Given the propensity for Hollywood to recycle and "modernize" the drek of the past, when will we see this generation's Jim Nabors portraying the bumbling Marine? Shall I start on a script treatment?
shareI usually loath reboots or whatever you want to call them. I don't think TV shows translate well to the big screen. A lot of people thought "Gomer Pyle USMC" was dated when it was on the air. I grew up watching the reruns in the '70s. Are today's kids familiar with Gomer? That would be important to the movie studios and/or producers.
shareToday's kids would find GP too unsophisticated. As to casting I shuddered back in the late 1990's when Will Ferrel was mentioned for such a project as far as a movie was concerned. Jim Carrey is too old and I do not know the 20-30 year old actors that would be suitable.
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