Who would you cast?

[heidi]

From today's NYDailyNews.com:

ABC is heating up with "St. Elmo's Fire," the upcoming series based on the Brat Pack movie of the same name.

According to HollywoodReporter.com, the show will be based on, but will not replicate the film about six Georgetown grads entering adulthood. The three guys and three girls who play the lead roles will still live in Georgetown and still hang out at the St. Elmo's Bar & Restaurant, now referred to as St. Elmo's Bar & Grill, but they will all have fresh characters and story lines.

Imagine "Friends," a bit more serious and a half an hour longer. Dan Bucatinsky, who will take on screenwriting duties for the series, has no problem with reframing that coffee-house convention.

"I feel it is time to re-create 'Friends' in the hourlong genre and feel like this is the perfect opportunity," he said.

Assuming the show is set to start in January, who would you cast? It has to be people who're available to act full-time in a series as of this fall - in other words, no matter how perfect you think Jared Padalecki would be in the Judd Nelson role or Ashley Simpson in the Ally Sheedy part (to randomly pick names out of a hat) they're not available and can't do it.

Would you keep the genders all the same? Would you add in a wider range of races, sexual orientations, religions, etc.?

Would you update the theme song and if it was to be a straight-out cover, which current band or singer would you have cover it?

(I've had two glasses of shiraz and the best berry-bread-pudding evrr at Emeril's Tchoup Chop restaurant at Universal so I'm feeling a bit goofy ATM. Hurrah, for I will see Erin of House of Black tomorrow!)

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Going to avoid it, actually. Didn't like the Brat Pack, didn't like the original movie, don't watch much TV, figure this one will go bye-bye in a couple of weeks, don't know any younger actors.

[sophiamaria03.livejournal.com]

I just hope it's actually filmed in DC - at least the location shots. And they get the geography and names right.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

OH. GOD. NO!

That movie was such an awful disappointment to me when it first came out, which was mostly my fault for expecting it to be "Breakfast Club Grows Up." As it was I hated virtually all of the characters, including the ones I was presumably supposed to love, and in retrospect the only one I can stand is Rob Lowe, because, you know, Rob Lowe. Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy and especially Frog Throat (my name for Demi Moore going back to her GH days) all make me want to smack them. Hard.

I do like Emilio Estevez's delivery of "Obsessed, thank you," but that's about it.

[kimmparker.livejournal.com]

Are they actually going to film in Georgetown or pretend that LA is DC--because they are soooo similar...

[elfundeb.livejournal.com]

The original movie wasn't very Georgetown-ish either, in spite of a few outdoor shots, so I doubt a TV series is going to do any better.