The Baddest Movie in the Whole Damn Town
By Craig Kennedy - April 24th, 2008; 2:47 pm
If you can make a fortune off of movies based on a 50-year-old pirate theme ride, you can make money off of anything.
Seeking to prove that theory, Warren Zide, the producer behind crap like American Pie and Final Destination, plans on turning Jim Croce’s hit song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown into a feature length movie.
I don’t have a joke here. Sometimes they write themselves.
For bonus amusement, here’s CHUD’s Jeremy Smith trying to spin this like it’s not a completely retarded and bankrupt idea.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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I’m a big fan of Final Destination.
That said, it’s tough to make a whole movie out of one novelty song.
ahahaha…I was expecting someone to defend American Pie first.
Ah well.
Yeah, because the movie treatment worked so well for “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.”
That said, this might be worth seeing if they included a cameo from the Japanese karaoke singers from SNEAKERS.
You have to be shitting me. I await the pr machine:
BAD BAD LEROY BROWN will be the first in a franchise that seeks to expand the iconic BAD BAD LEROY BROWN brand to a new generation.
“It’s like a mash-up of FIGHT CLUB meets TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT,” the producers said at a press conference. “We expect to spin off the exciting characters from the Bad Bad Leroy Brown-verse into brand franchises of their own.”
I always thought Bad Bad Leroy Brown should have been Obama’s theme song to make him seem tougher than he is.
Christian, you made me laugh so hard for a second I thought I was going to throw up my chicken fried steak.
ahahhah “Leroy Brown-verse” Your mogul-think worries me a little Christian.
When the first one is huge, we can look forward to Bad Bad Badder Leroy Brown.
“you made me laugh so hard for a second I thought I was going to throw up my chicken fried steak.” I think we have the tagline for the poster, ladies and gentlemen.
If I’m not mistaken The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia starred Mark Hamill and Kristy McNichol, who were popular at the time. That was only the beginning of its problems.
But I digress. This sounds like a bad bad idea.
Good luck. I’ve seen worse jumping off points for films, like:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276033/
Who knows? Cast Leroy right, you could have a money-maker.
Now that I think about it, they were making shitty movies out of hit songs every 5 minutes in the 70s. Ode to Billy Joe anyone?
In the right hands, anything can become a great film, no matter how humble, pathetic, or ludicrous its beginnings. The inverse is true as well; great novels and source material do not necessarily a classic film make (Bonfire of the Vanities for instance). So then, I think we should all……wait, what the crap am I saying, someone needs to extricate the Elmer’s nozzle lodged firmly up Zide’s nostril.
Actually, I imagine that BAD BAD LEROY BROWN will probably include a supporting character named Jim, with whom you don’t mess around. However, Superman will have to wait for Jim’s spinoff movie.
…they were making shitty movies out of hit songs every 5 minutes in the 70s.
Very true, though it didn’t stop there. We had a bit of it in the 90s. Something to Talk About. And not even a good song at that.
Oh, and let’s not forget Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Great song, pathetic movie.
There are worse things to inspire an entire film:
http://www.amazon.com/Country-Bears-Haley-Joel-Osment/dp/B00006LPHB
Joel~~
Yes, but that did have the awesome scene of Walken crushing scale models of Country Bear Hall with a large weight while wearing boxer shorts and bunny slippers. No movie that contains that scene can possibly be all bad.
And there just aren’t enough original scripts out there.
Ok, even if they make the movie now, it was worth it. You people are funny.
I think there are plenty of original scripts out there, they just don’t want to make them.
Actor playing Leroy: Why am I called Mr. Brown? That’s too close to Mr. Shit.
sartre: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Paul: I hope you were paid to sit through the Country Bears.
Does he have to fight King Kong to prove that he’s badder than him, once and for all?
I might pay to see that.
Joel~~~
Actually, no. But it was free. Back when I worked at the theatre, some friends and I had a tradition called “Bad Movie Monday”, where we’d wind down after a long weekend of work by watching the worst of the new releases. Surprisingly, THE COUNTRY BEARS wasn’t the worst of the bunch. How could it be, in the same summer that brought us such gems as SERVING SARA and MASTER OF DISGUISE?
I remember Ebert cursing Master of Disguise’s existence so violently… His loathing of it was palpable. I like Evil Ebert from time to time.
i thought someone would have made a movie out of this… ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Brown_(wrestler)
That’s six movies, Glimmer.
“Mr. Shit” ahahahahha
Where are all of these stunningly funny (try saying THAT four times fast and furiously) threads coming from? Seems like there have been a lot lately.
Paul, it’s very early here. I was just eating a tangerine and I almost choked on it when I read your post about Jim being a supporting character that “you don’t mess around with.” But that was another song, y’know.
Hopefully I’ll get SOME sleep. Almost morning, y’all.
Rise and shine…