actress' previous rolls onto the image of her as Jeannie. An unknown would allow the viewers to actually have an easier time watching her 'be' Jeannie.
The movie, as it was going had flopped in and out of development now for a decade. Joel Silver had originally started running with the idea that Jeannie would be found on the beach, then dump her 'master' and become a vamped up sex kitten style character who was 'independent.' That idea fell through the cracks and the project went into limbo again.
The last incarnation that got any attention was the horrid piece of crap Gurinder Chadha was working on. Some of you may remember Chadha as the woman behind 'Bend it Like Beckham.' Chadha openly admitted she had never watched even one episode of I Dream of Jeannie. Of course it didn't take a rocket scientist (or even an astronaut) to figure that out by the treatment she was giving the series.
Jeannie is shown being banished into a bottle for disguising herself as a man, to fight in a war. Said bottle was flung into outer space, to be found by Major Nelson. Yet again it's iffy if the rumors were true surrounding Chadha making Jeannie (yet again) 'independent' of her Master and taking the movie in yet another twisted direction.
The movie suddenly fell into the shadows and even 'Out of the Blue' productions who were working on preproduction have dropped out of sight and refuse to answer any questions regarding the film. Rumor has it though that Sony caught a massive amount of backlash from fans and television historians for signing on Chadha who openly confessed to turning Jeannie into something entirely different from the television series. Not more than a month or two later it surfaced that the script Chadha had been writing was rejected. "Make it truer to the series." Chadha either refused to do so, or simply couldn't at which time the writer/director spot was yanked away from her.
Since then the I Dream of Jeannie motion picture has yet again seemed to fade into limbo. In my personal opinion, I'd really like for the show to be left alone. Barbara, Larry, Bill, Hayden... all were irreplaceable. Their chemistry and timing was classic. They had something you can't quite often recreate, sadly Hollywood has been trapped in a very uncreative streak the past few years and while attempting to cash in on the nostalgia craze is raping classic situation comedies and iconic characters of their dignity and legacy. Sadly I believe Jeannie may suffer the same fate.
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Post by JeannieII on Dec 5, 2006 21:41:11 GMT -5
I agree with you.Those actors did have something pretty special and rare to find in today's Hollywood, if indeed it still exists to begin with. I almost wish they would forget about doing the movie if the best they can think of is Lindsay Lohan or whatever the other "possibilites" were that they came up with. I could live with just watching the reruns all the time. Wouldn't bother me a bit! lol
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Post by JeannieII on Dec 6, 2006 11:00:09 GMT -5
Awww, she's so cute!!! And they need somebody cute and geniune to play that part. Who knows? She just might get it! : )
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Post by Patterson Lundquist on Dec 6, 2006 16:36:52 GMT -5
Cute girl, but by photos alone she doesn't 'grab' me. If you're going for similarities to Barbara, hair color, eye color nose shape, etc all doesn't match up. The actress will need to not only look very much like Barbara, she'll have to be able to emmulate her, in voice, looks mannerisims and style. All difficult things to do themselves, but darn near impossible to do all of them at once.
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Post by t on Dec 6, 2006 23:35:49 GMT -5
Yeah... I think the reason that the two Brady Bunch remakes are among the few remakes that worked really well is that there were so many main characters that you didn't really concentrate on any one particular character and analyze whether or not they looked like the original one. As a group, the cast in the remakes looked the same as the original Brady Bunch, even though there was no individual character in the remakes that looked all that much like the original.
But in IDOJ, there's really just one main character that you focus on, which might not work as well if your goal is to find an exact match for a remake... So I can't figure out whether or not I really want them to do a remake of this... Barbara had a few nose jobs, so you would have to find someone that looked how she looked originally, who also had similar nose jobs...heh... Maybe Hollywood just shouldn't fool with re-doing something that they already got perfect in the beginning.
-Tim
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Post by Patterson Lundquist on Dec 7, 2006 13:39:29 GMT -5
As a group, the cast in the remakes looked the same as the original Brady Bunch, even though there was no individual character in the remakes that looked all that much like the original. I beg to differ... Christine Taylor - Marcia Henriette Mantel - Alice Both were creepily (nearly) identical to Maureen McCormick and Ann B. Davis. Even Maureen said Christine was so good that it made her do double takes often during the screening she attended. |
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Post by theduck on Dec 15, 2006 15:25:43 GMT -5
I of course would be thrilled to have a movie, but only if it's going to be done well, and with respect to the TV show. I personally think it'd be a hoot to watch Barbara and Larry play Dr. and Mrs. Bellows. How much fun would THAT be?
TheDuck
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Post by Karenita on Dec 16, 2006 19:16:04 GMT -5
;D.. Well i'm a young person, i knew jeannie when i was like 9 or 11 years old, and since the first moment i love the show, barbara eden has some magic, you just can love her. And i don´t want someone to try to be her, it will fall, like nicole kidman whit Montglomery, nicole is an amazing actress, but this kind of classics needs something else that a good actress. No one could be has good and lovely has barbara. Most of us love her, you have specials feelings 4 her, is like if we we're closer. . .  |
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Post by Dreamer Girl on Dec 24, 2006 22:58:27 GMT -5
I'd prefer if the show is left alone. Reruns are more than enough for me. You shouldn't mess with something that's so good.
If the tv movies, which had Barbara as Jeannie, were awful (well, in my opinion they were) can you imagine someone else playing Jeannie??? No way.
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Post by Renakh on Dec 29, 2006 2:06:07 GMT -5
If they do make a Jeannie movie I think they should get Jenna Elfman to play Jeannie.
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Post by Patterson Lundquist on Dec 31, 2006 1:40:17 GMT -5
Jenna Elfman is not only too old to play the roll, she's too tall and has no background proving she could pull off the roll of Jeannie. If you think her character, being a dippy air-head on "Dharma and Greg" is what it takes to play Jeannie, then you have no idea what Jeannie was about.
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Post by theduck on Jan 5, 2007 15:02:49 GMT -5
I got to thinking that Kristin Chenowith would make a really great Jeannie. She was in the Bewitched movie actually but she's a broadway star who played Galinda in the musical Wicked, and won a Tony for her part in the musical *You're a Good Man Charlie Brown*. She played Sally. She's cute and funny, and has those Jeanniesk qualities.
The Duck
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Post by kandykisses on Jan 10, 2007 13:02:12 GMT -5
Remember Jeannie's can't be photographed! *L*
KandyKisses
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Post by jeannietonyfan on Jan 20, 2007 13:28:59 GMT -5
I really hope this movie doesn't end up getting made. If they put stars in it that are known to today's audience, I'm worried that the TV Show will get less recognition than the movie, and I think that would be completely unfair to all that were involved with making IDOJ the adorable show that it is. What's wrong with leaving a great show alone... for what it is? It will be impossible to measure up to the "magic" of the original series... so just leave well enough alone in my opinion.
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