#REVENGE OF THE NERDS TV PILOT MOVIE#

#REVENGE OF THE NERDS TV PILOT MOVIE#

In 2016, NBC ordered a pilot for a series that was designed to be somewhat of a sequel to the movie – complete with Gellar reprising her role as the mischievous Kathryn! (the rest of the cast included Taylor John Smith, Kate Levering, Bryce Cass, Coby Bell, Samantha Logan, and Sophina Brown). When the network decided not to pick up the option on the series, producers recut the film and had Sony release it as a stand-alone movie. The series, which starred a pre-big time Amy Adams (in the Sarah Michelle Gellar role), is a prequel fixing on Sebastian meeting Annette, Cecile, and Kathryn for the first time. The film we now know as “Cruel Intentions 2”, and released on DVD back in the early noughties, started as a pilot for a series titled “Manchester Prep”. Like “Tremors”, the most recent incarnation of “Cruel Intentions” the series was actually the second time the Roger Kumble-directed movie had been proposed as a series. Bacon has since gone on to star in another series, “City on a Hill” for Showtime.

Since then, fans of the “Tremors” franchise have been petitioning to get a streaming outlet like Netflix to pick up the series but to no avail. And always keep one eye out for GRABOIDS!Ī post shared by Kevin Bacon on at 2:50pm PDT

Thanks to our killer cast and everyone behind the scenes who worked so hard. Although we made a fantastic pilot (IMHO) the network has decided not to move forward. #Tremors Sad to report that my dream of revisiting the world of Perfection will not become a reality. It’s just the idea of this loser who is living a very ordinary life and has an extraordinary experience with these monsters and becomes, for a moment, a hero.”īlumhouse were onboard to produce the pilot, which was intended to spawn a 10-episode first season.įor some inexplicable reason, the series – which was to co-star P.J Byrne, Hunter Parrish, and Haley Tju – was not picked up by SyFy, who commissioned it, as Bacon let his fans know in a post this time last year.

I don’t go back and watch my movies but because we were doing this one, I had to go back and look at it. “It’s the only character I’ve ever played that I was interested in exploring 25 years later,” Bacon said in a later interview.

Andrew Miller, who’s writing the script, came up with this really, really interesting take on it, and I think it could be a lot of fun.” “What I was really interested in was taking this guy and, 25 years later, seeing what happened to him, to his dreams, and to his life. Technically the second TV pilot based on the 1990 movie, though this one would’ve featured Kevin Bacon – who hadn’t portrayed Valentine McKee (from the Ron Underwood-directed classic) for any of the umpteen sequels nor the previous series adaptation.īacon was very enthusiastic about the series proposal, feeling a real need to see what his character was up all these years later. We’ve seen plenty of them over the years, and you’ll know them well, TV adaptations of such films as “M*A*S*H”, “Blue Thunder”, “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer”, “Clueless”, “Uncle Buck”, “Parenthood”, “Teen Wolf” and “Police Academy”, but there’s just as many TV series based on films that you likely hadn’t heard of… because they were never released. Many of the pilots – if only because they’ve a built-in audience – are based on pre-existing properties, like a popular feature film. Each and every year there’s a bunch of pilots made for shows that, either because the schedule just can’t squeeze them in or they’re slacker than a lump of, aren’t picked up.

Revenge of the nerds tv pilot