Film Crew Update

[Douglin]

In case people missed it in the chat with Bill "Fedora" Corbett:

Re Film Crew, the:
It's complicated for various and sundry reasons, including the fact that we shot the first four in 2005, then thought they were dead for a while. And yes, we wept.
In the meantime Mike teamed up with Legend to create Rifftrax, and brought his baggage (me and Kevin) along.

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We are still talking to Shout!!!! Factory!!!!!!!! about doing some more, though it's not certain what form it would take.
Fer instance — we already, um, disposed of the set, so there's that.
The Shout!!!!!!!!!! people have been great, and we're still in touch, and talking biz. But we'd have a lot to figure out to make it happen again. I.E., how would it work with Rifftrax, or not? Big question at present.

We had a great time doing the Film Crew DVDs. For a while it was like a reunion, what with Jeff Stonehouse, Beez McKeever, and Brad Keeley working with us. We had a blast, even though we were making it up as we went.
But the very-delayed released really hurt the momentum. We had to move onto other stuff. Actually, Shout!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!! Factory were the heroes for picking it up and releasing it at all, after it had been run through the mill by Rhino and Best Brains.

So... never say never, but it has its challenges. I think we all miss the old movies, and doing the li'l skits, but there may be a way to do that yet. We'll see. Even if we did bring back Flim Crew, we'd probably want to learn from the first flight of releases, and do a few things differently — i.e., shorter skits in general, more fun DVD extras.
Such an exegesis. You'd think I was talking about the Middle East crisis. Gee whiz.

Thanks for being interested, though. it's always flattering, and always appreciated.

P.S. "Bob Honcho"'s original name was "Bob Rhino." Whivh was a tad funnier, I think.
But we actually had to replace all the "Rhinos" once they decided not to release it. I don't know if anyone could tell, but it's a sound patch whnever we're saying "Honcho."

Hmm. That might be too trivial even to qualify as trivia.

read the whole chat on the blog

[RoninFox]

I never noticed the looped audio on the word Honcho before reading that, but now it sticks out pretty good.  That little detail about Bob "Rhino" does seem to make the Film Crew make more sense.  If Shout!!!!!!!! is able to get this working again in conjunction with Rifftrax (maybe just a couple dvds a year or something) I'd love to see what could come of it.