The Graduate 2: Robert Altman called it!

[Fidelio1st]

The Graduate II is happening, well, sort of. Altman called it in The Player. Of course, he was making fun of Hollywood when he mentioned it. In the opening scene, 2 guys pitch the sequel to Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins). And I guess they changed the storyline from a comatose Mrs. Robinson (if I remember the pitch correctly).

Another weird coincidence. The main character in The Player was named Griffin, and Ted Griffin, the original director of the “inspired” sequel, just got kicked off the film, and replaced with Rob Reiner.

Whoa.

New York Times article about it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/25/movies/25grad.html

“The script, about a young woman from Pasadena who discovers that her grandmother was the inspiration for the Mrs. Robinson character in The Graduate, was strong enough to lure a cast of top-notch actors, led by Jennifer Aniston.”


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ARTICLE on Carlito's Way Prequelitis (Yes that's right, a prequel is in the works)

“We're about to make film history, right here on videotape.”—Jack Horner, Boogie Nights

[droidguy1119]

This is old news. And it isn't The Graduate 2, either.

[Mat]

Speaking of Robert Altman...

The update of his political satirical miniseries "Tanner '88," "Tanner on Tanner," should premere this fall on the Sundance channel. I'd be more excited if I had the Sundance channel, but anyway the DVD should be good.

[Citizen Kane]

I wish Tanner on Tanner was on the DVD. And I wish I got the Sundance Channel.

[Se7en the movie]

Whats tanner on tanner?

[Mat]

This three-part series of half-hour episodes centers on Jack Tanner’s (Murphy) daughter Alex (Nixon), now a documentary filmmaker seeking funding for a film about what it takes to run for the highest political office and the toll it takes on those who lose. As in the original “Tanner ’88,” the approach of the series blurs the boundary between the factual and the dramatic and features Tanner interacting with real candidates from the present day as well as those from the recent past. Among those who are scheduled to make cameo appearances in “Tanner on Tanner” are Mario Cuomo, Martin Scorsese, Madeleine Albright, Carl Bernstein and Al Franken.
Sundance Channel’s aired ”Tanner ’88” in February 2004, pegged to the Democratic primary season. Directed by Altman and written by Trudeau, the eleven-episode miniseries followed a fictitious Democratic presidential candidate through the very real terrain of the 1988 presidential campaign – an election year to rival 2004 for strangeness and unpredictability.

[NitWit]

woah, thread title is a bit of a let down, for a second there i thought they were really going to try a Graduate 2

[Mat]

It's kind of a Graduate sequel. It's about a woman (Jennifer Anniston) who finds out that her family was the inspiration for the book and film. It was once directed by Ted Griffin, but imdb said that Kevin Costner bullied him and he (Griffin) got canned. Of course, that's imdb, so you never know.

[droidguy1119]

There was a proposed sequel to the Graduate, a real one, based on an idea by Dustin Hoffman that Mike Nichols thought was funny, but obviously it isn't going anywhere.

[boulderdash]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but wasn't Rob Reiner one of the guys in The Player that was pitching the Graduate 2 to Griffin? I think I'm wrong but I swear I remember seeing him in the opening sequence regardless.

[Scarpias]

No, I don't remember Meathead making a pitch, but the idea was pitched in the Player by Buck Henry, who wrote the screenplay of the first movie (and is Known to older SNL fans as "Uncle Roy" - sorry Gen Xers, you will NEVER see an Uncle Roy sketch because they are now completely politically incorrect.)


Sequel or dirivitive it sounds like a stupid idea. Even the original was only fun for the first third, then went nowhere.