 |
 |
 |
| Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:00 |
San Pedro Beach Bums To Get Big Screen Treatment ‘Football! You Bet!’ It was a catchphrase uttered by every sixth grader for nearly six weeks in the fall of 1977 and now Sony Pictures is gambling $30 million to bring it to a new generation of fans. ‘It caught on like wildfire,’ said Sony executive Gary Albright, ‘all the kids said it,’ but the show about a lovable ragtag group of friends who enjoyed carefree days in the sun and nights at the disco proved to be far too ahead of its time and was unceremoniously dumped by ABC, the network on which it aired. ‘Years later, they regretted that decision,’ said Albright. ‘They tried to get the cast together for another go, but this was in the days before the internet and no one knew how to get a hold of the actors.’ An all-star cast is currently being sought for the film with names like Sir Cedrick Hardwicke being tossed around, and the script is now being developed by Tony Anderson and Frank Kennedy, the team responsible for 2007’s mega-hit screen version of The New Temperature’s Rising. |
.png)