"Baywatch" Film is Now a Comedy
"Baywatch" Film is Now a Comedy
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Paramount Pictures has set Jeremy Garelick to rewrite and direct "Baywatch," a big screen comedy based on the syndicated series about good-looking lifeguards who patrol a beach in California.
DreamWorks picked up the remake rights to "Baywatch" in 2005 and got a script by Jay Scherick and David Ronn that was heavy on action. Garelick was sent the script do a rewrite and even though he never saw the original TV show, he saw an opportunity to turn it into broad comedy.
"It felt like the template to do a movie that was similar to 'Stripes' and 'Police Academy,' the comedies I loved growing up," Garelick said. "Rather than trying to pitch the tone, I figured it would be easier to write the first act to convey who these characters were."
The script now focuses on two unlikely lifeguard candidates trying to catch on alongside the buff bodies that will be as abundant in the film as they were in the TV series.
"Baywatch" marks Garelick's directing debut. But he most recently did an uncredited rewrite of "The Hangover," has written "Murray at Large" for Warner Bros, and also scripted "The Insane Laws" at Columbia.
DreamWorks picked up the remake rights to "Baywatch" in 2005 and got a script by Jay Scherick and David Ronn that was heavy on action. Garelick was sent the script do a rewrite and even though he never saw the original TV show, he saw an opportunity to turn it into broad comedy.
"It felt like the template to do a movie that was similar to 'Stripes' and 'Police Academy,' the comedies I loved growing up," Garelick said. "Rather than trying to pitch the tone, I figured it would be easier to write the first act to convey who these characters were."
The script now focuses on two unlikely lifeguard candidates trying to catch on alongside the buff bodies that will be as abundant in the film as they were in the TV series.
"Baywatch" marks Garelick's directing debut. But he most recently did an uncredited rewrite of "The Hangover," has written "Murray at Large" for Warner Bros, and also scripted "The Insane Laws" at Columbia.
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