Baywatch Coming To The Big Screen

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/e...movies_eo/15317

 

A Big-Screen "Baywatch"

Wed Nov 10, 5:00 PM ET 

By Josh Grossberg

 

Those Baywatch bombshells could soon be getting jiggly with it on the big screen.

 

DreamWorks confirmed Wednesday that it has sealed a seven-figure deal for feature film rights to the clothes-eschewing staple of the 1990s, at one time the most popular TV show in the world.

 

 

While the brain trust behind the show--creators Michael Berk, Doug Schwartz and Greg Bonann--are on board as producers, it remains to be seen who will be filling out the speedos.

 

 

David Hasselhoff (news), whose furry-chested Mitch Buchanan led the crack team of barely clothed Malibu-based lifesavers, is not attached to the project. There's no word either on the status of his bevy of bathing-suited beauties, including Pamela Anderson (news - web sites), Carmen Electra (news), Yasmine Bleeth (news), and Donna D'Errico, Gena Lee Nolin, Alexandra Paul, Nicole Eggert (news) and Traci Bingham (news).

 

 

According to Daily Variety, DreamWorks forked over $1.25 million for the rights and is currently searching for a writer to dive in and craft a script that makes the most of the show's, um, assets.

 

 

Here's to hoping they keep in the trademark slo-mo shots of the well oiled lifeguards running around the beach to save another beautiful victim in the surf (imagine the Imax version).

 

 

Baywatch launched on NBC in 1989, but so-so ratings and blistering reviews prompted the Peacock to deep-six the series. Hasselhoff and crew managed to resurface in syndication, where Baywatch became an international hit, airing in 142 countries and 44 languages at its peak. There was even a spinoff series (ah, those unforgettable Baywatch Nights).

 

 

Soaring production costs and dwindling ratings forced the lifeguards to pack up their thongs and relocate from California to Hawaii, where the series ended rather unceremoniously in 2001.

 

 

Several of the stars have struggled with their off-screen lives. A drug arrest landed Bleeth in rehab. Hasselhoff did his own stint in rehab to battle alcoholism--he now faces more time drying out after recently pleading no contest to a DUI and being sentenced to three years' self-supervised probation. And Anderson's tumultuous marriage to Tommy Lee played out in the tabs and in the courtroom.

 

 

In 2003 nearly all of Baywatch's hard bodies, including Anderson, Hasselhoff and Bleeth, reunited for a two-hour Fox TV movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.

 

 

With development on the fast track, DreamWorks' Baywatch movie could make a splash in theaters in 2006.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

About what, 5 years too late?

 

Not to mention that it makes no sense if they cant get most of the actors from the TV show to do it.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Yasmine Bleeth was busted for drugs?

 

I knew she was my favorite for a reason.

[AndrewTS 0]

So, is this going to be CGI?

 

Is that Full House movie really that far-fetched these days?

[Detective Comics 0]

I'd pay a hundred bucks to see a Full House made for TV movie.

[JST 0]

Here's subtitle:

 

Box-Office Poison

[Ted the Poster 0]

The only thing worse than this would be a Lizzie McGuire movie.

 

 

Fuck.

[Richard 0]

I'd rather see a son of the beach movie myself.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Of all the crap TV shows that they want to make a movie out of.

 

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

The only thing worse than this would be a Lizzie McGuire movie.

 

 

Fuck.

I can think of a few things that would be worse.

 

How bout a sequel to Ringmaster (the Jerry Springer movie)?

[bob_barron 0]

The only thing worse than this would be a Lizzie McGuire movie.

 

 

Fuck.

Eh- The movie was quite good even though there were parts I had problems with since they clashed with the message of the TV show.

 

Hilary was smart enough to turn down a sequel- that would've been horrible

[Angel_Grace_Blue 0]

So they're following through with the joke on Futurama? Will it stay true and be filmed entirely in slow motion?

 

If all goes according to how it was done on Futurama, that means Pamela wins an Oscar for it...