With the success of both the small to big screen summer flicks Sex and the City and Get Smart, the Internet is abuzz with rumors of what the next big TV adaptation will be. While I personally am holding out for My Mother the Car (starring Daniel Day Lewis and Dame Judi Dench, written and directed by David Mamet), the popular money seems to be on those "I'll be there for you" folks, Friends.
This is no big surprise...in fact, the plot of a Friends movie has been floating around for YEARS now. It's "The One Where Joey Hits Skid Row." Alarmed by their missing "friend," the quintet of Monica and Chandler (divorced when Chandler came out of the closet), Phoebe (now hosting her own "Psychic Friends Network" chatline), and the twice-divorced, twice remarried Ross and Rachel (now with kids named Moss and Maple, taking a cue from the movie star kid monikers of such famous people as Gwyneth Paltrow's Apple), fly out to Los Angeles only to find Joey is a sterno-drinking homeless person roaming the streets of Los Angeles. Decimated by the cancellation of his TV sitcom, and blacklisted when he crossed the picket line during the Writers' Strike (the studio commissary was serving free meatball sandwiches), Joey has sunk to new levels of despair. Can the Friends rescue him? Or are the self-centered sextet too self-absorbed in their own selfless selfishness?
The Friends movie: a tale of love, redemption, and six aging actors who have yet to find a hit elsewhere.
"Time" says there's supposed to be an "Arrested Development" movie in the works. I am excited and hope it's true...
Posted by: M_eHart | 07/06/2008 at 09:26 AM