FOX Order New Series Based On Movies

[ZariusTwo]

http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2007/05/17/underworld-grudge-and-ghost-rider-tv-series/

Fox has grabbed the TV rights for a number of movies including Underworld, Grudge, and Ghost Rider. No word on casting or anything like that, but seeing how well that Blade TV series went, these probably won’t make it past season 1.

Grudge could be a really creep series. You don’t even need a recurring cast. It might be fun to see a number of different cursed houses and how they kill unsuspecting visitors. Ghost Rider you watch because of the flaming head and sexy choppers. And the only good thing about an Underworld television series is that now we might actually see vampires and werewolves actually do vampire and werewolf **** instead of just prance around in leather talking about how they’re vampires and werewolves and you know that because they’re wearing leather

Ghost Rider series won't make it past production, we'd obviously only get a blazing skull for two minutes an episode due to the budget constraints.

[GK Punk]

If they could pull it off, Ghost Rider could end up being made of complete awesome. I'd still love a Spider-Man show. I just don't see it happening anytime... ever.

[RaphistheBest]

So far I haven't seen anything good that Fox has done with a series they've ran that was based on a movie. Ok, they did alright with Highlander but that's pushin' it. When they advertised for the Blade series I was kinda like "Sweet! I wanna see how they pulled this off." But of course I knew better. I watched about half of an episode and changed to channel to Good Eats with Alton Brown. I love that show.

[ZariusTwo]

If they could pull it off, Ghost Rider could end up being made of complete awesome. I'd still love a Spider-Man show. I just don't see it happening anytime... ever.

You mean the new animated series out in 2008?:)

[GK Punk]

I actually did forget about that :lol:

I meant a live action show, but the new animated series will totally work for me.

[DrSpengler]

I'd rather have a Ghost Rider cartoon, honestly, as then we'd get all the blazing skull we want without it costing $1million per second. The best parts of the live action GR flick were the scenes with Ghost Rider, the worst were the scenes with Johnny Blaze. A TV series of 28 minutes of Blaze and 2 minutes of GR would be tragic.

As for Grudge, I wasn't big on the movies but I think the concept would indeed work a LOT better as an anthology horror series.

If you watch the originla Ju-On it has a great ending where it shows that, over time, every single person living in the city was evnetually killed by the spirit of the house (leaving the city deserted). So there's plenty of room to have different an interesting stories based around different characters being haunted and killed by the ghost.

As for Underworld, I hated the movies and absolutely wouldn't watch the show.

[LogicDonny]

it's much better for cartoons to do these kind of things because it's easier and you can do pretty much anything in animation. takes alot longer to do things in live action tv shows.

[VaughnMichael]

so with this news I've started to think and wonder if the new re-tooling of the tmnt cartoon on fox isn't going to be a part of this and have the turtles finally depart from the saterday am lineup and perhaps moving them to a more adult sunday night animated show. We could only hope and it would be the correct move in my opinion but hey when have higher up people ever really done anything right.

[Spitfire]

Underworld's flare wore off on me very quickly. I liked the first movie but after I saw #2 I began to 2nd guess.

Ghost Rider I skipped, it looked like I would hate it so I didn't bother torturing myself. Like Fantastic Four, I won't go there. But a TV series, it's going to look like that insurance ad they ran when the movie came out.

The Grudge? The fad of taking Japanese horror flicks and remaking them with "CGIZZZ" is bad enough. A TV series could work. But only if done with the quality and caliber of a series like Millennium. Which will never happen. That show was the peak of TV series.

[Raven]

I'm so glad I barely have any time to watch TV any more, god this is so stupid. Really a live action Ghost rider would be cool if they could pull it off but we all know they wont so why not go animated with it? that seems logical and cost effective.

Underworld could be cool, maybe even better then the movies (which I hated) but the grudge.....eh I could care less about.