"Revenge of the Nerds" Remake Cancelled

An anonymous reader writes, "Fox Atomic has pulled the plug on the Revenge of the Nerds remake. The movie was into two weeks of shooting when Emory University, the place where it was shooting, decided it no longer wanted to be part of the film."

Poor move on Emory's part...

[soapbox]

Frankly, with as many spoiled rich kids that come to Emory's undergrad program, we need all the geek credibility we can get.

Plus, imagine all the Coca-Cola product placements!

Re:Good.

[wbren]

Maybe now Hollywod will come up with, dare I say it, an original movie idea.

No, it's much more likely that Fox will decide to make a documentary about filming the remake of Revenge of the Nerds, the struggle to gain support for the project, and its ultimate defeat. Rated PG-13.

Re:Good.

[Salvance]

Not original? Apparently you didn't read Fox's teaser bits ... they were going to have Booger be the one staying up all night to spy on the ladies instead of Louis, and then Poindexter was going to get the girl on the Moonbounce. These are earth shaking plot twists!

The new outsourcing paradigm

[romit_icarus]

Since the original flick, all the nerds are now in India! What the producers should do is shift base from Emory to an Indian university. Perhaps one of the IITs (www.iitb.ac.in)!

Now that will be real and oh so funny

Casting problem

[Gription]

I suspect it was really pulled because they couldn't get Lisa Simpson for the movie. (and they were smart enough to not even try for Paris Hilton...)

see> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/22/133825 5 [slashdot.org]

Re:The new outsourcing paradigm

[Zaphod2016]

This sounds like a great flick. They could call it "Harold and Kumar explain why you should have bought the extended warranty".

Re:The new outsourcing paradigm

[sgt_doom]

I suspect the attitudes may be somewhat different in India in respect to nerds (having bummed around the Near East and Asia after military service many eons ago). Therefore, I would humbly suggest they move it to Amazon.com - home to many transplanted Indian nerds and lowbrow American riff-raff.....

Thank gods

[Lord Apathy]

Thank you Zeus, Budda, God, one of you guys was listening.

Credibility? After Denmark's road safety film?

[jd]

It's blatantly obvious that Denmark is trying to identify the geeks "out there" [speedbandits.dk].

Re:Good.

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

Hey you! You take your highbrow "logic" and "insightfulness" and get the hell out of here! All movies suck, it's Hollywood's fault, and THAT'S IT! Now if you'll excuse me, I'll get back to torrenting my copy of "The Fountain" in an attempt to stick it to Big Media by pointing out that everything they do is soulless and not worth my time or mone... er, my money.

Harrumph.

Re:Wouldn't have worked anyway...

[Rudeboy777]

That's all well and good, but I still stand by my childhood assessment of loving this film for the boobies!

Re:Good.

[BaltikaTroika]

Come on, this is slashdot. Here's a list that will speak to the masses:

Internal Cumbustion 8
Housewife Bangers 2
Who's Your Daddy? 9
First Time Swallows 2
Sweet Cream Pies 1
Perverted POV 10
Two Big Two Be True 2
My Sister's Hot Friend 5
Bubblin Brown Suga
Dude Your Girlfriend Is In A Porno 4

Which Police Academy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Which Police Academy? The one with the guy who makes the funny sounds with his mouth or the one where the uptight captain is always hassling the new recruits?

Be afraid

[tm2b]

They'll probably just replace it with a reality show of the same name.

Re:Good.

[Anonymous Coward]

Snobby Response by a AC CRAP

Re:Good.

[Dunbal]

Our documentaries will kick your documentaries ass any day of the week!

      It's ARSE, my good fellow, ARSE ;)

Speaking as a nerd...

[dangitman]

I swear REVENGE!

What a miscarriage of justice. Just when you think nerds are getting some respect, some grumpy old Dean keeps us down again. How many times must we make our revenge? Even nerds don't have calculators that count that high.