Is Nothing Sacred? 'Bumped" Sort of Remakes 'The Breakfast Club'
Filed under: Classics, Independent, Deals, Remakes and Sequels
This really seems like something that should end up in a rejected screenplay collection ...The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on an indie film called Bumped, a story described as a modern day version of The Breakfast Club. The twist is that five twenty-somethings will be stranded in Chicago O'Hare Airport after being bumped from a flight. One is a corporate go-getter, one a flirt, another a musician, and so on. They wouldn't normally be friends for reasons that aren't really apparent from the vantage of adulthood ... but would probably be apparent within the social structure of high school.
The movie will be the directorial debut by McG protege Anna Mastro, and will be produced by veteran producer Bridget Johnson. The script is by Lizzy Weiss. It will be financed independently, so we can't really complain that studios are ignoring originality.
Maybe I'm just jealous because I never make any friends in airports when I'm stuck in one. I just end up eating terrible fast food and flipping through the sleazier bestsellers, which I hurriedly put back when someone in the shop seems to be judging me.
I just hope the corporate go-getter or musician punches the air at the end, a'la Judd Nelson.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-29-2008 @ 7:53PM
seraphflux said...
Excuse me but how is that a remake of The Breakfast Club? The plot is completey different. You might as well say that it's a remake of 12 Angry Men only set in an airport and with female characters as well...
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3-01-2008 @ 3:48PM
Yan said...
Being a big fan of both films (and having seen both of them many times), it sounds exactly like the Breakfast Club to me -- good call Elisabeth. Guess it's not just the studios that are out of new ideas.
2-29-2008 @ 8:40PM
Elisabeth said...
I didn't say it, The Hollywood Reporter did! Don't shoot the messenger. :P
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2-29-2008 @ 10:19PM
AJ said...
It takes the basic premise, but it really isn't a remake or even a "reimaging"
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3-01-2008 @ 2:40AM
CG Jung said...
Won't your faces be red when the airport security guard makes all the bumped passengers write an essay about "why they are bumped" before their plane arrives.
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3-01-2008 @ 12:03PM
Tigerlily said...
Once again Hollywood proves it's lack of imagination. It sounds very much like the Breakfast Club or The Big Chill revisited. The basic premise is the same. Add some kind of predator and you'd have the basic horror film premise too. Sure, there could be a clever script that makes this something unique but that doesn't happen often. I'll wait for a few more details before passing final judgment, but this early stage it sounds like cheese.
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3-02-2008 @ 1:17PM
Jamie said...
This is a joke. It also sounds like "Bumped" is trying to rip off the "Bleachers" production, which got it right if the Breakfast Club is going to be remade.
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3-02-2008 @ 1:20PM
Jamie said...
This is a joke. It also sounds like a ripoff of the "Bleachers" production. "Bleachers" is also a modern day breakfast club, but takes what mean so much to us in the 80's in a todays generation twist. I think their on the IMDB.
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