Longtime Comic Strip "The Family Circus" To Be Become A Live Action Movie - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 10-10-2010, 10:21 AM

Break out the Ovaltine and wake your Nana! Twentieth Century Fox and Walden Media (the moral scolds behind the Narnia film series) have teamed up to bring comicdom’s most relentlessly unfunny strip to the big screen. Boy just when I was feeling safe after Cathy finally acked her last ack, now I’ve got this to deal with.

After years of pitching woo and hungry for some of that sweet, sweet Marmaduke money, Twentieth Century Fox finally convinced Family Circus creator Bil Keane that what the people of the world needed now was a movie where fat-headed little gnome-children say things like “pasketti and meepballs,” while their dead grandfather glares at them from a cloud. No casting news yet, but I anticipate a Spider-Man like feeding frenzy over which hot new actor and actress will be cast as Jeffy and spectral demon Ida Know. I imagine Daniel Day-Lewis already has the pivotal role of “Dotted Line That Follows Billy Around” sewn up — the man is a professional.

http://www.movieline.com/2010/10/the...ver-closer.php

catlover79 · 10-10-2010, 05:09 PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

70s show watcher · 10-20-2010, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

i agree its just not the type of comic strip that would work as a movie

MrCleveland · 10-20-2010, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by 70s show watcher

i agree its just not the type of comic strip that would work as a movie

No surprise that these comics will be movies as well....

The Born Loser
Cathy
For Better or for Worse
Heathcliff (I know, this was a movie, but they'll revive this)
Pearls before Swine
Dilbert
Blondie
Marvin
Wizard of ID
B.C.
Ziggy
Baby Blues
Zits
FoxTrot
U.S. Acres (From the guy who gave you "Garfield")
And Calvin and Hobbes (They'll find a way to get this comic as a film, maybe once Watterson dies or something....)

PS-FREE HAT!

dlemond · 10-20-2010, 04:56 PM

Why don't they donate the money to charity and skip making the movie?

I really can't even forsee this making it into the theaters.

MickeyMac · 10-20-2010, 08:18 PM

Yet another movie I wont be seeing.

10-10-2010, 10:21 AM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Longtime Comic Strip "The Family Circus" To Be Become A Live Action Movie Break out the Ovaltine and wake your Nana! Twentieth Century Fox and Walden Media (the moral scolds behind the Narnia film series) have teamed up to bring comicdom’s most relentlessly unfunny strip to the big screen. Boy just when I was feeling safe after Cathy finally acked her last ack, now I’ve got this to deal with. After years of pitching woo and hungry for some of that sweet, sweet Marmaduke money, Twentieth Century Fox finally convinced Family Circus creator Bil Keane that what the people of the world needed now was a movie where fat-headed little gnome-children say things like “pasketti and meepballs,” while their dead grandfather glares at them from a cloud. No casting news yet, but I anticipate a Spider-Man like feeding frenzy over which hot new actor and actress will be cast as Jeffy and spectral demon Ida Know. I imagine Daniel Day-Lewis already has the pivotal role of “Dotted Line That Follows Billy Around” sewn up — the man is a professional. http://www.movieline.com/2010/10/the...ver-closer.php Attached Images
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10-20-2010, 04:56 PM	#5
dlemond Hey, I know you. Moderator Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 03, 2001 Location: New Jersey Posts: 6,751	Why don't they donate the money to charity and skip making the movie? I really can't even forsee this making it into the theaters.

10-20-2010, 08:18 PM	#6
MickeyMac Member Forum Star Join Date: Jun 18, 2008 Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan Posts: 19,004	Yet another movie I wont be seeing.