ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stern's Porky's Project Gets the Green Light?

Stern's Porky's Project Gets the Green Light?

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by Jeff Giles | August 15, 2007

Much light has been made of his seeming inability to make good on that whole "King of All Media" thing, but if a recent item at Slashfilm is to be believed, radio kingpin Howard Stern will soon be making good on at least one of the film projects he announced five years ago. Fans of ribald humor and gratuitous nudity, take heed!

Back in 2002, Stern announced he was producing remakes of Porky's and Rock 'N' Roll High School under the "Howard Stern Presents" banner, but both projects seemed to disappear into a development black hole, and most people assumed they'd been put out to pasture. According to Stern, however, Porky's is good to go, and it was just a matter of finding the right script. From the Slashfilm article:

"We got two scripts that were developed simultaneously kind of. One's a rewrite of a rewrite of a script that we did -- that I didn't do, but I was sort of in on. It's coming along pretty funny," said Stern. "We're going to combo them now because there's funny jokes in both and you have to figure out which is better for the movie."

The article doesn't mention a distributor for the film, and Stern says no director is yet attached, but as Slashfilm points out, the last few years have seen a resurgence of R-rated comedies at the box office, and a Porky's remake would fit right in.

Source: Slashfilm

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Gimy writes:
on Aug 15 2007 08:27 AM

there's been a resurgence of GOOD R rated comedies. i recollect like...4. thats hardly a need to make an uproar though. then there's the national lampoon series and the other straight to dvd ones. i'm thinking a porky's remake is the latter...the ones that only the mentally incompetent think is entertaining. i'm all for b33bies but, i've seen enough Tara Reid-like surgeries in those movies to know those chics are just sad to look at. i feel more sympathy than feel the need to dig in my pants and jacket. 20 bucks says this sucks. hope i'm wrong but, with the delays and the need to COMBINE two scripts and stern behind it...it doesn't look like its off to a good start.

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RawIsRamsey writes:
on Aug 15 2007 08:28 AM

Weird....I was just talking about these projects the other day with a buddy of mine...don't know if this really needs a remake though...kinda on the fence. Rock And Roll High School shall not be touched, though...you just can't find a band on par with The Ramones to do that movie about, especially with todays sad musical landscape.

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arendr writes:
on Aug 15 2007 08:48 AM

If only Howard Stern used his powers for good instead of unnecessary remakes for adolescents. Wait a minute. If only half the rich and famous used their powers for good...

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dracus writes:
on Aug 15 2007 10:37 AM

So Howard Stern is remaking Porky's. I heard that he had to beat Tom Green, Rob Schneider, and David Spade in a pissing up-a-wall contest to get the right. Apparently, Porky%u2019s wasn%u2019t even up to Michael E-Bay%u2019s standards, so he didn%u2019t participate in the contest.

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neoes writes:
on Aug 15 2007 12:41 PM

I may be the only one to say it...but, Porky's sucked. It wasn't that funny and it was stupid, and this comes from a guy who loves R rated comedies more than anyone. It may be the mother of them all...but just because it started it doesn't necessarily mean it's that good.

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welease_woger writes:
on Aug 15 2007 02:14 PM

Good wone dwacus. Let us stwike this sowwy tuwrkey vewy woughly.

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Atomix writes:
on Aug 15 2007 06:00 PM

What's this "seeming inability" bull**** Jeff? He's the best in the business!

Anyway, Stern is friends with pretty much all the best people in Entertainment. Certainly all the best Comedians save Jim Norton(who stern will correct by casting him as the female gym teacher).

Judd Apatow started as a Stern Caller in High School.

When he wanted to do a puff piece and make himself more well liked he pulled Ivan Reitman and Betty Thomas out of his *** and gave Paul Giamatti a career and a name in the same sentence.

Eli Roth wrote Cabin Fever while working as Howards aid cleaning his cumrags on the set of Private Parts.

I never would think a remake of Porky's would be worth a damn. But Stern could pull it off. That's THE GUY you want to remake an alleged classic that doesn't need to be remade.

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jmo2ski writes:
on Aug 15 2007 06:33 PM

This would be a good remake in my case, but i do think we have seen this before. And the way teen sex movies are going now, it will suck.

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Cindy_Lou_Who writes:
on Aug 15 2007 06:40 PM

In reply to this comment (#1042965)
Good God child, you get on as if this moron was another Spielberg. Stern is nothing more than a no talent egotistical loud mouth *** who gets people like you to respect him for being a childish bully, nothing more. But then again, what else would you expect from someone who calls Porky's an alleged classic.

