Episode 151 - Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) w/ Special Guest: Bede Jermyn

Podcast: Failure to Franchise · Trev & Chris

Opublikowano: 2026-07-28

A successful music video director and the filmmaker behind a recently well-received cult hit is hired to helm the cinematic adaptation of a beloved '60s sitcom. Clearly aiming for something more hip and edgy than the original show, he largely eschews the tone of the source material, instead populating his film with esoteric cult celebs and performers, upping the raunch factor, and filming it as a musical. And then...nothing. The movie sits on the shelf for almost four years. Until - unbeknownst to the director himself - it is finally quietly released, in a drastically altered studio c...