THREE'S COMPANY is Coming to The Big Screen
It appears that there is a resurgence of old-school TV shows being made into movies. We have Baywatch being filmed as we speak, and we found out yesterday that Three’s Company is going to be making its way to the big screen. Here is what The Hollywood Reporter has to say about it:
The studio is in negotiations to pick up the rights to the classic television series Three’s Company, and is tapping scribes Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, the duo behind its 2009 hit He’s Just Not That Into You, to pen the screenplay...
Three’s Company was a top 10 show that aired on ABC from 1977 to 1984 and centered on the friendship forged between two single women living in Santa Monica who took in a man as a roommate, this in an age when such cohabitation was not a social norm. To keep the arrangement kosher with the landlords, the trio concocted a story saying the man had no ill intentions towards the women because he was gay. A comedy of errors, with plenty of innuendo, ensued week after week for eight seasons.
There is no word on casting yet and for a story like thi,s that is the most important element. The story premise worked great for a TV show because John Ritter was fantastic in his role and was able to bring laughs without that much writing behind it. I think that will have to be the case for the movie, too.
I am not convinced that this will be a super successful movie, but because I really like the show, I will give it a shot.