"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."

Re:The new outsourcing paradigm

[middlemen]

Well actually in India, unlike the USA, kids/students who are really good at academics are valued and respected as opposed to kids/students who are sportsmen. In fact, it is very common in India, that if a kid is good at sports, the first thing people ask is "Is that kid bad at academics ?". Academics comes first, and then comes everything else.

Re:Sets

[WarlockD]

{Variety} - The nerds haven't found paradise yet!

Production on one of Fox Atomic's first films -- a remake of the 1984 cult classic "Revenge of the Nerds" -- has been shut down after Emory University in Atlanta, where more than a third of the film was to be shot, backed out of its agreement to allow Fox to film on campus. It's believed that Emory officials ultimately balked at the raunchy nature of the project.

Fox was alerted to the issue four days before the shoot was planned to start on Oct. 9. After attempting to shoot at other colleges in Atlanta, the decision was made to call it quits and figure out a new plan.

Production is now officially on hiatus, with the clock ticking, considering that winter (and snow) is approaching, and much of the film is set outdoors in autumn, back-to-school weather.

A Fox Atomic rep said that Fox was still hoping to release the film in August and that all of the cast and crew -- presently being flown back from Atlanta -- remain intact.

"Revenge of the Nerds" is planned as one of the debut releases for newly launched Fox Atomic, Fox's teen-oriented genre label. The label's first release is "Turistas," which bows Dec. 1, followed by "The Hills Have Eyes 2" on March 2 and "28 Weeks Later," which unspools May 11.

Also in production at Fox Atomic is the comedy "The Comebacks."
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Sounds like they didn't want to make a winter movie. The REAL question though is if they are going for next August, how good is this movie really going to be? They have to change colleges and set up completely somewhere else and if they are waiting for after winter, that's only a few months of shooting

Odd about this production company. They are making two sequels to moderately decent movies (The hills have Eyes" and "28 Weeks Later" and their first movie "Turistas" is coming/out now (ref: here [imdb.com]) Are they just rolling the dice to see what movies stick?

Coke University

[TrisexualPuppy]

If there's one place that they shouldn't have filmed this, it's at Emory University. Emory is that school across town with a billion dollar endowment, where the girls' rich daddies give them credit cards with $2000-dollar limits. They max out their cards at Lenox Mall every Saturday, and by the following Monday, daddy has paid them off. There are a lot of liberal arts majors and a lot of people going into law and medicine. I know this--I have a few dozen Emory friends. My brother attends.

Now where they really should have been filming was Georgia Tech. You have a good mix of nerds, geeks, regular persons, snoody persons, and people who can't fit any description. At Tech, it is not uncommon to hear some guy talk about how he just mastered gradients, another guy start proclaiming how VHDL is the savior of the universe, and then some ZTA girl talk about how many guys she "serviced" last night. It's a more down to earth public university with the sort of diversity that this particular movie would need for a remake.

Re:The new outsourcing paradigm

[Austerity Empowers]

Ok, but we have school teachers who can't teach math, period. My 5th grade teacher left me stupefied about "PEMDAS", but she did manage to teach us yoga and meditation (I'm serious). There is some evidence that our priorities are really screwed up. The competitiveness in academics in other countries is sometimes insane, but a LITTLE competition and respect might not be so bad either. There's no question our athletes are pushed to succeed, but in academics...I haven't seen anything other than parental pressure, mostly directed at getting in to one of the top tier colleges. Once there...eh. Hell, even in politics science & math takes a back burner to "common sense" be it religion or man on the street think.