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dead [he/him]@hexbear.net to Movies & TV@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days ago

Elizabeth Banks cast as Ms Frizzle in upcoming 'Magic School Bus' live-action film; directed by 'Detective Pikachu' director

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Elizabeth Banks cast as Ms Frizzle in upcoming 'Magic School Bus' live-action film; directed by 'Detective Pikachu' director

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dead [he/him]@hexbear.net to Movies & TV@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days ago
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'Magic School Bus' Live-Action Movie With Elizabeth Banks Lands Director
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A live-action "The Magic School Bus" movie, starring Elizabeth Banks as Ms. Frizzle, is regaining momentum.
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  • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Have one fucking original idea I beg you

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      The worst is when there is an original idea in there, but the only way to sell it was to wrap it in an existing IP which both cheapens the original idea and the IP.

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    im sorry youse guys i think i’m the target audience for all these awful movies because i read this and thought “oh neat maybe i’ll watch that slop”

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      Detective Pikachu was fine

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    live action Magic School Bus film

    uh-oh, bad news for the film Adam McKay is making my friend write for him lmao.

    spoiler for an unwritten movie and details i probably shouldn't reveal

    from what he’s described to me, the concept was that billionaires have started to utilise basically magic school bus / honey I shrunk the kids-esque technology as a health treatment and physically send in workers as health professionals to treat and clean up health issues (like physically remove plaque from the aorta or fix a liver or some shit), but the big reveal being that they entirely exploit and dispose of the working class by sending them in and then tell them that there’s literally no exit plan and they are expected to die inside the billionaire’s body. The plot is then about the crew staging a mutiny/revolution and working out how reverse the shrinking, kill the billionaire from the inside of their body and somehow survive.

    I bring this up because when i first heard about this, I gave the project the working title “The Magic School Bussy”

    • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Innerspace meets Mutiny on the Bounty

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        lol I was gonna say they already made this movie, but an anti-capitalist take on the concept would be awesome.

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      so, proletarianized fantastic voyage?

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        fantastic voyage

        huh, yeah seems so
        again, i only know scant details from shittalking at the pub/while gaming, but this literally sounds like it

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      I’d watch that

    • Impenetrouble [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I’d watch the live action Magic School Bus, AND this back to back.

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    I haven’t thought about Detective Pikachu since it came out, I never saw it and people stopped talking about it pretty much the instant it was no longer in theatres. Same with the Mario movie, and the Sonic movie. I’m starting to think all these films aimed at childhood nostalgia are completely empty and meaningless and have 0 actual impact on people because they are the safest, blandest, least interesting thing they can be, made to a cookie cutter formula for maximum profit.

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      The only thing people remember about the Sonic movie is the original Sonic design and only because at least that was an interesting thing to talk about. I’m not even sure if they’ll survive time as childhood memories for gen alpha - like, they have so much stuff competing for their childhood nostalgia, are they gonna remember the mario movies the way that millenials remember the star wars prequels?

      • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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        Sonic is a cop movie

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          and to think the original version of the character is literally an ecoterrorist joyce-messier

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        I heard Eggman put on a good performance. Aside from the hilarious original sonic design that’s all I’ve ever heard about the movie.

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      It was surprisingly good, all things concerned, even with the lore retcons. Well as good as any Van Wilder movie can be.

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        Yeah it was way better than deadpool for kids had any right to be

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    oh my fucking god i read that as elizabeth holmes holy shit

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      You are not alone lmao

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    A blonde cishet woman playing a canonically queer redhead? …Pass.

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      Is she canonically queer? All I’ve been able to find are fan theories and speculations based on her voice actress

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        I distinctly remember an episode that starts with Frizz literally in the closet, and she comes out wearing a rainbow dress. It’s allegorical, but as a queer child I immediately knew what they were getting at.

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        I haven’t watched TMSB in over a decade but i feel like there’s no way a children’s show like that would have explicitly touched on “she’s queer” back when it was airing. If im wrong def let me know i just don’t remember a The Magic School Bus Explores Gender And Sexuality episode

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          was there a revival cartoon or am i thinking of bill nye?

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            There was, but it doesn’t follow the original Frizz. It follows her sister played by Kate McKinnon, also a lesbian.

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            There was a Netflix one i think

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      Neither was Lily Tomlin, though she is the spirit of most people’s conception of the Ms. Frizzle character. This just feels like “lets just get a hot blonde lady to do it”.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wagner

        She is Lily Tomlin’s comedy writer, collaborator, and wife.

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        You’re kidding, right? Lily Tomlin has been with her now-wife since 1971.

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          I meant more the redhead thing. But no I wasn’t aware she was with her wife since 1971.

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    Why

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      Beloved IPs make money even if you ruin them

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    lol GOOD post

    saul-stare

    Wait, this isn’t /c/badposting

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    visible-disgust

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    I don’t even know who this mayo woman is.

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