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Raph's Girl 03-03-2009 06:13 PM

High School Musical 4
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090303/...choolmusical_1

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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 03-03-2009 07:08 PM

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

The Stryker 03-03-2009 07:11 PM

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 03-03-2009 07:17 PM

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

gobo 03-03-2009 08:02 PM

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 03-03-2009 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by gobo (Post 677261)
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 03-03-2009 08:23 PM

Yeah, who wants to have opinions on things?

Jester 03-03-2009 08:57 PM

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 03-03-2009 09:08 PM

Too much effort...

Guitar_Raph 03-03-2009 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester (Post 677270)
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 03-03-2009 09:33 PM

Well, its about time!

Raph's Girl 03-04-2009 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Guitar_Raph (Post 677278)
[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 03-04-2009 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Raph's Girl (Post 677307)
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 03-04-2009 02:18 AM

...

*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 03-04-2009 02:34 AM

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 03-04-2009 03:49 AM

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

===HERO

Mr._Mutant_Man 03-04-2009 07:18 AM

I wonder if a College Musical is inevitable.

Drtooth 03-04-2009 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr._Mutant_Man (Post 677331)
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.

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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 03-04-2009 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr._Mutant_Man (Post 677331)
I wonder if a College Musical is inevitable.

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

Drtooth 03-06-2009 03:00 PM

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


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