{"id":22081,"date":"2012-09-17T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=22081"},"modified":"2012-09-17T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:45:26","slug":"scrapping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-for-a-manimal-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/17\/scrapping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-for-a-manimal-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrel For A MANIMAL Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Manimal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22082\" title=\"Manimal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Manimal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Manimal.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Manimal-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>So it has come to this, has it?<\/p>\n<p>Having run out of fairly recognizable old television series to translate to the big screen it is looking like Hollywood is turning to shows that barely lasted a season to translate to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/manimal-tv-series-movie-sony-animation-370769\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Glen A Larson is attached to produce <strong>Manimal<\/strong>, a live action\/CG hybrid film based on the series that the created back in 1983. Starring British actor Simon MacCorkindale and Melody Anderson, the show centered on a doctor who could transform into a variety of different animals and uses his powers to help the police fight crime. (What can I say, it was the &#8217;80s.) The show lasted a grand total of eight episodes, though some of the cause for the show&#8217;s quick demise was it being scheduled on Friday nights opposite ratings juggernaut <em>Dallas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Studio Sony is currently looking for a writer to take on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Among a number of geeks who can actually remember this show when it initially aired, it is a bit of a punchline. The show was so campy that it made Larson&#8217;s <em>The A-Team<\/em> seem like a gritty, realistic drama in comparison. And despite having a number of critical and ratings flops including <em>Bay City Blues<\/em> and <em>We Got It Made<\/em> that season on NBC, it is <em>Manimal<\/em> that has endured as a symbol for just how bad things were.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the show&#8217;s opening titles and the explanation, such as it is, for it&#8217;s hero&#8217;s powers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ugb_TIpPoWA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait until we get around to the inevitable <em>Automan<\/em> and <em>The Highwayman<\/em> movies in the next couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Apparently we are running out of television series to turn into movies.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/17\/scrapping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-for-a-manimal-movie\/\" title=\"Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrel For A MANIMAL Movie\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[5652,5651],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-glen-larson","9":"tag-manimal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22081"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=22081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}