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Atomix writes:
on Aug 15 2007 06:52 PM

What would you call it? It's a beloved 80s movie revered by people who were just the right age to catch it at the right time. And the most well known and remembered scene involved a dude getting his crank yanked by a 300 lb bulldyke through hole in the wall.

it has a 5.6 on IMDB.

It's an allegedly classic film.

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ben_oblivion writes:
on Aug 15 2007 06:54 PM

Normally I don't condone the development of any remake because honestly they're ruining the movie industry. I mean look at the horror industry, come on. But i might actually pay ten bucks to see this movie just for it's gratuitous nudity and horrible writing that will make it b-movietastic! It may not be good, but i'm sure it will be gross. And hey, maybe fartman will be in it.

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johndoes writes:
on Aug 15 2007 07:13 PM

In reply to this comment (#1042258)
if you didn't enjoy the original Porky's is because 1. you didn't watch it on the big screen in 1982 and 2. you weren't a teenager like I was (11th grade in High School in 1982) when I watch it and 3. you have been too desensitized by today's easy access to porn and nudity on the internet.

Back in 1982 and the 80s, we didn't have the internet. Seeing a girl naked in a movie (Porky's, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Revenge of the Nerd, Private Lessons and more) then was a novelty to us. Sneaking home with a copy of Playboy or Penthouse was a Sin and going to a topless bar at the age of 19 in 1984 was a big event.

I think young people today are too desensitized by the easy access of Porn and Nudity and Sex on TV and the Internet that there is no fantasy and the excitement of Discovery anymore.

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dylan21484nj writes:
on Aug 15 2007 07:30 PM

In reply to this comment (#1042965)
Stern is friends with "the best people in entertainment" yet it has taken him this long to get this idea off the ground? what does that tell you about the kind of drawing power he has these days when all his supposed friends in Hollywood wouldn't even get behind him all this time and help him champion this movie to be made? if he still had the kind of mass audience appeal today that he did at his prime well over a decade ago, this movie wouldn't have taken this long to be made. public interest in Stern just isn't there anymore. and for a guy who claims to be such an original, his two best ideas for movies are REMAKES? methinks Stern's creative well has run dry.

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Atomix writes:
on Aug 15 2007 09:14 PM

Well you got me there. Lack of "drawing power" is obviously behind the lack of The Hobbit. I mean it's been 4 years since Return of the King wrapped and the interest is deader than Peter Jackson's cinematic relevance. Oh wait.

Sterns been nowhere to be found for the last two years. No projects. No brand new multi-billion dollar companies to get off the ground. No 500 million dollar lawsuits. No 5 hour daily radio show. No other interests. http://www.worldchesslive.com/

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Lizard Brain writes:
on Aug 16 2007 02:42 AM

Porky's did suck. I saw it for the first, real time about a month ago (had seen bits and pieces before and knew all about the shower scene). Anyway, after seeing it, I was really like "what was the big deal?" If Animal House is a 10, and it is or damn close, then Porky's is about a 3. At least, with that idea, it is a better movie to try and remake since something like Animal House could only pale to the original.

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Hans Gruber writes:
on Aug 16 2007 03:40 AM

I kind of agree with Johndoes. I have yet to see Porky's, but I remember being about seven or eight years old and can still remember how the film seemed kind of sexually edgy for its time. There simply was not the same amount of sexual material available to most youths at that time, and Porky's seemed pornographic at the time of its release. I guess that leaves the question, "How can Howard Stern's version 1-up the original version in this day and age?" My guess is that it can accomplish this by simply being "funnier" than the original, which shouldn't be too difficult to do. But will it be funny enough to bring in mass audiences? Judging by the humor level found in Stern's radio show in the last three years, I'd say no.

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gojirazilla writes:
on Aug 16 2007 09:49 AM

will porkys be good probably not but i got 500million reasons why stern is great entertainment.

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sickofitall writes:
on Aug 16 2007 10:29 AM

In reply to this comment (#1043103)
shutup

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sickofitall writes:
on Aug 16 2007 10:30 AM

In reply to this comment (#1042258)
you suck

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paskunia writes:
on Aug 16 2007 11:03 AM

Whatever else Howeird does with and to the new "Porky's," he has to pay tribute to the late Bob Clark, who co-wrote and directed the first two.
The one good thing about the "Porky's" series is that they didn't have Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell in them, which would have made those movies, like themselves, totally unfunny.

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