{"id":8972,"date":"2010-07-08T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T13:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2010-07-08T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T13:32:18","slug":"weird-als-second-film-in-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/08\/weird-als-second-film-in-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"“Weird Al”‘s Second Film In Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you’re waiting for pop culture satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic’s second film, you are going to have to wait a little longer. Of course, since it has been 21 years since his first film, UHF<\/strong>, hit theater, you may be used to waiting.<\/p>\n

This past January, Yankovic announced<\/a> that he had a deal with Cartoon Network which in part had him developing a live action feature film. Over the year, though, the execs at the cable channel have had a change of heart about how much they want to push their brand out of animation into live action and called a halt to all feature film development. Al blogged<\/a> about it-<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve mentioned the situation with Cartoon Network in a few interviews and podcasts, but I never formally addressed it, so\u2026 here\u2019s what happened.\u00a0 As I had previously reported, after years of negotiation, I was able to sign a major production deal with Cartoon Network to provide content for them.\u00a0 They were primarily interested in live action features, so I pitched them on a movie idea.\u00a0 They loved it, and gave me the go-ahead to start working on the screenplay.\u00a0 I worked closely with them for several months, and after submitting my 4th<\/sup> draft, just when I was just about to get the official green light\u2026 Cartoon Network let me know that they were no longer in the feature film business.\u00a0 It was a major policy change that affected not only me, but also the dozen or so other movies of theirs that were in various stages of development.\u00a0 Everything just stopped.\u00a0 So, bad news for me, but good news for all the Cartoon Network fanboys that already hated my movie without seeing it (because apparently any live-action programming on that network would be sacrilegious).\u00a0 Anyway, it\u2019s not entirely bad news \u2013 the script went into turnaround, which means I\u2019m free to sell it somewhere else.\u00a0 (Come to think of it, that was pretty much the exact thing that happened when I was trying to get UHF<\/strong> made.)\u00a0 So maybe it\u2019ll get produced at some point, maybe it won\u2019t\u2026 all I know is, I\u2019ll have a lot more free time this fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hopefully, some other studio will step in and pick the untitled project up. Yankovic’s got a solid and supportive fan base who would certainly come out for his first film in two decades.<\/p>\n

Would the film be a flat out parody of films the way UHF<\/strong> goofed on television? Who knows, but if it were, I would love to see Al school those people behind the last several years’ worth of weak parody movies. If instead it is some other peek in to Yankovic’s decidedly skewed view of the world, I would welcome that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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