charmed movie??

[spiritsas]

I get for S4, in lieu of 9/11 that an X-mas show would have been difficult. I'm actually surprised (other than the S8 Homeland Security theme) the show never really discussed the subject of 9/11. I may have missed a mention or two of it in passing, and someone will point out what episode, but it just seemed to get ignored.

As for the lack of an X-mas show in the later seasons: I don't think this makes a lot of sense unless they put a very different spin on X-mas.
For Example: The show Supernatural just did a really wicked twist on the subject and, although it was talked about quickly, they mentioned how all the X-mas traditions and really based on Pagan rituals and have nothing to do with Jesus or the Catholic Church.

Charmed could have done such a show, but it may have appeared too dark an approach in the later years.

[mizzdoherty]

oh my gosh i wud abso luv 4 a charmed movie 2 cum out

[Hansemand]

spiritkas said:

I get for S4, in lieu of 9/11 that an X-mas show would have been difficult. I'm actually surprised (other than the S8 Homeland Security theme) the show never really discussed the subject of 9/11. I may have missed a mention or two of it in passing, and someone will point out what episode, but it just seemed to get ignored.

Friends never had it up as a subject either, although Friends takes place in New York.
Guessing it was to delicate a subject at the time to take it up in Charmed and Friends.

[spiritsas]

Agreed. Too tough a subject to embrace for a half hour sit com. Not sure how Charmed might have dealt with this. Perhaps an episode where they wind up protecting a young witch who is the subject of racially motivated attacks. Sort or a don't profile show. I guess they had enough "show" issues, having to break in a new sister witch that year.

[Hansemand]

spiritkas said:

Agreed. Too tough a subject to embrace for a half hour sit com. Not sure how Charmed might have dealt with this. Perhaps an episode where they wind up protecting a young witch who is the subject of racially motivated attacks. Sort or a don't profile show. I guess they had enough "show" issues, having to break in a new sister witch that year.

Hmm, a phone call from one of Phoebes old friends from back when Phoebe lived in New York.
The call is about the death of an old very close friend of theirs, who died in WTC, a firefighter maybe to make it a bit more heroic.
5 minutes or so and the subject has been handled.

[ushi]

i would go and see a charmed movie

[spiritsas]

hansemand said:

spiritkas said:

Agreed. Too tough a subject to embrace for a half hour sit com. Not sure how Charmed might have dealt with this. Perhaps an episode where they wind up protecting a young witch who is the subject of racially motivated attacks. Sort or a don't profile show. I guess they had enough "show" issues, having to break in a new sister witch that year.

Hmm, a phone call from one of Phoebes old friends from back when Phoebe lived in New York.
The call is about the death of an old very close friend of theirs, who died in WTC, a firefighter maybe to make it a bit more heroic.
5 minutes or so and the subject has been handled.

True, very true. Anything of that sort would have at least recognized a real piece of the world and how it affected them. For example, they could have also had a short discussion on why this happened and Leo could have pointed out, that as evil as the terroists were, they were not demonic, so it was not on their radar. End discussion. Even that phone call you noted could have lead them into such a quick discussion and, as you said, in a few minutes of dialogue, it would be done.

[foxfire]

I'm intrigued by the mention that Charmed didn't deal with 9/11... and it makes me think that in general... Charmed didn't deal with a lot of "big" subjects. And it never really faced a lot of controversy. I'm thinking that they should have stirred the pot with some of their storylines to give it some cred.

Just look at Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They pulled some of the episodes from that show from their original airings. One (for example) is season three's "Earshot" where Buffy gains the ability to read minds and she discovered someone wants to kill people at their school. They had to pull it from the ratings because of the shootings that year at Columbine.

[spiritsas]

ushi said:

i would go and see a charmed movie

We all would, Ushi, but the fact is this probably won't happen for a long time, if ever, unless the right conditions come about. These include having someone create an idea for a script, then getting someone else to buy into producing it. (keep in mind these are just the major highlights) Then, depending on the old cast's situation, they would have to either try to get everyone lined up again, working out scheduling and even their desire to make such a movie, or go off in a different direction using other actors, which most of us would not like to see happen.

Personally, I think if the first few things came about and someone had a great idea or three for a movie, most of the cast would do it. HMC would have made a season nine, if the CW had made an offer. RM wanted to get back to being in movies, so recreating her role in a movie version would probably not cause her to decline. It's only AM, I think, because of the changes in her outlook on life (I think she's more spiritually minded than either of the other two), might hold up the show. Given that only RM has a reasonably real "movie" career and both HMC and AM are more known for their TV roles (both in shows and TV movies), I think the salaries they would demand would be doable. I don't think it would be possible to do it as a made for TV moive as it would be too expensive to cast them back into the roles and such movie special effects look very cheesey.

RM is about to be recast, if it happens, in the remake of the old SciFi spoof classic Barbarella. She seems to like the SciFi type movies. Although Grindhouse and Death whatever she made are also thrillers.
All I'm saying is that it could be done, but someone would need to talk them all into doing it, get the money together, get a great idea for a script to wrap it around, and it could happen. Just don't hold your breath waiting.

[craftsbypinky]

It would make for a great charmed T.V.Christmas Show instead of a movie, and yes let's "not!" give Hollywood any idea's @ all. ;D

[spiritsas]

FF: Good point. Advertisers don't like such things. For example, in the first Spiderman movie there was supposed to be a scene where he captures some fleeing criminals in a helicopter that is trapped in his webbing between the twin towers of the WTC. It was cut for obvious reasons. I know this because it was in some of the early trailers. Not the first or last time this has happened. It's a combination of not wanting to offend people by being crude and not wanting to lose advertisers for being crude and offensive.

[spiritsas]

craftsbypinky said:

It would make for a great charmed T.V.Christmas Show instead of a movie, and yes let's "not!" give Hollywood any idea's @ all. ;D

Personally, since I don't expect a movie or spin off for many years to come, I would love to see HMC recreate her role as Piper in a guest appearance (perhaps recurring) on the show Supernatural. However, I don't think that will happen nor do I think that Supernatural will be around for very long. It's ratings, like all last year, were less than Charmed during it's worst year and we know what happened to Charmed. I think the only reason why it's not gone already, is that it's fairly cheap to produce. Yes it has special effects, which can be costly, but it only really has two main actors now, some recurring role characters. Charmed had a larger cast and I'm sure salaries went up over time. Plus it had a lot more special effects. It was far more expensive to produce and, therefore, be profitable.