Fans, Journalists Attack G.I. Joe Director's Live-Action Jem Reboot
Plans for a new movie based on the doll/cartoon icon have drawn an unexpected explosion of criticism from fans, critics, bloggers and more.
Last week, G.I. Joe: Retaliation director John Chu, horror movie producer Jason Blum and Scooter Braun (the man who "discovered" Justin Beiber) launched a YouTube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzVnNVrunAE] announcing their intentions to crowd-source input and talent for their new project: A live-action reboot of 1980s all-girl rock-band/adventure cartoon Jem. But instead of the fandom joy-eruption they might've expected, the filmmakers have instead been met with apprehension and outrage (truly.)
First, Badass Digest's Meredith Borders [http://news.moviefone.com/2014/03/21/jem-creator-christy-marx-movie/] joined the chorus of dissenting fans; arguing that a character considered to be a rare positive female role-model of the era deserved better than what seems to be planned for her.
Running 65 episodes from 1985 to 1988 and based on a line of dolls from Hasbro, Jem was a unique animated hybrid of soap-opera, rock music and superheroics noted for being one of the few "girls cartoons" of the era with a focus on action and mystery stories. The lead character was a young female record executive who used holograms generated by a sentient supercomputer to masquerade as her own most popular act, the flamboyant musician/adventurer "Jem" (so, Iron Man meets Hannah Montana.) Chu, Blum and Braun have promised a 21st century "reimagining" involving a teenaged orphan who becomes an internet musical-sensation.
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Plans for a new movie based on the doll/cartoon icon have drawn an unexpected explosion of criticism from fans, critics, bloggers and more.
Last week, G.I. Joe: Retaliation director John Chu, horror movie producer Jason Blum and Scooter Braun (the man who "discovered" Justin Beiber) launched a YouTube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzVnNVrunAE] announcing their intentions to crowd-source input and talent for their new project: A live-action reboot of 1980s all-girl rock-band/adventure cartoon Jem. But instead of the fandom joy-eruption they might've expected, the filmmakers have instead been met with apprehension and outrage (truly.)
First, Badass Digest's Meredith Borders [http://news.moviefone.com/2014/03/21/jem-creator-christy-marx-movie/] joined the chorus of dissenting fans; arguing that a character considered to be a rare positive female role-model of the era deserved better than what seems to be planned for her.
Running 65 episodes from 1985 to 1988 and based on a line of dolls from Hasbro, Jem was a unique animated hybrid of soap-opera, rock music and superheroics noted for being one of the few "girls cartoons" of the era with a focus on action and mystery stories. The lead character was a young female record executive who used holograms generated by a sentient supercomputer to masquerade as her own most popular act, the flamboyant musician/adventurer "Jem" (so, Iron Man meets Hannah Montana.) Chu, Blum and Braun have promised a 21st century "reimagining" involving a teenaged orphan who becomes an internet musical-sensation.
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