Glee the Movie: Coming to Theaters Before Everyone Turns 30!
Tue, February 22, 2011 
Doing a film-version of a television series with the principle cast while it's still on the air. Has that ever worked? Only thing that comes to mind is The Simpsons Movie, and that's debatable. Many, myself included, would argue they waited fifteen years or so too late.
I remember back during the summer of 1998 a lot of the pre-release/Internet hype (besides Godzilla and the competing asteroid productions Armageddon and Deep Impact) centered on the X-Files film Fight the Future. It opened relatively strong, but petered out by its second weekend in theaters. That's because the movie felt like a bigger-budget, two-hour episode of the series.
The problem is simple yet complex. You have to convince people to pay $10 for something they already get to see for free on a weekly basis. It's a bizarre proposition, but if you do it while the show is in its ratings, and pop-culture, prime, the argument could be made in its favor. On the other hand, if you wait too long and do it when the show's on the outs, if not off the air by that time, it's come off as "Too little, too late." Such is the case of the 24 movie 20th Century keeps talking about – I'm sorry, Kiefer. I know you just said this morning, as per Coming Soon, that it was definitely happening. But I don't buy it at this point.
Which brings us to the point of this post (I apologize if I give detailed ramblings here and there), What's Playing (Still riding high from their big Terminator 5: The Search for Arnie's Dignity scoop) happened to have some brief words with an unnamed member of the popular musical/comedy series Glee. As you can guess, a Glee movie is in the cards "before the majority of the cast is 30."
I guess that isn't in the near-future since I don't know the actual ages of the actors let alone their names beyond Jane Lynch obviously – just their faces like the cute brunette who's the lead. Hell for all I know they could twenty-seven or something, but you get the idea. Again this goes back to the situation with 24. They just waited too damn long, and now we’re stuck with endless, and meaningless until proven otherwise, quotes from people like Sutherland swearing a movie is coming.
Isn't Glee already getting a quasi-backlash too? If Fox is gung-ho for the movie, go ahead and do it now while the show is still in the pop-culture zeitgeist.
Reader Comments (2)
Glee movie? That's so exciting! I love Glee, the cast, the singing the, everything. I know it will be a hit. My friends and I watch Glee all the time we love it, it makes us want to sing and dance. Its the best thing since american idol! which says a lot! I'm so excited! You can count on me being there front in center in the theater. Way to go Glee!
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