I Dream Of Jeannie film

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Ryah H

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It is being reported that Jessica Alba has been cast in the I Dream of Jeannie film along side Jimmy Fallon for the big-screen version of the Barbara Eden series. She beat Kate HuRABon, LinRABay Lohan and Alicia Silverstone to the role!
The film based on a script from Cormac and Marianne Wibberley which will follow a young woman's quest to become a soldier that earns her the punishment of being stuck in a bottle and sentenced to serve the first person who finRAB her.

Director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) is believed to be interested in telling the character's backstory and examining her roots. "She's a Muslim girl, and the story is about Muslims." It seems like Bewitched this will be a remake of a TV series with a twist!
 
Echos of The Hulk here, wrong director wrong idea for film. Why do these people feel they have to change the whole premise of a successful programme. I imagine that seeing the title I Dream Of Jeannie most people will expect to see ninety minutes of wacky fun between a genie and a shuttle pilot, not the angst of a 1000 year old Muslim girl thrust into the 21st century.

The good thing about these big screen adaptions is that they are so bad we never have to suffer sequals as the franchise is killed stone dead on the first outing eg, ThunderbirRAB.
 
I agree. Another example of a big screen outing/remake gone wrong is Bewitched. They had the perfect casting with Nicole Kidman as Samantha - she bares a resemblance to Elizabeth Montgomery - could they just make a straightforward remake? No. That would be too easy, they had to have some convaluted story with a real witch being cast in the remake of tv story about a witch. I'm not surprised it bombed at the box office.
 
If I found a bottle in the local camel market knowing Jessica Alba was in it (regardless if she would have to service me), I might dig - relatively - deep to find a couple of sheckles.

Trouble is the women nowadays in the big hits are the 'average' next door types.
I could get same in Bromley for one sheckle, and have change. (OK, I'm pushing my luck with attractive women in Bromley , - I could be thinking of Mingingham, Munterham, sorry, Mottingham, but you get the jist)
 
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