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Just got a great idea for a sequel

posted 16 years ago by jiggysock
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I've been thinking about writing a script to Ford Fairlane for a while now but yesterday while watching CNN I finally got an idea for a plot that I think is worthy of bringing the character back. It'd take place in modern times and Ford would be working a lousy job as mall security and having a tough time making ends meet with the downfall of the economy. At the same time, the big car companies would be getting their bailouts from the Government. The cheque to Ford Motors is accidently lost in the mail and through a series of coincidences lands in the hands of Fairlane. The cheque is for a few billion dollars and is simply made out to Ford...so this gives him the idea to add "Fairlane" to the end and cash it himself. So now Ford is really rich and we see him doing a lot of funny things like buying a cigarette factory so he never runs out of smokes and giving a million dollar tip for a lap dance at a strip club. But then of course he'd start to wonder if he should do better things with his money and eventually he learns that this kind of power should be used for good so he donates the rest of the money to charity and he gets famous for being so nice. The movie would be called The Adventures of Ford Fairlane 2: Can't Buy Me Love like that old Beatles song. I'll try to update this post with excerpts from the script as I write it.

[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 14 years ago

I was with you until the "billion dollar check" thing.

I think a better premise would be a down-on-his-luck Ford, particularly with his disdain for the music industry, has now been "reduced" to becoming a manager for several groups and acts (since as you may recall he said used to be a publicist for several groups before getting into the detective business), most of whom would be low-rung and thus he's still getting paid with crap like autographed Fenders and all that jazz (pun intended).

Then, the lead singer to one of his groups gets killed, which leads him back into detective mode.

Ed O'Neill absolutely has to be back, and since Tone Loc and he had such good chemistry the first time around, I think Loc should be his new assistant...although you still need another smokin' hot young assistant like a young Lauren Holly was, to bounce his sexist jokes off of and act as a romantic foil who keeps Ford in check. And with Dice and Loc, you'd have the black-white buddy cop formula covered, which has been milked ad-naseum for jokes and wacky situations.

But a good twist to keep the rivalry going between Dice and O'Neill, is that Det. Amos is now also a band manager, but of a new boy band that he has written the modern-day version of Booty Time for, and which has become a huge hit to Ford's dismay.

So get one of the current batch of young hotties as his assistant (Blake Lively or someone to that effect), and then a similar replacement for Priscilla Presley, like maybe a Demi Moore or Sharon Stone.

And a high-powered, likable-yet-cheezy replacement for the great Wayne Newton? Hmmm, maybe media whore Donald Trump, or possibly Mark Cuban.

Now that script is precocious....combustionable....and I'd go see it with all the boys who would also like to see the Diceman reprise his iconic role.

Face it, if Bill and Ted 3 is in the works, then never say never for any sequel.

That's what I think.....

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[–] imma_rocker-195-791776 8 years ago

I WANT THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE DAMNIT