High School Musical 4

[Raph's Girl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090303/tv_nm/us_highschoolmusical_1

Walt Disney Co's teen hit franchise "High School Musical" is coming back for a fourth time -- but with a new cast of characters, the company said on Tuesday.

"High School Musical 4" will debut on the Disney Channel in 2010 -- marking a return to its original cable home after the third instalment danced into movie theaters in 2008.

Disney Channel said in a statement the story would feature a music- and dance-filled love triangle set against cross-town rivalry between fictional high schools in Albuquerque, N.M.

It will introduce a new cast of characters after the fictional "graduation" of the original stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale in "High School Musical 3: Senior Year".

They should just call this what it really is... West Side Story. :roll:

[Jester]

So it's High School Musical: The New Class?

[The Stryker]

This is probably going to fail. The first three movies worked because of how likeable the cast was.

I'll check it out but I don't have high hopes.

[Leonardo Mystic]

*headdesks, hard, puts a hole in said desk*

[gobo]

If it wasn't for my neice being a big fan, I wouldn't even bother checking out this thread. But, I have to say how disappointed I am that Disney is still up to their old tricks of milking any franchise they can for every penny while running it into the ground at the same time. They don't seem to mind that every lame sequel they create devalues the original work. This one should be especially bad as I'm sure they're not even going to try to keep this from becoming typical Disney Channel fodder. Integrity is a foreign concept to Disney... :ohwell:

[Drtooth]

If it wasn't for my neice being a big fan, I wouldn't even bother checking out this thread. But, I have to say how disappointed I am that Disney is still up to their old tricks of milking any franchise they can for every penny while running it into the ground at the same time. They don't seem to mind that every lame sequel they create devalues the original work.


What's a matter, man? Can't you give Disney the credit it deserves, working around that totally unfair cheapquel prohibition that John Lassiter instated by only cheapqueling live action movies? I call that INGENUITY!


That said, Bob Iger is a milliondy times worse than Eisner. Nuff said.

Oh, and people who post polarizing threads should get temp banned. But that's just me.

[The Stryker]

Yeah, who wants to have opinions on things?

[Jester]

Why don't they just try to make a High School Musical: The Series? That'd milk that cash cow...on a weekly basis.

[gobo]

Too much effort...

[Guitar_Raph]

Why don't they just try to make a High School Musical: The Series? That'd milk that cash cow...on a weekly basis.

There hasn't been a weekly live action musical series since Kids Incorporated (1984-93).

As for HSM4, it would be nice to finally have a character who can sing & play an instrument. If playing instruments is so lame, Drake Bell would be drummed out (pardon the pun) & Joe Jonas would be a solo act.

[Brodie]

Well, its about time!

[Raph's Girl]

[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][SIZE="4"]There hasn't been a weekly live action musical series since Kids Incorporated (1984-93).

I loved Kids Incorporated!!

But a weekly live action musical series WAS done recently....Viva Laughlin. It starred Hugh Jackman but was cancelled after like 2 eps. :lol: Viva Laughlin was based on a british weekly musical called Blackpool that starred David "Im not the Doctor but I almost was!" Morrisey and David "The 10th Doctor" Tennant.... That lasted a full UK season (6 eps).

[Roseangelo]

Viva Laughlin was based on a british weekly musical called Blackpool that starred David "Im not the Doctor but I almost was!" Morrisey and David "The 10th Doctor" Tennant.... That lasted a full UK season (6 eps).

Blackpool was a mini-series meant to be 6 episodes and that's it. It wasn't a full-on series that had "seasons;" it's basically a 6-hour movie. There happens to be a follow-up TV movie, with all of one character returning. And it wasn't even really a musical in the traditional sense. All of the songs were the actors lip-syncing to existing songs.

[Ra]

...

*facepalm*

Good god Disney, we know that you have a fetish for musicals right now, but you are definitely overdoing it when you are gunning for a fourth movie.

Not that it was already overdone in the first place.

/bitchy mode

[The Stryker]

This just reminds me of all the other needless Direct to DVD sequels Disney puts out.

Doesn't help that HSM is the thing to hate nowadays.

I'm gonna miss Tisdale and Efron's eyebrows for sure.

[Hero]

It might be good if the Generation 2 bunch are better characters than the first group.

===HERO

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

I wonder if a College Musical is inevitable.

[Drtooth]

I wonder if a College Musical is inevitable.

Nope. You see, the goal of these types of projects is that kids want to pretend to be 15-17 year old teenagers. They want to grow up fast and all... but 18-20 something is a far out of their reach. Of course, I feel it inevitable that someone will make a stage musical out of Animal House, since people love stage musicals based off of random movies these days.

Why don't they just try to make a High School Musical: The Series? That'd milk that cash cow...on a weekly basis.

Much as I hate to admit it, it's not a bad idea. I mean, that's all the Disney Channel wants to do now, anyway. I'm actually surprised they didn't think of that already.

I give up on caring about this stuff. I'm disappointed as a Disney fan that this stuff is all they're about now. But I'm more offended by the fact that Mickey, Goofy, Donald and co are only used for a lousy Preschool show following the Dora model. Dagnabbit... I miss my House of Mouse and Mouseworks.

[Raph's Girl]

I wonder if a College Musical is inevitable.

Lady's and gents...I give ya "College Musical"
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[Drtooth]

Forget it... looks like someone made the right choice as far as this thread goes.