![]() ![]() That sentiment is only magnified now with it's 2002 release to DVD. Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-ownedīuckaroo Banzai, in it's original VHS format, was already a Cult Classic. buy a copy and be prepared to screen it at least two times, to get all the nuances and gags. Only recently I purchased it at eBay, and ha ve seen it two or three times since then. Years ago, when it was available on a pay-TV station in Los Angeles, I saw the movie about four or five times. One reviewer wrote of it "[Buckaroo Banzai[ is paradoxically decades ahead of its time and yet completely of its time it's profoundly a movie by, for, and of geeks and nerds at a time before geek/nerd culture was mainstreamed, and a movie whose pre-CG special effects and pre-Computer Age production design were an essential part of its good-natured enthusiasm." It played for over two years at weekend midnight screenings in Boston, and was sold out every show (principally because Harvard students loved it and saw it again and again). This movie is so brilliant and so funny that you'll have to see it at least twice to get all the gags. Along with Weller, the film featured appearances by John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Clancy Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, and Dan Hedaya among others.The hands-down greatest SciFi sendup of all time, and a terrific movie on its own merits!! One notable homage to the film was included in Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. “I can’t say to whom yet, but yesterday we sold Buckaroo Banzai as a TV series.”īuckaroo Banzai was a flop upon release but became a staple of cable and home video and now is considered a touchstone of ’80s genre films, with numerous writers and directors citing it as a large early influence. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot and rock musician who saves the world from inter-dimensional aliens. Following his episode of The Flash, says Smith, MGM contacted him about adapting the 1984 film starring Peter Weller as the multi-talented Dr. Meanwhile, Buckaroo Banzai the series has been in the works for a bit longer. Notably, Mallrats is also set in the same universe as Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. ![]() 'Super Mario Bros' Posts Strong $26M+ Thursday 5-Day Opening Record In Sight For Illumination - Updated Box OfficeĪ flop when in its initial release, Smith has long wanted to make a sequel to the film set in a New Jersey mall and following a group of slackers and employees who frequent it. So instead of doing a Mallrats movie, I’m going to do 10 episodes of a Mallrats series.” ![]() “Then we take it out into the world to find a home for it. “Universal and I are just about to close our deal to do Mallrats the series,” he told WMMR. After what he called “a protracted negotiation,” things came together. What’s more, the Yoga Hosers and Clerks director revealed that he’s also developed a TV series based on cult 1980s film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension in partnership with MGM, which has just been sold to an unnamed content provider.Įxplaining the long process of trying to make a sequel to Mallrats, which included at one point attempting to get the rights back from distributor Universal Pictures, Smith said his experience directing a recent episode of the CW’s The Flash convinced him that television was the medium for it. After years of trying to get a sequel to his 1995 film Mallrats off the ground, Kevin Smith said today on WWMR-FM Philadelphia that Mallrats 2 is officially in development as a 10-episode scripted television series. ![]()
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