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Wet Hot American Summer - 8-episode Netflix series begins filming

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PROh1bited

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Pretty excited to see this. I remember watching this when I was 12, back in 2002, and at the time thought it was funny, but didn't really understand most of the jokes. Saw it again back in 09, and was completely floored by how great it was.

Really hoping with this news that we can finally get a Blu-ray release.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
If you never read it, go check out this awesome oral history of the making of the movie.

PROh1bited said:
Really hoping with this news that we can finally get a Blu-ray release.
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Yeah, I'm hoping this happens. I've held off for so long buying the DVD, waiting for a Blu-ray. It's often available for some kind of streaming, so that's made it easier.

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How the hell did they manage this when they couldn't get the full cast for Arrested Development?
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Well, we don't know that everyone will be around for the full thing. But I think it also helps that so much of this cast have been good friends and creative partners for ages, and most come from a working tradition of tight comedic collaboration in the sketch and improv worlds. This is kinda their home. It's not like the AD cast where they're from a more traditional acting background and just came together for a great couple years. Much of the WHAS cast have been collaborating for years and years, both before and after the movie, and well, those who haven't aren't necessarily hot Hollywood commodities at the moment.
 
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Dan said:
If you never read it, go check out this awesome oral history of the making of the movie.



Yeah, I'm hoping this happens. I've held off for so long buying the DVD, waiting for a Blu-ray. It's often available for some kind of streaming, so that's made it easier.



Well, we don't know that everyone will be around for the full thing. But I think it also helps that so much of this cast have been good friends and creative partners for ages, and most come from a working tradition of tight comedic collaboration in the sketch and improv worlds. This is kinda their home. It's not like the AD cast where they're from a more traditional acting background and just came together for a great couple years. Much of the WHAS cast have been collaborating for years and years, both before and after the movie, and well, those who haven't aren't necessarily hot Hollywood commodities at the moment.
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WHAS was kinda filmed/made as a series of sketches so I think it would be easier to do than something like Arrested Development. Or else they can just find a new way...
 
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Blues1990

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Exactly how good is the original film, where supposedly this eight-episode series is a prequel to? My friend Danny is madly in love with that movie, claiming it's one of his favourite comedies.
 
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KingofGourds

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2015 is off to a great start.

Fucking incredible that they managed to get everyone back. Some of those names got big in the intervening years!
 
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- Deadline: ‘Wet Hot American Summer': Michaela Watkins, Josh Charles, Randall Park, Lake Bell, John Slattery & Others Join Cast
An already large ensemble cast of Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer limited series is getting larger. I’ve learned that a slew of new faces are set to join the dozen original cast members in the 8-part series, from Michael Showalter and David Wain. I hear the list of guest-starring/recurring players includes The Good Wife SNL alumna Michaela Watkins, Mad Men‘s John Slattery, Randall Park, who is riding a wave of publicity over his role as Kim Jong-Un in The Interview, Jayma Mays, Lake Bell, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Richard Schiff. Additionally, Wain, who had an uncredited cameo in the movie, will have a part on the show.

He joins returning cast member Showalter, who will be reprising his role along with Elizabeth Banks, H. Jon Benjamin, Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Judah Friedlander, Janeane Garofalo, Nina Hellman, Ken Marino, Zak Orth, David Hyde Pierce, Joe LoTruglio, Christopher Meloni, A.D. Miles, Marguerite Moreau, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Marisa Ryan, Molly Shannon, Michael Showalter and Kevin Sussman.

The cult film was set on the last day at a fictional Jewish summer camp in 1981. I hear the show is set on the first day of the camp. I hear Watkins will play a tough New Yorker, Charles a guy from a rival camp, Huebel a rival professor to Pierce, Schiff — Pierce’s academic superior, Park — a librarian in love with Shannon, Scheer — a journalist, and Wain — an acquaintance of one of the main characters from Israeli kibbutz.

Showalter and Wain, who wrote the movie, created the limited series, with Wain reprising directing duties and Showalter serving as showrunner.
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Bread

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Best cast ever, holy shit!

Also, where was David Wain's cameo in the movie? I remember hearing that there was a deleted scene with the Stella guys, is that what they're referring to?
 
