# Next T.V. Series-to-Movie Translation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954 "2002-12-06T16:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Coffeeguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Coffeeguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coffeeguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/1 "2002-12-06T16:45:41Z")
What [piece of crap] T.V. series do you think Hollywood will next make into a “new” motion picture? OTTOMH: Starsky & Hutch 21 Jump Street -Coffeeguy ---
**Author:** ![Coffeeguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Coffeeguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coffeeguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/2 "2002-12-06T17:12:48Z")
Oops, :smack: , I guess this would have been more suited to Café Society. -Coffeeguy ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/3 "2002-12-06T17:17:24Z")
Isn’t there an A-Team movie in the works? Jim Carey as “Mad dog” murdoch? This is a serious question. As far as others, I have no idea, Hollywood is incapable of surprising me these days. Lets go with Moesha the movie. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/4 "2002-12-06T17:28:10Z")
There is already a Sopranos in the works. Sex In The City would be a logical choice. I think Alias could work. The final episode of Friends released ONLY as a movie would gross millions. (Of course, this would lead to the same ploy by Frazier, ER, and any other long-run hit series.) ---
**Author:** ![Coffeeguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Coffeeguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coffeeguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/5 "2002-12-06T17:49:50Z")
Oh my dear sweet human construct, someone silence **DMark** before the mindless minions of movieland get a hold of this idea. The last episode of every popular [milquetoast] T.V. show as a motion picture! The death of hope for cinema. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/6 "2002-12-06T18:05:30Z")
Isn’t there a “Bewitched” movie in the works (by “in the works” what I mean is, someone in Hollywood got paid $4 million to write “Bewitched movie” on a napkin and someone else got a cool million for adding “Jenna Elfman???” to it). If so, I can’t imagine “I Dream of Jeannie” is far behind. I’m surprised we haven’t seen a live-action Jetsons already too. ---
**Author:** ![Coffeeguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Coffeeguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coffeeguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/7 "2002-12-06T18:17:27Z")
And a live-action Simpsons can’t be far behind… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/8 "2002-12-06T19:08:07Z")
There is a 21 Jump Street film in the planning stages, but I can’t remember where online I read it. What does OTTOMH mean? -Myron ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/9 "2002-12-06T19:10:58Z")
Off the Top of my Head. Nevermind. -Myron ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/10 "2002-12-06T19:34:20Z")
What about Magnum P.I. ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/11 "2002-12-06T19:54:20Z")
Some bright spark green-lighted a live-action [Wonder Twins Movie](http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/Pf/0,1527,10072,00.html), starring Zan and Jayna from The Superfriends. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/12 "2002-12-06T23:07:49Z")
Oh, c’mon! _Gilligan’s Island_, of course! Thinks of the casting; Jim Carey as Gilligan, John Goodman as the Skipper, and… and… well, you get the idea! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/13 "2002-12-06T23:25:55Z")
I remember reading somewhere that there already are plans for a Starsky and Hutch movie. Can’t remember the source, though. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/14 "2002-12-06T23:36:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coffeeguy \* > \*\*Oops, :smack: , I guess this would have been more suited to Café Society. > > -Coffeeguy \*\* Yup. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/15 "2002-12-06T23:40:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DMark \* > **Sex In The City would be a logical choice.** _Waugh_. Please, no. The show isn’t bad, but only in short installments. _Please_ don’t give us 2 hours of the Feminine Four yammering on about the sexual exploits. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/16 "2002-12-06T23:40:21Z")
60s Cult Classic THE PRISONER is being made into a movie also. Shows that have been discussed as big screen projects include HOGAN’S HEROES, I DREAM OF JEANNIE, and, of all “the hell?” things, F TROOP. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/17 "2002-12-06T23:41:53Z")
I would love to see a Magnum P.I. movie. I’m serious. A&E has gotten me back into it. No, I have not spoken IRL about this to anyone. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pachabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@pachabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pachabel)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/18 "2002-12-07T00:17:48Z")
Starsky & Hutch is in works now. I believe Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller are starring in it. Russell Crowe has mentioned making a Hogan’s Heroes movie but then said it would be closer to the movie Stalag 17 than to the TV show. I think Nicole Kidman was mentioned as a lead for Bewitched before it was announced that she and Gus Van Sant are doing a remake of The Stepford Wives as a black comedy. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/19 "2002-12-07T03:27:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*Isn’t there an A-Team movie in the works? Jim Carey as “Mad dog” murdoch? > \*\* First it is Howling Mad, not Mad Dog. Second, any one who suggests that another actor could fill the role shoulkd be tortured to death by all surviving cast members. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954/20 "2002-12-07T04:07:04Z")
There have been rumors about an A-team movie for years. It never really got off the ground. I’ve seen some sites that haven’t been updated since '91 that talk about the possibility of a movie. It would be neat though. I know that Simpson will end up as a poorly made live action movie. It seems logical. [Stupid Hollywood Director Hat ON] Hmmm, da serees is gettin baad… We bedder do a movie. Hire sum spesal effex guys and sum overated acters and get a bunch of advertizing! Dont bother gitten any righters tho… [Stupid Hollywood Director Hat OFF] _shiver_ I’ve even heard talk of Bruce Willis as Homer… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-t-v-series-to-movie-translation/140954.md?page=2)