
I'll admit, I actually enjoy watching Sex and the City, but few people are as obsessed with this show as Stefy. I guess it's like the girl equivalent of Star Trek. Anyway, I just
ran across this today, and thought any SATC fans might get a kick out of it:
Although this project has been up in the air for the longest time, the girls of New York seem to have gotten everything squared away and are finally on track for a film. OK! Magazine exclusively reported that, as of now, things were a go. It's just a matter of ironing out contract issues and finding the perfect timing. So get ready. And as Carrie would say -- "Can you handle it?"
To be honest, I don't know how the hell they would make a feature film out of this show. I mean, they pretty much tied up all the loose ends with the characters when it went off the air a few years ago, so I don't know where they could go from there. Whatever they come up with for a story though, I'm sure Kim Cattrall's tits will make at least a few cameos in the movie.
This whole thing got me thinking though. Are there any TV shows that are no longer on the air, that you think deserve a feature-length film? A few ideas come to mind...
First off, I think a Sopranos movie would be amazing. The show is basically just a series of hour-long movies anyway, so it wouldn't be hard to do. Granted, I still haven't seen the fifth or sixth seasons so I'm not up-to-date with everything that's been happening on the show, but I think it's doable. David Chase is supposedly going to wrap up the storylines in this last mini-season, but this is a powerful franchise that could go off in a dozen different directions, if they wanted to keep it going.
I really enjoyed the X-Files movie when it came out in the late 90s, but it basically killed the last few years of the series. Still, I think it's possible that another film could be made without totally sucking. I mean, what the hell are David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson doing these days anyway?
There's obviously a soft spot in my heart for Star Trek, and now that there aren't any spinoffs on TV for the first time in about 20 years, I think it could be time for another movie (or at least a new show). "Nemesis" was supposedly going to be the final Next Generation movie, but it was probably the worst ST film ever made. They can't leave us hanging like that... Capt. Picard and the crew of the Enterprise deserve a better sendoff!
Mission: Impossible was a great idea for a TV to movie conversion, but after a great start this franchise just kept turning out bigger and bigger clunkers. If Tom Cruise could ever de-crazy himself -- or hand this off to an entirely different creative team -- I still think Mission: Impossible has some life left.
The only TV comedy that I could ever see being made into a feature film is Arrested Development. Just think about all the movies that have been made in the last five years about wacky, dysfunctional families: Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid and the Whale, Running With Scissors, to name a few. The Bluth family could
easily fill two hours of film, and since Fox pulled the plug on this Emmy-winning show
way too early, I definitely think there's a lot to work with here.
Am I forgetting anything? Are there any shows you miss that you wish they would turn into a movie?