No Revenge for New Nerds
No Revenge for New Nerds
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Wed Nov 22, 9:24 AM ET
Los Angeles (E! Online) - They've been laughed at and picked on. Now, the nerds have been booted off campus. So much for Revenge. Producers behind the remake of 1984's Revenge of the Nerds have scrapped the project after officials at Atlanta's Emory University backed out of a deal to have the film shot on campus, deeming the nerds' antics too bawdy.
"Everybody has worked really hard on Revenge of the Nerds, and we're all disappointed that we can't move forward," said Peter Rice, president of Fox Atomic, the studio behind the redo. The original cult comedy starred Anthony Edwards and Robert Carradine as a pair of lovelorn misfits who form their own fraternity and use their smarts to fend off a campus full of bullying jocks. Nerds featured a memorable supporting cast that included Timothy Busfield, Ted McGinley, Curtis "Booger" Armstrong, John Goodman and James Cromwell, along with the unforgettable Donald "The Ogre" Gibb and Bernie "U.N. Jefferson" Casey.
Los Angeles (E! Online) - They've been laughed at and picked on. Now, the nerds have been booted off campus. So much for Revenge. Producers behind the remake of 1984's Revenge of the Nerds have scrapped the project after officials at Atlanta's Emory University backed out of a deal to have the film shot on campus, deeming the nerds' antics too bawdy.
"Everybody has worked really hard on Revenge of the Nerds, and we're all disappointed that we can't move forward," said Peter Rice, president of Fox Atomic, the studio behind the redo. The original cult comedy starred Anthony Edwards and Robert Carradine as a pair of lovelorn misfits who form their own fraternity and use their smarts to fend off a campus full of bullying jocks. Nerds featured a memorable supporting cast that included Timothy Busfield, Ted McGinley, Curtis "Booger" Armstrong, John Goodman and James Cromwell, along with the unforgettable Donald "The Ogre" Gibb and Bernie "U.N. Jefferson" Casey.
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