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FrenchMovieTheme

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Bread said:
Best cast ever, holy shit!

Also, where was David Wain's cameo in the movie? I remember hearing that there was a deleted scene with the Stella guys, is that what they're referring to?
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i don't remember any part with him in the actual movie but on the DVD there are some extra scenes and he is in one of them. i believe joe latruglia steals his motorcycle
 
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FrenchMovieTheme said:
my dvd is about worn down i've watched it so many times! there are a few cool extras on there. hoping it gets a blu ray release with MORE extras and interviews/etc.
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I'm sure one will be announced soon now that I bought the dvd! I want the Wanderlust blu ray as well for the extras but I'm not paying $20 for it fuck that.
 
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FrenchMovieTheme

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a funny story aboutu wet hot american summer that i tell people from time to time. at my old job (this was in 2004) i had this guy i used to work with and we became good friends. we would lend each other DVD's and music and stuff for things we'd never heard or seen back and forth. i found a lot of new cool music and movies because of him and vice versa. never a dud in the bunch either way!

well, along comes the time that i lend him wet hot american summer. i say dude i know you're going to love this movie. we have the same type of sense of humor and so i'm thinking man how have you not seen this yet!

anyways i let him borrow it and we come into work on monday and he says you know what i have to be honest i watched this and it was horrible. i mean just bad, didn't laugh once. i was shocked. speechless! i didn't know what to say and i said welp.... i guess it is what it is. no big deal.

a month or two passes or however much time and he comes in one day and says remember wet hot american summer? well they've been showing it on comedy central and and i cannot stop watching it. movie is fucking hilarious. and he just started quoting it and going over his favorite parts.

the moral of the story is this movie gets better and better. i've probably seen it between 20-30 times in my life which is saying a lot because usually i'm one-and-done with movies. i don't know if the show can live up to what the movie is but if the show is even approaching that type of quality i will be stoked
 
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FrenchMovieTheme said:
a funny story aboutu wet hot american summer that i tell people from time to time. at my old job (this was in 2004) i had this guy i used to work with and we became good friends. we would lend each other DVD's and music and stuff for things we'd never heard or seen back and forth. i found a lot of new cool music and movies because of him and vice versa. never a dud in the bunch either way!

well, along comes the time that i lend him wet hot american summer. i say dude i know you're going to love this movie. we have the same type of sense of humor and so i'm thinking man how have you not seen this yet!

anyways i let him borrow it and we come into work on monday and he says you know what i have to be honest i watched this and it was horrible. i mean just bad, didn't laugh once. i was shocked. speechless! i didn't know what to say and i said welp.... i guess it is what it is. no big deal.

a month or two passes or however much time and he comes in one day and says remember wet hot american summer? well they've been showing it on comedy central and and i cannot stop watching it. movie is fucking hilarious. and he just started quoting it and going over his favorite parts.

the moral of the story is this movie gets better and better. i've probably seen it between 20-30 times in my life which is saying a lot because usually i'm one-and-done with movies. i don't know if the show can live up to what the movie is but if the show is even approaching that type of quality i will be stoked
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Yeah. It's one of those movies that looks awful on the surface and if you go in expecting a certain type of thing, you're probably not going to find it. But the more you watch the movie, and the more you just go with the flow of its absurdity, the funnier it gets.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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It's kind of hilarious that the film isn't even on Netflix (US, I mean!) yet they're making a series off it. I wonder if they'll try to get it up before the show premieres?
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
The teaser said this summer. Really?! That's appropriate but way sooner than I expected.
 
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JustenP88

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Yo, can I get an Andy Daly in this cast, please?
 
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kulapik

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phanphare said:
hyyyyyped

can't believe they're saying this summer. way sooner than I expected.
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I totally expect them to do something like Community and say that with by "this summer" they mean "with this show, anytime of the year is summer" so it might be october or something.
 
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TheOddOne said:
- YT: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp - Cast Teaser.
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holy shit hype

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Extra Sauce

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I just found out about this.

Holy fuck, they even got Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd and motherfucking Bradley Cooper back onboard? Crazy.
 
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Symphonia

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That is one fucking awesome cast. I've never watched the film, though, but after tinkering with my VPN, I now have it on Netflix. I know what I'm watching tomorrow.
 
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