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A Clueless drama series is in the works revolving around the Dionne character

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (19416)
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https://deadline.com/2019/10/clueless-drama-series-reboot-mystery-twist-cbs-tv-studios-interest-the-cw-streamers-1202762244/

The new high school-set Clueless drama TV series will follow the character made famous by Stacey Dash as she attempts to solve Cher Horowitz's mysterious disappearance. It's described as "Mean Girls meets Riverdale meets a Lizzo music video." CBS TV Studios is behind the potential series, with Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey serving as writers. The 1995 Amy Heckerling film was originally spun off off as a three-season ABC/UPN Clueless comedy TV series from 1996 to 1999. According to Deadline, the Clueless project is drawing strong interest from The CW and a number of streamers. As Deadline's Nellie Andreeva explains, the new Clueless series "is described as a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sunglasses-wearing, oat milk latté and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when the high school Queen Bee (Cher) disappears and her life-long number two (Dionne) steps into Cher’s vacant Air Jordans. How does Dionne deal with the pressures of being the new most popular girl in school, while also unraveling the mystery of what happened to her best friend, all in a setting that is uniquely 2020 LA?" No word if Heckerling, who directed the film and created the TV series will be involved.

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/24841302-the-clueless-reboot-will-be-cher-less.

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/dja3rf/clueless_drama_series_reboot_with_mystery_twist/

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/a-clueless-drama-series-reboot-focused-on-dionne-is-in-the-works.2876633/

[–] captainbucky (15252) 5 years ago

I didn’t read any of that

[–] Iaaat (44) 5 years ago

I did and I wish I hadn't.

[–] captainbucky (15252) 5 years ago

You read the whole thing ?

[–] Iaaat (44) 5 years ago

I know... But, I couldn't look away, like a train wreck.

[–] captainbucky (15252) 5 years ago

I get ya man. I was just thinking about silverstone back in the day

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

It sounds like they deliberately tried to create a TV series to be the exact opposite of my tastes, something I wouldnt watch even if someone held a gun to my head.

[–] TMC-4 (19416) 5 years ago

Clueless mystery drama TV reboot is met with scorn

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/clueless-tv-show-reboot-drama

Amy Heckerling's acclaimed 1995 teen movie Clueless is "one of the greatest American comedy of manners films of the past few decades," says Kyle Munzenrieder. "So why would a television network consider rebooting the film as a television series that drops both the comedy and the manners?" The potential mystery drama series revolving around the Dionne character that Deadline describes as "Mean Girls meets Riverdale meets a Lizzo music video" sounds, according to Munzenrieder, "more Riverdale and Euphoria mixed with Gone Girl than it does like anything resembling Clueless's Jane Austen roots." Munzenrieder adds: "Giving the Twin Peaks-light dramatic reboot to existing intellectual property has been all the rage in teen TV since at least since the surprise success Riverdale, the TV show that gave clean-cut comic book icon Archie a set of six pack abs and problems like affairs with his teacher. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Nancy Drew, and Charmed are all on the air. Reboots of Gossip Girl, Lizzie McGuire, and even Grease are now in the works. Though, an attempt to bring Heathers, an already dark teen cult classic, not only flopped but proved needlessly controversial. Clueless was a series that set pop culture trends, rather than followed them. So it kind of hurts to see the film re-purposed to follow trends both in network programming and teen culture...Heckerling's original also seemed particularly uninterested in framing Cher in the tired trope of 'most popular girl in school' and it seems forced to place Dionne as her 'number two.' Typical signifiers of popularity like prom queen campaigns, cheerleader tryouts, or student body elections are absent from the film."

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Glad to know I'm not the only one who hates the very idea!

I know, "Riverdale" has been a hit, but IMHO that's partly because nobody much likes the Archie comics or takes them seriously. They're fine with seeing them mixed up or satirized. But people love, I mean some of us LOVE, "Clueless" exactly as it is. I wouldn't even want to see a remake.

[–] nightofthetwiste (21) 5 years ago

I mean, I'm glad they're focusing on Dionne, but who asked for this? lol
Ooooh, (I skimmed) "Riverdale". *eye roll*

[–] TMC-4 (19416) 5 years ago

Clueless reboot is an insult to the movie's fans: "Cher wearing Air Jordans? In her immortal words: As if," says Ashley Reese. "Clueless is a near-perfect ’90s teen film that was so indicative of its era, and jamming it into 2020 is an insult. What is Clueless without the flannel, block heeled Mary Janes, and the Cranberry’s CD left in the quad? It’s not Clueless."
https://themuse.jezebel.com/as-if-there-could-be-another-clueless-1839145648
Clueless fans are particularly peeved with how the reboot is described: Not every new teen show needs to be Riverdale!
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/10/8588201/clueless-tv-series-reboot-mystery-dionne
Clueless reboot description reads like "Old Man Executive 'How Do You Do Fellow Kids' Mad Libs"
https://nylon.com/clueless-film-tv-reboot
The reboot sounds like a tech startup writing a job listing
https://www.vogue.com/article/clueless-tv-show-reboot-best-twitter-reactions
Clueless reboot panders to millennials in the bleakest way possible
https://www.tvguide.com/news/clueless-reboot-cbs-tv-studios