[Groop] RE: Groop Digest, Vol 25, Issue 2

[JOHN CHADWICK]

While I find your choices interesting, I'd prefer to see an animated Groo
movie done in Sergio's art style.  I'd rather see a film that celebrates
the spirit of Mark and Sergio's work.  In the back of one of the tp's Mark
said that there was once talk of making a Groo film featuring Chris Farley.
I think that would have ended up being just another Chris Farley movie to
be lumped with TOMMY BOY or BLACK SHEEP.  Non-comic fans would have had no
idea that it was based on a long-running cult comic. And many older
movie-goers would have dismissed it entirely.   I feel the same would
happen in this case.  It would be viewed merely as a "Jack Black vehicle"
and that would overshadow all of the prior work that makes Groo so great in
our minds.


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> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:29:58 -0500
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> Subject: [Groop] Re: Groop Digest, Vol 24, Issue 15
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> My Groo movie cast...
> Okay so I will be finished with NYU film school in May and have been a
die hard Groo fan since I was very young.  Mark Sergio I am begging you
please let me Direct this movie!  It has been a dream of mine forever! 
Well here's hoping, anyways here is my dream cast (of living active actors)
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> Groo: Jack Black
> Rufferto: Voiced by Kelsey Grammer
> Sage: Richard Attenborough
> Taranto: Tommy Lee Jones
> Arba: Cher
> Dakarba: Roseanne
> Arcadio: WWE wrestler Triple H
> Minstrel: Will Ferrell
> Grooella: Bette Midler
> Drumm: Scott L. Schwartz (Played Bruiser in Oceans 11 the   guy that
pretended to beat up George Clooney)
> Chakaal:  Although you may strongly disagree I believe with some muscle
put on... Alicia Silverstone or for the more older look Sharon Stone
> Pal:  Danny Devito with a beard of course
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> What do you guys think... I'm dying to make this film!
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