www.strangerswithcandymovie.com

woo hoo!

Thanks to theresident who told me that WB has picked this up and will be doing a bit of editing...it's a bit long. Said the clip they saw was funny and like a long episode.
[Edited 1/31/05 12:51pm]

superspaceboy said:

Cool. Thanks for the link. It's gonna be a cool movie. But like the show, the movie is definately very crude and raw and I don't know if the mainstream is gonna get it.

I got a chance to meet Paul Dinello (the director) and Amy Sedaris. They were both very cool.

"Good Times, Ramon!"

EEEE!!!!!


thanx spacey!!!

Story Synopsis...

STRANGERS WITH CANDY is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the story of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over, only to confront the most dangerous gang of all — the cool kids.
Reuniting the cast and writers from the original series, Strangers with Candy takes us back to when our hero Jerri Blank emerges from her long prison stay with a special goodbye prison riot with her cellmates.

After a long bus ride, Jerri arrives at her childhood home to find that her father Guy Blank (Dan Hedaya), now in a coma, has re-married and fathered a child, Derrick (Joseph Cross). Although mortified by her stepdaughter's return, his new wife, Sara Blank (Deborah Rush), begrudgingly allows Jerri to move in when the family doctor suggests that her presence might bring Guy out of his thirty-two-year coma.

The next day Jerri is ready to start her new life and is dropped off at Flatpoint High School. She is admitted as a student by Principal Blackman (Greg Hollimon), who has just made a deal with the school board that if his school wins this year's Science Fair, they will be able to keep school board funding, despite everyone in the school having failing test scores.

At a faculty meeting Blackman informs Science Teacher Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert), Art Teacher Geoffrey Jellineck (Paul Dinello) and the others that he has brought in Science Fair ringer Roger Beekman (Matthew Broderick) to win the fair. Mr. Noblet argues and is given his own team, which Jerri quickly joins hoping that it will make her father proud.

Meanwhile, Jerri has her eye on handsome Brason (Chris Pratt), the school jock, while her friend Megawatti (Carlo Alban) falls for her, creating a true cinematic love triangle. Mr. Beekman recruits Mr. Jellineck to help add sizzle to his science fair entry, only to discover days before the deadline that they only have a dance number and no science project. Deciding that fair play is for losers, Beekman's team devises a plan to use Brason's charm over Jerri to steal Noblet's teams' schematics for their Soup Can-Superconductor science project.

After a difficult date, Brason gets Jerri to hand over the plans. When Principal Blackman sees Beekman's Superconductor first, Noblet's team thinks all is lost and blames Jerri. If she doesn't want to screw up her one chance to do high school over, Jerri will have to use her prison know-how to help the team win and make her father proud.

Cast...

Amy Sedaris ... Jerri Blank
Paul Dinello ... Geoffrey Jellineck
Stephen Colbert ... Chuck Noblet

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carlo Alban ... Megawatti Sacarnaputri
Jonah Bobo ... Shamus Noblet
Matthew Broderick ... Roger Beekman
Jeremy Chu ... Jeremy
Joseph Cross ... Derrick Blank
Dolores Duffy ... Iris Puffybush
Alexis Dziena ... Melissa
Thomas Guiry ... P John
Elisabeth Harnois ... Monica
Dan Hedaya ... Guy Blank
Philip Seymour Hoffman ... Henry
Gregory Hollimon ... Onyx Blackman
Sir Ian Holm ... Dr. Putney
Timothy Hsu ... Mascot
Allison Janney ... Alice
Kristen Johnston ... Coach Divers
Christopher Larkin ... Kim
Wallace Little ... Trake
Evelyn McGee ... Clair Noblet
Lian Moy ... Lian
Olivia Oguma ... Olivia
Sarah Jessica Parker ... Peggy Callas
David Pasquesi ... Stew
Chris Pratt ... Brason
Michael Rivera ... Maniaco
Cal Robertson ... Les Tuckles
Deborah Rush ... Sara Blank
Maria Thayer ... Tammi Littlenut
Justin Theroux ... Carlo Honklin
Kristy Thomas ... Wanda
Sarah Thyre ... Coach Cherri Wolf
Hechter Ubarry ... Nico
Chandra Wilson ... Reba

In the new issue of Giant (Ethan Hawke cover) there's a photo of Ian Holm and one of Amy as Jerri.

Can't seem to find the pics online but here's all the text typed up for ya, including lots of info I'm sure you already know:

"Jerri and her SWC friends are ready for their close-ups. To prove it, they invited GIANT to the set of their movie for these exclusive pics.

WHAT: A 46-year-old bisexual ex-teen runaway/drug addict/whore named Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) returns to high school.

WHO: Series cocreators Sedaris (this page), Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello; Ian Holm (left), Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

WHEN: Even they don't know yet.

WHY: "Characters like Jerri might look unattractive to some people, but they always think they're beautiful and that's much more fun to play, " says Sedaris. "They don't know they're the underdog. They think they're the winners." "

you know, i've been reading every single spoiler i can get my hands on for episode iii, but i'm faithfully forcing myself not to read anything that'll make the SWC movie anything but a pristine little ball o' surprises if i can possibly help it. go figure.

Anxiety said:

Well, I think most have taken precautions as to not let anything leak about the movie.

episode iii???

and then i remembered that the Big Daddy of all movies is coming out this year.

superspaceboy said:

oh, no - i wasn't complaining - but i'm scared to look at half of that site, because i don't wanna ruin anything. the first time i see the trailer, i want to be pissing myself by the time jerri's leathery face first appears on that big screen. i say on opening night, we all get together for the movie - and we can all bring snack cakes, hot fruit and jagermeister! GOOD TIMES!

Anxiety said:

She'd like that.

God I hope WB doesn't edit it to the point where it becomes one of the after school specials it's supposed to be parodying.

VoicesCarry said:

ok?

superspaceboy said:

I'm always wary of major studios picking up indie films and fucking them up with the editing scissors before release. "But it was so good at Sundance!" is all you hear.