{"id":33947,"date":"2014-06-09T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33947"},"modified":"2014-06-09T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T18:04:24","slug":"lord-and-miller-discussing-bringing-clone-high-to-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/09\/lord-and-miller-discussing-bringing-clone-high-to-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord And Miller Discussing Bringing CLONE HIGH To Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before Phil Lord and Chris Miller hit big with the one-two punch of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs<\/strong> (2009) and 21 Jump Street<\/strong> (2012), they were probably best known for creating, along with Scrubs<\/em> creator Bill Lawrence, the cult animated series Clone High<\/em>. First airing for one season on Canadian TV and then only getting a portion of its run broadcast on MTV before getting cancelled due to low ratings, the show centered on the teenage clones of John F. Kennedy, Cleopatra, Abe Lincoln, Joan of Arc and Gandhi, all attending a high school controlled by a shadowy organization known as the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures. Although it did not reach much of an audience initially, the show’s reputation and fan base have grown over the years.<\/p>\n

For Lord and Miller, the show has not been far from their hearts either. While doing the publicity rounds for their latest film, 22 Jump Street<\/strong>, the pair told Collider that they have been thinking about possibly moving the show to the big screen. But there are some hurdles that will first need to be cleared.<\/p>\n

Miller: We talk very regularly now with Bill every few months or so, we talk about \u2018How are we going to get this back in whatever form we can?\u2019 We get our lawyers to talk to each other, and business affairs people to talk to each other. It\u2019s very complicated.<\/p>\n

Lord: And then we get tired.<\/p>\n

Miller: It\u2019s very hard (laughs). Because it\u2019s at Viacom\/MTV, we have a TV deal at Fox, he has a TV deal at Warner Bros. It\u2019s all very complicated, and then it\u2019s \u2018should we do a movie, or a TV show, or whatever?\u2019 But, we\u2019re working on it! It\u2019s hard!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But beyond just working through everyone’s contractual commitments, the pair state that there is the more practical consideration of exactly what shape would a movie version of the series take and to what kind of audience would they be trying to appeal to.<\/p>\n

Lord: It\u2019s also a tricky thing because we basically made a PG-13 TV series, and if you\u2019re gonna do a movie you wonder, \u2018Am I gonna have to justify the budget that it\u2019s gonna take by trying to broaden this to a family audience, and is that gonna kill what was fun about the original thing?\u2019 Because there\u2019s so much blood in the original series (laughs).<\/p>\n

Miller: And innuendo or whatever.<\/p>\n

Lord: And JFK sex jokes. Are you going to wind up defanging it?<\/p>\n

Miller: Are you gonna make it R? PG-13?<\/p>\n

Lord: It\u2019s trying to cross-reference what it\u2019s gonna cost and what it\u2019s gonna make.<\/p>\n

Miller: [Hard R-rated animated films] I think is a hole in the marketplace, because people love R-rated comedies and there\u2019s teen boys that love all the Family Guy, Simpsons-type of shows. There\u2019s a market there for that.<\/p>\n

Lord: The Simpsons Movie was PG-13. It had male-frontal nudity in it.<\/p>\n

Miller: South Park movie was R. There\u2019s a place that people are not occupying thinking that animated has to be family always, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true. I think [Sausage Party] is gonna do great. Those guys are so funny and talented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If a Clone High<\/em> feature were to come, it is still very far off.<\/p>\n

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Will the cult favorite MTV cartoon make it to the big screen?<\/div>\n

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